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July 23 1952 — In Egypt, the military seizes control of the government in a coup d’etat. King Farouk was forced to abdicate and relinquish power to General Muhammad Naguib.
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- July 22 2003 — Former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein’s sons, Qusay and Uday Hussein, are killed in a gunfight with US troops in Mosul, Iraq.
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- July 23 1952 — In Egypt, the military seizes control of the government in a coup d’etat. King Farouk was forced to abdicate and relinquish power to General Muhammad Naguib.
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- July 25 1978 — Louise Joy Brown, the world’s first “test tube” baby, conceived via in vitro fertilization (IVF), is born in Oldham General Hospital in England.
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- July 24 1911 — American archaeologist Hiram Bingham gets his first look at Machu Picchu, an ancient Incan site whose existence had been a secret known only to peasants in the area for hundreds of years.
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- July 26 1908 — The Federal Bureau of Investigation is born when US Attorney General Charles Bonaparte orders a group of federal investigators to report directly to the Department of Justice.
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- July 27 1940 — Bugs Bunny makes his official debut opposite Elmer Fudd in the Warner Bros. animated cartoon “A Wild Hare”. It also marks the first time Bugs says “What’s up, doc?”
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- July 28 1914 — A month after Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria was killed by a Serbian national, Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia, effectively beginning the First World War.
