Historical Events
- Jul 1 Aboriginal ritual uncovered in a cave in Cloggs Cave, Victoria, Australia, maybe humankind's oldest continuous cultural ritual spanning 500 generations and 12,000 years [1]
- Jul 1 Hurricane Beryl makes landfall on Grenada’s Carriacou Island winds of 150 mph - only known category 4 hurricane to occur in June [1]
- Jul 1 US Supreme Court rules ex-presidents have immunity from prosecution for all official acts, substantially altering the 2020 election interference case against Donald Trump [1]
- Jul 2 At least 121 people, mostly women and children, killed in a stampede at an Indian religious gathering in Hathras district, Uttar Pradesh [1]
- Jul 2 Sierra Leone bans child marriage, aiming to protect girls under 18 years old, in a country where a third of all girls are married before adulthood [1]
- Jul 3 Earliest example of narrative cave art is dated to 51,200 years ago, from Indonesian caves of Maros-Pangkep, South Sulawesi, depicting people hunting a pig [1]
- Jul 3 Hurricane Beryl passes 45 miles south of Kingston, Jamaica, as a Category 4 hurricane with winds of 140 mph [1]
- Jul 3 Israel approves largest land grab in occupied West Bank in three decades, 12.7 square km (nearly 5 square m) in the Jordan Valley, aiming to prevent a Palestinian state [1]
- Jul 3 Researchers learn Hippos can fly - or at least become airborne in a UK study of their footfall patterns showed them trotting at such speed their feet all left the ground [1]
Event of Interest
Jul 5 Keir Starmer succeeds Rishi Sunak as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in a landside victory for the Labour Party
- Jul 5 Rachel Reeves becomes the UK's first female Chancellor of the Exchequer, appointed by Labour PM Kier Starmer [1]
- Jul 5 Reformist Masoud Pezeshkian elected President of Iran, defeating his conservative rival Saeed Jalili in a run-off election [1]
- Jul 5 US President Joe Biden gives an interview to quell fears about his stamina and cognitive abilities with ABC's George Stephanopoulos [1]
- Jul 7 For the first time more than 3 million passengers were recorded passing through US airport security in one day, amid an increase in air travel in the US [1]
- Jul 7 French elections produces dramatic unexpected result with left-wing alliance New Popular Front winning most votes but not a majority, far-right National Rally third after winning first round [1]
- Jul 7 Heat wave across Western American states breaks temperature records, including in Las Vegas which reaches an all-time record of 120 degrees [1]
- Jul 8 Hurricane Beryl makes landfall in Texas as a category 1 storm, knocking out power to nearly 3 million customers [1]
- Jul 8 Russian missile attack on five cities strikes the country's largest children's hospital in Kyiv, kills at least 31 people, injuring 150 [1]
- Jul 9 Ariane 6, European Space Agency's new heavy-lift rocket first blasts off from French Guiana [1]
- Jul 9 At least 29 Palestinians are kill in an Israeli missile attack on a displaced person camp and school in Abasan al-Kabira, Gaza [1]
Famous Deaths
- Jul 1 Ismail Kadare, Albanian author and poet known for "The General of the Dead Army", dies at 88 [1]
- Jul 1 Robert Towne (né Schwartz), American Academy Award-winning screenwriter (Chinatown: The Last Detail; Shampoo), and director (Personal Best; Tequila Sunrise), dies at 89 [1]
- Jul 5 Jon Landau, American Academy Award-winning film producer (Titanic; Avatar; Avatar: The Way of Water), dies of cancer at 63
- Jul 6 Joe Egan, Scottish singer-songwriter (Stealers Wheel - "Stuck In The Middle With You"), dies at 77
- Jul 9 Jim Inhofe, American politician (US Senator -R- Oklahoma 1995-2023, US Representative -R- Oklahoma 1987-94), and climate change skeptic, dies of a stroke at 89 [1]
- Jul 9 Joe Bonsall, American country singer (Oak Ridge Boys - "Elvira"), dies from complications of ALS at 76
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