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Notable anniversaries in history for today: July 3
- 150th: 1874 - Birth of Apirana Turupa Ngata in Kawaka, New Zealand; Maori political/cultural leader.
- 90th: 1934 - C Jackson discovers asteroid #1367 Nongoma.
- 90th: 1934 - FDIC pays off first insured depositors, Fon du Lac Bank, East Peoria, Illinois.
- 80th: 1944 - Oriole Park (minor league baseball stadium) burns down in Baltimore, Maryland.
- 40th: 1984 - Dolphin rocket launched off San Clemente Island.
- 40th: 1984 - US Supreme Court rules Jaycees may be forced to admit women as members.
- 25th: 1999 - In Weirs Beach, New Hampshire, USA, over six hours Billy Mitchell plays a "perfect" game of the arcade game Pac-Man, achieving the highest score that the game allows: 3,333,360. This can only be accomplished by guiding Pac-Man to eat every dot, fruit, and ghost in all 256 levels without dying.
- 15th: 2009 - World Health Organization head Margaret Chan says that the spread of the Influenza A H1N1 virus pandemic worldwide is now unstoppable.
- 15th: 2009 - Brothers Daniel and Henrik Sedin re-sign with the NHL's Vancouver Canucks for five-year deals worth US$30.5 million each.
- 5th: 2019 - An airstrike by Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar's Libyan National Army hits the Tajoura Detention Center outside Tripoli, Libya, while hundreds of people are inside the facility, killing at least 53 of them and injuring 130 others.
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