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Kristine Lilly (left) and Mia Hamm (right) of the U.S. team

The 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup was the third edition of the world championship for national teams in women's association football. Hosted by the United States, it took place from 19 June to 10 July 1999 at eight venues across the country. The 1999 edition was the first to field sixteen teams and an all-female roster of referees and match officials. It was played primarily in large American football venues, with an average attendance of 37,319 spectators per match and total attendance of 1.194 million, a record that stood until 2015. The final, played at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California, was attended by 90,185 people, setting an international record for spectators at a women's sporting event. The United States won the tournament by defeating China in a penalty shootout after a scoreless draw. The tournament increased interest in women's soccer in the United States, and led to the establishment of a professional league. (Full article...)

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The 2003 FIFA Women's World Cup Final

... that Germany defeated Sweden in the 2003 FIFA Women's World Cup Final (pictured) with a golden goal, the last time this method of deciding the final was approved?
... that Liu Xianjue spent three years researching the book The Architectural Heritage in Macau, which was submitted in the city's successful application for World Heritage status?
... that the Missa brevis for choir a cappella is one of about 300 choral compositions by Knut Nystedt?
... that Florrie Redford played football with other women during her lunch break at a World War I munitions factory prior to becoming a leading goal scorer for Dick, Kerr Ladies F.C.?
... that the WTC Cortlandt subway station in New York City, closed for 17 years after the September 11 attacks, cost $181 million to rebuild?
... that Im Eun-ju was the first South Korean woman to referee at the international level of association football?
... that among the wetland animals in Kainji National Park are two species of crocodile, four of turtle, the African manatee, the hippopotamus, and the clawless otter?
... that William Feiner became the president of Georgetown College in 1826 despite having never mastered English?

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Solar eclipse viewed from La Serena, Chile

An airstrike on a migrant center outside Tripoli, Libya, kills at least 53 people and injures 130 others.
A total solar eclipse (pictured) occurs in parts of the South Pacific and South America.
More than 40 people are killed in attacks in Kabul, Afghanistan.
A fire on the Russian submarine Losharik kills 14 crew members.
A human crush at a concert in Antananarivo, Madagascar, kills 16 people and injures more than 100 others.

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July 7

Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.

1575 – Anglo-Scottish Wars: In the last major battle between England and Scotland, a "Truce Day" at Carter Bar near Redesdale degenerated into a fight where the English side were routed.
1798 – Outraged by the XYZ Affair, the United States rescinded its treaties with France, resulting in the Quasi-War, an undeclared war fought entirely at sea.
1907 – Inspired by the Folies Bergère of Paris, American impresario Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. (pictured) staged the first of his Ziegfeld Follies.
1954 – After the culmination of the 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état, Carlos Castillo Armas was sworn in as President of Guatemala.
1991 – The signing of the Brioni Agreement brought an end to the Ten-Day War between SFR Yugoslavia and Slovenia, although the Yugoslav Wars continued for years to come.

Jane Elizabeth Conklin (b. 1831) · Rettamalai Srinivasan (b. 1859) · Germaine Thyssens-Valentin (d. 1987)

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The Entombment is a glue-size tempera-on-linen painting attributed to the Early Netherlandish painter Dieric Bouts. It shows a scene from the biblical entombment of Christ and was probably completed between 1440 and 1455 as a wing panel for a large hinged polyptych altarpiece. The now-lost altarpiece is thought to have contained a central crucifixion scene flanked by four wing panel works half its height – two on either side – depicting scenes from the life of Christ. The smaller panels would have been paired in a format similar to Bouts's 1464–1468 Altarpiece of the Holy Sacrament. The larger work was probably commissioned for export to Italy, possibly to a Venetian patron whose identity is lost. The painting is an austere but affecting portrayal of sorrow and grief. It shows four female and three male mourners grieving over the body of Christ. They are, from left to right, Nicodemus, Mary Salome, Mary of Clopas, the Virgin Mary, John the Evangelist, Mary Magdalene and Joseph of Arimathea. The Entombment was first recorded in a mid-19th century Milan inventory and has been in the National Gallery, London, since its purchase on the gallery's behalf by Charles Lock Eastlake in 1861.

Painting credit: Dieric Bouts

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