Historical Events
- 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)
FIFA Women's World Cup Final
Jul 5 FIFA Women's World Cup Final, BC Place, Vancouver, BC, Canada: Carli Lloyd scores a hat-trick as US beats Japan, 5-2
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
Film & TV History
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
Event of Interest
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
Sports 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
Fashion History
Jul 31 It is announced that creative director Alexander Wang will leave Balenciaga
Famous Weddings
Ashton Kutcher
Jul 4 American "That '70s Show" actor Ashton Kutcher (37) weds second wife Ukranian-American "That '70s Show" actress Mila Kunis (31) in Los Angeles, California
Vanessa Williams
Jul 4 American actress and singer Vanessa Williams (52) weds 3rd husband American businessman Jim Skrip (55-ish) in at St. Stanislaus Catholic Church in Buffalo, New York
Billy Joel
Jul 4 American music legend Billy Joel (66) weds fourth wife, American equestrian Alexis Roderick (33) at NY Governor Andrew Cuomo's Long Island home
- Jul 10 Fashion model Nicky Hilton (31) weds banker James Rothschild at Kensington Palace in London
Jennie Garth
Jul 11 Actress Jennie Garth (43) weds actor David Abrams in Los Olivos, California
- Jul 11 Professional dancer Kevin Clifton (33) weds fellow dancer Karen Hauer (33) at One Great George Street in Westminster
Peter Andre
Jul 11 Singer Peter Andre (42) weds Emily MacDonagh at Mamhead House in Exeter
- Jul 12 Former football player Ledley King (35) weds long-term girlfriend Amy Kavanagh at Syon House in West London
- Jul 25 TV personality Beatrice Borromeo (30) weds Pierre Casiraghi (28) in the gardens of the Prince's Palace of Monaco in Monte Carlo
- Jul 30 Filmmaker Guy Ritchie (47) weds model Jacqui Ainsley (33) in Ashcombe House in Wiltshire
Famous Divorces
Blake Shelton & Miranda Lambert
Jul 20 County singers Blake Shelton and Miranda Lambert divorce after 4 years of marriage
Famous Deaths
- Jul 1 Lawrence Herkimer, American "Grandfather of Cheerleading" (founded National Cheerleading Association, patented the pom-pom), dies at 89
- Jul 1 Sir Nicholas Winton, British humanitarian ('British Schindler' - saved 669 children from Nazis), dies at 106 [1] [2]
- Jul 1 Val Doonican [Michael Valentine], Irish singer and entertainer, dies at 88
- Jul 2 Charlie Sanders, American football player (Detroit Lions), dies at 68
- Jul 2 Slavko Avsenik, Slovenian polka and Oberkrain ethnic accordionist, piano player, and composer (Avsenik Brothers Ensemble), dies at 85
- Jul 3 Boyd K. Packer, LDS church apostle, dies at 90
- Jul 3 Diana Douglas, Bermudian-born American actress (The Indian Fighter), dies at 92
- Jul 3 Jacques Sernas [Jokūbas Bernardas Šernas], Lithuanian actor (La Dolce Vita, Helen of Troy), dies at 89
- Jul 3 Phil Walsh, Australian Rules football wing (Brisbane Bears B&F 1987) and coach (Adelaide Crows FC), dies - murdered by son at 55
- Jul 5 Yoichiro Nambu, Japanese-born American Physicist (Nobel Prize 2008), dies at 94
- Jul 6 Masabumi Kikuchi, Japanese jazz pianist, synthesizer player, and composer, dies of a subdural hematoma at 75
- Jul 8 Ernie Maresca, American singer and songwriter ("Runaround Sue"; "The Wanderer"), dies at 76
- Jul 8 James Tate, American poet (Pulitzer Prize 1992), dies at 71
- Jul 8 Ken Stabler, American Pro Football HOF quarterback (4 x Pro Bowl; NFL MVP, First-team All-Pro 1974; Super Bowl 1976; Oakland Raiders), dies of colon cancer at 69
- Jul 10 Jon Vickers, Canadian operatic tenor (Covent Garden, 1957-87; New York Metropolitan Opera, 1960-87), dies at 88
- Jul 10 Omar Sharif [Michel Dimitri Shalhoub], Egyptian actor (Doctor Zhivago, Lawrence of Arabia), dies at 83
