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July 15th, 2003EventAOL Time Warner disbands Netscape Communications Corporation. The Mozilla Foundation is established on the same day.
July 15th, 2002Event"American Taliban" John Walker Lindh pleads guilty to supplying aid to the enemy and to possession of explosives during the commission of a felony.
July 15th, 2002EventAnti-Terrorism Court of Pakistan hands down the death sentence to British born Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh and life terms to three others suspected of murdering Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.
July 15th, 1997EventIn Miami, Florida, serial killer Andrew Phillip Cunanan guns down Gianni Versace outside his home.
July 15th, 1996EventA Belgian Air Force C-130 Hercules carrying the Royal Netherlands Army marching band crashes on landing at Eindhoven Airport.
July 15th, 1994EventThe new Ivybridge railway station, costing ?380,000, opens in the town of Ivybridge, Devon, England.
July 15th, 1979EventU.S. President Jimmy Carter gives his famous "malaise" speech, where he characterizes the greatest threat to the country as "this crisis in the growing doubt about the meaning of our own lives and in the loss of a unity of purpose for our nation."
July 15th, 1974EventIn Nicosia, Cyprus, Greek-sponsored nationalists launch a coup d etat, deposing President Makarios and installing Nikos Sampson as Cypriot president.
July 15th, 1959EventThe steel strike of 1959 begins, leading to significant importation of foreign steel for the first time in United States history.
July 15th, 1955EventEighteen Nobel laureates sign the Mainau Declaration against nuclear weapons, later co-signed by thirty-four others.

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