Event of Interest
2012 Former Argentine president and dictator Jorge Rafael Videla is sentenced to 50 years imprisonment for the abduction of about 400 babies born to political prisoners
- 2012 Harness racing trainer/driver Dave Palone sets a new North American record for wins when he drives Herculotte Hanover to the winner's circle for his 15,181st career victory
- 2012 South Korea announce plans to begin "scientific' whaling of minke whales
- 2012 The Shard, the tallest building in Europe, is opened in London, at 309.6 metres (1,016 ft)
- 2013 15 people are killed by a bomb attack on a Shia mosque in Baghdad, Iraq
Wimbledon Women's Tennis
2014 Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Petra Kvitová outclasses Eugenie Bouchard of Canada 6-3, 6-0 for her 2nd Wimbledon title
FIFA Women's World Cup Final
2015 FIFA Women's World Cup Final, BC Place, Vancouver, BC, Canada: Carli Lloyd scores a hat-trick as US beats Japan, 5-2
Event of Interest
2016 FBI releases report stating Hillary Clinton was "extremely careless" handling classified emails but doesn't recommend prosecution
- 2017 101 people reported shot, 15 killed in Chicago, Illinois over 4th July weekend
- 2017 Arsenal FC breaks club transfer record, paying about €53m for Lyon striker Alexandre Lacazette
- 2017 Followers of Indian spiritual leader Ashutosh Mahara win a court case, 3 years after his death, to keep his body in a freezer in case he should return to life
- 2017 Shootout between drug cartels in Las Varas, Northern Mexico kills 14
- 2017 Volvo Cars announces all new models by 2019 will be either hybrids or battery powered, 1st automaker to do so
- 2018 At least 24 killed in explosions at pyrotechnics workshops in Tultepec, Mexico
- 2018 English rapper Stormzy announces partnership with Penguin Books, an imprint called #Merky Books
- 2018 Heatwave in southern Quebec, Canada, kills 33
- 2018 Saleswomen in Kerala, India, win right to sit down and take toilet breaks in new amendment to law
- 2018 US Environmental Protection Agency head Scott Pruitt resigns amid allegations of misconduct
- 2019 Ancient Iraqi city Babylon declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site
- 2019 Former governor of Rio de Janeiro, Sérgio Cabral says he paid a $2 million bribe to secure votes for his city to be granted 2016 Olympics
- 2019 Second stronger earthquake in Southern California at 7.1 magnitude centered near Ridgecrest
- 2020 Florida reports a record 11,458 daily COVID-19 cases
- 2020 Mexico's COVID-19 death toll passes 30,000 as it becomes the world's 5th worst-affected country
- 2021 One of world's oldest pieces of art, 51,000-year-old deer bone carved by Neanderthals, announced discovered in Harz Mountains, Germany [1]
COVID-19 Pandemic
2021 Prime Minister Boris Johnson says he will scrap all COVID-19 restrictions in England from 19 July, to become most unrestricted country in Europe
- 2022 Amid Greater Sydney's fourth major flood in 18 months, the Australian government declares a natural disaster as 45,000 people threatened with evacuation orders [1]
- 2022 In possibly largest-ever Chinese security breach, hacker offers to sell Shanghai police a database with information on one billion Chinese [1]
Music History
2022 Legendary rock guitarist Carlos Santana collapses on stage from dehydration and heat exhaustion in Pine Knob, Michigan
- 2022 Mathematics Fields Medal (presented every four years to mathematicians under 40) awarded to James Maynard, June Huh, Maryna Viazovska and Hugo Duminil-Copin in Helsinki [1]
- 2022 Mike Grier becomes the first Black manager in the NHL - of the San Jose Sharks [1]
- 2023 A wave of shootings across American during Fourth of July celebrations leaves a dozen people dead and more than 60 injured [1]
- 2023 Hottest global temperature ever recorded - for third consecutive day - as average global temperature tops 17.18 degrees Celsius, tying with July 4, 2023 [1]
- 2023 Meta launches Threads - Instagram's new public conversations app - a day later it becomes the most rapidly downloaded app ever with 30 million downloads [1]
