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It was on this day, 45 years ago, that the Solar Challenger successfully completed a 163-mile flight across the English Channel. Powered purely by the sun without any fuel or batteries, the innovative aircraft proved the boundary-pushing potential of renewable energy.

Besides it being America’s 250th anniversary, it's the 200th anniversary of the deaths of Adams and Jefferson. In an astonishing twist of historical fate, founding fathers and arguably best friends, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, both passed away on the exact same day: July 4, 1826, precisely 50 years after the adoption of the Declaration of Independence.

Today marks the 50th Anniversary of Vietnam's Reunification. It was half a century ago that North and South Vietnam were officially reunified after decades of devastating division and conflict. July 2, 1976, marked the formal birth of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, closing a long, tumultuous chapter of wartime history.