July is the seventh month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days. It is, on average, the warmest month in most of the Northern hemisphere (where it is the second month of summer) and the coldest month in much of the Southern hemisphere. The second half of the year commences in July.
July was renamed for Julius Caesar, who was born in that month. Previously, it was called Quintilis in Latin, since it was the fifth month in the ancient Roman calendar, before January became the first month of the calendar year (the year when displayed as twelve months in order) during the time of the decemvirs about 450 BC. In the ancient Roman calendar the ides of July fell on the 15th day of the month.
The phrase Dog Days or "the dog days of summer", refers to the hottest, most sultry days of summer. In the northern hemisphere they usually fall between early July and early September whilst in the Southern hemisphere they are usually between January and early March. The actual dates vary greatly from region to region, depending on latitude and climate. Dog Days can also define a time period or event that is very hot or stagnant, or marked by dull lack of progress.
The term "Dog Days" was used by the Greeks, as well as the ancient Romans (who called these days caniculares dies (days of the dogs)) after Sirius (the "Dog Star", in Latin Canicula), the brightest star in the heavens besides the Sun. The dog days of summer are also called canicular days. The Dog Days originally were the days when Sirius, the Dog Star, rose just before or at the same time as sunrise (heliacal rising), which is no longer true, owing to precession of the equinoxes. The ancients sacrificed a brown dog at the beginning of the Dog Days to appease the rage of Sirius, believing that the star was the cause of the hot, sultry weather.
July 1, 2009, Release of Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs.
July 1, 2009, Release of Public Enemies.
July 1, 2009, TerreStar-1, the largest commercial telecommunication satellite ever built, is successfully launched. (spaceflightnow.com )
July 1, 2009, The European Union declares Ireland free of Brucellosis/Malta Fever, a disease which cost the country millions of euro to eradicate. (RTÉ)
July 1, 2009, Officials in Comoros confirm that one passenger from Yemenia Flight 626, a 14-year-old girl, has been found alive. (BBC)
July 1, 2009, The Met Office issues a level-3 heatwave alert across London and the South East of England for the first time since June 2006. (BBC)
July 2, 2009, The United States armed forces claim to have launched what they term "a major offensive against the Taliban" in Helmand. (BBC)
July 2, 2009, Amnesty International details Israeli 'war crimes' in Gaza. (BBC)
July 2, 2009, A 148-year old colonial law banning homosexual intercourse in India is overturned by the High Court in New Delhi. (BBC)
July 2, 2009, The South Korean Defence Ministry says North Korea has fired three missiles off its east coast. (AFP)
July 2, 2009, Japanese diplomat Yukiya Amano is elected as Director General for the International Atomic Energy Agency. (AP via The Washington Post)
July 2, 2009, The first vaccine for H1N1 swine flue virus strain has been made by Novartis in Marburg, Germany. (BBC)
July 2, 2009, Japanese scientists intend to breed super-tuna to meet demands for the fish. (The Daily Telegraph)
July 2, 2009, A Royal Air Force plane crashes in a rural area of Scotland, the United Kingdom. (The Guardian)
July 3, 2009, "Humans entering new stage of human evolution" says Stephen Hawking.(Daily)
July 3, 2009, Sarah Palin announces she will resign from her Governor position on July 26, 2009.
July 3, 2009, Michael Jackson to be buried in Gold Plated Casket.(Telegraph)
[Prometheus/Light-bearer/Lucifer]
July 3, 2009, The Great Bubble Machine.(Rollingstones).
July 3, 2009, Georgia freemasons at loggerheads over admission of black man to lodge.(UTV)
July 3, 2009, John Demjanjuk is declared fit to stand trial for assisting in the deaths of 29,000 Jews in Treblinka extermination camp. (RTÉ)
July 3, 2009, United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon arrives in Burma, meeting junta leader Senior General Than Shwe and calling for the release of political prisoners. (BBC)
July 3, 2009, Two Iranian staff working for the British embassy in Tehran will face trial over allegedly inciting protests. (BBC)
July 3, 2009, Three dinosaur species—Australovenator wintonensis, Wintonotitan wattsi and Diamantinasaurus matildae— have been discovered in Australia. (BBC)
July 3, 2009, North Korea broadcasts its first ever beer commercial, for Taedonggang beer. (BBC) (The Los Angeles Times)
July 3, 2009, Russia opens a route for the United States to fly arms to Afghanistan. (The New York Times)
July 3, 2009, North Korea test fires seven more missiles into the Sea of Japan. (The Daily Telegraph)
July 4, 2009, Independence Day in the United States.
July 4, 2009, Statue Liberty reopens her Crown.
July 4, 2009, Joey chest Nut wins hotdog eating contest in Coney Island.(Huffpost)
July 4, 2009, Serena Williams wins the women's singles at the 2009 Wimbledon Championships after defeating her sister, Venus Williams. (The Daily Telegraph)
July 4, 2009, Former NFL QB and MVP Steve "Air" McNair a "Que Dog" is found shot to Death, and concluded as murder-suicide committed by his girlfriend.(ESPN).
July 4, 2009, Bishop of Rochester Michael Nazir-Ali calls on homosexuals to "repent and be changed" and says the Church of England will not be "rolled over by culture". (The Daily Telegraph)
July 4, 2009, Torrential rain forces over 150,000 people from their homes, topples hundreds of houses and punches a hole in the spillway of a dam in southern China. (IOL)
July 4, 2009, Music entrepreneur Allen Klein, who managed both The Beatles and The Rolling Stones in the 1960s, dies in New York aged 77 after suffering from Alzheimer's disease. (BBC)
July 5, 2009, Premiere of Television Series Torchwood.
July 5, 2009, Biden on Economy
July 5, 2009, Monorail crash at Disney Land leaves One Dead.(Huffpost).
July 5, 2009, Vatican runs Deficit amid Global Economic Crisis.(Huffpost).
