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The aircraft involved in the crash

• A Mil Mi-8 helicopter (pictured) crashes in Kamchatka, Russia, leaving twenty-two people dead.
• The Summer Paralympics open in Paris, France.
• More than four hundred people are killed in an Islamist militant attack in Barsalogho Department, Burkina Faso.
• The Islamic State claims responsibility for a mass stabbing that killed three people at a festival in Solingen, Germany.

Lexington, a racehorse whose pedigree was suspect

The Jersey Act was a 1913 regulation by the British Jockey Club and the owners of the General Stud Book that prevented most American-bred Thoroughbred horses from registering with them. It was intended to halt the increasing importation of racehorses of possibly impure bloodlines from America. The loss of breeding records during the American Civil War and the late beginning of the registration of American Thoroughbreds led many in the British racing establishment to doubt that American-bred horses were purebred. The Act prohibited the registration of horses unless all of their Thoroughbred ancestors had been registered. Despite protests from American breeders the regulation was in force until 1949. By then, ineligible horses were increasingly successful in races in Europe, British and Irish breeders had lost access to French Thoroughbreds during and after the Second World War, and any impure ancestors of the American bloodlines had receded far back in most horses' ancestry. (Full article...)

Modern sculpture of Henry III's white bear

• ... that in 1253 Henry III of England ordered that his white bear (sculpture pictured) be permitted to swim and hunt in the River Thames?
• ... that William Aitken, William J. Bain, J. Lister Holmes, John T. Jacobsen, and George W. Stoddard collaborated in the early 1940s to design America's first racially integrated public housing development?
• ... that the prison scenes in the film Plurality were shot in an archaeology museum?
• ... that the 1990 Serbian constitutional referendum also took place at six voting stations in Montenegro for voters who were on holiday?
• ... that Ana Sigüenza was the first woman to be the general secretary of a national trade union center in Spain?
• ... that during the 1929 Dollar Mountain Fire, 65 firefighters survived being surrounded by fire overnight by sheltering near a creek?
• ... that the lyrics of "Executioner's Tax (Swing of the Axe)" were inspired by beheadings in medieval Europe?
• ... that up to 16,000 crows regularly commute from around the Seattle metropolitan area to a wetland in Bothell, Washington?
• ... that according to a TikTok theory, burnt toast could save you from a car accident?