End of (July)

July 1, 2011, Release of Larry Crowne

July 1, 2011, Release of Monte Carlo



July 1, 2011, Release of The Perfect Host



July 1, 2011,



July 1, 2011, In basketball, owners in the North American National Basketball Association commence a lockout after failing to reach a collective bargaining agreement with players. (The Wall Street Journal)



July 1, 2011,



July 1, 2011, Arab Spring: 2011 Syrian uprising: Hundreds of thousands of people protest against the regime nationwide as the crackdown against civilians continues. (BBC)
July 1, 2011, 2011 Libyan civil war: Muammar Gaddafi, speaking via an audio message broadcast to a square in central Tripoli, calls on NATO to stop its bombing campaign or he will target European "homes, offices, families". (BBC)
July 1, 2011, Leon Panetta is sworn in as the new United States Secretary of Defense, succeeding Robert Gates, and promises to maintain the "excellence" of the U.S. military and to be a strong advocate for troops. (BBC)
July 1, 2011, Albert II, Prince of Monaco weds Charlene Wittstock, the Olympic swimmer, at the royal palace; Wittstock becomes Her Serene Highness, Princess Charlene. (BBC)
July 1, 2011, Bank of Moscow, the fifth largest banks in Russia, in record bailout of $14 billion, after the discovery that almost a third of the bank's assets are "problematic," the Central Bank of Russia said.(BBC)
July 1, 2011, A Bank of Japan survey shows that business confidence has fallen markedly since the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami.(Washington Post)
July 1, 2011, A Moscow court declares books and brochures by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard as "extremist", banning them from distribution in Russia. (The Moscow Times)
July 1, 2011, The New York Times reports that the sexual assault case against former International Monetary Fund head Dominique Strauss-Kahn is on the verge of collapse due to concerns over the credibility of the alleged victim's testimony. (The New York Times)

-A judge releases him from house arrest as prosecutors said that the maid had made false statements. (Reuters via Montreal Gazette)
July 1, 2011, Italian police arrest the Mafia boss of Corleone in Sicily. (AFP via France 24)
July 1, 2011, The government of the U.S. state of Minnesota is to shut down as a result of a budget dispute between Democratic Governor Mark Dayton and the Republican Legislature. (Star-Tribune)

July 2, 2011, ExxonMobil workers attempt to contain an oil spill on the Yellowstone River in the US state of Montana. (Los Angeles Times)
July 2, 2011, Albert II, Prince of Monaco marries Charlene Wittstock, the Olympic swimmer, again, this time in a religious ceremony attended by 3,500 guests, including royalty and celebrities. (BBC)
July 2, 2011, European sovereign debt crisis: Eurozone finance ministers agree to give a further €12 billion over the next two weeks to Greece as it fights bankruptcy. (BBC)
July 3, 2011,



July 3, 2011,



July 3, 2011, Serbia and Kosovo sign the first accords between the two nations since Kosovo's declaration of independence three years ago. (Al Jazeera)
July 3, 2011, 2011 Syrian uprising: The Syrian army encircles the city of Hama after one of the largest protests against the regime of Bashar al-Assad. (CBC)
July 3, 2011, In tennis, Novak Djokovic of Serbia wins the Men's singles at the 2011 Wimbledon Championships defeating Rafael Nadal of Spain 6-4, 6-1, 1-6, 6-3, and becoming number 1 on the ATP World Tour. (Today Online)

