1899 – NEC Corporation is organized as the first Japanese joint venture with foreign capital
1944 – Carlos Alberto, Brazilian football player was born
1947 – Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall was born
1954 – Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany was born
1994 – Brazil Capture their Fourth Would Cup beating Italy in a penalty kick shootout
1995 – The Midwestern heat wave in the United States reaches its peak. Chicago, Illinois and Milwaukee, Wisconsin, among other cities, set all-time high temperature records. The heat claims over 400 lives on this day alone
1995 – The Nasdaq stock index closes above the 1,000 mark for the first time
1996 – Off the coast of Long Island, New York, a Paris-bound Boeing 747 carrying TWA flight 800 explodes, killing all 230 on board.
1997 – The F.W. Woolworth Company closes after 117 years in business. unaccounted for and thousands more homeless
2003 – David Kelly, Welsh UN weapons inspector died
2005 – Sir Edward Heath, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom died
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