July 6, 2009, The Sun Has Spots, Finally.(LiveScience)
July 6, 2009, Michael Jackson to have Moon Crater named after him. (Inquistor via Through Looking Glass)
July 6, 2009, About 800 pages of the earliest surviving Christian Bible are displayed on the internet. (BBC)
July 6, 2009, South Africa's new "Hawks" serious crime squad begins work six months after its "Scorpions" predecessor was disbanded amid claims of political bias. (BBC)
July 6, 2009, Henry Kissinger says "Obama is like a chess player".(ABC)
July 6, 2009, United States President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev agree on cutting their nuclear warheads and cooperate on military action in Afghanistan. (The Guardian)
July 6, 2009, Bolivian drug enforcement officials raid what they call the biggest cocaine laboratory ever found in their country. (BBC)
July 6, 2009, Iran says it will hold the US responsible for any Israeli attack against their country, in response to US Vice President Joe Biden's claim that the US will not interfere in an Israeli attack on Iranian nuclear facilities. (Al Jazeera)
July 6, 2009, United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon urges the Organization of American States to restore constitutional order in Honduras following the coup. (AFP)
July 7, 2009, Release of Forever Sickest Kids Album: Underdog Alma Mater
July 7, 2009, Release of Blacksummers Night Album by Maxwell
July 7, 2009, Pope calls for "world political authority".(Reuters)
July 7, 2009, A public memorial for Michael Jackson takes place at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California, with over 17,000 viewing in Los Angeles, and millions more viewing around the world. (AP via Google News)
[Closing statement given by Paris Jackson]
July 7, 2009, The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) announces the discovery of a new monkey in a remote region of the Amazon in Brazil.(Sciencedaily)
July 7, 2009, On day one of his two-day visit to Ireland, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon meets President Mary McAleese, lunches with Taoiseach Brian Cowen, discusses climate change with Environment Minister and Green Party leader John Gormley and says no effort will be spared in securing the release of aid worker Sharon Commins, kidnapped in Sudan. (RTÉ)
July 7, 2009, A £1m permanent memorial to the victims of the July 7, 2005 London bombings is unveiled in the city's Hyde Park. (BBC)
July 7, 2009, The United Nations Security Council condemns the recent missile launches by North Korea. (Xinhua)
July 8, 2009, Obamas touched down in Rome on Wednesday so Papa President could attend The 35th G8 Summit begins in L'Aquila, Italy. (CNN)
July 1, 2009, The European Union declares Ireland free of Brucellosis/Malta Fever, a disease which cost the country millions of euro to eradicate. (RTÉ)
July 1, 2009, Officials in Comoros confirm that one passenger from Yemenia Flight 626, a 14-year-old girl, has been found alive. (BBC)
July 1, 2009, The Met Office issues a level-3 heatwave alert across London and the South East of England for the first time since June 2006. (BBC)
July 2, 2009, The United States armed forces claim to have launched what they term "a major offensive against the Taliban" in Helmand. (BBC)
July 2, 2009, Amnesty International details Israeli 'war crimes' in Gaza. (BBC)
July 2, 2009, A 148-year old colonial law banning homosexual intercourse in India is overturned by the High Court in New Delhi. (BBC)
July 2, 2009, The South Korean Defence Ministry says North Korea has fired three missiles off its east coast. (AFP)
July 2, 2009, Japanese diplomat Yukiya Amano is elected as Director General for the International Atomic Energy Agency. (AP via The Washington Post)
July 2, 2009, The first vaccine for H1N1 swine flue virus strain has been made by Novartis in Marburg, Germany. (BBC)
July 2, 2009, Japanese scientists intend to breed super-tuna to meet demands for the fish. (The Daily Telegraph)
July 2, 2009, A Royal Air Force plane crashes in a rural area of Scotland, the United Kingdom. (The Guardian)
July 3, 2009, "Humans entering new stage of human evolution" says Stephen Hawking.(Daily)
July 3, 2009, Sarah Palin announces she will resign from her Governor position on July 26, 2009.
July 3, 2009, Michael Jackson to be buried in Gold Plated Casket.(Telegraph)
July 3, 2009, The Great Bubble Machine.(Rollingstones).
July 3, 2009, Georgia freemasons at loggerheads over admission of black man to lodge.(UTV)
July 3, 2009, John Demjanjuk is declared fit to stand trial for assisting in the deaths of 29,000 Jews in Treblinka extermination camp. (RTÉ)
July 3, 2009, United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon arrives in Burma, meeting junta leader Senior General Than Shwe and calling for the release of political prisoners. (BBC)
July 3, 2009, Two Iranian staff working for the British embassy in Tehran will face trial over allegedly inciting protests. (BBC)
July 3, 2009, Three dinosaur species—Australovenator wintonensis, Wintonotitan wattsi and Diamantinasaurus matildae— have been discovered in Australia. (BBC)
July 3, 2009, North Korea broadcasts its first ever beer commercial, for Taedonggang beer. (BBC) (The Los Angeles Times)
July 3, 2009, Russia opens a route for the United States to fly arms to Afghanistan. (The New York Times)
July 3, 2009, North Korea test fires seven more missiles into the Sea of Japan. (The Daily Telegraph)
July 4, 2009, Independence Day in the United States.
July 4, 2009, Statue Liberty reopens her Crown.
July 4, 2009, Joey chest Nut wins hotdog eating contest in Coney Island.(Huffpost)
July 4, 2009, Serena Williams wins the women's singles at the 2009 Wimbledon Championships after defeating her sister, Venus Williams. (The Daily Telegraph)
July 4, 2009, Former NFL QB and MVP Steve "Air" McNair a "Que Dog" is found shot to Death, and concluded as murder-suicide committed by his girlfriend.(ESPN).
July 4, 2009, Bishop of Rochester Michael Nazir-Ali calls on homosexuals to "repent and be changed" and says the Church of England will not be "rolled over by culture". (The Daily Telegraph)
July 4, 2009, Torrential rain forces over 150,000 people from their homes, topples hundreds of houses and punches a hole in the spillway of a dam in southern China. (IOL)
July 4, 2009, Music entrepreneur Allen Klein, who managed both The Beatles and The Rolling Stones in the 1960s, dies in New York aged 77 after suffering from Alzheimer's disease. (BBC)
July 5, 2009, Premiere of Television Series Torchwood.
July 5, 2009, Biden on Economy
July 5, 2009, Vatican runs Deficit amid Global Economic Crisis.(Huffpost).
July 6, 2009, The Sun Has Spots, Finally.(LiveScience)
July 6, 2009, Michael Jackson to have Moon Crater named after him. (Inquistor via Through Looking Glass)
July 6, 2009, About 800 pages of the earliest surviving Christian Bible are displayed on the internet. (BBC)
July 6, 2009, South Africa's new "Hawks" serious crime squad begins work six months after its "Scorpions" predecessor was disbanded amid claims of political bias. (BBC)
July 6, 2009, Henry Kissinger says "Obama is like a chess player".(ABC)
July 6, 2009, United States President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev agree on cutting their nuclear warheads and cooperate on military action in Afghanistan. (The Guardian)
July 6, 2009, Bolivian drug enforcement officials raid what they call the biggest cocaine laboratory ever found in their country. (BBC)
July 6, 2009, Iran says it will hold the US responsible for any Israeli attack against their country, in response to US Vice President Joe Biden's claim that the US will not interfere in an Israeli attack on Iranian nuclear facilities. (Al Jazeera)
July 6, 2009, United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon urges the Organization of American States to restore constitutional order in Honduras following the coup. (AFP)
July 7, 2009, Release of Forever Sickest Kids Album: Underdog Alma Mater
July 7, 2009, Release of Blacksummers Night Album by Maxwell
July 7, 2009, Pope calls for "world political authority".(Reuters)
July 7, 2009, A public memorial for Michael Jackson takes place at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California, with over 17,000 viewing in Los Angeles, and millions more viewing around the world. (AP via Google News)
[Closing statement given by Paris Jackson]
July 7, 2009, The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) announces the discovery of a new monkey in a remote region of the Amazon in Brazil.(Sciencedaily)
July 7, 2009, On day one of his two-day visit to Ireland, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon meets President Mary McAleese, lunches with Taoiseach Brian Cowen, discusses climate change with Environment Minister and Green Party leader John Gormley and says no effort will be spared in securing the release of aid worker Sharon Commins, kidnapped in Sudan. (RTÉ)
July 7, 2009, A £1m permanent memorial to the victims of the July 7, 2005 London bombings is unveiled in the city's Hyde Park. (BBC)
July 7, 2009, The United Nations Security Council condemns the recent missile launches by North Korea. (Xinhua)
July 8, 2009, Obamas touched down in Rome on Wednesday so Papa President could attend The 35th G8 Summit begins in L'Aquila, Italy. (CNN)
July 8, 2009, Oscar Meyer Dies.(Huffpost).
