Events in History
- Jul 7 Roof of a stand in De Grolsch Veste Stadium in Enschede which was under construction collapses, one killed and 14 injured.
- Jul 8 Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched in the final mission of the U.S. Space Shuttle program
- Jul 9 South Sudan gains independence and secedes from Sudan.
- Jul 10 British tabloid News of the World publishes its last edition after 168 years in the wake of a phone hacking scandal.
- Jul 11 Neptune completes its first orbit since its discovery on September 23, 1846
- Jul 13 Mumbai is rocked by three bomb blasts during the evening rush hour, killing 26 and injuring 130
- Jul 13 19th ESPY Awards: Dirk Nowitzki, Lindsey Vonn win
- Jul 16 NASA's Dawn space probe enters orbit around the protoplanet Vesta
- Jul 21 NASA's Space Shuttle program ends with the landing of Space Shuttle Atlantis on mission STS-135
- Jul 22 Norway is the victim of twin terror attacks, the first a bomb blast targeting government buildings in central Oslo, second a massacre at a youth camp on island of Utøya
- Jul 24 British Senior Open Men's Golf, Walton Heath: Russ Cochran wins by 2 shots from fellow American Mark Calcavecchia
Weddings in History
Deaths in History
Betty Ford
Jul 8 Betty Ford, First Lady of the United States (1974-77) and founder of the Betty Ford Center clinic, dies at 93
Betty Ford
- Jul 20 Lucian Freud, German-British artist (Benefits Supervisor Sleeping, Boy With a Rat), dies at 88
- Jul 23 John Shalikashvili, Polish-American general (NATO), dies at 75
- Jul 23 Nguyễn Cao Kỳ, Premier of South Vietnam (1965-67), dies at 80
- Jul 24 Frank Dietrich, German politician (b. 1966)
- Jul 26 Margaret Olley, Australian artist (b.1923)
- Jul 27 Bejaratana Rajasuda, Princess of Thailand (b. 1925)
- Jul 27 Richard Rutt, English bishop of Leicester, dies at 85
- Jul 27 Ágota Kristóf, Hungarian writer (The Notebook), dies at 75
- Jul 28 Abdul Fatah Younis, Former Libyan Interior Minister, assassinated for pro-Gadaffi ties (b. 1944)