On This Day in July

413 entries

• 2013 — Croatia becomes the 28th member of the European Union.
• 2008 — Rioting erupts in Mongolia in response to allegations of fraud surrounding the 2008...
• 2007 — Smoking in England is banned in all public indoor spaces.

299 entries

• 2016 — Suicide bombing of Karrada in Baghdad kills at least 341 people.
• 2013 — The International Astronomical Union names Pluto's fourth and fifth moons, Kerberos and Styx.
• 2013 — A magnitude 6.1 earthquake strikes Aceh, Indonesia, killing at least 42 people and...

315 entries

• 2013 — Egyptian coup d'état: President of Egypt Mohamed Morsi is overthrown by the military...
• 1996 — Stone of Scone is returned to Scotland.
• 1995 — Saint Kitts and Nevis Labour Party wins the general elections and is restored to power...

420 entries

• 2012 — The discovery of particles consistent with the Higgs boson at the Large Hadron...
• 2009 — The Statue of Liberty's crown reopens to the public after eight years of closure due...
• 2009 — The first of four days of bombings begins on the southern Philippine island group of Mindanao.

356 entries

• 2016 — The Juno space probe arrives at Jupiter.
• 2012 — The Shard in London is inaugurated as the tallest building in Europe, with a height of...
• 2009 — A series of violent riots break out in Ürümqi, the capital city of the Xinjiang Uyghur...

312 entries

• 2013 — At least 42 people are killed in a shooting at a school in Yobe State, Nigeria.
• 2013 — A Boeing 777 operating as Asiana Airlines Flight 214 crashes at San Francisco...
• 2013 — A 73-car oil train derails in the town of Lac-Mégantic, Quebec and explodes into...

303 entries

• 2016 — Former U.S. Army soldier Micah Xavier Johnson shoots fourteen policemen during an...
• 2013 — A De Havilland Otter air taxi crashes in Soldotna, Alaska, killing ten people.
• 2012 — At least 172 people are killed in a flash flood in the Krasnodar Krai region of Russia.

292 entries

• 2014 — Israel launches an offensive on Gaza amid rising tensions following the kidnapping and...
• 2011 — Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched in the final mission of the U.S. Space Shuttle program.
• 1994 — Kim Jong-il begins to assume supreme leadership of North Korea upon the death of his...

321 entries

• 2011 — South Sudan gains independence and secedes from Sudan.
• 2006 — One hundred twenty-five people are killed when S7 Airlines Flight 778, a Airbus A310...
• 2002 — The African Union is established in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; its first chairman is Thabo...

373 entries

• 2011 — Russian cruise ship Bulgaria sinks in Volga near Syukeyevo, Tatarstan, causing 122 deaths.
• 2008 — Former Macedonian Interior Minister Ljube Boškoski is acquitted of all war-crimes...
• 2007 — Erden Eruç begins the first solo human-powered circumnavigation of the world.

344 entries

• 2011 — Evangelos Florakis Naval Base explosion: Ninety-eight containers of explosives...
• 2010 — July 2010 Kampala attacks: At least 74 people are killed in twin suicide bombings at...
• 2006 — Mumbai train bombings: Two hundred nine people are killed in a series of bomb attacks...

361 entries

• 2013 — Six people are killed and 200 injured in a French passenger train derailment in...
• 2012 — The Turaymisah massacre kills 250 people during a Syrian military operation in a...
• 2012 — A tank truck explosion kills more than 100 people in Okobie, Nigeria.

290 entries

• 2016 — Prime Minister of the United Kingdom David Cameron resigns, and is succeeded by Theresa May.
• 2013 — Typhoon Soulik kills at least nine people and affects more than 160 million in East...
• 2011 — Mumbai is rocked by three bomb blasts during the evening rush hour, killing 26 and...

296 entries

• 2016 — A terrorist vehicular attack in Nice, France kills 86 civilians and injures over 400 others.
• 2015 — NASA's New Horizons probe performs the first flyby of Pluto, and thus completes the...
• 2002 — French President Jacques Chirac escapes an assassination attempt unscathed during...

364 entries

• 2016 — Factions of the Turkish Armed Forces attempt a coup.
• 2014 — A train derails on the Moscow Metro, killing at least 24 and injuring more than 160 others.
• 2006 — Twitter is launched, becoming one of the largest social media platforms in the world.