July 8, 2009, Media Moguls meet at Sun Valley for Conference.(Fox)
July 8, 2009, President Barack Obama is choosing an influential scientist who helped unravel the human genetic code and is known for finding common ground between belief in God and science to head the National Institutes of Health.(Huffpost)
July 8, 2009, 350 Dogs seized in biggest Dogfighting ring in United States history.(Huffpost)
July 8, 2009, North Korean leader Kim Jong-il makes a rare public appearance in celebrating his father's 15th death anniversary. (BBC)
July 8, 2009, Debris and bodies from the plane that crashed off the Comoros in the Indian Ocean wash up on Mafia Island, Tanzania. (BBC)
July 8, 2009, Undercover investigators smuggle bomb-making materials into government buildings in the United States, assembling bombs within, on ten occasions. (BBC)
July 8, 2009, The Guardian claims its rival English newspaper, the Rupert Murdoch-owned News of the World tabloid, paid £1 million in court costs after its journalists were accused of involvement in phone tapping celebrities and politicians. (BBC)
July 8, 2009, It is claimed that the drug rapamycin, discovered in the soil of Easter Island in the 1970s, may help to fight the aging process. (BBC)
July 9, 2009, Statue of Liberty replica decapitated on YouTube.(CNN)
July 9, 2009, Mayan Headdress/Crown Chakra.(CropCircle)
July 9, 2009, President Barack Obama gets football jersey, and maybe a dig, from Brazil.(Telegraph)
July 9, 2009, Iraq: ancient Babylon archaeological site damaged by military activity(UN)
July 9, 2009, Prince Charles: next generation faces 'living hell' unless climate change tackled.(Telegraph)
July 9, 2009, A magnitude 5.7 earthquake strikes Yunnan province, China killing one person and destroying over 10,000 homes. BBC
July 9, 2009, United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon says G8 action on climate change is "not good enough". (BBC)
July 9, 2009, Drug-related killings in Mexico on course to top last year's numbers.(CNN)
July 9, 2009, Portrait of Jackson's pill consumption emerges.(CNN)
July 10, 2009, Release of Bruno.
July 10, 2009, Release of I Love You Beth Cooper
July 10, 2009, Nikola Tesla Birthday.
July 10, 2009, U.S. President Barack Obama met with Pope Benedict XVI at the Vatican.(Examiner)
July 10, 2009, Barack visits Ghana after G8 Summit.(Bourse)
July 10, 2009, One person is killed by a bull, the first such fatality in 14 years, during the Running of the Bulls in Pamplona, Spain. (The Times)
July 10, 2009, Automaker General Motors emerges from bankruptcy protection after 40 days under court supervision. (AP via Yahoo)
July 10, 2009, Couple who adopted 12 children slain.(CNN)
July 10, 2009, President Barack Obama has landed in Ghana on his first trip to sub-Saharan Africa.(Huffpost)
July 11, 2009, Medvedev Shows Off Sample Coin of New ‘World Currency’ at G-8(Bloomberg)
July 11, 2009, The launch of US shuttle Endeavour is to be further delayed after a thunderstorm around Cape Canaveral, Nasa officials say.(BBC)
July 11, 2009, United States President Barack Obama addresses the Ghanaian parliament. (Al Jazeera)
July 12, 2009, Orange Walk Day
Orange walks are a series of parades held annually by members of the Orange Order during the summer in Northern Ireland, to a lesser extent in Scotland, and occasionally in England, the Republic of Ireland, and throughout the Commonwealth. These typically build up to the 12th of July celebrations which mark Prince William of Orange's victory over King James II at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690. Although the term 'march' or 'parade' is widely used in the media, the Order prefers terms such as 'walk' or 'demonstration'.
July 12, 2009, Countries in the Middle East are taking precautionary measures to control the spread of H1N1 during and after the Hajj, where several million Muslims from all over the world will arrive in Mecca for the annual pilgrimage in late November. (IRIN)
July 12, 2009, A 6.1 magnitude earthquake hits Puno Region in southern Peru with epicenter near Juliaca. (CBS)
July 12, 2009, Kidnapped Italian Red Cross volunteer Eugenio Vagni is freed by Abu Sayyaf. (The Philippine Star)
July 12, 2009, Head of the CIA Leon Panetta is said to have accused former United States Vice President Dick Cheney of hiding an intelligence program from Congress. (CNN)
July 13, 2009, Prince Fielder wins 2009 All-star Home-run Derby in Saint Louis at Busch Stadium.
July 13, 2009, Anderson Cooper interviews Obama in castle.(CNN)
July 13, 2009, Budget Deficit Tops $1 Trillion for First Time(ABC)
July 13, 2009, Turkey, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary and Austria sign an intergovernmental agreement on the construction of the Nabucco natural gas pipeline. (BBC News)
July 13, 2009, Greek police use bulldozers to completely clear a sprawling migrant camp that had been in place in the port town of Patras for over a decade. (Sky News)
July 13, 2009, The United Kingdom halts some arms sales to Israel following the Gaza conflict. (The Times)
July 13, 2009, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev makes his first visit to South Ossetia. (RIA Novosti)
July 13, 2009, John Demjanjuk is charged with 27,900 counts of accessory to murder in World War Two at a court in Germany. (Deutsche Welle)
July 13, 2009, Steven Rattner, head of the Obama administration's auto task force, is leaving that post and will be replaced by former steelworkers official Ron Bloom.(HuffPost)
July 13, 2009, President Obama announced Monday his choice for surgeon general -- Dr. Regina Benjamin, a 52-year-old family practice doctor who has spent most of her career tending to the needs of poor patients in a Gulf Coast clinic in Alabama.(CNN)
July 13, 2009, Before throwing the first pitch at the 80th All-Star Game in St. Louis Tuesday night, President Obama will star in a video dedicated to honoring 30 Americans recognized by the MLB and People magazine for outstanding community service.
July 14, 2009, Release of Sick Puppies Album Tripolar
July 14, 2009, 80th Major league Baseball Allstar game. President Obama will throw out the first pitch at this year's Major League Baseball All-Star Game on July 14 in St. Louis, home of the Cardinals.
He will be only the fourth president to throw out the ball in the game - "joining John F. Kennedy (1962), Richard Nixon ('70) and Gerald Ford ('76 and '78).
In a statement, MLB Commissioner Allan H. (Bud) Selig said
"The central theme of the 2009 All-Star Game is community service, celebrating the extraordinary work being done by ordinary people. We are thrilled that we can come together with President Obama, who has encouraged a renewed spirit of national service, and illustrate a call to action in our communities. President Obama will continue a great tradition that joins our nation's leader and the national pastime."
