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July 25, 2015

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July 19

Coming off wins at the Masters and the U.S. Open this year, 21-year-old American golfer Jordan Spieth will be the focus of the golf world when the 2015 British Open heads for its final round today. For the 29th time, the Old Course at St. Andrews will play host to the British Open.

July 20

The United States Embassy in Havana, Cuba, is set to reopen today more than 54 years after the United States broke off diplomatic relations with Cuba in 1961. The reopening will mark a major step by President Barack Obama and Cuban leader Raul Castro to normalize relations between the two nations.

July 25

More than 7,000 Special Olympics athletes from 170 nations will compete in this year’s Special Olympics World Summer Games, which begin today in Los Angeles. The United States is hosting the games for the first time in 16 years.

July 26

Major League Baseball will induct four new members—Craig Biggio, Randy Johnson, Pedro Martinez, and John Smoltz—to its Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y., today. The Hall of Fame weekend will include a tribute to Curt Flood, a player whose 1972 Supreme Court case against baseball’s reserve clause helped usher in baseball’s free agency era.

July 28

A previously lost Dr. Seuss manuscript entitled What Pet Should I Get? will be published today, nearly 24 years after Theodor Seuss Geisel’s death in 1991. According to his widow, the book was probably written and partially illustrated sometime between 1958 and 1962, but never published. The manuscript was rediscovered—along with another lost story—in 2013.