July 4, 2011,



July 4, 2011, 2011 Moroccan protests: Democracy campaigners dismiss as "unbelievable" government figures showing that 98 per cent of voters backed Morocco's constitutional referendum amid allegations of multiple voting, with people marching through Rabat, Casablanca and Tangier chanting "The interior minister is a liar". (BBC)
July 4, 2011, 2011 Syrian uprising: Government troops arrive in Hama in buses to raid houses and arrest civilians following the mass popular anti-government protests there on Friday. Tanks laying siege to the city move north to other villages. (BBC)
July 4, 2011, 2011 Yemeni uprising: Thousands of people rally against authority in Sana'a, marching towards the residence of Vice-President Abd al-Rab Mansur al-Hadi since Ali Abdullah Saleh, who has ruled the country for 33 years, remains in Saudi Arabia receiving treatment for his wounds. (BBC)
July 4, 2011, 2011 Libyan civil war: NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen defends the group's presence in Libya during a meeting of the NATO-Russia Council in Sochi, claiming that its mission is in "strict conformity" with United Nations Security Council Resolution 1973. (BBC) July 4, 2011, Tunisian revolution: Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, who fled to Saudi Arabia as his regime was ousted from power in a popular revolution, is convicted in absentia on charges of possessing illegal drugs and weapons and sentenced to 15 years in jail at a court in Tunis. (BBC)
July 4, 2011, Sony Corp. says that it will fully restore all the Playstation Network videogame services in Japan, which will complete worldwide restoration of those services, disrupted in April. (Reuters)
July 4, 2011, A statue of former President of the United States Ronald Reagan is unveiled at a ceremony outside the American embassy in Grosvenor Square, Central London, opposite a statue of Dwight D. Eisenhower. Those invited include Margaret Thatcher and Condoleezza Rice, while a piece of the Berlin Wall also features. (BBC)
July 4, 2011, Lawyers for French novelist Tristane Banon say that she will file a criminal complaint accusing former International Monetary Fund head Dominique Strauss-Kahn of attempted rape. (MSNBC)
July 4, 2011, President Hugo Chávez returns to Venezuela after undergoing surgery for cancer in Cuba. (BBC)

July 5, 2011, Christine Lagarde officially starts as managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). (RTÉ)
July 5, 2011, Bailouts for Greece's financial system are challenged in a German court amid concerns that the result may rock the European Union. (The Guardian)
July 5, 2011, A 6.5 magnitude earthquake occurs 30 kilometres west of Taupo in the Waikato Region of the North Island of New Zealand. (TV New Zealand)
July 5, 2011, British tabloid News of the World faces fresh allegations linking it to hacking activities, this time after it emerges that the mobile phone of murdered 13-year-old schoolgirl Milly Dowler was interfered with and messages left by relatives were deleted. This gave relatives the false impression that Milly Dowler was still alive when she was not. (BBC)

July 7, 2011,



July 7, 2011, War in Afghanistan: Canada ends mission in Afghanistan and withdraws 2850 troops. (CBC News)
July 7, 2011, News International shuts down the British newspaper the News of the World, as a result of a phone hacking affair, with the final edition coming out Sunday. (The Guardian)
July 7, 2011, A 7.6 magnitude earthquake occurs off the coast of New Zealand's Kermadec Islands resulting in a tidal surge. (TV New Zealand)
July 7, 2011, Seven people are shot dead in the US city of Grand Rapids, Michigan, with Rodrick Dantzler the suspect committing suicide and hostages being released. (AP via Google News)
July 7, 2011, Casey Anthony is sentenced to four years for lying to law enforcement regarding the death of her child Caylee in the U.S. state of Florida but after credit for time served will be released on July 17. (Orlando Sentinel)
July 7, 2011, The molecular basis for the breakage of DNA, an important process in the development of cancer, has been identified by Hebrew University of Jerusalem scientists. (The Jerusalem Post)

July 8, 2011, Release of Horrible Bosses



July 8, 2011, Release of Zookeeper



July 8, 2011, The Space Shuttle Atlantis lifts off for the final mission of the US Space Shuttle program. (Reuters)






July 8, 2011,



July 8, 2011,



July 8, 2011, News of the World: Former editor of the News of the World, Andy Coulson, is arrested for questioning due to alleged involvement in a phone hacking affair. (The Guardian)

-Police also arrest former News of the World reporter Clive Goodman and raid the London offices of the Daily Star, Goodman's current employer. (Sky News)
-The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom David Cameron announces that a judge will lead an inquiry into the scandal. (BBC)

July 8, 2011, South Sudan secedes from Sudan, becoming a sovereign state. (Los Angeles Times)