July 14, 2009, The World Health Organization reports that yields for an H1N1 virus vaccine are lower than expected. (CTV)
July 14, 2009, 323 people – 289 Saudis and 41 foreigners – are sentenced at a court in Saudi Arabia for links to anti-government groups. (Al Jazeera)
July 14, 2009, Talks on immigration between the United States and Cuba, suspended since 2003, will resume. (BBC)
July 14, 2009, Michael Jackson fire accident while filming 1984 Pepsi Commercial is released.(Huffpost)
July 15, 2009, Release of Harry Potter: Half Blood Prince
July 15, 2009, Russian engineers broke a red wax seal and six men emerged from a metal hatch after 105 days of isolation in a mock spacecraft, still smiling after testing the stresses that space travelers may face on the journey to Mars.(Huffpost)
July 15, 2009, Space Shuttle Endeavour launches on mission STS-127 to the International Space Station. (BBC)
July 15, 2009, Caspian Airlines Flight 7908, flying from Tehran to Yerevan, Armenia with 153 passengers and 15 crew members on board, crashes in Iran shortly after takeoff. (BBC)
July 15, 2009, A 7.8 magnitude earthquake strikes off South Island, New Zealand, generating brief fears of a small tsunami. (Associated Press)
July 15, 2009, China's foreign exchange reserves have reached a record of US$ 2.13 trillion, which is more than twice the size of Japan's—the second-biggest holder. (BBC)
July 15, 2009, Maria del Carmen Bousada de Lara, the world's oldest new mother, is announced to have died of cancer aged 69, three years after giving birth. (BBC)
July 15, 2009, A group of soldiers who took part in Israel's assault in Gaza say widespread abuses were committed against civilians under "permissive" rules of engagement. (BBC)
July 15, 2009, The British government opts not to end the Common Travel Area between the United Kingdom and Ireland. (BBC
July 16, 2009, President Obama commended the progress of African-Americans in a speech on the 100th anniversary of the NAACP, but said there was still much work to be done.(CNN)
July 16, 2009, NASA releases clearest videos yet of 1969 "moonwalk".(CNN)
July 16, 2009, Tracking Michelle Obama's slave roots.(CNN)
July 16, 2009, A United Nations Security Council committee imposes further sanctions on North Korea. (BBC)
July 16, 2009, Gholam Reza Aghazadeh, head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran and Vice President of Iran, resigns for unknown reasons. (ISNA)
July 16, 2009, Iceland votes by a narrow majority to set in motion an application to join the European Union, after five days of debate. (Al Jazeera)
July 16, 2009, The Holy See acknowledges Oscar Wilde as a "lucid analyst of the modern world", softening its hardline stance against the poet. (The Daily Telegraph)
July 16, 2009, Chinese athletes withdraw from the opening ceremony of the World Games but say they will compete. (BBC)
July 16, 2009, A magnitude 6.1 earthquake occurs off the coast of Papua New Guinea but causes little damage. (RTÉ)
July 16, 2009, The 110-storey Sears Tower in Chicago, United States is renamed the Willis Tower. (BBC)
July 16, 2009, Zac Sunderland, at the age of 17, becomes the youngest person to sail around the world alone. (BBC)
July 16, 2009, Madonna's concert in Marseille, France is cancelled after her stage collapses, killing one and injuring nine. (AFP)
July 17, 2009, Release of 500 Days of Summer.
July 17, 2009, Walter Conkrite is dead at age 92.
July 17, 2009, NASA Pics Show Apollo Leftovers on the moon.(ABC)
July 17, 2009, Pope Benedict XVI slips in the bath in his mountain chalet, is treated for a fractured wrist in Aosta, Italy. (BBC)
July 17, 2009, A second person dies from the collapse of a stage being built in Marseille for Madonna's forthcoming tour to France. (AFP)
July 17, 2009, Ghana is set to receive a $600 million three-year loan from the International Monetary Fund. (BBC)
July 17, 2009, The World Bank approves a $76 million loan for Mozambique. (Reuters Africa)
July 17, 2009, Bombings at the Marriott and Ritz-Carlton Hotels in Jakarta, Indonesia, kill at least nine people and injure at least 50 others. (AP)
July 17, 2009, 22 prominent figures, including Poland's Lech Walesa and the Czech Republic's Vaclav Havel, warn in an open letter to the Barack Obama administration that Eastern Europe's close alliance with United States, until now treated as axiomatic, is undergoing its most severe test ever today. (The New York Times)
July 17, 2009, 49 members of a Sicilian Mafia syndicate are jailed in Italy in what the government describes as a landmark case. (BBC)
July 18, 2009, An Oscar Mayer Weinermobile crashed into a home in Racine, Wisconsin after the driver turned onto a dead-end street. She tried turning around and accidentally hit the gas instead of the brake.
It's a double-blow for the boloney company -- this month it's founder died and now the crash. And to add insult to injury, the weinermoble wasn't even invited to Oscar Mayer's funeral.(TMZ)
July 18, 2009, Last surviving Battle of Jutland veteran and last surviving founder member of the Royal Air Force Henry Allingham dies at the age of 113. At the time of his death he was the oldest living man in the world. (BBC)
July 18, 2009, A woman is killed and two people are seriously injured in an accident involving a motorcycle on the Tour de France in France, the first fatal accident since 2002. (BBC)
July 18, 2009, Brazil demands the return of over 1,400 tonnes of hazardous British waste. (BBC)
July 18, 2009, Over 100 UK and US schoolchildren and teachers are quarantined in Beijing due to swine flu. (BBC)
July 18, 2009, China admits it shot dead 12 rioters in Ürümqi who had refused to cease rioting. (BBC)
July 18, 2009, 44 hurt after light rail cars collide in San Francisco.(CNN)
July 19, 2009, A preserved barracks in the Netherlands that was used by Nazi Germany to process Jews and others on their way to concentration camps, known to have been occupied at one point by Anne Frank, is destroyed by fire. (France 24)
July 19, 2009, Aldrin: NASA Needs To Put People On Mars.(Huffpost)
July 19, 2009, Swine flu is a greater threat to Britain than terrorism, said Alan Johnson, the Home Secretary, as pregnant women were advised to avoid unneccessary travel.(Telegraph)
July 19, 2009, Stewart Cink beat Tom Watson in Turnberry play-off to win 138th Brtiish Open and complete maiden major victory.(Telegraph)
July 20, 2009, 40th anniversary of Apollo 11 Moon Landing.
July 20, 2009, Longest Solar Eclipse of the 21st Century.(Space)
July 20, 2009, Moon or Mars? 'Next giant leap' sparks debate.(CNN)
July 20, 2009, Govt.'s Wall Street, bank support could be $24T.(CNN)
July 20, 2009, Newly-minted Sen. Al Franken, D-Minnesota, unveiled his first legislative goal Monday — providing funding to train dogs to work with wounded veterans.(CNN)
July 20, 2009, Suspended NFL quarterback Michael Vick completed the electronic monitoring device portion of his federal dog fighting sentence Monday and will remain on probation the next three years.(SI)
July 20, 2009, Ajmal Kasab, the only surviving gunman in the 2008 Mumbai attacks, pleads guilty in an Indian court, ending months of denials. (Associated Press)
July 20, 2009, Iranian reformists call for a referendum to resolve the political crisis in the country. (Al Jazeera)
July 20, 2009, India and the United States sign a defence pact. (BBC)
July 20, 2009, Astronomers say Jupiter has apparently been struck by an object, possibly a comet.
July 21, 2009, Release of Our Lady Peace Album Burn Burn.
July 21, 2009, Romanian city mayor outrages Jewish and pro-democracy groups after he goose-steps with his son in World War Two German uniforms during a local fashion show.(Yahoo)
July 22, 2009, In a prime time press conference tonight, President Barack Obama continues to push both the House and Senate to pass health care reform bills before they break for their August recess.(ABC)
July 22, 2009, Hidden Ocean in Saturn's Moon.(ABC)
July 22, 2009, Humans Glow in Visible Light(Yahoo)
July 22, 2009, Taco Bell Chihuahua dog dies at 15.(Yahoo)
July 22, 2009, Chinese and Russian troops begin a five-day joint military drill, aimed at boosting their ability to fight terrorism. (Xinhua)
July 22, 2009, The longest total solar eclipse of the 21st century takes place over parts of Asia and the Pacific Ocean. (ABC News Australia)
July 22, 2009, The first Tamiflu-resistant H1N1 case has been found in Canada, bringing the world total of such cases to five. (Sympatico MSN News Canada)
July 22, 2009, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warns that it could arm its allies in the Gulf and extend a "defence umbrella" over the region, if Iran goes nuclear. (Sky News)
July 23, 2009, In Sweden, the party for internet piracy is on the rise. Christian Engstrom, 49, is the world's first democratically elected Internet pirate and a new member of the European parliament. The group's stated goal is to "ensure that Europe chooses a better road into the information society."(Huffpost)
July 23, 2009, The Bank of Canada declares the recession has ended in Canada predicting the economy will grow by 1.3 per cent over the summer months. (CTV)
July 23, 2009, The SEACOM high speed internet link to East Africa goes live. (AFP)
July 23, 2009, The FBI arrests 30 officials and rabbis in New Jersey as part of a public corruption and international money laundering probe. Authorities also searched a synagogue in Deal, New Jersey and removed several boxes. (Newark Star-Ledger)
July 23, 2009, Chicago White Sox pitcher Mark Buehrle completes a perfect game against the Tampa Bay Rays. 17th in history. (ESPN.com)
July 24, 2009, Release of G-Force.
