Historical Events in July, Month of July Events
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| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| July 24, 2019 | Boris Johnson becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom after defeating Jeremy Hunt in a leadership contest, succeeding Theresa May. |
| July 1, 1922 | The Great Railroad Strike of 1922 begins in the United States. |
| July 10, 1519 | Zhu Chenhao declares the Ming dynasty's Zhengde Emperor a usurper, beginning the Prince of Ning rebellion, and leads his army north in an attempt to capture Nanjing. |
| July 14, 1960 | Jane Goodall arrives at the Gombe Stream Reserve in present-day Tanzania to begin her study of chimpanzees in the wild. |
| July 25, 1934 | The Nazis assassinate Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss in a failed coup attempt. |
| July 25, 1909 | Louis Blériot makes the first flight across the English Channel in a heavier-than-air machine from Calais to Dover, England, United Kingdom in 37 minutes. |
| July 30, 1980 | Israel's Knesset passes the Jerusalem Law. |
| July 9, 1997 | A Fokker 100 from the Brazilian airline TAM launches engineer Fernando Caldeira de Moura Campos into 2,400 meters of free fall after an explosion that depressurized the aircraft. |
| July 20, 1981 | Somali Airlines Flight 40 crashes in the Balad District of Somalia, killing 40 people. |
| July 9, 1986 | The New Zealand Parliament passes the Homosexual Law Reform Act legalising homosexuality in New Zealand. |
| July 5, 1970 | Air Canada Flight 621 crashes in Brampton, Ontario, Canada, killing all 109 people on board. |
| July 27, 1974 | Watergate scandal: The House of Representatives Judiciary Committee votes 27 to 11 to recommend the first article of impeachment (for obstruction of justice) against President Richard Nixon. |
| July 28, 2001 | Australian Ian Thorpe becomes the first swimmer to win six gold medals at a single World Championship meeting. |
| July 1, 1858 | Joint reading of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace's papers on evolution to the Linnean Society of London. |
| July 29, 1014 | Byzantine–Bulgarian wars: Battle of Kleidion: Byzantine emperor Basil II inflicts a decisive defeat on the Bulgarian army, and his subsequent treatment of 15,000 prisoners reportedly causes Tsar Samuil of Bulgaria to die of a heart attack less than three months later, on October 6. |
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