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We must keep it a place where people can walk the halls of government, and we must never take for granted the values for which it stands or the price of preserving them.

-- U.S. President Bill Clinton on the nation's Capitol

Landmark general elections are to be held in Cambodia.
The annual induction ceremony into the Baseball Hall of Fame is scheduled in Cooperstown, New York.

Monday, July 27, is the two-year anniversary of a bomb exploding in Centennial Olympic Park during the 1996 Summer Games.
On Tuesday, July 28, a celebration marking the 70th anniversary of Gerber Baby food is scheduled in New York with Ann Turner Cook, the original Gerber Baby, attending.
On Wednesday, July 29, U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright is scheduled to visit Papua New Guinea to offer support as the South Pacific country tries to recover from a devastating a tidal wave.
On Thursday, July 30, the Romance Writers of America are scheduled to begin their national convention in Los Angeles.

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In 1788, New York State ratified the new constitution and became the 11th state of the Union.
In 1847, Liberia became the first independent republic in Africa.
In 1858, Lionel Rothschild became the first Jewish member to take his seat in the British House of Commons.
In 1882, Wagner's opera "Parsifal" was first performed, at Bayreuth, western Germany.
In 1908, the Federal Bureau of Investigation was created and referred to as Office of the Chief Examiner. It became the FBI in 1935.
In 1941, President Franklin Roosevelt appointed General Douglas MacArthur as Commander of U.S. Forces in the Far East.
In 1952, King Farouk of Egypt abdicated and was ordered to leave the country, three days after a coup led by General Neguib.
In 1953, Fidel Castro led a failed assault on the Moncada military barracks near Santiago de Cuba in the fight against dictator Fulgencio Batista.
In 1956, under President Nasser, Egypt nationalized the Suez Canal.
In 1965, the Maldive Islands in the Indian Ocean became independent, having been a British protectorate since 1887.
In 1993, a draft of South Africa's first post-apartheid constitution was presented to democracy negotiators.