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July 9th, 2008	Event	Iran tests missiles in defiance of the worldwide calls for them to not have arms.
July 9th, 2006	Event	At least 122 people are killed after a Sibir Airlines Airbus A310 passenger jet, carrying 200 passengers on board veers off the runway while landing at Irkutsk Airport in Siberia in wet conditions.
July 9th, 2004	Event	After Jose Manuel Barroso s appointment to the European Commission, Portuguese President Jorge Sampaio announces that he will invite the second-in-line leader of PSD, Pedro Santana Lopes to form government.
July 9th, 2002	Event	The African Union is established in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The first chairman is Thabo Mbeki, President of South Africa.
July 9th, 1999	Event	Days of student protests begin after Iranian police and hardliners attack a student dormitory at the University of Tehran.
July 9th, 1991	Event	South Africa is readmitted into the Olympic movement after 30 years of exclusion.
July 9th, 1989	Event	Two bombs explode in Mecca, killing one pilgrim and wounding 16 others.
July 9th, 1986	Event	The New Zealand Parliament passes the Homosexual Law Reform Act legalising homosexuality in New Zealand.
July 9th, 1984	Event	York Minster is struck by a lightning bolt and the resulting fire rampages through most of the building. However the cathedral valuables are rescued by clergymen and the "Rose Window" is not affected.
July 9th, 1982	Event	A Boeing 727 carrying Pan Am Flight 759 crashes in Kenner, Louisiana killing all 146 people on board and eight others on the ground.

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