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• ... that Paul Parkman (pictured), one of the developers of the rubella vaccine, did not monetize the patent so that the vaccine could be freely available?
• ... that according to a former military journalist, 80,000 copies of a command information newspaper were dumped into the South China Sea during the Vietnam War?
• ... that despite specializing in literature and serving as a senior editor of the Zhonghua Book Company, historian Zhang Zhenglang never published a single book of his own?
• ... that AJR's "Way Less Sad" samples the final trumpet riff of Simon & Garfunkel's "My Little Town" as its primary hook?
• ... that when MT Petar Hektorović was temporarily reassigned, one resident of Vis wrote an online memorial to the ship, writing "the waves of Vis grieve for you"?
• ... that Drew Thomas, a former car salesman, reached the finals of the NBC show Last Comic Standing?
• ... that the Bad Dürrenberg shaman may have been able to block blood vessels to her brain by holding her head at certain angles?
• ... that a New York man built a house with materials from several 1964 New York World's Fair pavilions?
• ... that putting pre-moistened meat diapers in pre-packaged meat is a form of weight fraud?

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July 6:

• 1614 – The Ottoman Empire made a final attempt to conquer the island of Malta, but were repulsed by the Knights Hospitaller.
• 1777 – American Revolutionary War: American troops at Fort Ticonderoga in New York completed a retreat from advancing British forces, causing an uproar among the American public.
• 1809 – Napoleon's French forces defeated Archduke Charles' Austrian army at the Battle of Wagram, the decisive confrontation of the War of the Fifth Coalition.
• 1936 – A major breach of the Manchester Bolton & Bury Canal in England sent millions of gallons of water cascading 300 feet (90 m) into the River Irwell.
• 2009 – Jadranka Kosor (pictured) became the first female prime minister of Croatia.

The grey-crowned babbler (Pomatostomus temporalis) is a species of bird in the family Pomatostomidae, the Australo-Papuan babblers. It is found in Australia, Indonesia, and Papua New Guinea. Its habitats include subtropical, tropical dry and tropical moist lowland forests and shrublands as well as savanna. This photograph shows a group of grey-crowned babblers in Binya, New South Wales, Australia. Photograph credit: John Harrison Recently featured: Cirsium palustre George Washington Ectophasia crassipennis Archive More featured pictures