Historical Events in July, Month of July Events
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| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| July 9, 1401 | Timur attacks the Jalairid Sultanate and destroys Baghdad. |
| July 17, 1791 | Members of the French National Guard under the command of General Lafayette open fire on a crowd of radical Jacobins at the Champ de Mars, Paris, during the French Revolution, killing scores of people. |
| July 27, 1900 | Kaiser Wilhelm II makes a speech comparing Germans to Huns; |
| July 25, 1944 | World War II: Operation Spring is one of the bloodiest days for the First Canadian Army during the war. |
| July 20, 1954 | Germany: Otto John, head of West Germany's secret service, defects to East Germany. |
| July 27, 1775 | Founding of the U.S. Army Medical Department: The Second Continental Congress passes legislation establishing "an hospital for an army consisting of 20,000 men." |
| July 11, 1174 | Baldwin IV, 13, becomes King of Jerusalem, with Raymond III, Count of Tripoli as regent and William of Tyre as chancellor. |
| July 23, 1677 | Scanian War: Denmark–Norway captures the harbor town of Marstrand from Sweden. |
| July 5, 1989 | Iran–Contra affair: Oliver North is sentenced by U.S. District Judge Gerhard A. Gesell to a three-year suspended prison term, two years probation, $150,000 in fines and 1,200 hours community service. His convictions are later overturned. |
| July 1, 1870 | The United States Department of Justice formally comes into existence. |
| July 21, 1920 | The Belfast Pogrom begins with the one day removal of thousands of Belfast shipyard, factory and mill workers from their jobs. |
| July 9, 1956 | The 7.7 Mw Amorgos earthquake shakes the Cyclades island group in the Aegean Sea with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). The shaking and the destructive tsunami that followed left fifty-three people dead. A damaging M7.2 aftershock occurred minutes after the mainshock. |
| July 26, 1847 | Liberia declares its independence. |
| July 5, 1594 | Portuguese forces under the command of Pedro Lopes de Sousa begin an unsuccessful invasion of the Kingdom of Kandy during the Campaign of Danture in Sri Lanka. |
| July 21, 1568 | Eighty Years' War: Battle of Jemmingen: Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, Duke of Alva defeats Louis of Nassau. |
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