- 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]
Trump Immunity Case
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 English cyclist Mark Cavendish takes Stage 5 to claim the outright record of stage victories at the Tour de France; his 35 wins move him one clear of Belgian great Eddy Merckx in the all-time standings
- 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]
Landside Labour Victory
Jul 5 Keir Starmer succeeds Rishi Sunak as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in a landside victory for the Labour Party
- Jul 6 Black woman Sonya Massey shot and killed in her home in Springfield, Illinois, by sheriff deputy Sean Grayson, who is later charged with first-degree murder [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 blasts off from French Guiana [1]
- Jul 9 At least 29 Palestinians are killed in an Israeli missile attack on a displaced persons camp and school in Abasan al-Kabira, Gaza [1]
Matthew Flinders Reburied
Jul 13 19th century explorer Matthew Flinders, who 1st circumnavigated Australia and named it, is reburied in Donington, Lincolnshire, the village of his birth [1]
- Jul 13 Former US President Donald Trump survives an assassination attempt at an outdoor campaign rally in rural Butler, Pennsylvania; gunman Thomas Matthew Crooks fires 6 to 8 shots killing one spectator, critically wounding two, and hits Trump in the ear with a bullet before being killed by a Secret Service sniper
- Jul 13 Wimbledon Women's Tennis: 2021 French Open champion Barbora Krejčíková wins her second major title defeating Jasmine Paolini 6–2, 2–6, 6–4
- Jul 14 Evian Championship Women's Golf, Evian Resort GC: Japan's Ayaka Furue eagles the final hole to beat Stephanie Kyriacou of Australia by 1 stroke for her first major title
- Jul 14 UEFA European Championship, Olympiastadion, Berlin: Mikel Oyarzabal scores in the 86th minute to break an intense tie as Spain beats England 2-1 for their 4th title
Wimbledon Men's Tennis
Jul 14 Wimbledon Men's Tennis: At just 21, Carlos Alcaraz wins his fourth major title beating 7-time champion Novak Djokovic 6-2, 6-2, 7-6
- Jul 15 Kenyan man confesses to the murder of 42 women after the bodies of nine women are found in a Nairobi rubbish dump [1]
- Jul 16 Paraguay carries out the largest cocaine bust in its history with "Operation Sweetness" netting four tons inside a shipment of sugar [1]
- Jul 17 Cavan Sullivan of the Philadelphia Union becomes youngest player in a Major League Soccer match, and the youngest to debut in any major North American professional sports league, at 14 years 293 days old, in 5-1 win over New England Revolution at Subaru Park in Chester, Pennsylvania
- Jul 17 The Mirage Hotel and Casino on the Las Vegas strip closes after 34 years [1]
- Jul 17 US Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro officially exonerates all 258 Black sailors who protested work conditions after the Port Chicago Disaster in 1944; none of them are alive for the ruling [1]
- Jul 18 Bangladeshi student protesters storm state broadcaster as part of national protests led by students against job system that favours relatives of veterans [1]
Summit of Interest
Jul 18 Chinese Third Plenum, a five-yearly decision-making summit, ends with a focus on "Chinese Modernisation" and lays groundwork for an unprecedented fourth term for Xi Jinping [1]
- Jul 19 At least 15 people die when a bridge collapses in Shangluo in China’s Shaanxi province after heavy rains and flash flooding [1]
- Jul 19 Missouri woman Sandra Hemme released from prison after her 43 year conviction for murder was overturned - longest known wrongful conviction of a woman in US history [1]
- Jul 19 Thirteen sharpnose sharks are the first to test positive for cocaine off the coast of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil [1]
- Jul 19 Widespread technology outage grounds flights and shuts down bank and media companies around the world, caused by an update error by cyber security firm CrowdStrike [1]
- Jul 20 Donald Trump accepts Republican nomination for president at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee with a 90 minute speech, longest acceptance speech in history [1]
- Jul 20 Israel strikes inside Yemen for the first time hitting the port of Hodeidah, killing six people, in retaliation for a Houthi drone attack on Tel Aviv that killed one [1]
- Jul 20 Sultan Ibrahim Iskander officially crowned King of Malaysia for five years under the country's rotating monarchy at Istana Negara, Kuala Lumpur [1]
- Jul 21 Bangladesh's supreme court scraps government job quotas for families of its war of independence, that had led to widespread violent protests, killing at least 100 people [1]
- Jul 21 British Open Men's Golf, Royal Troon GC: Xander Schauffele fires a bogey-free final round 65 to beat Billy Horschel and Justin Rose by 2 strokes for his second major title
