What Happens on July 1st

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2006 : The world's tallest train, which connects Lhasa, the Tibetan capital, with China's national grid for the first time opened to the public

2004 : Saddam Hussein and 11 of his top aides appear before a special Iraqi court to hear charges of war crimes and genocide charges against them

1997 : The former British colony, Hong Kong, was returned to the Chinese government as a special administrative area

1962 : Burundi and Rwanda, previously one in the Belgian protectorate, Ruanda-Urundi, achieving independence as a separate state

1944 : The Bretton Woods Conference was held in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, where delegates from 44 countries laid the foundations of the postwar international monetary system

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