Events in History
- Jul 1 192m long passenger ship Willem Ruys (Achille Lauro) launched
- Jul 1 British Dominion Affairs office becomes Commonwealth Relations office
Engagement of Interest
Jul 9 Engagement of Britain's Princess Elizabeth and Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten
Event of Interest
Jul 9 Spain votes for Franco monarchy
- Jul 10 200 die when train derails and falls into a river in Canton, China
- Jul 10 Cleveland Indian Don Black no-hits Philadelphia A's, 3-0
Event of Interest
Jul 10 Muhammad Ali Jinnah is recommended as the first Governor General of Pakistan by then Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Clement Attlee
- Jul 18 British seize "Exodus 1947" ship of Jewish immigrants to Palestine
- Jul 18 US begins administering Trust Territory of Pacific Islands
- Jul 18 US President Harry Truman signs Presidential Succession Act
Event of Interest
Jul 26 President Truman signs National Security Act (1947), establishing Department of Defense, CIA, National Security Council and Joint Chiefs of Staff
- Jul 26 US President Harry S. Truman signs the National Security Act which establishes the Central Intelligence Agency
- Jul 28 Iuliu Maniu's Farmers' Party is banned in Romania
- Jul 29 Gas leak explodes in a beauty parlor, 10 women die in Harrisonburg, Virginia
Birthdays in History
- Jul 2 Elizabeth Anionwu, English-Nigerian nurse and lecturer (pioneer in sickle cell treatment), born in Birmingham, England
- Jul 2 Luci Baines Johnson Nugent Turpin, daughter of President LBJ
- Jul 7 Felix Standaert, Belgian diplomat
- Jul 7 Gyanendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev, King of Nepal
- Jul 7 Howard Rheingold, American author
- Jul 8 Jenny Diski, English writer (Stranger on a Train), born in London (d. 2016)
- Jul 8 Luis Fernando Figari, Peruvian founder of Sodalitium Christianae Vitae
- Jul 11 Bo Lundgren, Swedish politician
- Jul 12 Richard C. McCarty, American professor of psychology, born in Portsmouth, Virginia
- Jul 14 Claudia Kennedy, U.S. Army officer (first female three star general in US army), born in Frankfurt, Germany
- Jul 16 Alexis Herman, American politician (23rd U.S. Secretary of Labor), born in Mobile, Alabama
- Jul 16 Assata Shakur, American activist Black Liberation Army) and wanted by FBI, born in Queens, New York
- Jul 16 Roelof Petrus Meyer, South African under minister of Law & Order etc, born in Port Elizabeth, South Africa
Camilla Parker Bowles (75 years old)
Jul 17 British wife of King Charles III, and Queen of the United Kingdom, born in London, England
- Jul 18 Steven W. Mahoney, Canadian politician (Member of the Canadian Parliament for Mississauga West), born in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario
- Jul 20 Gerd Binnig, Frankfurt, physicist (tunneling microscope-Nobel 1986)
- Jul 21 Jimmy Duncan, American politician (Rep-R-Tennessee 1988-2019), born in Lebanon, Tennessee
- Jul 22 Curt Weldon, American politician (Rep-R-Pennsylvania 1987-2007), born in Marcus Hook, Pennsylvania
- Jul 22 Gilles Duceppe, Canadian politician
- Jul 23 Spencer Christian, American TV weatherman (Good Morning America), born in Newport News, Virginia
- Jul 24 Michael Coveney, drama critic
- Jul 24 Neil McIntosh, CEO (VSO, Center for British Teaching)
- Jul 26 Pauline Clare, Britain's first female Chief Constable (Lancashire)
- Jul 27 Wayne Dowdy, American lawyer and politician (US Representative from Mississippi (D), 1981-89), born in Fitzgerald, Georgia
- Jul 28 Alexei Sergeyevich Borodai, Russian colonel/cosmonaut
- Jul 30 Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, French virologist (Nobel Prize 2008, discovered HIV), born in Paris, France
- Jul 30 Jonathan Mann, American physician and AIDS activist, born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 1998)
- Jul 31 Dennis Greenslade, rocker
Deaths in History
Aung San (1915-1947)
Jul 19 Burmese general and nationalist politician, assassinated by armed paramilitaries along with 6 members of his cabinet at 32
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