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A GippsAero GA8 Airvan crashes in Umeå, Sweden, killing all nine aboard.

A man ploughs a truck into a Bastille Day celebration in Nice, France, killing 86 people and injuring another 434 before being shot by police.

NASA's New Horizons probe performs the first flyby of Pluto, and thus completes the initial survey of the Solar System.

Dedication of statue of Rachel Carson, a sculpture named for the environmentalist, in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.

French president Jacques Chirac escapes an assassination attempt from Maxime Brunerie during a Bastille Day parade at Champs-Élysées.

Australian criminal Bradley John Murdoch murders British tourist Peter Falconio and abducted his girlfriend in the Northern Territory.

Rus Flight 9633 crashes during takeoff from Chkalovsky Airport, killing all 10 people on board.

Mario Bros. is released in Japan, beginning the popular Super Mario Bros franchise.

Mariner 4 flyby of Mars takes the first close-up photos of another planet. The photographs take approximately six hours to be transmitted back to Earth.

Jane Goodall arrives at the Gombe Stream Reserve in present-day Tanzania to begin her study of chimpanzees in the wild.