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July events and firsts across centuries
On July 17 to 23 a timeline recalls Roanoke colonists arrival in 1587. FBI agents killed John Dillinger in 1934. In 2003 Uday and Qusay Hussein were killed in Mosul. The 9/11 Commission released its final report in 2004. Telstar 1 launched in 1962. The 12th Street Riot began in Detroit in 1967. In 1999 Eileen Collins became first female U.S. space shuttle commander.
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Roanoke Island
North Carolina
FBI
John Dillinger
Chicago
Mosul
Iraq
Saddam Hussein
Uday and
Qusay
U.S
CBS News
Walter Cronkite
12Th Street
Detroit
Columbia
Eileen Collins
Neil Armstrong
Moon
Edwin
Buzz” Aldrin
Armstrong
Michael Collins
Aldrin