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July 14, 1698. An ambitious plan by Scotland to found a colony in Panama goes disastrously wrong.

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July 13, 1985. The benefit concert Live Aid is held simultaneously in London and Philadelphia, drawing in over a billion television viewers and raising millions of dollars for famine relief in Ethiopia.

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July 12, 1984. US Democratic presidential candidate Walter F. Mondale puts forward Geraldine Ferraro as his running mate, making her the nation’s first woman to run on a major party national ticket.

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July 11, 2001. After being sued by the music industry, the popular file-sharing service, Napster, closes down.

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July 10, 1985. While berthed in New Zealand, a Greenpeace protest ship is sunk by French intelligence agents.

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On today's Saturday Matinee, we bring you part one of a four part series that looks at the story of OxyContin—a painkiller that helped spur an epidemic of opioid abuse and drug addiction.

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July 7, 2011. A phone hacking scandal forces Rupert Murdoch to shut down his long-running News of the World.

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