July 24, 2009, Release of The Ugly Truth
July 24, 2009, Release of The Shrink
July 24, 2009, Release of The Answer Man.
July 24, 2009, Admit the recent wrongful arrest of Harvard Professor Gates and recent comments Obama offers a mense.
Alcohol + Sun = Osiris
July 24, 2009, On the fight over health reform, President Barack Obama cast himself Friday as an ally of conservative House Democrats, even though the White House and the Blue Dog Caucus remain far apart on the details of a plan.(Tribune)
July 24, 2009, Police on Friday found about 150 dead dogs packed in freezers in the basement of a Michigan house littered with feces and trash where more than 110 live dogs, mostly Chihuahuas, were rescued this week.(Huffpost)
July 24, 2009, Aria Air Flight 1525 crashes in Mashhad, Iran, killing at least 17 people and injuring 19 of the 153 people on board. (BBC)
July 24, 2009, The Gran Telescopio Canarias, the world's largest telescope, is inaugurated by King Juan Carlos I of Spain. (The New York Times)
July 24, 2009, Harry Patch, the last surviving World War I veteran to have fought in the trenches, dies aged 111. (BBC)
July 24, 2009, Worldwide protests in 80 cities take place in support of Iranian protesters following the disputed presidential election. (The Times)
July 24, 2009, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has issued an apology to Kindle customers after "1984" and other books by British novelist George Orwell were remotely deleted from their electronic readers(Breit)
July 25, 2009, Series Finale of Kings
July 25, 2009, Charlie Crist's Office Mistakenly Praises Nazi Film.(HuffPost)
June 25, 2009, Puppy from North Carolina gets 5th leg removed.(Huffpost)
June 25, 2009, The military's "pain ray" may be going airborne.(Fox)
June 26, 2009, India launches its first nuclear submarine, the INS Arihant. (The Times of India)
June 26, 2009, Sarah Palin resigns as Governor of Alaska.
July 27, 2009, Michael Vick Reinstated by NFL.(Huffpost)
July 27, 2009,
July 27, 2009,
July 27, 2009, Shaq denied entry into White House.(Huffpost)
July 27, 2009, The United States and China begin the first U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue. (AFP)
July 27, 2009, A Saudi man facing flogging or imprisonment for speaking of his illegal sexual conquests on television apologises for his actions. (BBC)
July 27, 2009, A break-in at Christ Church Cathedral in Waterford, Ireland, damages the building and the Thomas Elliott organ, dating from 1817. (The Irish Times)
July 27, 2009, Researchers outline bokodes, a proposed replacement for the black and white stripes of the traditional barcode. (BBC)
July 27, 2009, A British-led military offensive, Operation Panther's Claw, succeeds in clearing the Taliban from parts of southern Helmand Province in Afghanistan. (CNN)
July 28, 2009, Eighth suspect sought in North Carolina terrorism case.(CNN)
July 28, 2009, The United States and China continue the first U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue. (The Washington Post)
July 28, 2009, The Garda Síochána and Metropolitan Police Service in London arrest and charge three men in connection with Ireland's largest cocaine seizure in West Cork in July 2007. (RTÉ)
July 28, 2009, AIDS campaigners and human rights groups accuse the Cambodian government of herding HIV-affected families into an "Aids colony" outside Phnom Penh. (The Guardian)
July 28, 2009, A national memorial is to be erected and a national day of remembrance is considered in Ireland for victims of child abuse. (Irish Examiner)
July 28, 2009, Chinese scientists announce the discovery of "vampire gene", Tryp-SPc. (AsiaNews)
July 29, 2009, The death toll in Nigeria's worst religious violence since November 2008 reaches over 250. (The Sydney Morning Herald)
July 29, 2009, American Airlines expects to win U.S. approval by October to form an alliance with British Airways and Spain's Iberia Airlines. (Reuters)
July 29, 2009, Venezuela "freezes" diplomatic relations with Colombia, after a dispute over Swedish weapons bought by Venezuela were allegedly found on FARC rebels. (Colombia Reports)
July 29, 2009, China announces it will reduce its use of the death penalty for all but the most serious crimes. (China Daily)
July 30, 2009, U.S. President Barack Obama arranged a meeting with police officer Sgt. James Crowley and African American public intellectual Henry Louis Gates at the White House in a bid to quell a dispute over racial profiling that arose from an altercation between the two of them. (AP via New York Times)
July 30, 2009, Iranian police clash with mourners at a Tehranian cemetery for a memorial to those killed in post-election violence, using teargas to disperse crowds from the grave of Neda Agha-Soltan and forcing Opposition leader Mir-Hossein Mousavi to make his exit. (BBC)
July 30, 2009, Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd promises to create 50,000 green jobs and apprenticeships to combat climate change and unemployment simultaneously. (Straits Times)
July 30, 2009, University College Dublin quarantines seven language students after around sixty mainly Italian and Russian students are assessed by doctors for swine flu. (RTÉ)
July 30, 2009, Multiple sclerosis sufferer Debbie Purdy wins a "landmark victory" in the House of Lords in her fight to allow her husband to help her commit suicide abroad. (RTÉ)
July 30, 2009, The United States Presidential Medal of Freedom is awarded to several international figures including Stephen Hawking, Billie Jean King, Harvey Milk, Sidney Poitier, Mary Robinson, Desmond Tutu and Muhammad Yunus. (Boston Globe)
July 31, 2009, Release of Funny People.
July 31, 2009, Release of Aliens in the Attic
July 8, 2009, Media Moguls meet at Sun Valley for Conference.(Fox)
July 8, 2009, President Barack Obama is choosing an influential scientist who helped unravel the human genetic code and is known for finding common ground between belief in God and science to head the National Institutes of Health.(Huffpost)
July 8, 2009, 350 Dogs seized in biggest Dogfighting ring in United States history.(Huffpost)
July 8, 2009, North Korean leader Kim Jong-il makes a rare public appearance in celebrating his father's 15th death anniversary. (BBC)
July 8, 2009, Debris and bodies from the plane that crashed off the Comoros in the Indian Ocean wash up on Mafia Island, Tanzania. (BBC)
July 8, 2009, Undercover investigators smuggle bomb-making materials into government buildings in the United States, assembling bombs within, on ten occasions. (BBC)
July 8, 2009, The Guardian claims its rival English newspaper, the Rupert Murdoch-owned News of the World tabloid, paid £1 million in court costs after its journalists were accused of involvement in phone tapping celebrities and politicians. (BBC)
July 8, 2009, It is claimed that the drug rapamycin, discovered in the soil of Easter Island in the 1970s, may help to fight the aging process. (BBC)
July 9, 2009, Statue of Liberty replica decapitated on YouTube.(CNN)
July 9, 2009, Mayan Headdress/Crown Chakra.(CropCircle)
July 9, 2009, President Barack Obama gets football jersey, and maybe a dig, from Brazil.(Telegraph)
July 9, 2009, Iraq: ancient Babylon archaeological site damaged by military activity(UN)
July 9, 2009, Prince Charles: next generation faces 'living hell' unless climate change tackled.(Telegraph)
July 9, 2009, A magnitude 5.7 earthquake strikes Yunnan province, China killing one person and destroying over 10,000 homes. BBC
July 9, 2009, United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon says G8 action on climate change is "not good enough". (BBC)
July 9, 2009, Drug-related killings in Mexico on course to top last year's numbers.(CNN)
July 9, 2009, Portrait of Jackson's pill consumption emerges.(CNN)
July 10, 2009, Release of Bruno.
