- Jul 1 Canada's retaliatory tariffs against the US's steel tariffs take effect, 25% on some steel, 10% on 250 other goods
Election of Interest
Jul 1 Centre-left politician Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) elected President of Mexico
- Jul 1 Colombia's Chiribiquete National Park declared a world heritage site by the UN
- Jul 1 French gangster Redoine Faid escapes the Sud-Francilien prison in Réau, France by helicopter
- Jul 1 Nationwide protests over Trump administration immigration policies in the US
Agreement of Interest
Jul 1 NBA super star LeBron James agrees to a 4-year $154m deal with the LA Lakers, moving from Cleveland Cavaliers
- Jul 1 PGA Women's Championship, Kemper Lakes GC: Park Sung-hyun of South Korea wins in a playoff with Nasa Hataoka & Ryu So-yeon
- Jul 1 Suicide bombing targeting Sikh community kills at least 19 people in Jalalabad, Afghanistan
US Senior Golf Open
Jul 1 US Senior Open Men's Golf, Broadmoor GC: David Toms wins by 1 stroke from Miguel Ángel Jiménez, Jerry Kelly and Tim Petrovic
- Jul 2 270,000 people now displaced by fighting in south-western Syria says UN since assault on rebel-held area two weeks ago
- Jul 2 British divers discover 12 boys and their coach alive in Tham Luang Nang Non cave, Thailand after being trapped for 9 days by monsoon flooding
Music History
Jul 2 Singers Cheryl and Liam Payne announce they are splitting up after two years
- Jul 3 Australian cricket batsman Aaron Finch breaks his own T20 International record smashing 172 from 76 balls vs Zimbabwe in Harare, opening stand with D'Arcy Short (223) also a record
Event of Interest
Jul 3 Former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak is arrested on corruption charges, accused of stealing 700 million from state development fund 1MDB
Event of Interest
Jul 3 French President Emmanuel Macron visits the New Afrika Shrine nightclub in Lagos during his two-day tour of Nigeria
- Jul 3 Souad Abderrahim is elected the first female mayor of Tunis, Tunisia
- Jul 3 Worst monsoon rains in decades swamp Lahore, Pakistan, killing 6
- Jul 4 Chinese technology company Baidu announces it has begun mass production of self-driving buses, the 14-seat Apolong
- Jul 4 Hong Kong'stop court rules same-sex couples entitled to equal visa rights in landmark case
- Jul 4 Wildfire in Yolo county, California, grows to 82,700 acres with 2,800 fire fighters battling the blaze
- Jul 5 At least 24 killed in explosions at pyrotechnics workshops in Tultepec, Mexico
- Jul 5 English rapper Stormzy announces partnership with Penguin Books, an imprint called #Merky Books
- Jul 5 Heatwave in southern Quebec, Canada, kills 33
- Jul 5 Saleswomen in Kerala, India, win right to sit down and take toilet breaks in new amendment to law
- Jul 5 US Environmental Protection Agency head Scott Pruitt resigns amid allegations of misconduct
- Jul 6 Floods and landslides begin in south-western Japan, killing at least 200 people with more missing. Evacuation orders for nearly 2 million.
- Jul 6 Iranian instagram star Maedeh Hojabri confesses on state TV for posting videos of her dancing
- Jul 6 Paraguay has eliminated malaria in announcement by the World Health organization
- Jul 6 Prime Minister Carlos Agostinho do Rosário of Mozambique sacks the board of Lam Airlines after he is left stranded when a plane runs out of fuel
Event of Interest
Jul 8 British Brexit Secretary David Davis resigns in a stand against Theresa May's new softer Brexit policy
- Jul 8 Eritrea and Ethiopia announce re-establishment of diplomatic ties between the two countries after almost 20 years in Asmara, Eritrea
- Jul 8 Four boys are the first to be rescued after 16 days, from Tham Luang cave, Thailand, by Thai and international rescue team
- Jul 8 South Korean golfer Sei Young Ki breaks LPGA 72-hole scoring record with 31 under-par 257, also first to better -30, in winning Thornberry Creek Classic
- Jul 9 4 more boys are rescued from Tham Luang Nang Non cave, Thailand after being trapped there with 8 others and their coach for 17 days by monsoon flooding (4 boys and their coach remain)
- Jul 9 Bright pink is the world's oldest biological colour according to scientists, produced by tiny cyanobacteria in 1.1bn-year-old marine shale rock from Taoudeni basin, Mauritania
Event of Interest
Jul 9 Eritrean President Isaias Afewerki and Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed officially end the "no war, no peace" peace deal made in 2000 in Eritrea's capital, Asmara
- Jul 9 Hedge fund billionaire David Tepper buys Carolina Panthers for an NFL record $2.275 billion
Event of Interest
Jul 9 Jeremy Hunt becomes UK Foreign Secretary after Boris Johnson's resignation
- Jul 9 Train derailment kills 24 in the Turkish province of Tekirdag
- Jul 9 UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson resigns after Theresa May takes a softer Brexit stance
- Jul 9 US coffee company Starbucks announces it will stop using plastic straws by 2020, reducing use of more than 1 billion straws a year
Appointment of Interest
Jul 9 US President Donald Trump names Brett Kavanaugh as his Supreme Court nominee
