July 2, 1961 Famous American writer, Ernest Hemingway, dies. Born in 1899 in Illinois, Hemingway starts his career as a writer at a newspaper at the age of 17. In 1954 he receives the Nobel Prize for Literature.

July 3, 1988 The US Navy’s USS Vincennes shoots down an Iranian Airbus A-300 over the Persian Gulf. All 290 people onboard are killed after the crew of the Vincennes ‘mistook’ the plane as an Iranian F-14 fighter. In 1996 the US