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• ... that Elizabeth II (pictured) is the longest-reigning monarch in the history of the United Kingdom?
• ... that former United States senator and Law & Order actor Fred Thompson discovered the Watergate tapes that led to Richard Nixon's resignation?
• ... that the word Oxbridge is used to describe the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge in England?
• ...that Antonio Vivaldi was known as "The Red Priest" because of the color of his hair?
• ... that United States senator Rand Paul once talked on the senate floor for twelve hours and fifty-two minutes?
  
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Joseph Aoun

• Joseph Aoun (pictured) is elected president of Lebanon after a two-year vacancy.
• An attack on the presidential palace in N'Djamena, Chad, results in 20 deaths.
• A series of wildfires in Southern California, United States, leaves at least 16 people dead and forces the evacuation of nearly 180,000 others.
• A 7.1-magnitude earthquake hits Tingri County in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China, leaving at least 126 people dead.