- Jul 10 Original sketch of Winnie-the-Pooh's Hundred Acre Wood by EH Shepard sells for £430,000 in London, record price for a book illustration
Sports History
Jul 10 Real Madrid forward Cristiano Ronaldo joins Italian champions Juventus in a deal worth £99.2m, becoming one of the four most expensive players of all time
- Jul 10 The final 4 boys and their coach are rescued from Tham Luang Nang Non cave, Thailand after being trapped there for 18 days by monsoon flooding
- Jul 11 Oldest stone tools outside Africa discovered in Lantian country, western China, estimated 2.12 million years old made by hominins
Mission: Impossible - Fallout
Jul 12 "Mission: Impossible - Fallout", directed by Christopher McQuarrie and starring Tom Cruise, Henry Cavill, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg and Rebecca Ferguson, premieres in Paris
- Jul 12 Chemical plant explosion in Jiangan County, Sichuan Province, China, kills at least 19
- Jul 12 Republic of Ireland will be the first country to sell off its investments in fossil fuel companies after passing legislation in parliament
Film & TV History
Jul 12 Sandra Oh is the first woman to be nominated for an Emmy award in a leading role for "Killing Eve"
- Jul 12 US President Donald Trump arrives in the UK for a four-day visit amid protests
- Jul 12 World's longest fingernails cut off; Shridhar Chillal's nails measured 909.6cm after growing for 66 years
Film & TV History
Jul 13 Actress Scarlett Johansson withdraws from a transgender film role after criticism of her casting
- Jul 13 Chelsea FC sacks high profile manager Antonio Conte despite winning 2016-17 EPL and 2018 FA Cup, replaced by ex-Napoli boss Maurizio Sarri
Film & TV History
Jul 13 HBO announces that it has obtained the rights to "The Nevers," a project by Joss Whedon
- Jul 13 Johnson & Johnson ordered to pay record $4.7 billion in damages in talc cancer case by jury in US state of Missouri
Longest Semi Final in Wimbledon History
Jul 13 Kevin Anderson of South Africa beats American John Isner 7-6, 6-7, 6-7, 6-4, 26-24 in the longest (6 hours 36 mins) semi final in Wimbledon history
- Jul 13 Large protests in London against US President Donald Trump featuring Trump-like baby blimp as President Trump meets Queen Elizabeth II at Windsor Castle
- Jul 13 Outline of 5,000 year-old henge discovered at New Grange, Ireland through drought and drone footage
- Jul 13 Suicide bombing in Baluchistan, Pakistan, targeting election campaign event kills 128, Islamic State claims responsibility
- Jul 13 US Department of Justice charges 12 Russian intelligence officers with cyber-attacks against Democratic officials during 2016 US election
- Jul 14 Civilians killed in Afghan war reaches record high with 1,692 killed in first six months of 2018 says UN
- Jul 14 Haitian Prime Minister Jack Guy Lafontant resigns after violent protests against fuel price rises
- Jul 14 Huge iceberg looming over Innaarsuit village, western Greenland prompts evacations in case it calves
Event of Interest
Jul 14 More than 300 people now reported killed in protests against government of President Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua
- Jul 14 Russian covert agent Maria Butina arrested by the FBI in Washington, D.C. and charged with being an unregistered foreign agent
- Jul 14 US President Donald Trump calls the EU a "trade foe" in interview with CBS ahead of meeting with Russian President Putin
Wimbledon Women's Tennis
Jul 14 Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Angelique Kerber becomes the first German since Steffi Graf (1996) to win Wimbledon beating Serena Williams 6-3, 6-3
- Jul 15 8-year-old girl finds pre-Viking-era sword in Vidostern lake, Sweden, internet proclaims her Queen of Sweden
FIFA World Cup
Jul 15 FIFA World Cup Final, Luzhniki Stadium, Moscow, Russia: Former captain Didier Deschamps becomes only the 3rd man to win the event as a player and coach as France beats Croatia, 4-2
Pacquiao KOs Matthysse
Jul 15 Filipino boxing legend Manny Pacquiao stops WBA welterweight champion Lucas Matthysse in 7 in Kuala Lumpur for his first knockout in 9 years and 60th career victory
Senior Players Championship
Jul 15 Senior Players Championship Men's Golf, Exmoor CC: Fijian Vijay Singh wins in a playoff with Jeff Maggert on 2nd extra hole
Wimbledon Men's Tennis
Jul 15 Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Novak Đoković wins his 4th Wimbledon title beating South African Kevin Anderson 6-2, 6-2, 7-6
- Jul 16 12 new moons discovered orbiting Jupiter bringing planet's moon total to 79, by scientists at Carnegie Institution for Science
- Jul 16 Historic cemetery (1878-1911) announced discovered near Houston, Texas, containing 95 remains though to be African Americans forced into labour
- Jul 16 US President Donald Trump appears to accept the word of Russian President Vladimir Putin over US intelligence services about Russian meddling in the 2016 US election, in an interview after the two leader's Helsinki Summit
- Jul 17 89th MLB All Star Game, Nationals Park, Washington, D.C.: AL beats NL 8-6, the teams combining for a record 10 home runs accounting for 13 of the 14 total runs
