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- ... that fossil plants (leaf pictured) and damselflies from the Ypresian age are named after the city of Republic?
- ... that South Korean actress Na O-mi's stage name was inspired by the song "I Dream of Naomi"?
- ... that while reviewers generally praised The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs, one reviewer complained that the author was "so nice about his colleagues that it makes you long for a juicy academic vendetta"?
- ... that Joseph Tetley, a member of the New Zealand Legislative Council, defrauded several investors to the 2017 equivalent value of under NZ$7 million?
- ... that Cleo Hill Jr. coached the college basketball team for which his father played more than 60 years earlier?
- ... that according to the official history of the Song dynasty, Zhao Kuangyin's soldiers stormed his bedroom and proclaimed him emperor, to his surprise?
- ... that a video game consisting solely of a clickable image of a banana was briefly the second-most played game on Steam?
- ... that the album covers of Blue Note Records have been considered to be the "look" of jazz?
- ... that on July 11, 2022, millions of dollars worth of jewelry was stolen from the back of a truck while one driver was getting food at a California truck stop and the other one was asleep in the cab?
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- The New Popular Front wins the most seats in the National Assembly in the French legislative election but does not achieve a majority.
- In Iran, the reformist candidate Masoud Pezeshkian (pictured) is elected president in the second round of the presidential election.
- The Labour Party wins the United Kingdom general election and Keir Starmer becomes prime minister.
- Hurricane Beryl, the earliest-recorded Category 5 Atlantic hurricane in a calendar year, leaves at least 15 people dead in the Caribbean, Venezuela, and the United States.
On this day...
July 11: Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Genocide in Poland (1943)
- 1405 – An expeditionary fleet led by Zheng He set sail for foreign regions of the South China Sea and the Indian Ocean, marking the start of Ming China's treasure voyages.
- 1846 – British soldier Frederick John White died after a flogging, leading to a campaign to end the practice in the British Army.
- 1864 – A riot broke out in Leicester, England, at the failed launching of a hot air balloon (pictured).
- 1928 – Ukrainian archaeologist Ivan Borkovský discovered a medieval skeleton at Prague Castle; competing factions claimed the skeleton as Germanic or Slavic in origin.
- 1936 – New York City's Triborough Bridge, the "biggest traffic machine ever built", opened to traffic.
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