Events in History
- Jul 1 6.6 earthquake in Big Bear Valley of Los Angeles
- Jul 1 Ali Kafi becomes president of Algeria
- Jul 2 Braniff Airlines goes out of business
- Jul 3 South Africa's FIFA membership reinstated (expelled 1961); united non-racial FA, political prisoners released, free political parties
- Jul 5 Sixto Durán Ballén elected president of Ecuador
- Jul 6 Fay Vincent institutes plans to realign NL
- Jul 8 Conference for Security and Co-operation in Europe creates the office of High Commissioner on National Minorities
- Jul 8 Thomas Klestil installed as President of Austria
- Jul 9 Space Shuttle STS 50 (Columbia 13) lands
- Jul 10 Spaceship Giotto (Halley 1986) approaches comet Grigg-Skjellerup
- Jul 10 SuriPop VII, Suriname Popular Song Festival
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Jul 11 Presidential candidate Ross Perot at NAACP speech calls them "you people"
- Jul 13 The Tripartite Alliance, consisting of the African National Congress, South African Communist Party and Congress of South African Trade Union, outlines a mass action plan for August
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Jul 14 386BSD is released by Lynne Jolitz and William Jolitz, starting the open source operating system revolution. Linus Torvalds release "Linux" soon afterwards
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Jul 15 Pope John Paul II hospitalized for 3 weeks to have tumor removed
- Jul 15 The Security Council of the UN examine violence in South Africa
- Jul 17 Slovak parliament declares independence from Czechoslovakia, beginning the so-called Velvet Divorce
- Jul 18 The ten victims of the La Cantuta massacre disappear from their university in Lima, Peru
- Jul 19 Ebony P Warren, crowned 24th Miss Black America
- Jul 20 Round World Air Race begins in Paris
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Jul 20 Václav Havel resigns as President of Czechoslovakia after Slovakia declares independence
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Jul 22 Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar escapes prison
- Jul 22 Soyuz TM-15 launches
- Jul 24 Mandala airlines plane crashes on Ambon island, eastern Indonesia, 70 die
- Jul 24 Shankar Dayal Sharma is elected ninth Indian President
- Jul 25 Army refused to overturn 127 year old conviction against Dr Mudd
- Jul 26 Britain honours her dead in the Falklands War
- Jul 27 Dimitri Lepikov, Vladimir Pychenko, Veniamin Taianovitch and Evgueni Sadovyi swim world record 4x200m freestyle (7:11.95)
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Jul 27 Nelson Mandela says a general strike will go ahead to protest for the removal of South African President F. W. de Klerk from power and for free elections
Birthdays in History
- Jul 8 Taylor Maine Pearl Brooks, daughter of country singer Garth Brooks and Sandy Mahl, born inn Nashville, Tennessee
Weddings in History
Ted Kennedy
Jul 3 American US Senator from Massachusetts Ted Kennedy (60) marries his second wife Victoria Reggie (38), until his death in 2009
- Jul 18 Helen Windsor, daughter of British Duke and Duchess of Kent weds art dealer Timothy Taylor at Windsor Castle
Deaths in History
Marsha P. Johnson (1945-1992)
Jul 6 African-American gay liberation and AIDS activist, drag queen, and transgender pioneer (Gay Liberation Front, S.T.A.R.), dies under suspicious circumstances at 46
- Jul 7 Juanita Jackson Mitchell, American lawyer (1st African American to practice law in Maryland, NAACP), dies at 79
- Jul 7 Ruurd Faber, Dutch politician and Mayor of Aalten (1971-75), dies at 79
- Jul 10 Albert Pierrepoint, last and longest serving British executioner (est. 433-608 executed), dies at 87
- Jul 11 Annette Fischer, Danish chairman Amnesty International, dies in a car crash at 46
- Jul 11 Antoon Hubben, Dutch Mayor of Maasbree and trade union leader, dies at 73
- Jul 15 Chingiz Mustafayev, Azerbaijan's most noted journalist (b. 1960)
- Jul 15 Hammer DeRoburt, First President of Nauru, dies at 69
- Jul 16 Patrick Meaney, British businessman and CEO (Rank Organization), dies at 67
- Jul 18 Jan Pelleboer, Dutch meteorologist, dies
- Jul 18 Mollie Parnis, American fashion designer (Mollie Roberts Collection; Mamie Eisenhower), dies in her 90s (she had long refused to disclose her exact age)
- Jul 18 Rudolf Ising, cartoonist (Looney Tunes, Merrie Melodies), dies at 88
- Jul 18 Viktor Louis, Russian journalist, dies
- Jul 18 Willa Brown, American air pioneer (NAAA) and civil rights activist (1st African American woman to hold a pilot's license), dies at 86
Allen Newell (1927-1992)
Jul 19 American computer scientist (Logic Theory Machine, General Problem Solver, Turing Award), dies at 65
- Jul 19 Bert Brugman, Dutch puppeteer (Dutch marionette theater), dies
- Jul 19 Heinz Galinski, President (Central council for Jews in Germany), dies at 79
- Jul 19 Paolo Borsellino, Italian anti-mafia judge, murdered by mafia
- Jul 22 Souleiman Franjieh, president Lebanon (1970-76), dies
- Jul 24 Khaled Mahmoud Saeed, asst to Palestine terrorist Abu Nidal, murdered
- Jul 24 Lillian Oppenheimer, American origami pioneer (popularized origami in the West), dies of a heart attack at 93
- Jul 24 Sam Berger, Canadian football owner (b. 1900)
- Jul 27 Max Dupain, Australian photographer ("Sunbaker"), dies at 81
- Jul 29 Tavio Amorin, Togolese politician, murdered
- Jul 31 G Harold Carswell, supreme court justice candidate 1970, dies at 72
- Jul 31 Sjoerd de Free, Dutch reporter (Radio Herrijzend Netherland), dies
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