- Jul 17 Australian basketball center Liz Cambage scores 53 points as the Dallas Wings beat the NY Liberty 104-87 to set new WNBA single game scoring record
- Jul 17 Barack Obama gives speech honoring Nelson Mandela and warning of "strongman politics" in Johannesburg, South Africa
- Jul 17 Bloomberg estimates NFL made $14 billion in revenue in 2017, distributing a record $8.1 billion to the league's 32 teams, $255m each
- Jul 17 Oldest evidence of bread, made from wild grains, discovered by archaeologists in 14,000 year-old dig in the Black Desert, Jordon
- Jul 18 44 Forest fires in Sweden as far north as the Arctic Circle prompt Swedish government to request extra assistance, with drought and warm weather to blame
Music History
Jul 18 Cliff Richard wins privacy case against the BBC, for reporting he was being investigated over historic child sexual assaults
- Jul 18 Google fined record $5.1 billion by the EU for abusing its power in mobile phone market
Sports History
Jul 18 Kawhi Leonard is traded to the Toronto Raptors in exchange for DeMar DeRozan, Jakob Pöltl, and a protected 2019 first-round draft pick
- Jul 18 Lava from Kilauea volcano eruption has now destroyed 700 homes and added 700 acres to Big Island confirms Hawaii National Guard
- Jul 18 New Earth geological age announced, the Meghalayan Age 4,200 years ago to the present, by the International Commission on Stratigraphy
- Jul 18 Nicaraguan government announces Masaya is back under its control after violent clashes with anti-government protesters
- Jul 18 Seventeen men charged with the gang-rape of a 12-year-old girl in Chennai, India
- Jul 18 Turkey ends its two-year State of Emergency
- Jul 19 A duck boat sinks in Table Rock Lake, Missouri, drowning 17 people
Whale of a Plane!
Jul 19 Airbus Beluga XL, painted to look like the whale, makes its first flight, landing in Toulouse-Blagnac, France
- Jul 19 Brazilian soccer international goalkeeper Alisson transfers from Roma to Liverpool for a world record shot blocker's fee of £66.8m
- Jul 19 First commercial flight, the "bird of peace" between Ethiopia and Eritrea in 20 years lands in Asmara, Eritrea, reuniting families
- Jul 19 Israel's parliament passes controversial "nation state" law giving only Jews self-determination, relegating Arabic to "special status"
- Jul 19 Largest intact sarcophagus of its kind ever found (2000 years old) opened in Alexandria, contains 3 skeletons, not a curse as feared
- 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 21 Re-boot of TV show "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" announced with creator Joss Whedon as executive producer
- 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 22 US President Donald Trump threatens Iran in an all-caps tweet of "consequences" in response to speech by Iranian President Hassan Rouhani
- 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
Music History
Jul 24 Singer Demi Lovato is hospitalized after a drug overdose in Los Angeles
- Jul 24 Wildfires near Athens, Greece, kill 91 with 104 injured, over 600 rescued from the coast by boats
Film & TV History
Jul 25 Georgian representative James Spencer resigns after being fooled into saying racial slurs on Sacha Baron Cohen's "Who is America" TV series
- 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
Election of Interest
Jul 25 Party of former cricketer Imran Khan, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), wins the most votes but not a majority in Pakistan's Pakistan general election, which are marred by violence and a bomb that kills 31 people
- 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
Gravitational Redshift
Jul 26 Observation of a black hole by The Very Large Telescope in Chile proves Albert Einstein's prediction of "gravitational redshift", published in "Journal Astronomy & Astrophysics"
- Jul 26 Over 700 immigrant children still separated from their parents in the US as court-imposed deadline to reunite them passes
Music Concert
Jul 26 Sir Paul McCartney performs a "secret" gig at the Cavern Club in Liverpool, where the Beatles began
Neil Diamond Thanks Firefighters
Jul 27 American singer-songwriter Neil Diamond gives a small thank-you concert to firefighters near his home in Colorado
- 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
Senior Open Championship
Jul 29 British Senior Open Men's Golf, St. Andrews: Spaniard Miguel Ángel Jiménez wins by 1 shot from defending champion Bernhard Langer of Germany
Baseball Hall of Fame
Jul 29 Chipper Jones, Alan Trammell, Trevor Hoffman, Vladimir Guerrero, Jim Thome and Jack Morris are inducted into Baseball Hall of Fame, Cooperstown, NY
- 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
Tour de France
Jul 29 Tour de France: Geraint Thomas becomes the first Welshman and only 3rd Briton to win the Tour; beats Dutchman Tom Dumoulin by 1' 51"; Peter Sagan wins green points jersey
- 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
Flight MH370 Disappears
Jul 30 Official Malaysian investigation into the disappearance of Flight MH370 is unable to determine what happened
- 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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