July 8, 2011, Former First Lady Betty Ford, wife of former U.S. President Gerald R. Ford, dies at 93. (USA Today)
July 8, 2011, A large protest with as many as a million people participating is planned for the Egyptian capital Cairo over perceived lack of progress since the 2011 Egyptian revolution. (Reuters)
July 9, 2011, 2011 Syrian uprising: Human Rights Watch issues a report claiming that Syrian Army soldiers have received and followed orders to shoot protesters during demonstrations. (AP via MSNBC)
July 9, 2011, Derek Jeter, shortstop for the New York Yankees, becomes the 28th member of the 3,000 hit club in Major League Baseball history by means of a home run off David Price of the Tampa Bay Rays. (The New York Times)
July 10, 2011, The final edition of the News of the World is published in the United Kingdom. (The Guardian)
July 10, 2011, A strong earthquake of 7.1 magnitude occurs off the coast of Honshu in Japan sparking a tsunami warning. (AP via Washington Post)

July 11, 2011, Series Premiere of Alphas



July 11, 2011, Pakistan jails a doctor who helped the US Central Intelligence Agency confirm that Osama bin Laden was living in Abbottabad. (McClatchy)
July 11, 2011, News International: privacy breachesTen members of the British royal family including the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall are believed to be among the victims of the News of the World phone hacking affair. (The Guardian)

-News International publications including the News of the World and The Sunday Times are revealed to have improperly accessed private information of former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Gordon Brown. (The Guardian)
July 11, 2011, Twenty-three people allegedly linked to the Mexican Los Zetas Cartel are indicted in the US state of Colorado for allegedly trying to smuggle marijuana in the United States. (Reuters)
July 11, 2011, Baseballer Robinson Canó of the New York Yankees wins the 2011 Major League Baseball Home Run Derby. (ESPN)
July 12, 2011, United Nations special rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment Juan E. Méndez suggests the United States is violating UN rules by refusing unmonitored access to imprisoned United States Army private Bradley Manning, the young serviceman the Obama administration accuses of passing classified information on secret U.S. activities to the WikiLeaks whistleblower website. (BBC)
July 12, 2011, It is reported that the U.S. government's Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) deployed a fake vaccine programme in Abbottabad ahead of its assassination of Osama bin Laden in an effort to obtain a DNA sample from his family. (BBC)
July 12, 2011, 2011 Egyptian revolution:A large protest with as many as a million people participating is planned for the Egyptian capital Cairo over perceived lack of progress since the 2011 Egyptian revolution. (Gulf News)

-Egypt's deputy prime minister Yehia El-Gamal resigns on the fifth day of the sit-in at Tahrir Square in Cairo. (Al Jazeera)
-3 former Egyptian ministers - former interior minister Habib el-Adly, former finance minister Youssef Boutros Ghali (in absentia) and former prime minister Ahmed Nazif - from the Mubarak regime are given jail sentences. (News 24)
July 12, 2011, A British ticket scoops the largest ever lottery prize in Europe, the £161,653,000 EuroMillions jackpot, by securing all five numbers and both Lucky Stars. (BBC)
July 12, 2011, Ireland's debt rating is reduced to "junk" status by Moody's. (RTÉ)
July 12, 2011, Julian Assange appears in London's High Court to begin his appeal against extradition to Sweden as his UK house arrest enters its 216th day. (ABC News)
July 12, 2011, A three judge panel of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals rules that Jared Lee Loughner, the suspect in the 2011 Tucson shooting, has the right to refuse antipsychotic medication while he appeals the treatment prescribed by prison mental health authorities. (Los Angeles Times)
July 12, 2011, CNN reports that the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives has lost track of 1,400 guns involved in Operation Fast and Furious aimed at tracing the flow of weapons to Mexican drug cartels. (CNN)
July 12, 2011, The funeral of former U.S. First Lady Betty Ford, wife of Gerald Ford, occurs. (BBC)
July 12, 2011, U.S. Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul announces that he will not stand again for his Texas district in 2012. (The Wall Street Journal)
July 12, 2011, NASA astronauts on board Atlantis complete the final spacewalk of the Space Shuttle era, recouping an ammonia pump on the International Space Station (ISS). (BBC)
July 12, 2011, Former Wales rugby union international Richard Parks becomes the first person ever to complete the Explorers Grand Slam — climbing all of the Seven Summits and reaching both the North and South Poles — in a single calendar year. (ESPN Scrum)
July 13, 2011, Moody's threatens to cut the debt rating of the United States. (BBC)
July 13, 2011, South Sudan is admitted to the United Nations, the first new member since 2006. (BBC News)
July 13, 2011, Sexual abuse scandal in Cloyne diocese: Ireland prepares for the release of a 400-page report into the sexual abuse of children by priests. (The Irish Times)

