Historical Events
Event of Interest
Jul 5 FBI releases report stating Hillary Clinton was "extremely careless" handling classified emails but doesn't recommend prosecution
- Jul 6 African American Alton Sterling is shot by Louisiana police in Baton Rouge, while being restrained on the ground, the killing is filmed
- Jul 6 African American Philando Castile is shot by police in St Paul, Minnesota after being pulled over for a broken rear light, killing is filmed
Event of Interest
Jul 6 Chilcot Report, UK's Iraqi War Inquiry released; concludes Tony Blair overstated case for war and was unpreparaed
- Jul 6 Pokémon Go, the real-world mobile game by Niantic, is first released
- Jul 6 South African athlete Oscar Pistorius is sentenced to 6 years in jail for the murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in 2013
- Jul 7 Deadlock in battle for Aleppo broken when Russian air strikes cut rebel access to the city, 250,000 people put under siege
- Jul 7 In Dallas Texas, lone gunman shots and kills five police officers, wounding others during a protest march against fatal police shootings of African Americans
- Jul 8 Italian designer Maria Grazia Chiuri is the first woman to be appointed artistic director at French fashion house Christian Dior
Wimbledon Women's Tennis
Jul 9 Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Serena Williams beats Angelique Kerber 7-5, 6-3, equalling Steffi Graf's 22 Grand Slam singles tiles
- Jul 10 UEFA European Championship, Stade de France, Saint-Denis: Eder scores in extra time as Portugal upset France, 1-0
- Jul 10 US Open Women's Golf, CordeValle GC: American Brittany Lang wins her first major title by 3 strokes in a 3-hole playoff over Anna Nordqvist of Sweden
Wimbledon Men's Tennis
Jul 10 Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Scotsman Andy Murray beats Canadian Milos Raonic 6-4, 7-6, 7-6 for his 2nd Wimbledon and 3rd Grand Slam title
Event of Interest
Jul 12 Bernie Sanders endorses fellow Democratic Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton in a speech in New Hampshire
PM Theresa May
Jul 13 Theresa May is elected Prime Minister of the United Kingdom by Conservative Party MPs
Stranger Things
Jul 15 "Stranger Things" debuts on Netflix created by the Duffer Brothers, starring Winona Ryder, David Harbour, Finn Wolfhard, Natalia Dyer and Millie Bobby Brown
- Jul 15 Attempted military coup in Turkey fails, nearly 300 killed, 6,000 then arrested
Trump Names Pence as Running Mate
Jul 16 Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump announces Indiana governor Mike Pence as his Vice Presidential running mate
Le Corbusier Recognized by UNESCO
Jul 17 17 works by Swiss architect Le Corbusier included in UNESCO World Heritage sites list as "an Outstanding Contribution to the Modern Movement"
British Golf Open
Jul 17 British Open Men's Golf, Royal Troon GC: Sweden's Henrik Stenson becomes first Scandinavian man to win a major title; shoots final round 63 for record 20-under par 264; wins by 3 from Phil Mickelson
- Jul 22 A man shoots and kills 9 people at the Olympia shopping mall in Munich, Germany and then kills himself
- Jul 22 Hillary Clinton announces Virginia Senator Tim Kaine as her Vice Presidential running mate
- Jul 22 Japan’s Funai Electric announce they will manufacture world's last videocassette this month
- Jul 23 Suicide bomb in Kabul kills 80 during a protest march, Islamic State claim responsibility
Tour de France
Jul 24 103rd Tour de France won by Chris Froome of Great Britain
- Jul 24 British Senior Open Men's Golf, Carnoustie: Englishman Paul Broadhurst wins by 2 strokes from American Scott McCarron