- Jul 21 Copa America: Argentina defeats Columba 1-0 to win record 16th title in a delayed match in Miami [1]
- Jul 21 Hottest day on Earth: average global temperature of 17.09°C (62.76°F), surpasses July 6, 2023 record, according to EU's Copernicus Climate Change Service - record broken the next day [1]
Biden Drops Out
Jul 21 US President Joe Biden abandons his campaign for re-election and endorses Vice President Kamala Harris [1]
Music History
Jul 22 Eminem's “The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grâce)” is his 11th album to reach #1, replacing Taylor Swift's "The Tortured Poets Department" after 12 weeks at the top [1]
- Jul 22 Israeli air strikes on southern city of Khan Younis in Gaza kill at least 70 people, after Israel ordered an evacuation of part of a designated humanitarian zone [1]
- Jul 22 Mudslides from heavy rains kills at least 229 people in Kencho Shacha Gozdi district, southern Ethiopia [1]
- Jul 23 China announces plans to raise its retirement age from 60 for men and 55/50 for women, one of the lowest in the world [1]
- Jul 23 Hottest day on Earth: average global temperature of 17.15 °C (62.87 °F), surpasses record set the previous day, according to EU's Copernicus Climate Change Service [1]
- Jul 23 US Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle, steps down after the agency failed to prevent an assassination attempt on Donald Trump [1]
- Jul 24 "Inside Out 2" surpasses "Frozen II" to become the highest-grossing animated film in history, making $1.46 billion worldwide [1]
- Jul 24 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a defiant address to a joint session of US Congress, defending his country's war in Gaza against Hamas [1]
- Jul 24 Meta announces it has removed 63,000 Instagram accounts tied to sextortion schemes associated with Nigerian Yahoo Boys criminal group [1]
- Jul 24 Park fire begins in Butte County, California, started by an arsonist, later grows to become 7th largest in state history [1]
- Jul 24 Philippine officials declare a “state of calamity” around Manila as Typhoon Gaemi/Carina causes massive flooding, displacing 600,000 people and sinks an oil tanker [1]
- Jul 24 Taiwan declares a Typhoon Day closing all schools and businesses as Typhoon Gaemi makes landfall in eastern Taiwan with winds of 240kmh (150mph) [1]
- Jul 24 Wildfire destroys much of the Canadian historic town of Jasper, Alberta, inside the Jasper National Park [1]
- Jul 25 "Piano Man" singer Billy Joel performs the 150th and final show of his 10-year once-a-month residency at Madison Square Garden, NYC
- Jul 25 Mexican Sinaloa cartel head Ismael ‘El Mayo’ Zambada, uncaptured for 35 years, is tricked into being captured in the US, in a sting masterminded by the son of El Chapo, his former partner [1]
- Jul 26 Marvel film "Deadpool and Wolverine" starring Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman opens with the highest earnings of the year, $233.3m in the US and $438m globally [1]
- Jul 26 Opening Ceremony for the XXXIII Olympiad in Paris held outside for the first time along the river Seine, with 85 boats carrying the athletes, and performances by Lady Gaga and Celine Dion [1]
- Jul 27 Rocket attack on Israeli-controlled Golan Heights kills 12 children and threatens an all-out war with Hezbollah, based in Lebanon [1]
- Jul 29 America’s gross national debt tops $35 trillion for the first time, according to the US Treasury Department [1]
- Jul 29 Fast food chain McDonalds reports a fall in sales worldwide for the first time since 2020 as higher prices affect demand [1]
- Jul 29 Gaza declares a polio epidemic, blaming the Israel military offensive for its spread [1]
- Jul 29 Knife attack at a children's dance event in Stockport, England, kills 3 children and injures 8 more, with the 17-year-old attacker arrested
- Jul 29 Nicolás Maduro is declared the winner of Venezuela's presidential election giving him a third six-year term, amid accusations of widespread fraud [1]
- Jul 29 Russian mercenary troops ambushed during a sandstorm near Tinzaouaten in Mali by separatist rebels, killing as many as 50 people [1]
- Jul 30 Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh is assassinated in Iran's capital Tehran [1]
- Jul 30 Hezbollah senior commander Fuad Shukr killed in an Israeli air strike in Beirut with 3 others that injured 74, retaliation for a missile strike on the Golan Heights [1]
- Jul 30 Landslides in the Wayanad region of the Indian state of Kerala kill at least 172 with over 227 people missing [1]
- Jul 30 Mob of up to 300 riot in Stockport, England, injuring 50 police officers, whipped up by misinformation on social media, in the wake of a knife attack at a children's dance event [1]
- Jul 30 Paul Dans resigns as head of Project 2025, a conservative group blueprint for a Republican presidency, launched by the Heritage Foundation, amid criticism of its policies as authoritarian [1] [2]
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