- Jul 10 Roger Rees, Welsh Tony winning stage and screen actor (Cheers - "Robin Colcord"), dies of brain cancer at 71
- Jul 11 Claudia Alexander, Canadian-born American NASA Scientist (led Galileo mission to Jupiter), dies of cancer at 56
Satoru Iwata (1959-2015)
Jul 11 Japanese video game designer, President and CEO of Nintendo (Nintendo DS and Wii), dies of cancer at 55
- Jul 13 Gerhard Zwerenz, German writer and politician, dies at 90
- Jul 15 Alan Curtis, American harpsichordist, musicologist and conductor, dies at 80
- Jul 15 Howard Rumsey, American jazz musician (Lighthouse Cafe), dies at 97
- Jul 15 Wan Li, Chinese reform politician, dies at 98
- Jul 17 Jules Bianchi, French auto racer (Marussia Formula 1 Racing Team), dies from injuries during accident at 2014 Japanese F1 GP, at 25
- Jul 17 Owen Chadwick, English historian, priest and university chancellor, dies at 99
- Jul 18 (Perry) "Buddy" Buie, American rock songwriter, and record producer (Atlanta Rhythm Section - "So Into You"; "Imaginary Lover"), dies of a heart attack at 74
- Jul 18 Alex Rocco, American actor (The Godfather, The Famous Teddy Z), dies at 79
- Jul 19 Al Checco, American actor (Extreme Close-up), dies at 93
- Jul 19 Galina Prozumenshchikova, Ukrainian swimmer (Olympic gold USSR 200m breaststroke 1964; silver 100m breaststroke 1968, 72; bronze 200m breaststroke 1968, 72), dies after a long illness at 66
- Jul 19 Sybren Polet [Sijbe Minnema], Dutch writer and poet (Mannekino), dies at 91
- Jul 19 Václav Snítil, Czech violinist (Czech Nonet), and teacher (Prague Academy of Performing Arts, 1964-2015), dies at 87
- Jul 19 Van Alexander [Alexander Van Vliet Feldman], American composer, arranger ("A-Tisket, A-Tasket"), and orchestra leader (Dean Martin Show), dies at 100
- Jul 20 Elio Fiorucci, Italian fashion designer, dies at 80
- Jul 21 E. L. Doctorow, American author (Ragtime, Billy Bathgate), dies at 84
- Jul 21 Paul Freeman, American conductor and composer (Chicago Sinfonietta, 1987 -2011; Czech National Symphony, 1996-2007), dies at 79
- Jul 21 Theodore Bikel, Austrian-American stage and screen singer and actor (The Sound of Music; Fiddler On The Roof; The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming; 200 Motels), folk singer (co-founder Newport Folk Festival), and political activist, dies at 91
- Jul 25 Bob Kauffman, American NBA basketball forward, 1968-75, 3X All-Star (Buffalo Braves and 3 other teams), and coach, 1977-78 (Detroit Pistons), dies of heart failure at 69
- Jul 26 Bobbi Kristina Brown, daughter of Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown, dies in a coma at 22
- Jul 26 Wolfgang Gönnenwein, German choral director and educator, and artistic director (Ludwigsburger Schlossfestspiele, 1972-2004), dies at 82
- Jul 27 A. P. J. [Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen] Abdul Kalam, Indian scientist and politician, 11th President of India (2002-07), dies at 83
- Jul 28 Clive Rice, South African cricket all-rounder (WSC 1978-79, ODI 1991; Nottinghamshire), dies from a brain tumour at 66
- Jul 28 James Jude, American thoracic surgeon (developed CPR), dies at 87
- Jul 29 Peter O'Sullevan, British horse racing commentator 'the voice of racing', dies at 97
- Jul 30 Lynn Anderson, American country singer (I Never Promised you a Rose Garden), dies of a heart attack at 67
- Jul 31 Billy Pierce, American baseball pitcher (MLB All Star x 7; World Series 1945; AL wins leader 1957; MLB ERA leader 1955; AL strikeout leader; 1953; Chicago White Sox), dies from gallbladder cancer at 88
- Jul 31 Gerald S O'Loughlin, American actor and director (Storefront Lawyer, Rookies, Wheels), dies at 93
Roddy Piper (1954-2015)
Jul 31 Canadian pro wrestler (WWF Intercontinental Heavyweight C'ship 1992; World Tag Team C'ship w/ Ric Flair. 2006), dies from cardiopulmonary arrest caused by hypertension at 61
