Historical Events in July, Month of July Events
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| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| July 2, 1900 | Jean Sibelius' Finlandia receives its première performance in Helsinki with the Helsinki Philharmonic Society conducted by Robert Kajanus. |
| July 1, 1569 | Union of Lublin: The Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania confirm a real union; the united country is called the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth or the Republic of Both Nations. |
| July 30, 2012 | A power grid failure in Delhi leaves more than 300 million people without power in northern India. |
| July 6, 1944 | The Hartford circus fire, one of America's worst fire disasters, kills approximately 168 people and injures over 700 in Hartford, Connecticut. |
| July 3, 1996 | British Prime Minister John Major announced the Stone of Scone would be returned to Scotland. |
| July 11, 1943 | World War II: Allied invasion of Sicily: German and Italian troops launch a counter-attack on Allied forces in Sicily. |
| July 15, 1240 | Swedish–Novgorodian Wars: A Novgorodian army led by Alexander Nevsky defeats the Swedes in the Battle of the Neva. |
| July 21, 1961 | Alaska Airlines Flight 779 crashes near Shemya Air Force Base in Shemya, Alaska killing six. |
| July 8, 1912 | Henrique Mitchell de Paiva Couceiro leads an unsuccessful royalist attack against the First Portuguese Republic in Chaves. |
| July 10, 1943 | World War II: Operation Husky begins in Sicily. |
| July 3, 1754 | French and Indian War: George Washington surrenders Fort Necessity to French forces. |
| July 4, 1855 | The first edition of Walt Whitman's book of poems, Leaves of Grass, is published in Brooklyn. |
| July 19, 1848 | Women's rights: A two-day Women's Rights Convention opens in Seneca Falls, New York. |
| July 21, 1656 | The Raid on Málaga takes place during the Anglo-Spanish War. |
| July 26, 1989 | A federal grand jury indicts Cornell University student Robert T. Morris, Jr. for releasing the Morris worm, thus becoming the first person to be prosecuted under the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. |
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