Historical Events in July, Month of July Events
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| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| July 13, 2013 | Typhoon Soulik kills at least nine people and affects more than 160 million in East China and Taiwan. |
| July 9, 1893 | Daniel Hale Williams, American heart surgeon, performs the first successful open-heart surgery in United States without anesthesia. |
| July 17, 1979 | Nicaraguan dictator General Anastasio Somoza Debayle resigns and flees to Miami, Florida, United States. |
| July 24, 1901 | O. Henry is released from prison in Columbus, Ohio, after serving three years for embezzlement from a bank. |
| July 15, 1888 | The stratovolcano Mount Bandai erupts, killing approximately 500 people in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. |
| July 7, 1798 | As a result of the XYZ Affair, the US Congress rescinds the Treaty of Alliance with France sparking the "Quasi-War". |
| July 25, 1837 | The first commercial use of an electrical telegraph is successfully demonstrated in London by William Cooke and Charles Wheatstone. |
| July 14, 1223 | Louis VIII becomes King of France upon the death of his father, Philip II. |
| July 22, 1484 | Battle of Lochmaben Fair: A 500-man raiding party led by Alexander Stewart, Duke of Albany and James Douglas, 9th Earl of Douglas are defeated by Scots forces loyal to Albany's brother James III of Scotland; Douglas is captured. |
| July 9, 1955 | The Russell–Einstein Manifesto calls for a reduction of the risk of nuclear warfare. |
| July 30, 1975 | Jimmy Hoffa disappears from the parking lot of the Machus Red Fox restaurant in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit, at about 2:30 p.m. He is never seen or heard from again. |
| July 4, 1918 | Bolsheviks kill Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his family (Julian calendar date). |
| July 8, 1962 | Ne Win besieges and blows up the Rangoon University Student Union building to crush the Student Movement. |
| July 7, 1997 | The Turkish Armed Forces withdraw from northern Iraq after assisting the Kurdistan Democratic Party in the Iraqi Kurdish Civil War. |
| July 28, 1794 | French Revolution: Maximilien Robespierre and Louis Antoine de Saint-Just are executed by guillotine in Paris, France. |
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