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• ... that an obelisk at Mamhead (pictured) was built in the 1740s for "the safety of such as might use to sail out of the Port of Exon or any others who might be driven on the coast"?
• ... that Mike Ayers coaches the smallest school in the highest division of NCAA college football?
• ... that Muphry's law states that "if you write anything criticizing editing or proofreading, there will be a fault of some kind in what you have written"?
• ... that Humphrey de Bohun, Earl of Hereford was allegedly killed by a spear through the anus at the Battle of Boroughbridge in 1322?
• ... that Indian Village, Chicago hosts the only 24-hour elevator operator building in Chicago, Illinois?
• ... that Polish poet Paweł Kubisz was sentenced in 1928 by Czech authorities for 13 months in prison for alleged transport of illegal literature to Slovakia and conspiring against the Czechoslovak Republic?
• ... that in rugby union, New Zealand has only lost four Test matches at Carisbrook stadium in over one hundred years?
• ... that the state of emergency, enforced by the enactment of Emergency Powers Act 1939 to help maintain Irish neutrality during World War II, was not rescinded until 1 September 1976?
  

• India's United Progressive Alliance-led government (Prime Minister Manmohan Singh pictured) survives a confidence vote, held after the Left Front withdrew its support over the Indo-US nuclear deal.
• Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan KaradĹžić is arrested by security forces in Serbia on war crimes charges, including genocide, after a 12-year manhunt.
• Hurricane Dolly, currently in the Gulf of Mexico, kills at least 17 in Guatemala.
• Zimbabwe introduces a new 100-billion-dollar bank note as the annual inflation rate hits 2.2 million percent.
• Ram Baran Yadav of the Nepali Congress party wins Nepal's presidential election, defeating Ram Raja Prasad Singh of the Communist Party (Maoist).

July 23: Revolution Day in Egypt

• 1793 – After a siege of 18 weeks, French troops in Mainz surrendered to Prussian forces, effectively ending the Republic of Mainz, the first democratic state on the current German territory.
• 1952 – Egyptian Army officers in the Free Officers Movement led by Muhammad Naguib and Gamal Abdel Nasser staged a military coup against King Farouk of Egypt.
• 1986 – Sarah Ferguson (pictured) married Prince Andrew, Duke of York at London's Westminster Abbey, joining the British Royal Family as the Duchess of York.
• 1995 – Hale-Bopp, one of the most widely observed comets of the twentieth century, was discovered by two independent observers, Alan Hale and Thomas Bopp, at a very large distance from the Sun.
• 2001 – Megawati Sukarnoputri became the first female president of Indonesia after the People's Consultative Assembly removed Abdurrahman Wahid.

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