200 Europe Media Monitor (EMM) reads and analyses around 40.000 new news items per day from around 1000 sites worldwide. The text of the items, extracted using EMM's own text extraction algorithm, is indexed using Lucene (see http://lucene.apache.org). Please make sure your area of interest is not already covered by one of the pre-defined categories (alerts). If it is, we kindly ask you to use the feed from that category as this significantly reduces the load on our system. This site is a joint project of DG-JRC and DG-COMM. The information on this site is subject to a disclaimer (see http://europa.eu/geninfo/legal_notices_en.htm). Please acknowledge EMM when (re)using this material https://mia.mk/2019/07/today-in-history-278/?lang=en21 July 2019 (MIA) 356 BC – The Temple of Artemis in Ephesus, one of the Seven Wonders of the World, is destroyed by arson. 230 – Pope Pontian succeeds Urban I as the eighteenth pope. 285 – Diocletian appoints Maximian as Caesar and co-ruler. 365 – A tsunami devastates the city of Alexandria, Egypt.Sun, 21 Jul 2019 10:43:00 +0200mia-mk-c975bc3fa901c363a7c5bd4d1443c2c720190721104300https://www.express.co.uk/travel/articles/1149281/california-earthquake-today-news-6-6-los-angeles-america-is-it-safe-ukCalifornia was struck by a whopper earthquake measuring 6.6 on the Richter Scale today, in the height of America’s Independence day celebrations. Residents reported feeling shaking and swaying in Los Angeles, 129 miles from the epicentre of the quake, with others reporting reverberations as far away as Texas.Thu, 04 Jul 2019 20:42:00 +0200express-0c8f65bc8d75de3b168f5a7f7e6cca3f20190704204200