- Jul 24 George Wolfe's musical "Shuffle Along, Or The Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed", based on Eubie Blake and Noble Sissle's original revue, and featuring Audra MacDonald and Billy Porter, closes at the Music Box Theatre, NYC. after 100 performances
- Jul 25 England fast bowler Jimmy Anderson becomes first quick to take 50 wickets against all other 7 major Test cricket-playing nations during 2nd Test against Pakistan in Manchester
- Jul 25 Verizon announces $4.83 billion purchase of Yahoo
- Jul 28 Earliest evidence of cancer found in 1.7 million-year-old toe fossil from Swartkrans Cave, South Africa, published in "South African Journal of Science"
- Jul 29 Hillary Clinton accepts the Democratic nomination for US President at Democratic convention in Philadelphia - first woman by a major US party
- Jul 30 Air balloon crashes into power lines near Lockhart, Texas, killing all 16 on board
- Jul 31 British Open Women's Golf, Woburn: Ariya Jutanugarn of Thailand wins by 3 from Mo Martin & Mirim Lee
- Jul 31 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Baltusrol GC: American Jimmy Walker wins his first major by 1 shot from defending champion Jason Day of Australia
- Jul 31 Yuriko Koike is the first woman to be elected Tokyo Governor
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
Jul 31 “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child", a play by Jack Thorne with contributions by J. K. Rowling premieres at Palace Theatre in London
Famous Weddings
Ciara & Russell Wilson
Jul 6 American NFL quarterback Russell Wilson (27) weds second wife American R&B singer-songwriter Ciara (30) at the Peckforton Castle in Cheshire, England
- Jul 7 "Million Dollar Listing New York" realtor Ryan Serhant (32) weds lawyer Emilia Bechrakis on the island of Corfu in Greece
- Jul 8 Brazilian model Ana Beatriz Barros (34) weds Greek-Egyptian billionaire tycoon Karim El Chiaty on the Greek island of Mykonos
- Jul 9 American fashion designer Christian Siriano (29) weds American singer-songwriter Brad Walsh (34) at their vacation home in Danbury, Connecticut; separate in 2018, divorce in 2021
Derek Jeter
Jul 9 American fashion model Hannah Davis (26) weds American former New York Yankees player Derek Jeter (42) at Meadowood Napa Valley Resort in St. Helena, California
Ana Ivanović
Jul 12 Serbian tennis player Ana Ivanović (28) weds German football player Bastian Schweinsteiger (31) in Venice, Italy
- Jul 16 American 'Survivor' winner and cancer survivor Ethan Zohn (42) weds interior designer Lisa Heywood in North Bennington, Vermont
- Jul 17 Actress and model Tatyana Ali (37) weds Vaughn Rasberry in Beverly Hills, California
- Jul 23 Actor Corbin Bleu (27) weds actress Sasha Clements (26) at Hummingbird Nest in Santa Susana, California
Misty Copeland
Jul 31 Ballet dancer Misty Copeland (33) weds attorney Olu Evans in Laguna Beach, California
- Jul 31 Herjavec Group CEO Robert Herjavec (53) weds former "Dancing with the Stars" Kym Johnson (39) in Los Angeles, California
Famous Divorces
Gwyneth Paltrow & Chris Martin
Jul 15 American actress Gwyneth Paltrow and British Coldplay singer Chris Martin divorce after 12 years of marriage
Amy Poehler
Jul 29 Comedians and actors Amy Poehler and Will Arnett divorce after 12 years of marriage
Famous Deaths
- Jul 2 Caroline Aherne, British comedienne, writer and actress (The Royale Family), dies of cancer at 52
Elie Wiesel (1928-2016)
Jul 2 Jewish Auschwitz survivor and author (Night), Nobel Prize winner 1986, dies at 87
- Jul 2 Michael Cimino, American director (The Deer Hunter), dies at 77
