Events in History
- Jul 1 The Oresund Bridge, connecting Sweden and Denmark, opens for traffic
- Jul 1 Vermont's civil unions law goes into effect.
- Jul 2 Vicente Fox Quesada is elected the first President of México from an opposition party, the Partido Acción Nacional after more than 70 years of continuous rule by the Partido Revolucionario Institucional.
Historic Publication
Jul 8 "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", the 4th book in the series by J. K. Rowling is published in the UK (Bloomsbury) and the US (Scholastic)
- Jul 10 A leaking southern Nigerian petroleum pipeline explodes, killing about 250 villagers scavenging gasoline
- Jul 10 EADS, the world's second largest aerospace group is formed by the merger of Aérospatiale-Matra, DASA, and CASA
- Jul 20 In Zimbabwe, Parliament opens its new session and seats opposition members for the first time in a decade
- Jul 20 Terrorist Carlos the Jackal sues France in the European Court of Human Rights for allegedly torturing him
- Jul 25 Air France Flight 4590, a Concorde supersonic passenger jet, F-BTSC, crashes just after takeoff from Paris killing all 109 aboard and 4 on the ground.
- Jul 30 British Senior Open Men's Golf, Royal County Down: Irishman Christy O'Connor Jr. successfully defends his title by 2 shots from John Bland of South Africa
Weddings in History
Deaths in History
- Jul 1 Sarah Payne, British murder victim (b. 1992)
- Jul 4 Gustaw Herling-Grudzinski, Polish writer (b. 1919)
- Jul 6 Rederic Coote, British Anglican Bishop (Colchester), dies at 85
- Jul 7 Mary Armour, Scottish painter, dies at 80
- Jul 8 FM-2030 [Fereidoun M. Esfandiary], Iranian-American author and transhumanist (Are You a Transhuman?), dies at 69
- Jul 10 Vakkom Majeed, Indian Freedom fighter, Travancore-Cochin Legislative member (b. 1909)
- Jul 11 Pedro Mir, Dominican poet (b. 1913)
- Jul 11 Robert Runcie, Archbishop of Canterbury, dies at 78
- Jul 12 Charles Merritt, Canadian Army officer and recipient of the Victoria Cross during World War II, dies at 98
- Jul 14 René Ríos Boettiger, Chilean cartoonist (b. 1911)
- Jul 14 William Roscoe Estep, American Baptist historian (b. 1920)
- Jul 18 José Ángel Valente, Spanish poet (A modo the esperanza), dies at 71
- Jul 20 Gregory Hill (also known as Malaclypse the Younger,) American writer (Principia Discordia), dies at 59
- Jul 22 Carmen Martín Gaite, Spanish author, dies at 74
- Jul 22 Raymond Urgel Lemieux, Canadian scientist (first chemical synthesis of sucrose), dies at 80
- Jul 24 Ahmad Shamlou, Iranian poet (The Book of Alley), dies at 74
- Jul 26 John Tukey, American statistician (b. 1915)
- Jul 28 Abraham Pais, Dutch-born American physicist and historian (b. 1918)
- Jul 29 Edgar Beck, English civil engineer (led firm Mowlem that reconstructed Downing St, built new London Bridge and NatWest Tower), dies at 89
- Jul 29 Kobie Coetsee, South African Minister of Defense (1993-94) and Minister of Justice (1980-93), dies at 69
- Jul 31 Hendrik Christoffel Van de Hulst, Dutch astronomer (correctly predicted the existence of the 21 cm hyper-fine line of neutral atomic hydrogen in interstellar space), dies at 81
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