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Shelton Benjamin at a house show in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada

Shelton Benjamin is an American professional wrestler and former amateur wrestler best known for his tenure in World Wrestling Entertainment. Benjamin has an amateur wrestling background, including wrestling in high school and at the University of Minnesota. In addition, Benjamin has acted as an assistant coach in amateur wrestling. He first spent time in Ohio Valley Wrestling, where he held the Southern Tag Team Championship four times. WWE then moved him to the main roster and put him into an alliance with Kurt Angle and Charlie Haas, known as Team Angle (and later the World's Greatest Tag Team). During his tenure with the company, he has won the Intercontinental Championship three times, the United States Championship once, and the WWE Tag Team Championship twice with Haas. He currently wrestles for Ring of Honor, where he is currently one half of the World Tag Team Champions with Charlie Haas. (more...)

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View of Bhima Dam and reservoir

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    STS-135 launch

  • Amid the Bersih 2.0 rally in Kuala Lumpur, police arrest more than 600 people.
  • Following a referendum, South Sudan secedes from Sudan, becoming a sovereign state.
  • Space Shuttle Atlantis launches (pictured) from Kennedy Space Center on flight STS-135, the final mission of the Space Shuttle program.
  • The closure of News of the World is announced amid allegations that the British newspaper engaged in phone hacking.
  • The International Olympic Committee announces that Pyeongchang, South Korea, will host the 2018 Winter Olympics.

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    July 9: Independence Day in Argentina (1816)

    Thabo Mbeki

  • 1755 – French and Indian War: The defeat in the Battle of the Monongahela brought an end to Britain's attempt to capture the strategically important Ohio Country.
  • 1815 – Talleyrand assumed his role as the first Prime Minister of France.
  • 1943 – World War II: The Allies began their invasion of Sicily, a large scale amphibious and airborne operation, followed by six weeks of land combat.
  • 1999 – Six days of student protests began after Iranian police attacked a University of Tehran dormitory following a peaceful student demonstration against the closure of the reformist newspaper Salam.
  • 2002 – The African Union was formed as a successor to the amalgamated African Economic Community and the Organization of African Unity, with President of South Africa Thabo Mbeki (pictured) as its first chairman.

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    Megalith on Nias, Indonesia

    Megaliths, some decorated, were a part of the culture of the island of Nias off the western coast of Sumatra, Indonesia. There were big stone statues, stone seats for the chieftains, and stone tables where justice was done. There were big stones to commemorate the deaths of important people. In this 1915 photo, such a stone is hauled upwards. The story has it that 525 people took three days to erect this stone in the village of Bawemataloeo.

    Photo: Ludwig Borutta; Restoration: Lise Broer

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