July 2016 in History

Events in History

Event of Interest

Jul 5 FBI releases report stating Hillary Clinton was "extremely careless" handling classified emails but doesn't recommend prosecution

US Secretary of State, Senator and US First Lady Hillary Clinton

Jul 6 African American Alton Sterling is shot by Louisiana police in Baton Rouge, while being restrained on the ground, the killing is filmed
Jul 6 African American Philando Castile is shot by police in St Paul, Minnesota after being pulled over for a broken rear light, killing is filmed

Event of Interest

Jul 6 Chilcot Report, UK's Iraqi War Inquiry released; concludes Tony Blair overstated case for war and was unpreparaed

Jul 6 Pokémon Go, the real-world mobile game by Niantic, is first released
Jul 6 South African athlete Oscar Pistorius is sentenced to 6 years in jail for the murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in 2013
Jul 7 Deadlock in battle for Aleppo broken when Russian air strikes cut rebel access to the city, 250,000 people put under siege
Jul 7 In Dallas Texas, lone gunman shots and kills five police officers, wounding others during a protest march against fatal police shootings of African Americans
Jul 8 Italian designer Maria Grazia Chiuri is the first woman to be appointed artistic director at French fashion house Christian Dior

Event of Interest

Jul 12 Bernie Sanders endorses fellow Democratic Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton in a speech in New Hampshire

PM Theresa May

Jul 13 Theresa May is elected Prime Minister of the United Kingdom by Conservative Party MPs

Jul 15 Attempted military coup in Turkey fails, nearly 300 killed, 6,000 then arrested

Trump Names Pence as Running Mate

Jul 16 Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump announces Indiana governor Mike Pence as his Vice Presidential running mate

48th Vice President of the United States Mike Pence

45th US President, Businessman and TV Personality Donald Trump

Le Corbusier Recognized by UNESCO

Jul 17 17 works by Swiss architect Le Corbusier included in UNESCO World Heritage sites list as "an Outstanding Contribution to the Modern Movement"

Jul 22 A man shoots and kills 9 people at the Olympia shopping mall in Munich, Germany and then kills himself
Jul 22 Hillary Clinton announces Virginia Senator Tim Kaine as her Vice Presidential running mate
Jul 23 Suicide bomb in Kabul kills 80 during a protest march, Islamic State claim responsibility
Jul 25 Verizon announces $4.83 billion purchase of Yahoo
Jul 28 Earliest evidence of cancer found in 1.7 million-year-old toe fossil from Swartkrans Cave, South Africa, published in "South African Journal of Science"
Jul 29 Hillary Clinton accepts the Democratic nomination for US President at Democratic convention in Philadelphia - first woman by a major US party
Jul 30 Air balloon crashes into power lines near Lockhart, Texas, killing all 16 on board
Jul 31 Yuriko Koike is the first woman to be elected Tokyo Governor

Weddings in History

Jul 7 "Million Dollar Listing New York" realtor Ryan Serhant (32) weds lawyer Emilia Bechrakis on the island of Corfu in Greece
Jul 16 Survivor winner and cancer survivor Ethan Zohn (42) weds interior designer Lisa Heywood in North Bennington, Vermont
Jul 31 Herjavec Group CEO Robert Herjavec (53) weds former "Dancing with the Stars" Kym Johnson (39) in Los Angeles, California

Deaths in History

Elie Wiesel (1928-2016)

Jul 2 Jewish Auschwitz survivor and author (Night), Nobel Prize winner 1986, dies at 87

Jul 2 Michael Cimino, American director (The Deer Hunter), dies at 77
Jul 2 Michel Rocard, French politician, Prime Minister of France (1988-91), dies at 85
Jul 2 Patrick Manning, Trinidad and Tobago politician, Prime Minister (1991-95, 2001-10), dies at 69
Jul 5 Beatrice de Cardi, British archaeologist, dies at 102
Jul 8 Abdul Sattar Edhi, Pakistani philanthropist (Edhi Foundation), dies at 88
Jul 8 William H. McNeill, Canadian-born historian (Rise of the West), dies at 98
Jul 9 Robert Nye, British novelist and poet (Falstaff), dies at 77
Jul 13 Bernardo Provenzano, Mafia Boss (Cosa Nostra), dies in a prison hospital at 83
Jul 18 Billy Name [William Linich Jr], photographer (Andy Warhol's factory), dies at 76
Jul 19 Betsy Bloomingdale, American socialite and fashion leader, dies at 93
Jul 22 Thomas Sutherland, American hostage (Lebanon) and academic, dies at 85
Jul 22 Ursula Franklin, German-born Canadian physicist, educator and activist (developed archaeometry), dies at 94 [1]
Jul 23 Thorbjorn Falldin, Swedish politician, Prime Minister (1976-78, 79-82) and sheep farmer, dies at 90
Jul 26 Forrest E. Mars Jr., American Candy Manufacturer (Mars, Inc.), dies at 84
Jul 26 Miss Cleo [Youree Dell Harris], American psychic (Psychic Readers Network), dies of colon cancer at 53
Jul 27 James Alan MacPherson, American writer, 1st black writer to win Pulitzer Prize, dies at 72
Jul 27 Piet de Jong, Dutch politician (Prime Minister of the Netherlands 1967-71), dies at 101
Jul 28 Mahasweta Devi, Indian Bengali writer and activist, dies at 90
Jul 29 Marta Marzotto, Italian countess and designer, dies at 85
Jul 29 Zelda Fichandler, American theater director and producer (Raisin, K2), dies at 91