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July 4
 
2006 North Korea North Korean missile test, 2006, one medium-range missile, and a long-range Taepodong-2. The long-range Taepodong-2 reportedly fails in mid-air over the Sea of Japan/East Sea.
2006 Space Shuttle program: STS-121 Mission - Space Shuttle Discovery launches at 18:37:55 UTC.
2005 The Deep Impact (space mission) collider hits the comet Tempel 1.
2004 The cornerstone of the Freedom Tower is laid on the site of the World Trade Center in New York City. (This was largely a symbolic event; actual construction would not start for several weeks)
1997 NASA's Mars Pathfinder space probe lands on the surface of Mars.
1993 Sumitomo Group's resin plant in Niihama, Ehime explodes killing one worker and injuring three others.
1987 In France, former Gestapo chief Klaus Barbie (aka the "Butcher of Lyon") is convicted of crimes against humanity and is sentenced to life imprisonment.
1982 Iranian diplomats kidnapping (1982): four Iranian diplomats are kidnapped by Lebanese militia in Lebanon.
1976 Israel Defense Forces Operation Entebbe airport in Uganda, rescuing all but four of the passengers and crew of an Air France jetliner seized by Palestinian terrorists.

  
 

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