329 entries

• 2015 — Four U.S. Marines and one gunman die in a shooting spree targeting military...
• 2013 — As many as 27 children die and 25 others are hospitalized after eating lunch served at...
• 2007 — An earthquake of magnitude 6.8 and 6.6 aftershock occurs off the Niigata coast of...

342 entries

• 2015 — At least 120 people are killed and 130 injured by a suicide bombing in Diyala Province, Iraq.
• 2014 — Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, a Boeing 777, crashes near the border of Ukraine and...
• 2014 — A French regional train on the Pau-Bayonne line crashes into a high-speed train near...

305 entries

• 2013 — The Government of Detroit, with up to $20 billion in debt, files for the largest...
• 2012 — At least seven people are killed and 32 others are injured after a bomb explodes on an...
• 1996 — Storms provoke severe flooding on the Saguenay River, beginning one of Quebec's...

322 entries

• 2014 — Gunmen in Egypt's western desert province of New Valley Governorate attack a military...
• 1997 — The Troubles: The Provisional Irish Republican Army resumes a ceasefire to end their...
• 1992 — A car bomb kills Judge Paolo Borsellino and five members of his escort

361 entries

• 2017 — O.J. Simpson is granted parole to be released from prison after serving nine years of...
• 2015 — A huge explosion in the mostly Kurdish border town of Suruç, Turkey, targeting the...
• 2015 — The United States and Cuba resume full diplomatic relations after five decades.

318 entries

• 2012 — Erden Eruç completes the first solo human-powered circumnavigation of the world.
• 2011 — NASA's Space Shuttle program ends with the landing of Space Shuttle Atlantis on...
• 2008 — Ram Baran Yadav is declared the first president of Nepal.

319 entries

• 2013 — A series of earthquakes in Dingxi, China, kills at least 89 people and injures more...
• 2011 — Norway is the victim of twin terror attacks, the first being a bomb blast which...
• 2005 — Jean Charles de Menezes is killed by police as the hunt begins for the London Bombers...

368 entries

• 2016 — Kabul twin bombing occurred in the vicinity of Deh Mazang when protesters, mostly from...
• 2015 — NASA announces discovery of Kepler-452b by Kepler.
• 2005 — Three bombs explode in the Naama Bay area of Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, killing 88 people.

302 entries

• 2014 — Air Algérie Flight 5017 loses contact with air traffic controllers 50 minutes after...
• 2013 — A high-speed train derails in Spain rounding a curve with an 80 km/h (50 mph) speed...
• 2001 — Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, the last Tsar of Bulgaria when he was a child, is sworn in...

361 entries

• 2010 — WikiLeaks publishes classified documents about the War in Afghanistan, one of the...
• 2007 — Pratibha Patil is sworn in as India's first female president.
• 2000 — Concorde Air France Flight 4590 crashes at Paris Charles de Gaulle airport, killing...

359 entries

• 2016 — The Sagamihara stabbings occur in Kanagawa Prefecture in Japan. 19 people are killed.
• 2016 — Hillary Clinton becomes the first female nominee for President of the United States by...
• 2009 — The militant Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram attacks a police station in Bauchi,...

389 entries

• 2015 — At least seven people are killed and many injured after gunmen attack an Indian police...
• 2005 — After an incident during STS-114, NASA grounds the Space Shuttle, pending an...
• 2002 — Ukraine airshow disaster: A Sukhoi Su-27 fighter crashes during an air show at Lviv,...

293 entries

• 1957 — Heavy rain and a mudslide in Isahaya, western Kyushu, Japan, kills 992.
• 1945 — A U.S. Army B-25 bomber crashes into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building...
• 1943 — World War II: Operation Gomorrah: The Royal Air Force bombs Hamburg, Germany causing a...

369 entries

• 2015 — Microsoft releases Windows 10.
• 2013 — Two passenger trains collide in the Swiss municipality of Granges-près-Marnand near...
• 2010 — An overloaded passenger ferry capsizes on the Kasai River in Bandundu Province,...

297 entries

• 2014 — One hundred and fifty people are trapped after a landslide in Maharashtra, India; 20...
• 2012 — A train fire kills 32 passengers and injures 27 on the Tamil Nadu Express in Andhra...
• 2012 — A power grid failure in Delhi leaves more than 300 million people without power in...

320 entries

• 2014 — Gas explosions in the southern Taiwanese city of Kaohsiung kill at least 20 people and...
• 2012 — Michael Phelps breaks the record set in 1964 by Larisa Latynina for the most medals...
• 2007 — Operation Banner, the presence of the British Army in Northern Ireland, and the...