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• ... that there are approximately 2,000 species of mantis (example pictured)?
• ... that Ukrainian Cossack Grégoire Orlyk was a spy of the French king Louis XV, fought in the Seven Years' War, received a title of a comte and was promoted to the general's rank of Maréchal de camp?
• ... that monocopters can have one rotating wing or have only one fixed wing and rotate entirely?
• ... that English headmistress Olive Willis founded Downe House School, where her chauffeur-architect-engineer slept in her bathroom?
• ... that the Condon Committee report into the Lakenheath-Bentwaters UFO incident in 1956 concluded it was likely that at least one genuine UFO was involved?
• ... that following Australia's failure to win the 2003 Rugby World Cup, British pie retailer Square Pie produced a "humble pie" filled with kangaroo meat?
• ... that the sixth emergency special session of the UN General Assembly ended with a call for the total withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan so its people could freely choose their political system?
• ... that the Romanian poet Anatol E. Baconsky, who debuted as a socialist realist, came to depict the communist regime as an "anti-utopia" shortly before dying in the 1977 earthquake?
  

• The International Olympic Committee bans Iraq's team from competing in the 2008 Summer Olympics because of interference by the government in the national-level committee.
• Cape Verde joins the World Trade Organization, becoming its 153rd member.
• India's United Progressive Alliance-led government (Prime Minister Manmohan Singh pictured) survives a confidence vote, held after the Left Front withdraws its support over the Indo-US nuclear deal.
• The first trial of a Guantanamo Bay detention camp inmate begins with Salim Hamdan, the former driver and bodyguard of Osama bin Laden, pleading not guilty to charges of conspiracy and supporting terrorism.
• Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadžić is arrested by security forces in Serbia on war crimes charges, including genocide, after a 12-year manhunt.

July 25: Commonwealth Constitution Day in Puerto Rico; Galicia Day in Galicia, Spain

• 306 – Constantine I (statue pictured) was proclaimed Roman Emperor by his troops after the death of Constantius Chlorus.
• 1536 – Spanish conquistador Sebastián de Belalcázar founded Santiago de Cali in present-day western Colombia while on his search for the mythical city of El Dorado.
• 1792 – French Revolutionary Wars: Charles William Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick issued the Brunswick Manifesto to the population of Paris, promising vengeance if King Louis XVI and other members of the French Royal Family were harmed.
• 1978 – Two Puerto Rican pro-independence activists were killed by police at Cerro Maravilla in Villalba, Puerto Rico, sparking a series of political controversies where the police officers were eventually convicted of murder and several high-ranking local government officials were accused of covering up the incident.
• 2000 – Air France Concorde Flight 4590, en route from Charles de Gaulle International Airport in Paris to John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City, crashed in Gonesse, France.

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