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The 2011 Money in the Bank event was the seventh of thirteen professional wrestling pay-per-view events held by WWE that year, and the second installment in the annual Money in the Bank series. It took place on July 17 at the Allstate Arena in Rosemont, Illinois, and featured six matches, including two Money in the Bank ladder matches. Alberto Del Rio won the match for wrestlers from the Raw brand to earn a WWE Championship match at a time of his choosing within the next year, while Daniel Bryan won the match for wrestlers from the SmackDown brand for the same opportunity for the World Heavyweight Championship. In the World Heavyweight Championship match also held at the event, Christian defeated Randy Orton by disqualification and became the new champion according to the match rules. The main event featured John Cena defending his WWE Championship against CM Punk (pictured), who won and became the new champion. Money in the Bank was broadcast globally to 195,000 pay-per-view customers (compared to 165,000 for the previous year), and received positive reviews, with the main event receiving the most praise. (Full article...)

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In tennis, the French Open concludes with American Serena Williams winning the Women's Singles and Swiss Stan Wawrinka (pictured) winning the Men's Singles.
British actor Christopher Lee dies at the age of 93.
In the Turkish general election, the Justice and Development Party loses its parliamentary majority.
India and Bangladesh sign an agreement to simplify their border by exchanging 162 enclaves.
In horse racing, American Pharoah wins the Belmont Stakes to become the first US Triple Crown winner since 1978, and in the UK, Golden Horn wins the Epsom Derby.
In association football, the UEFA Champions League concludes with Barcelona defeating Juventus in the final.

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June 14: Liberation Day in the Falkland Islands and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (1982); Flag Day in the United States

1645 – English Civil War: In the Battle of Naseby, the main army of King Charles I was defeated by the Parliamentarian New Model Army under Sir Thomas Fairfax and Oliver Cromwell.
1775 – The United States Army was founded as the Continental Army by an act of the Continental Congress.
1822 – In a paper presented to the Royal Astronomical Society, English mathematician Charles Babbage proposed a difference engine (pictured), an automatic, mechanical calculator designed to tabulate polynomial functions.
1940 – The Soviet Union issued an ultimatum to Lithuania, demanding that the Red Army be allowed to enter the country and form a new pro-Soviet government.
1985 – The Schengen Agreement, a treaty to abolish systematic border controls between participating European countries, was signed between five of the ten member states of the European Economic Community.

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The chat flycatcher (Bradornis infuscatus) is a species of bird in the family Muscicapidae found in the savannas of southern Africa; this specimen was photographed in Etosha National Park, Namibia. This species hunts insects, but may also eat small reptiles.

Photograph: Yathin S Krishnappa

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