July 10, 2009, Release of I Love You Beth Cooper
July 10, 2009, Nikola Tesla Birthday.
July 10, 2009, U.S. President Barack Obama met with Pope Benedict XVI at the Vatican.(Examiner)
July 10, 2009, Barack visits Ghana after G8 Summit.(Bourse)
July 10, 2009, One person is killed by a bull, the first such fatality in 14 years, during the Running of the Bulls in Pamplona, Spain. (The Times)
July 10, 2009, Automaker General Motors emerges from bankruptcy protection after 40 days under court supervision. (AP via Yahoo)
July 10, 2009, Couple who adopted 12 children slain.(CNN)
July 10, 2009, President Barack Obama has landed in Ghana on his first trip to sub-Saharan Africa.(Huffpost)
July 11, 2009, Medvedev Shows Off Sample Coin of New ‘World Currency’ at G-8(Bloomberg)
July 11, 2009, The launch of US shuttle Endeavour is to be further delayed after a thunderstorm around Cape Canaveral, Nasa officials say.(BBC)
July 11, 2009, United States President Barack Obama addresses the Ghanaian parliament. (Al Jazeera)
July 12, 2009, Orange Walk Day
Orange walks are a series of parades held annually by members of the Orange Order during the summer in Northern Ireland, to a lesser extent in Scotland, and occasionally in England, the Republic of Ireland, and throughout the Commonwealth. These typically build up to the 12th of July celebrations which mark Prince William of Orange's victory over King James II at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690. Although the term 'march' or 'parade' is widely used in the media, the Order prefers terms such as 'walk' or 'demonstration'.
July 12, 2009, Countries in the Middle East are taking precautionary measures to control the spread of H1N1 during and after the Hajj, where several million Muslims from all over the world will arrive in Mecca for the annual pilgrimage in late November. (IRIN)
July 12, 2009, A 6.1 magnitude earthquake hits Puno Region in southern Peru with epicenter near Juliaca. (CBS)
July 12, 2009, Kidnapped Italian Red Cross volunteer Eugenio Vagni is freed by Abu Sayyaf. (The Philippine Star)
July 12, 2009, Head of the CIA Leon Panetta is said to have accused former United States Vice President Dick Cheney of hiding an intelligence program from Congress. (CNN)
July 13, 2009, Prince Fielder wins 2009 All-star Home-run Derby in Saint Louis at Busch Stadium.
July 13, 2009, Anderson Cooper interviews Obama in castle.(CNN)
July 13, 2009, Dog is stabbed in head with BBQ fork.(ABC)
July 13, 2009, Budget Deficit Tops $1 Trillion for First Time(ABC)
July 13, 2009, Turkey, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary and Austria sign an intergovernmental agreement on the construction of the Nabucco natural gas pipeline. (BBC News)
July 13, 2009, Greek police use bulldozers to completely clear a sprawling migrant camp that had been in place in the port town of Patras for over a decade. (Sky News)
July 13, 2009, The United Kingdom halts some arms sales to Israel following the Gaza conflict. (The Times)
July 13, 2009, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev makes his first visit to South Ossetia. (RIA Novosti)
July 13, 2009, John Demjanjuk is charged with 27,900 counts of accessory to murder in World War Two at a court in Germany. (Deutsche Welle)
July 13, 2009, Steven Rattner, head of the Obama administration's auto task force, is leaving that post and will be replaced by former steelworkers official Ron Bloom.(HuffPost)
July 13, 2009, President Obama announced Monday his choice for surgeon general -- Dr. Regina Benjamin, a 52-year-old family practice doctor who has spent most of her career tending to the needs of poor patients in a Gulf Coast clinic in Alabama.(CNN)
July 13, 2009, Before throwing the first pitch at the 80th All-Star Game in St. Louis Tuesday night, President Obama will star in a video dedicated to honoring 30 Americans recognized by the MLB and People magazine for outstanding community service.
July 14, 2009, Release of Sick Puppies Album Tripolar
July 14, 2009, 80th Major league Baseball Allstar game. President Obama will throw out the first pitch at this year's Major League Baseball All-Star Game on July 14 in St. Louis, home of the Cardinals.
He will be only the fourth president to throw out the ball in the game - "joining John F. Kennedy (1962), Richard Nixon ('70) and Gerald Ford ('76 and '78).
In a statement, MLB Commissioner Allan H. (Bud) Selig said
"The central theme of the 2009 All-Star Game is community service, celebrating the extraordinary work being done by ordinary people. We are thrilled that we can come together with President Obama, who has encouraged a renewed spirit of national service, and illustrate a call to action in our communities. President Obama will continue a great tradition that joins our nation's leader and the national pastime."
July 14, 2009, The World Health Organization reports that yields for an H1N1 virus vaccine are lower than expected. (CTV)
July 14, 2009, 323 people – 289 Saudis and 41 foreigners – are sentenced at a court in Saudi Arabia for links to anti-government groups. (Al Jazeera)
July 14, 2009, Talks on immigration between the United States and Cuba, suspended since 2003, will resume. (BBC)
July 14, 2009, Michael Jackson fire accident while filming 1984 Pepsi Commercial is released.(Huffpost)
July 15, 2009, Release of Harry Potter: Half Blood Prince
July 15, 2009, Russian engineers broke a red wax seal and six men emerged from a metal hatch after 105 days of isolation in a mock spacecraft, still smiling after testing the stresses that space travelers may face on the journey to Mars.(Huffpost)
July 15, 2009, Space Shuttle Endeavour launches on mission STS-127 to the International Space Station. (BBC)
July 15, 2009, Caspian Airlines Flight 7908, flying from Tehran to Yerevan, Armenia with 153 passengers and 15 crew members on board, crashes in Iran shortly after takeoff. (BBC)
July 15, 2009, A 7.8 magnitude earthquake strikes off South Island, New Zealand, generating brief fears of a small tsunami. (Associated Press)
July 15, 2009, China's foreign exchange reserves have reached a record of US$ 2.13 trillion, which is more than twice the size of Japan's—the second-biggest holder. (BBC)
July 15, 2009, Maria del Carmen Bousada de Lara, the world's oldest new mother, is announced to have died of cancer aged 69, three years after giving birth. (BBC)
July 15, 2009, A group of soldiers who took part in Israel's assault in Gaza say widespread abuses were committed against civilians under "permissive" rules of engagement. (BBC)
July 15, 2009, The British government opts not to end the Common Travel Area between the United Kingdom and Ireland. (BBC
July 16, 2009, President Obama commended the progress of African-Americans in a speech on the 100th anniversary of the NAACP, but said there was still much work to be done.(CNN)
July 16, 2009, NASA releases clearest videos yet of 1969 "moonwalk".(CNN)
July 16, 2009, Tracking Michelle Obama's slave roots.(CNN)
July 16, 2009, A United Nations Security Council committee imposes further sanctions on North Korea. (BBC)
July 16, 2009, Gholam Reza Aghazadeh, head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran and Vice President of Iran, resigns for unknown reasons. (ISNA)
July 16, 2009, Iceland votes by a narrow majority to set in motion an application to join the European Union, after five days of debate. (Al Jazeera)
July 16, 2009, The Holy See acknowledges Oscar Wilde as a "lucid analyst of the modern world", softening its hardline stance against the poet. (The Daily Telegraph)
July 16, 2009, Chinese athletes withdraw from the opening ceremony of the World Games but say they will compete. (BBC)
July 16, 2009, A magnitude 6.1 earthquake occurs off the coast of Papua New Guinea but causes little damage. (RTÉ)
July 16, 2009, The 110-storey Sears Tower in Chicago, United States is renamed the Willis Tower. (BBC)
July 16, 2009, Zac Sunderland, at the age of 17, becomes the youngest person to sail around the world alone. (BBC)
July 16, 2009, Madonna's concert in Marseille, France is cancelled after her stage collapses, killing one and injuring nine. (AFP)
July 17, 2009, Release of 500 Days of Summer.
