What Happened in July 2018 (Part 2)

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• Jul 19 Russian ship Dmitri Donskoii, with possible cargo of gold coins is discovered in waters between South Korea and Japan where it sunk in 1905
• Jul 20 American director James Gunn fired as director of "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3" by Disney after past offensive tweets surface
• Jul 20 Australian businessman James Packer announces he has quit 22 directorships due to mental health issues

• Jul 21 India scraps tax on sanitary products after campaign by activists

• Jul 22 British Open Men's Golf, Carnoustie: Francesco Molinari holds off a pack of players including favourites Rory McIlroy & Justin Rose to win by 2; first Italian to win a major title
• Jul 22 Heatwave in Japan kills 11 in one day
• Jul 22 Israeli military and allies evacuate over 400 White Helmet Syrian rescue workers from its border with Syria to Jordan
• Jul 22 Lone gunman shooting kills 3 including gunman and injures 13 in Toronto, Canada
• Jul 22 Seattle basketball guard Sue Bird plays record 500th WNBA game as Storm go down 87-74 to the Atlanta Dream; finishes career on 508 games for Seattle
• Jul 22 TV show "Supergirl" announces casting of first live-action transgender superhero, by transgender actor Nicole Maines as Nia Nal

• Jul 23 "Sabrina" by Nick Drnaso becomes 1st graphic novel named to Longlist for Man Booker Prize (best fiction written in English)
• Jul 23 250,000 doses of vaccines for children produced by a firm in China faulty according to reports in China
• Jul 23 Dam collapses while under construction in Attapeu province, Laos, killing at least 20 with more than 100 missing
• Jul 23 Environmental reports finds China on track to reach new emission targets, but carbon dioxide emissions risen - 9.2 billion metric tons in 2017, more than US and Europe combined
• Jul 23 International Monetary Fund predicts inflation of 1 million percent in Venezuela by end of 2018
• Jul 23 Japan records its highest ever temperature at 41.1 degrees (105.98F) in Kumagaya
• Jul 23 Slum homes for 30,000 people demolished to make way for a dual carriage way in Nairobi, Kenya

• Jul 24 First bison born in Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada, in 140 years, after being reintroduced
• Jul 24 Wildfires near Athens, Greece, kill 91 with 104 injured, over 600 rescued from the coast by boats

• Jul 25 Liquid lake found on Mars under its South Pole by European Space Agency's Mars Express orbiter reported in "Science"
• Jul 25 Multiple suicide bombings and attacks by the Islamic State in Sweida and surrounding areas of Syria kill more than 200

• Jul 25 Somalia’s attorney general announces country's first prosecution of female genital mutilation after death of a 10-year-old girl
• Jul 26 Authorities in Stung Treng province, Cambodia, evacuate 25,000 below collapsed Laos dam as waters rise
• Jul 26 Facebook has the single worst day of any public company on the stock market - losing 19% or $119 billion market value

• Jul 26 Over 700 immigrant children still separated from their parents in the US as court-imposed deadline to reunite them passes

• Jul 27 CBS Chairman Leslie Moonves is accused of sexual misconduct in the "New Yorker" by journalist Ronan Farrow
• Jul 28 Carr Fire reaches Redding, California, with death toll at 5 having burnt 80,000 acres
• Jul 28 Longest "blood moon" eclipse of the 21st century, lasting 1 hour 43 minutes
• Jul 29 6.4 magnitude earthquake strikes island of Lombok, Indonesia, killing at least 14

• Jul 29 Demonstrations calling for safer road by students begin in Dhaka, Bangladesh
• Jul 29 Ethiopian state funeral for murdered dam engineer Simegnew Bekele in Addis Ababa prompts unrest
• Jul 29 Hun Sen's Cambodian People’s Party Hun Sen claims to have won all 125 seats in country's general election with widespread criticism of a sham vote
• Jul 29 Palestinian teenage activist Ahed Tamimi released from prison after eight months

• Jul 30 Australian Catholic Archbishop Philip Wilson resigns after being convicted of concealing sexual abuse
• Jul 30 British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt mistakenly calls his Chinese-born wife "Japanese" in meeting with his Chinese counterpart in Beijing
• Jul 30 Four million people excluded from Assam National Register of Citizens in India prompts fears of deportation, loss of citizenship

• Jul 31 Aeroméxico flight 2431 crash lands in Durango, Mexico, all 103 on board survive
• Jul 31 Facebook discloses and removes Russian-linked network of sites attempting to interfere in American politics

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