- Jul 2 Michel Rocard, French politician, Prime Minister of France (1988-91), dies at 85
- Jul 2 Patrick Manning, Trinidad and Tobago politician, Prime Minister (1991-95, 2001-10), dies at 69
- Jul 3 Noel Neill, American actress (Adventures of Superman), dies at 95
- Jul 4 Abbas Kiarostami, Iranian author and director (Under the Olive Trees, Close Up, Taste of Cherry), dies at 76
- Jul 4 Geoffrey Shovelton, English opera singer, dies at 80
- Jul 5 Alirio Díaz, Venezuelan guitarist, composer, and musicologist, dies at 92
- Jul 5 Beatrice de Cardi, British archaeologist, dies at 102
- Jul 7 Rokusuke Ei, Japanese author and lyricist (Sukiyaki), dies at 83
- Jul 8 Abdul Sattar Edhi, Pakistani philanthropist (Edhi Foundation), dies at 88
- Jul 8 William H. McNeill, Canadian-born historian (Rise of the West), dies at 98
- Jul 9 Robert Nye, British novelist and poet (Falstaff), dies at 77
- Jul 12 Gregg Smith, American choral conductor and composer, dies at 84
- Jul 13 Bernardo Provenzano, Mafia Boss (Cosa Nostra), dies in a prison hospital at 83
- Jul 13 Héctor Babenco, film director (Kiss of the Spider Woman), dies at 70
- Jul 16 Alan Vega [Bermowitz] American punk rock vocalist (Suicide - "Ghost Rider"; "Dream Baby Dream"; Cubist Blues), and visual artist, dies at 78
- Jul 16 Bonnie Brown, American country singer (The Browns), dies at 77
Nate Thurmond (1941-2016)
Jul 16 American Basketball Hall of Fame forward (7-time NBA All Star), dies of leukemia at 74
Garry Marshall (1934-2016)
Jul 19 American TV writer (The Dick Van Dyke Show), TV producer (The Odd Couple; Happy Days; Laverne & Shirley), and film director (Pretty Woman; Runaway Bride; The Princess Diaries), dies at 81
- Jul 20 Wayne Carson, American country musician and songwriter ("Always On My Mind"; "The Letter"), dies at 73
- Jul 22 Thomas Sutherland, American hostage (Lebanon) and academic, dies at 85
- Jul 22 Ursula Franklin, German-born Canadian physicist, educator and activist (developed archaeometry), dies at 94 [1]
- Jul 23 Thorbjorn Falldin, Swedish politician, Prime Minister (1976-78, 79-82) and sheep farmer, dies at 90
- Jul 24 (Margaret) "Marni" Nixon [McEathron], American soprano singer and film 'ghost voice' (for Audrey Hepburn in "My Fair Lady"; Natalie Wood in "West Side Story**"; Deborah Kerr in "The King And I"), dies at 86
- Jul 25 Benito Wogatzki, German radio and TV writer (My Best Friends), dies at 83
- Jul 26 Einojuhani Rautavaara, Finnish composer (Kaivos), dies at 87
- Jul 26 Forrest E. Mars Jr., American Candy Manufacturer (Mars, Inc.), dies at 84
- Jul 26 Miss Cleo [Youree Dell Harris], American psychic (Psychic Readers Network), dies of colon cancer at 53
- Jul 26 Sandy Pearlman, American lyricist; music producer, artist manager (Blue Öyster Cult), music journalist and record company executive, dies form complications of a stroke at 72
- Jul 27 James Alan MacPherson, American writer, 1st black writer to win Pulitzer Prize, dies at 72
- Jul 27 Piet de Jong, Dutch politician (Prime Minister of the Netherlands 1967-71), dies at 101
- Jul 28 Mahasweta Devi, Indian Bengali writer and activist, dies at 90
- Jul 29 Marta Marzotto, Italian countess and designer, dies at 85
- Jul 29 Zelda Fichandler, American theater director and producer (Raisin, K2), dies at 91
- Jul 30 Gloria DeHaven, American musical actress (Step Lively), dies at 91
- Jul 31 Chiyonofuji Mitsugu, Japanese sumo wrestler (31 tournament c'ships; Kyushu Tournament 1981-88), dies from pancreatic cancer at 61
Seymour Papert (1928-2016)
Jul 31 South African mathematician, dies at 88
