- Jul 1 Greek Credit Crisis: Greece becomes 1st developed country to default on debt to the International Monetary Fund (1.7 billion)
- Jul 1 US and Cuba announce agreement to re-open embassies and establish full diplomatic ties
- Jul 2 62 people are killed after the Kim Nirvana ferry capsizes off the coast of the Philippines
- Jul 2 BP agrees to compensate US government & gulf states $18.7 billion for the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill
- Jul 3 Adelaide Crows Australian Rules Football coach Phil Walsh is murdered by his son Cy at his Somerton Park home
- Jul 4 Copa América Final, Estadio Nacional Julio Martínez Prádanos, Santiago: Chile defeats Argentina, 4-1 penalties to win their first title; 0-0 after extra time
- Jul 4 Matt "Megatoad" Stonie, in an upset, defeats 8x hot dog eating champion Joey "Jaws" Chestnut at Nathan's Famous, Coney Island with 62 hot dogs
- Jul 4 Super Rugby Final, Westpac Stadium, Wellington: Otago Highlanders beat Wellington Hurricanes 21-14 for their first title
- Jul 4 Unesco grants World Heritage Status to vineyards in Champagne, France along with Singapore's Botanical Gardens, Diyarbakir Fortress (Turkey) and Maymand Caves (Iran)
US FIFA Champions
Jul 5 FIFA Women's World Cup Final: Carli Lloyd scores a hat-trick as US beats Japan 5-2, in Vancouver
Sports History
Jul 6 Floyd Mayweather Jr. is stripped of his WBO welterweight boxing title after failing to pay $200k sanctioning fee and vacate his 2 junior middleweight titles
- Jul 8 The New York Stock Exchange stops trading for nearly four hours due to a technical error
- Jul 8 The NFL's Washington Redskins have their trademark vacated on the grounds it may cause offence to native Americans
Film & TV History
Jul 9 48th San Diego Comic-Con begins (till 12th) - includes preview of new Star Wars film by J.J. Abrams
- Jul 9 Chuck Blazer receives a lifetime ban from FIFA and all football related activity due to corruption
- Jul 10 23 people are killed & 50 are injured in a stampede at a free clothing drive in Mymensingh, Bangladesh
- Jul 10 Jason Koumas announces his retirement from professional football
- Jul 10 The Confederate flag is taken down for the last time from South Carolina Capitol grounds 1 day after the state legislature ordered it removed.
El Chapo Escapes
Jul 11 Mexican drug lord Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán escapes from Altiplano maximum-security prison west of Mexico City via a specially constructed 1.5 km tunnel from his cell to a nearby house
Wimbledon Women's Tennis
Jul 11 Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Serena Williams becomes oldest winner in Open era (33) beating Garbiñe Muguruza 6-4, 6-4
- Jul 12 US Open Women's Golf, Lancaster CC: Chun In-gee of South Korea wins her first major title by 1 stroke from compatriot Amy Yang
Wimbledon Men's Tennis
Jul 12 Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Novak Đoković successfully defends his title for 3rd Wimbledon crown; beats Roger Federer 7-6, 6-7, 6-4, 6-3
- Jul 13 Greek Credit Crisis: Eurozone agrees conditional deal to lend €86bn over 3 years if Greece passes reforms.
- Jul 13 Sandra Bland is found dead in Waller County jail, Texas after spending weekend in jail after a traffic offence. Her family disputes her supposed suicide
- Jul 14 86th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 6-3 at Great American Ball Park, Cincinnati
- Jul 14 Arms deal agreed between 6 world powers and Iran limiting Iranian nuclear arms but ending sanctions
Event of Interest
Jul 14 Harper Lee's 2nd novel "Go Set A Watchman", an early 1957 version of "To Kill A Mocking Bird" goes on sale in 70 countries
- Jul 14 Scientists from the Large Hadron Collider announce the discovery of a new particle called the pentaquark
Music History
Jul 15 Robbie Williams announces he is returning to boy band Take That
- Jul 16 Scientists reveal 1st close-up pictures of Pluto, sent by the New Horizons probe
- Jul 16 Shootings in Chattanooga at a US military recruitment centre and a naval reserve training center kill 5 and injure others
- Jul 17 Scientists solve mystery of sleeping sickness in two villages in northern Kazakhstan - uranium mining had caused increase in carbon monoxide
- Jul 17 Suicide bomber in Khan Bani Saad, Iraq, kills 120, ISIS claims responsibility
- Jul 18 "The Sun" newspaper in Britain controversially publishes old picture and video of Queen Elizabeth giving Nazi salute in 1933
- Jul 18 PayPal is spun off from eBay as a separate publicly traded company on the NASDAQ
- Jul 19 World Health Organization puts world's Ebola death toll at 11,284
- Jul 20 British Open Men's Golf, St. Andrews: American Zach Johnson wins in a 4-hole play-off with Australian Marc Leishman & Louis Oosthuizen of South Africa
- Jul 20 Hacker group the Impact Team announce they have hacked married dating site Ashley Madison
- Jul 20 Suicide bomber kills 30 in Turkish town of Suruc near Syrian border
- Jul 21 On This Day changes its domain name and brand from HistoryOrb.com to OnThisDay.com
- Jul 22 'Oldest' Qur'an fragments discovered in collection of Birmingham University, radiocarbon testing dates to AD568 - AD645
- Jul 23 NASA's Kepler mission announces discovery of the most Earth-like planet yet - Kepler-452b, 1,400 light years from Earth
Bill Crosby Petition Rejected
Jul 23 Supreme Court rejects Bill Cosby's petition against a civil case of his alleged sexual assault of 15-year-old girl at the Playboy Mansion in 1974
Obama Visits Kenya
Jul 24 US President Barack Obama begins an historic 2 day visit to Kenya
- Jul 25 UCI BMX Supercross series: Niek Kimmann & Stefany Hernandez win the world title
Tour de France
Jul 26 102nd Tour de France won by Chris Froome of Great Britain
Senior Open Championship
Jul 26 British Senior Open Men's Golf, Sunningdale: American Marco Dawson wins by 1 shot from Bernhard Langer of Germany
- Jul 27 Fiat Chrysler fined record $105 million by Us regulators over their number of car recalls
- Jul 27 The Shanghai Composite Index drops 8.5% in one day
Baseball History
Jul 28 Pedro Martínez's number 45 is retired by the Boston Red Sox
- Jul 29 "Sweat" by Lynn Nottage makes its premiere at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Pulitzer Prize for Drama 2017)
- Jul 29 27 people are killed and 149 are injured after a truck runs into a religious procession in Zacatecas, Mexico
- Jul 29 Microsoft launches Windows 10
- Jul 29 Mohammed Omar, mullah and Taliban leader is confirmed dead (killed 2013) by the Afghan government
- Jul 29 Over 3,500 immigrants over 2 days attempt to enter the Channel Tunnel at Calais, to cross into Britain
Flight MH370 Disappears
Jul 29 Part of missing aircraft MH370 is found on the island of Reunion
- Jul 29 Zion Harvey became the first paediatric patient to receive a double hand transplant at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
- Jul 30 In Bandar Mahshahr, Iran, the temperature reaches 46C (109F), humidity makes it feel like 73C
Balenciaga Loses Wang
Jul 31 It is announced that creative director Alexander Wang will leave Balenciaga
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