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642 - ★"Empress Kogyoku" does a rainmaking successfully.
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According to the Nihon Shoki (The Chronicles of Japan), on July 25, 642, Buddhist monks were ordered to do a rain-making ritual, but in vain. On the other hand, when Empress Kogyoku did a rainmaking on August 31, it suddenly began to rain heavily, continuing to rain for five days.
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1879 - ◆(birth) Emperor Taisho, the 123rd Emperor of Japan.
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1897 - ◆18th birthday of Prince Yoshihito (Emperor Taisho).
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1897 - ◆"The First Zionist Congress" closes.
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1897 - ◆Thomas Edison patents the Kinetoscope, the first movie projector. (timeline)
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1997 - ◆(death) Diana, Princess of Wales. (timeline)
Diana, her companion Dodi Al-Fayed and driver Henri Paul die in a car crash in Paris.
The day is the 100th anniversary of Thomas Edison's patent on the first movie projector (August 31, 1897).
The day is July 29 in the Japanese calendar and is the 16th anniversary of the wedding of Charles, Prince of Wales, and Lady Diana Spencer (July 29, 1981).
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1999 - ◆The Petronas Twin Towers is officially opened (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia).
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1999 - ◆There is a mysterious explosion in Moscow in a shopping centre Okhotny Ryad.
It was actually a harbinger of a series of the Russian apartment bombings.
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