July 17, 2009, Walter Conkrite is dead at age 92.
July 17, 2009, NASA Pics Show Apollo Leftovers on the moon.(ABC)
July 17, 2009, Pope Benedict XVI slips in the bath in his mountain chalet, is treated for a fractured wrist in Aosta, Italy. (BBC)
July 17, 2009, A second person dies from the collapse of a stage being built in Marseille for Madonna's forthcoming tour to France. (AFP)
July 17, 2009, Ghana is set to receive a $600 million three-year loan from the International Monetary Fund. (BBC)
July 17, 2009, The World Bank approves a $76 million loan for Mozambique. (Reuters Africa)
July 17, 2009, Bombings at the Marriott and Ritz-Carlton Hotels in Jakarta, Indonesia, kill at least nine people and injure at least 50 others. (AP)
July 17, 2009, 22 prominent figures, including Poland's Lech Walesa and the Czech Republic's Vaclav Havel, warn in an open letter to the Barack Obama administration that Eastern Europe's close alliance with United States, until now treated as axiomatic, is undergoing its most severe test ever today. (The New York Times)
July 17, 2009, 49 members of a Sicilian Mafia syndicate are jailed in Italy in what the government describes as a landmark case. (BBC)
July 18, 2009, An Oscar Mayer Weinermobile crashed into a home in Racine, Wisconsin after the driver turned onto a dead-end street. She tried turning around and accidentally hit the gas instead of the brake.
It's a double-blow for the boloney company -- this month it's founder died and now the crash. And to add insult to injury, the weinermoble wasn't even invited to Oscar Mayer's funeral.(TMZ)
July 18, 2009, Last surviving Battle of Jutland veteran and last surviving founder member of the Royal Air Force Henry Allingham dies at the age of 113. At the time of his death he was the oldest living man in the world. (BBC)
July 18, 2009, A woman is killed and two people are seriously injured in an accident involving a motorcycle on the Tour de France in France, the first fatal accident since 2002. (BBC)
July 18, 2009, Brazil demands the return of over 1,400 tonnes of hazardous British waste. (BBC)
July 18, 2009, Over 100 UK and US schoolchildren and teachers are quarantined in Beijing due to swine flu. (BBC)
July 18, 2009, China admits it shot dead 12 rioters in Ürümqi who had refused to cease rioting. (BBC)
July 18, 2009, 44 hurt after light rail cars collide in San Francisco.(CNN)
July 19, 2009, A preserved barracks in the Netherlands that was used by Nazi Germany to process Jews and others on their way to concentration camps, known to have been occupied at one point by Anne Frank, is destroyed by fire. (France 24)
July 19, 2009, Aldrin: NASA Needs To Put People On Mars.(Huffpost)
July 19, 2009, Swine flu is a greater threat to Britain than terrorism, said Alan Johnson, the Home Secretary, as pregnant women were advised to avoid unneccessary travel.(Telegraph)
July 19, 2009, Stewart Cink beat Tom Watson in Turnberry play-off to win 138th Brtiish Open and complete maiden major victory.(Telegraph)
July 20, 2009, 40th anniversary of Apollo 11 Moon Landing.
July 20, 2009, Longest Solar Eclipse of the 21st Century.(Space)
July 20, 2009, Moon or Mars? 'Next giant leap' sparks debate.(CNN)
July 20, 2009, Govt.'s Wall Street, bank support could be $24T.(CNN)
July 20, 2009, Newly-minted Sen. Al Franken, D-Minnesota, unveiled his first legislative goal Monday — providing funding to train dogs to work with wounded veterans.(CNN)
July 20, 2009, Suspended NFL quarterback Michael Vick completed the electronic monitoring device portion of his federal dog fighting sentence Monday and will remain on probation the next three years.(SI)
July 20, 2009, Ajmal Kasab, the only surviving gunman in the 2008 Mumbai attacks, pleads guilty in an Indian court, ending months of denials. (Associated Press)
July 20, 2009, Iranian reformists call for a referendum to resolve the political crisis in the country. (Al Jazeera)
July 20, 2009, India and the United States sign a defence pact. (BBC)
July 20, 2009, Astronomers say Jupiter has apparently been struck by an object, possibly a comet.
July 21, 2009, Release of Our Lady Peace Album Burn Burn.
July 21, 2009, Romanian city mayor outrages Jewish and pro-democracy groups after he goose-steps with his son in World War Two German uniforms during a local fashion show.(Yahoo)
July 22, 2009, In a prime time press conference tonight, President Barack Obama continues to push both the House and Senate to pass health care reform bills before they break for their August recess.(ABC)
July 22, 2009, Hidden Ocean in Saturn's Moon.(ABC)
July 22, 2009, Humans Glow in Visible Light(Yahoo)
July 22, 2009, Taco Bell Chihuahua dog dies at 15.(Yahoo)
July 22, 2009, Chinese and Russian troops begin a five-day joint military drill, aimed at boosting their ability to fight terrorism. (Xinhua)
July 22, 2009, The longest total solar eclipse of the 21st century takes place over parts of Asia and the Pacific Ocean. (ABC News Australia)
July 22, 2009, The first Tamiflu-resistant H1N1 case has been found in Canada, bringing the world total of such cases to five. (Sympatico MSN News Canada)
July 22, 2009, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warns that it could arm its allies in the Gulf and extend a "defence umbrella" over the region, if Iran goes nuclear. (Sky News)
July 23, 2009, In Sweden, the party for internet piracy is on the rise. Christian Engstrom, 49, is the world's first democratically elected Internet pirate and a new member of the European parliament. The group's stated goal is to "ensure that Europe chooses a better road into the information society."(Huffpost)
July 23, 2009, The Bank of Canada declares the recession has ended in Canada predicting the economy will grow by 1.3 per cent over the summer months. (CTV)
July 23, 2009, The SEACOM high speed internet link to East Africa goes live. (AFP)
July 23, 2009, The FBI arrests 30 officials and rabbis in New Jersey as part of a public corruption and international money laundering probe. Authorities also searched a synagogue in Deal, New Jersey and removed several boxes. (Newark Star-Ledger)
July 23, 2009, Chicago White Sox pitcher Mark Buehrle completes a perfect game against the Tampa Bay Rays. 17th in history. (ESPN.com)
July 24, 2009, Release of G-Force.
