Events in History
Presidential Convention
Jul 11 General Eisenhower nominated as Republican US presidential candidate
Appointment of Interest
Jul 17 Shah of Persia Mohammad Reza Pahlavi names Ghavam Sultaneh premier
- Jul 19 Freddie Trueman takes 8-31, India all out 58 at Old Trafford
- Jul 19 India all out 82 in 2nd innings after making 52 earlier in the day
- Jul 21 7.8 earthquake shakes Kern County California, 14 killed
- Jul 21 Premier Ghavam es-Sultaneh of Persia, resigns
- Jul 22 Poland adopts Communist-imposed Constitution
- Jul 23 General Neguib seizes power, Monarchy overthrown in Egypt (National Day)
- Jul 24 112°F (44°C), Louisville, Georgia (state record)
- Jul 24 US President Harry Truman settles 53-day steel strike
- Jul 25 Puerto Rico becomes a self-governing US commonwealth (Constitution Day)
- Jul 26 King Farouk I of Egypt abdicates [Black Saturday]
- Jul 29 1st nonstop transpacific flight by a jet
- Jul 30 Ford Frick sets waiver rule to bar inter-league deals until all clubs in same league get right to bid
Birthdays in History
- Jul 2 Linda M Godwin, Cape Girardeau Mo, PhD/astronaut (STS 37, 59, 76)
- Jul 4 Álvaro Uribe Vélez, Colombian politician (31st President of Colombia), born in Medellín, Colombia
- Jul 5 David Dreier, American entrepreneur and politician (Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from California), born in Kansas City, Missouri
- Jul 5 Terence T. Henricks, USAF colonel and astronaut (STS 44, 55, 70, 78), born in Bryan, Ohio
- Jul 6 Hilary Mantel, English novelist (Wolf Hall), born in Glossop, Derbyshire
- Jul 8 Anna Quindlen, American columnist
- Jul 8 Marianne Williamson, American writer (Return to Love), spiritual leader, human rights and peace activist, born in Houston, Texas
- Jul 10 Peter van Heemst, Dutch politician (Labour Party), born in Rotterdam, Netherlands
- Jul 11 John Kettley, English weather forecaster
- Jul 12 Voja Antonić, Serbian inventor and writer, born in Šabac, Serbia
- Jul 14 Joel Silver, American producer (Warriors, Xanadu, Die Hard), born in South Orange, New Jersey
- Jul 14 Franklin Graham, American evangelist, son of Billy Graham, born in Asheville, North Carolina
- Jul 15 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, (Rep-R-Florida)
- Jul 15 Jill Long, (Rep-D-Indiana)
- Jul 15 Judy McGrath, American television executive
- Jul 16 Robert David Steele, American activist and former CIA officer, born in NYC, New York
- Jul 17 Robert R. McCammon, American sci-fi author (Baal, Mystery Walk), born in Birmingham, Alabama
- Jul 19 Howard Donald Saunders, Danbury Ct, murderer (FBI Most Wanted List)
- Jul 19 Robert A. Ficano, American politician and Sheriff of Wayne County, Michigan, born in Detroit, Michigan
- Jul 19 John Griesheimer, American Republican politician, born in Saint Clair, Missouri
- Jul 21 John Barrasso [John Anthony Barrasso III], American politician, junior senator from Wyoming, born in Reading, Pennsylvania
- Jul 24 Vin Weber, (Rep-R-MN, 1981- )
- Jul 26 Scott David Cook, CEO (Intuit-Quicken), born in Glendale, California
- Jul 28 Maha Vajiralongkorn [Bodindradebayavarangkun], King of Thailand (2016 - Present), born in Bangkok, Thailand
- Jul 28 Yoshitaka Amano, Japanese artist (Final Fantasy), born in Shizuoka city, Japan
- Jul 31 Pritawi Sudarmo, Indonesia, astronaut
- Jul 31 João Barreiros, Portuguese writer (Um Dia com Júlia na Necrosfera), born in Portugal
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