Historical Events in July 2013

Publish date: 2024-08-25

Jul 1 47 people are killed and 90 are wounded in two bomb blasts in Pakistan
Jul 1 Croatia becomes the 28th member of the European Union

Event of Interest

Jul 1 Demonstrations occur across Egypt with 15 million people calling for the resignation of President Mohamed Morsi

Jul 2 16 people are killed and 200 are injured in protest clashes at Cairo University against Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi
Jul 2 Reds pitcher Homer Bailey no-hits SF Giants 3-0 in Cincinnati, his second no-hitter in 10 months
Jul 3 President of Egypt Mohamed Morsi is deposed by the military in a coup d'état with Adly Mansour appointed interim president
Jul 4 12 people are killed and 60 are injured in a wave of shootings across Chicago
Jul 5 15 people are killed by a bomb attack on a Shia mosque in Baghdad, Iraq
Jul 6 14 people are killed after a train runs over a rickshaw in Sheikhupura, Pakistan
Jul 6 3 people are killed and 181 are injured after a Boeing 777 crash lands at San Francisco Airport
Jul 6 42 people are killed and 5 missing after a freight train carrying crude oil rolls unmanned for 12km before derailing at Lac-Megantic, Quebec igniting fires and explosions
Jul 6 42 people are killed in an attack on a boarding school in Mamudo, Nigeria
Jul 6 British & Irish Lions Rugby Union team thrash Australia, 41-16 in Sydney for a 2-1 series win, their first against the Wallabies since 1997
Jul 6 Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Bob & Mike Bryan beat Ivan Dogic & Marcelo Melo to be the only doubles pair to hold all 4 major titles and Olympic gold medal at same time
Jul 6 Wimbledon Women's Tennis: In her last appearance at a major championship, Marion Bartoli of France beats German Sabine Lisicki 6-1, 6-4 for her only Grand Slam title
Jul 7 10 people are killed after an air taxi crashes in Soldotna, Alaska

Jul 8 42 people killed, hundreds injured after the Egyptian army raids a sit-in protest in Cairo
Jul 8 A dozen people are killed and injured after a hotel collapses in Hyderabad, India
Jul 9 Adam Ondra onsights Cabane au Canada in Switzerland, the second-ever onsight of a 9a (5.14d) route
Jul 10 40 people are buried in landslides in Sichuan Province, China

Orange Is the New Black

Jul 11 "Orange Is the New Black" premieres on Netflix starring Taylor Schilling, first series to be nominated for comedy and drama Emmy awards

Jul 11 30 people are killed in a wave of bomb and gun attacks across Iraq
Jul 12 8 people are killed after a commuter train derails in Paris

United Nations Speech

Jul 12 Malala Yousafzai addresses the United Nations and calls for worldwide access to education

Jul 13 #BlackLivesMatter created in response to the acquittal of George Zimmerman on trial for the murder of Trayvon Martin
Jul 13 18 people are killed and 40 are injured after a gravel truck collides with a bus in Podolsk, Russia
Jul 13 Ten people are killed after a bus crash in Minas Gerais, Brazil

Jul 14 US Senior Open Men's Golf, Omaha CC: Kenny Perry wins by 5 strokes ahead of runner-up Fred Funk

Jul 15 13 people are killed by a car bomb in Deir Atiyah, Syria
Jul 15 18 people are killed and 47 are injured in a riot following a boxing match in Indonesia
Jul 16 27 children are killed and 25 are hospitalized after eating lunch contaminated with insecticide in India
Jul 16 84th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 3-0 at Citi Field, New York

Jul 17 58 people are killed in floods in Sichuan Province, China
Jul 17 7 people are killed by a car bomb in Damascus, Syria

Bono Honored

Jul 17 U2 singer Bono is made a Commandeur of the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres

Jul 18 46th San Diego Comic-Con International opens at San Diego Convention Center
Jul 18 Detroit, Michigan, files for bankruptcy, becoming the largest US municipal bankruptcy ever at $18.5 billion
Jul 19 20 people are killed by a suicide bombing in Diyala, Iraq

Jul 21 12 people are killed in a clash between two Muslim families in Lanao del Sur, Philippines
Jul 21 15 Egyptian Army soldiers are killed after their bus crashes into a truck on the Mediterranean Coast Highway

Jul 21 British Open Men's Golf, Muirfield: Phil Mickelson wins his 5th major, by 3 strokes from Henrik Stenson of Sweden

Philippe of Belgium

Jul 21 Philippe of Belgium becomes King of the Belgiums after his father King Albert II's earlier abdication

Jul 22 89 people are killed and 500 are injured by earthquakes in Gansu province, China

Babcock To Coach Canada

Jul 22 Mike Babcock is again named head coach of Team Canada, this time for the 2014 Winter Olympics (they would repeat as gold medalists)

Jul 23 19 people are killed and 22 are injured after a tour bus collides with a truck in Saraburi, Thailand
Jul 24 22 are left dead after a conflict between the Knights Templar Cartel and Mexican police in Michoacan
Jul 24 80 people are killed and 140 are injured after a high-speed train derails in Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Jul 26 57 people are killed in a market bombing in Parachinar, Pakistan
Jul 27 1,000 inmates escape from a prison in Benghazi, Libya
Jul 27 100 people are killed and 1,500 injured in a crackdown against protesters in Cairo, Egypt
Jul 27 First Przewalski’s horse (whose wild populations were believed extinct in 1969) is born via artificial insemination at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute as part of a worldwide effort to rebuild the wild herds
Jul 28 39 people are killed after a bus veers off a bridge in Avellino Province, Italy
Jul 29 300 prisoners are freed after a Taliban attack in Dera Ismal Khan, Pakistan
Jul 29 44 people are killed in a wave of car bombings in Iraq

Jul 29 British Senior Open Men's Golf, Royal Birkdale: American Mark Wiebe wins in a playoff with Bernhard Langer of Germany

Jul 29 US Coast Guard opens new headquarters in Washington, DC; officially designated as the Douglas A. Munro Coast Guard Headquarters Building in honor of USCG's only WWII Medal of Honor recipient
Jul 29 €103 million of diamonds is stolen from the Carton Intercontinental Hotel, Cannes, France
Jul 30 134 people are killed in tribal conflicts in Darfyr, Sudan
Jul 30 28 people are killed in a series of bombings in Kano, Nigeria
Jul 30 9 children are killed and 20 are injured after a school bus collides with a truck in Hanumangarh, India
Jul 30 Mamnoon Hussain is elected President of Pakistan
Jul 30 Wikileaks discloser Bradley [later Chelsea] Manning convicted of 17 espionage charges

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