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John Tyndall (1934–2005) was a British fascist and political activist. A member of various
small neo-Nazi groups during the late 1950s and 1960s, he led the National Front from 1972
to 1974 and again from 1976 to 1980, and then headed the British National Party from 1982
to 1999. He unsuccessfully stood for election to the House of Commons several times and to
the European Parliament in 1999. Tyndall promoted a racial-nationalist belief in a distinct
white "British race", arguing that this race was threatened by a Jewish conspiracy to
encourage non-white migration into Britain. He called for an authoritarian state which would
deport all non-whites from the country, engage in a eugenics project, and re-establish the
British Empire through the military conquest of parts of Africa. He never gained mainstream
political respectability in the United Kingdom but was popular among sectors of the British
far-right. In 2005, Tyndall was charged with incitement to racial hatred but died before trial.
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 The World Health Organization declares the monkeypox outbreak a Public Health
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 The Chinese paddlefish (pictured), one of the world's largest freshwater fish species,
is declared extinct by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
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Sri Lanka by the parliament.
 Heat waves across Europe leave more than 4,200 people dead.

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 COVID-19 pandemic
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On this day
July 24: Pioneer Day in Utah, United States (1847)
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 1411 – Scottish clansmen led by Donald of Islay, Lord of the Isles, and Alexander
Stewart, Earl of Mar, fought the Battle of Harlaw (monument pictured) near
Inverurie, Scotland.
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won the men's 4 × 100 metre medley relay at the Moscow Olympics.
 2009 – MV Arctic Sea, declared to be carrying a cargo of timber, was allegedly
boarded by hijackers off the coast of Sweden in an incident that remains incompletely
explained.
 2014 – Fifty minutes after departing Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, Air Algérie
Flight 5017 disappeared from radar; its wreckage was found the next day in Mali,
with no survivors of the 116 people aboard.

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