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Martin Luther King (1957-1968)
The Maroon (Morehouse College Student Paper), 1947
This Week in History:
July 6th - 12th
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What the BBC ignored:
July 6 - 1947: The AK-47 goes into production in the Soviet Union. The Kalashnikov remains the most widely used assault rifle in the world.
July 6 - 1957: Althea Gibson becomes the first black athlete to win a title at Wimbledon 18 years before Arthur Ashe
July 6 - 1964: Malawi declares its independence from the United Kingdom
July 6 - 1967: A Tel Aviv bus is driven over a cliff, killing 16 passengers in a Palestinian Islamic Jihad suicide attack.
July 7 - 1981: President Ronald Reagan appoints Sandra Day O'Connor to be the first female member of the US Supreme Court
July 7 - 1991: The first Live Earth benefit concert to combat climate change is held in 11 locations around the world.
July 8 - 1972: Palestinian writer Ghassan Kanafani and his 17 year old niece are assassinated by an Israeli Mossad car bomb
July 8 - 2014: Operation Protective Edge: Israel attacks Gaza
July 9 - 1955: The Igandu train disaster in Tanzania kills 281, the worst train accident in African history.
July 9 - 1982: Pan Am Flight 759 crashes in Kenner, Louisiana, killing all 145 people on board and eight others on the ground.
July 9 - 2012: The Sri Lankan Airforce kill 125 Tamil Civilian refugees in the Navaly Church bombing
July 10 - 1962: Telstar, the world's first communications satellite, is launched into orbit
July 10 - 1985: The Greenpeace vessel Rainbow Warrior is bombed and sunk in Auckland harbour by French DGSE agents, killing Fernando Pereira.
July 11 - 1960: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is first published, in the United States
July 11 - 1991: Nigeria Airways Flight 2120 crashes in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia killing all 261 passengers and crew on board
July 11 - 2006: Two hundred nine people are killed in a series of bomb attacks in Mumbai, India.
July 12 - 1948: Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion orders the expulsion of Palestinians from the towns of Lod and Ramla.
July 12 - 1961: Failure of the Khadakwasla and Panshet dams in India lead to the Pune Floods killing at least two thousand people
July 12 - 1971: The Australian Aboriginal Flag is flown for the first time
July 12 - 1971: U.S. Army Apache helicopters conduct airstrikes in Baghdad, Iraq; later released by Wikileaks with the title Collateral Murder
Would you have swapped any of the events above for any of the events chosen by the BBC?
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