Historical Events in July 2016

Report on Hillary Clinton Emails

Jul 5 FBI releases report stating Hillary Clinton was "extremely careless" handling classified emails but doesn't recommend prosecution

Jul 6 African American Alton Sterling is shot by Louisiana police in Baton Rouge, while being restrained on the ground, the killing is filmed
Jul 6 African American Philando Castile is shot by police in St Paul, Minnesota after being pulled over for a broken rear light, killing is filmed

Event of Interest

Jul 6 Chilcot Report, UK's Iraqi War Inquiry released; concludes Tony Blair overstated case for war and was unpreparaed

Jul 6 Pokémon Go, the real-world mobile game by Niantic, is first released
Jul 6 South African athlete Oscar Pistorius is sentenced to 6 years in jail for the murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in 2013
Jul 7 Deadlock in battle for Aleppo broken when Russian air strikes cut rebel access to the city, 250,000 people put under siege
Jul 7 In Dallas Texas, lone gunman shots and kills five police officers, wounding others during a protest march against fatal police shootings of African Americans
Jul 8 Italian designer Maria Grazia Chiuri is the first woman to be appointed artistic director at French fashion house Christian Dior

Jul 10 UEFA European Championship, Stade de France, Saint-Denis: Eder scores in extra time as Portugal upset France, 1-0
Jul 10 US Open Women's Golf, CordeValle GC: American Brittany Lang wins her first major title by 3 strokes in a 3-hole playoff over Anna Nordqvist of Sweden

Jul 10 Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Scotsman Andy Murray beats Canadian Milos Raonic 6-4, 7-6, 7-6 for his 2nd Wimbledon and 3rd Grand Slam title

PM Theresa May

Jul 13 Theresa May is elected Prime Minister of the United Kingdom by Conservative Party MPs

Jul 15 Attempted military coup in Turkey fails, nearly 300 killed, 6,000 then arrested

Trump Names Pence as Running Mate

Jul 16 Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump announces Indiana governor Mike Pence as his Vice Presidential running mate

Le Corbusier Recognized by UNESCO

Jul 17 17 works by Swiss architect Le Corbusier included in UNESCO World Heritage sites list as "an Outstanding Contribution to the Modern Movement"

Jul 17 British Open Men's Golf, Royal Troon GC: Sweden's Henrik Stenson becomes first Scandinavian man to win a major title; shoots final round 63 for record 20-under par 264; wins by 3 from Phil Mickelson

Jul 22 A man shoots and kills 9 people at the Olympia shopping mall in Munich, Germany and then kills himself
Jul 22 Hillary Clinton announces Virginia Senator Tim Kaine as her Vice Presidential running mate
Jul 22 Japan’s Funai Electric announce they will manufacture world's last videocassette this month
Jul 23 Suicide bomb in Kabul kills 80 during a protest march, Islamic State claim responsibility

Jul 24 British Senior Open Men's Golf, Carnoustie: Englishman Paul Broadhurst wins by 2 strokes from American Scott McCarron
Jul 24 George Wolfe's musical "Shuffle Along, Or The Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed", based on Eubie Blake and Noble Sissle's original revue, and featuring Audra MacDonald and Billy Porter, closes at the Music Box Theatre, NYC. after 100 performances
Jul 25 England fast bowler Jimmy Anderson becomes first quick to take 50 wickets against all other 7 major Test cricket-playing nations during 2nd Test against Pakistan in Manchester
Jul 25 Verizon announces $4.83 billion purchase of Yahoo
Jul 28 Earliest evidence of cancer found in 1.7 million-year-old toe fossil from Swartkrans Cave, South Africa, published in "South African Journal of Science"
Jul 29 Hillary Clinton accepts the Democratic nomination for US President at Democratic convention in Philadelphia - first woman by a major US party
Jul 30 Air balloon crashes into power lines near Lockhart, Texas, killing all 16 on board
Jul 31 British Open Women's Golf, Woburn: Ariya Jutanugarn of Thailand wins by 3 from Mo Martin & Mirim Lee
Jul 31 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Baltusrol GC: American Jimmy Walker wins his first major by 1 shot from defending champion Jason Day of Australia
Jul 31 Yuriko Koike is the first woman to be elected Tokyo Governor

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

Jul 31 “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child", a play by Jack Thorne with contributions by J. K. Rowling premieres at Palace Theatre in London

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