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• ... that the missionary and explorer David Livingstone named Cape Maclear, Malawi (pictured) after his friend, astronomer Thomas Maclear?
• ... that the musical group The Wiggles' first album was dedicated to their general operations manager Paul Field's infant daughter, whose death ultimately led to the formation of the group?
• ... that the town of Ollantaytambo, which dates back to the Inca Empire, has some of the oldest continuously occupied dwellings in South America?
• ... that one critic describes Christopher Smart's The Hilliad as the "loudest broadside" of the Paper War of 1752-1753, a literary dispute involving Henry Fielding, John Hill, and many others?
• ... that the 1.3-mile (2.1 km) avenue of trees leading to Marchmont House in Scotland was begun 24 years before the house itself was built, with the planting of 10,000 Dutch elms?
• ... that most of the illuminated manuscripts created by William de Brailes in Oxford in the 13th century are about the size of a modern paperback?
  

• Robert Mugabe (pictured) is sworn in for his sixth term as President of Zimbabwe after a controversial run-off presidential election in which opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai withdrew his candidacy due to election-related violence.
• Spain wins the European Football Championship, defeating Germany 1-0 in the final through a goal by Fernando Torres.
• Serbian President Boris Tadić names Mirko Cvetković as the new Prime Minister following the parliamentary election held in May.
• Pakistan holds by-elections, with the contest for one seat delayed by the Supreme Court until it can handle the appeal of disqualified candidate Nawaz Sharif, former Prime Minister and leader of the Pakistan Muslim League (N).
• In District of Columbia v. Heller, the United States Supreme Court rules that the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution protects an individual's right to bear arms, with possible consequences for existing gun control laws.

June 30: Independence Day in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (1960)

• 1758 – Seven Years' War: Austria defeated Prussia at the Battle of Domstadtl, forcing Frederick the Great to leave Moravia.
• 1894 – London's Tower Bridge (pictured), a combined bascule and suspension bridge over the River Thames, opened.
• 1905 – The Annalen der Physik scientific journal published Albert Einstein's article "On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies", the third of his Annus Mirabilis Papers, introducing the theory of special relativity.
• 1908 – A massive explosion occurred near the Podkamennaya Tunguska River in what is now Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia, knocking over 80 million trees over 2,150 square kilometres (830 sq mi).
• 1934 – Adolf Hitler violently purged members of the Sturmabteilung, its leader Ernst Röhm, and other political rivals on the Night of the Long Knives, executing at least eighty-five people.

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