July 24, 2009, Release of The Ugly Truth
July 24, 2009, Release of The Shrink
July 24, 2009, Release of The Answer Man.
July 24, 2009, Admit the recent wrongful arrest of Harvard Professor Gates and recent comments Obama offers a mense.
Alcohol + Sun = Osiris
July 24, 2009, On the fight over health reform, President Barack Obama cast himself Friday as an ally of conservative House Democrats, even though the White House and the Blue Dog Caucus remain far apart on the details of a plan.(Tribune)
July 24, 2009, Police on Friday found about 150 dead dogs packed in freezers in the basement of a Michigan house littered with feces and trash where more than 110 live dogs, mostly Chihuahuas, were rescued this week.(Huffpost)
July 24, 2009, Aria Air Flight 1525 crashes in Mashhad, Iran, killing at least 17 people and injuring 19 of the 153 people on board. (BBC)
July 24, 2009, The Gran Telescopio Canarias, the world's largest telescope, is inaugurated by King Juan Carlos I of Spain. (The New York Times)
July 24, 2009, Harry Patch, the last surviving World War I veteran to have fought in the trenches, dies aged 111. (BBC)
July 24, 2009, Worldwide protests in 80 cities take place in support of Iranian protesters following the disputed presidential election. (The Times)
July 24, 2009, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has issued an apology to Kindle customers after "1984" and other books by British novelist George Orwell were remotely deleted from their electronic readers(Breit)
July 25, 2009, Series Finale of Kings
July 25, 2009, Charlie Crist's Office Mistakenly Praises Nazi Film.(HuffPost)
June 25, 2009, Puppy from North Carolina gets 5th leg removed.(Huffpost)
June 25, 2009, The military's "pain ray" may be going airborne.(Fox)
June 26, 2009, India launches its first nuclear submarine, the INS Arihant. (The Times of India)
June 26, 2009, Sarah Palin resigns as Governor of Alaska.
July 27, 2009, Michael Vick Reinstated by NFL.(Huffpost)
July 27, 2009,
July 27, 2009,
July 27, 2009, Shaq denied entry into White House.(Huffpost)
July 27, 2009, The United States and China begin the first U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue. (AFP)
July 27, 2009, A Saudi man facing flogging or imprisonment for speaking of his illegal sexual conquests on television apologises for his actions. (BBC)
July 27, 2009, A break-in at Christ Church Cathedral in Waterford, Ireland, damages the building and the Thomas Elliott organ, dating from 1817. (The Irish Times)
July 27, 2009, Researchers outline bokodes, a proposed replacement for the black and white stripes of the traditional barcode. (BBC)
July 27, 2009, A British-led military offensive, Operation Panther's Claw, succeeds in clearing the Taliban from parts of southern Helmand Province in Afghanistan. (CNN)
July 28, 2009, Eighth suspect sought in North Carolina terrorism case.(CNN)
July 28, 2009, The United States and China continue the first U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue. (The Washington Post)
July 28, 2009, The Garda Síochána and Metropolitan Police Service in London arrest and charge three men in connection with Ireland's largest cocaine seizure in West Cork in July 2007. (RTÉ)
July 28, 2009, AIDS campaigners and human rights groups accuse the Cambodian government of herding HIV-affected families into an "Aids colony" outside Phnom Penh. (The Guardian)
July 28, 2009, A national memorial is to be erected and a national day of remembrance is considered in Ireland for victims of child abuse. (Irish Examiner)
July 28, 2009, Chinese scientists announce the discovery of "vampire gene", Tryp-SPc. (AsiaNews)
July 29, 2009, The death toll in Nigeria's worst religious violence since November 2008 reaches over 250. (The Sydney Morning Herald)
July 29, 2009, American Airlines expects to win U.S. approval by October to form an alliance with British Airways and Spain's Iberia Airlines. (Reuters)
July 29, 2009, Venezuela "freezes" diplomatic relations with Colombia, after a dispute over Swedish weapons bought by Venezuela were allegedly found on FARC rebels. (Colombia Reports)
July 29, 2009, China announces it will reduce its use of the death penalty for all but the most serious crimes. (China Daily)
July 30, 2009, U.S. President Barack Obama arranged a meeting with police officer Sgt. James Crowley and African American public intellectual Henry Louis Gates at the White House in a bid to quell a dispute over racial profiling that arose from an altercation between the two of them. (AP via New York Times)
July 30, 2009, Iranian police clash with mourners at a Tehranian cemetery for a memorial to those killed in post-election violence, using teargas to disperse crowds from the grave of Neda Agha-Soltan and forcing Opposition leader Mir-Hossein Mousavi to make his exit. (BBC)
July 30, 2009, Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd promises to create 50,000 green jobs and apprenticeships to combat climate change and unemployment simultaneously. (Straits Times)
July 30, 2009, University College Dublin quarantines seven language students after around sixty mainly Italian and Russian students are assessed by doctors for swine flu. (RTÉ)
July 30, 2009, Multiple sclerosis sufferer Debbie Purdy wins a "landmark victory" in the House of Lords in her fight to allow her husband to help her commit suicide abroad. (RTÉ)
July 30, 2009, The United States Presidential Medal of Freedom is awarded to several international figures including Stephen Hawking, Billie Jean King, Harvey Milk, Sidney Poitier, Mary Robinson, Desmond Tutu and Muhammad Yunus. (Boston Globe)
July 31, 2009, Release of Funny People.
July 31, 2009, Release of Aliens in the Attic
July 31, 2009, Release of The Collector
July 31, 2009, Patrizia D'Addario, the escort at the centre of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's sex scandal, claims he and his party offered her a seat in the European Parliament until his wife complained. (BBC)
July 31, 2009, British Airways losses £148m in the last three months, the company's first loss since privatisation in 1987. (Sky News)
July 31, 2009, Space Shuttle Endeavour lands at Kennedy Space Centre in Florida, United States, ending a 16-day mission to the International Space Station (ISS). (BBC)
July 31, 2009, Aerial photographs reveal the streetplan of the lost Roman city of Altinum, regarded by some scholars as a forerunner of Venice. (BBC)
July 31, 2009, Briton Gary McKinnon, accused of carrying out the biggest ever U.S. military hacking operation, loses his court appeal to have his case heard in Britain, and faces extradition to the United States. (CNN)
July 31, 2009, Research claiming to have created human sperm in a Newcastle laboratory is withdrawn due to evidence of plagiarism. (The Daily Telegraph)
July 31, 2009, Three United States tourists are detained by Iranians in Iraq. (BBC)
July 31, 2009, Patrizia D'Addario, the escort at the centre of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's sex scandal, claims he and his party offered her a seat in the European Parliament until his wife complained. (BBC)
July 31, 2009, British Airways losses £148m in the last three months, the company's first loss since privatisation in 1987. (Sky News)
July 31, 2009, Space Shuttle Endeavour lands at Kennedy Space Centre in Florida, United States, ending a 16-day mission to the International Space Station (ISS). (BBC)
July 31, 2009, Aerial photographs reveal the streetplan of the lost Roman city of Altinum, regarded by some scholars as a forerunner of Venice. (BBC)
July 31, 2009, Briton Gary McKinnon, accused of carrying out the biggest ever U.S. military hacking operation, loses his court appeal to have his case heard in Britain, and faces extradition to the United States. (CNN)
July 31, 2009, Research claiming to have created human sperm in a Newcastle laboratory is withdrawn due to evidence of plagiarism. (The Daily Telegraph)
July 31, 2009, Three United States tourists are detained by Iranians in Iraq. (BBC)