-Bishop John Magee, a former private secretary of Pope Paul VI, Pope John Paul I and Pope John Paul II, is found to have deliberately misled an inquiry into child sexual abuse in the Catholic Church. (RTÉ)

July 13, 2011,Mexico's federal police capture a man who was allegedly the top hitman for the Knights Templar drug cartel. (AP via Washington Post)
July 13, 2011, U.S. senators call for a legal investigation into allegations that Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation hacked victims of the September 11 attacks as the phone hacking scandal continues. (The Guardian)
July 13, 2011, Norman Moore, a senior politician in the Australian state of Western Australia, calls on the state to consider secession. (Western Australia Today)
July 13, 2011, Prime Minister of Japan Naoto Kan tells a news conference of his plans to wean the country off nuclear energy after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. (Al Jazeera)
July 13, 2011, The President of the United States Barack Obama reportedly walks out of negotiations with Republican Party leaders on tackling debt and deficits as Moody's Investor Services warns of a potential loss of a AAA credit rating. (Reuters)
July 13, 2011, North Korea announces that it would like to co-host the 2018 Winter Olympics which is scheduled to be held in the South Korean alpine town of PyeongChang. (Yonhap News)

July 14, 2011,



July 14, 2011, Chairman of Ireland's governing Fine Gael parliamentary party Charlie Flanagan calls for Papal Nuncio Guiseppe Leanza to be expelled from the country after the publication of a report into the sexual abuse of children by priests in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Cloyne, while Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore attacks the Vatican's interference in the scandal. (RTÉ)
July 14, 2011, News of the World phone hacking scandal:News Corporation chairman Rupert Murdoch, his son James, and News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks all agree to appear before British MPs next week to answer questions on the News of the World phone hacking affair. (BBC)

-Neil Wallis, former deputy editor of the News of the World under Andy Coulson, is arrested and questioned by police investigating the scandal. (The Guardian)
July 14, 2011, The President of the United States, Barack Obama, gives Congressional leader 24 to 36 hours to reach an agreement on debt reduction as credit agency Standard & Poor's places the US on a downgrade watch. (Reuters)
July 14, 2011, Neptune completes its first orbit of the Sun since its discovery in 1846. (ABC Online)
July 14, 2011, A lost rainbow toad thought to have become extinct after its last sighting in 1924 is rediscovered in Borneo by scientists from Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS) and photographed for the first time. (BBC Nature)

July 15, 2011, Release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows



July 15, 2011, Release of Winnie the Pooh



July 15, 2011, Release of Snow Flower and the Secret Fan



July 15, 2011, 8 European banks fail stress tests that could leave them open to another financial crisis, while another 16 are in a "danger zone". (BBC)
July 15, 2011, Royal Dutch Shell reveals plans to construct a 600,000-tonne floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) platform, a world's first for off the coast of Australia. (BBC)
July 15, 2011, News International phone hacking scandal: Rebekah Brooks resigns as chief executive of News International as a result of the News International phone hacking scandal. (The Washington Post)
July 15, 2011, 2011 Horn of Africa drought:Drought fleers located at camps in Mogadishu are struck down by days of killer rain. (BBC)
July 15, 2011, A magnitude 6 earthquake occurs off the coast of Chile near Valparaíso. (CNN)
July 15, 2011, Ireland's Taoiseach Enda Kenny attacks the Vatican's approach to the child abuse scandals in the country as "absolutely disgraceful", while the Socialist Party's Joe Higgins tells Dáil Éireann that people were "throwing their hands in the air" after the report into the sexual abuse scandal in Cloyne diocese was published this week. (The Guardian)
July 15, 2011, U.S. president Barack Obama makes a phone call to the International Space Station (ISS) and jokes with astronauts about pizza. (BBC)

July 16, 2011, Crowds gather outside the jail in Orange County, Florida for the release of Casey Anthony who was recently cleared of murdering her daughter Caylee. (Fox News)



July 16, 2011, Ohi Nuclear Power Plant in Japan is being shut down due a technical fault, Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. Only 18 out of 54 nuclear plants in Japan are currently producing electricity. (BBC)
July 16, 2011, Nearly 5,000 people are evacuated after Mount Lokon in Indonesia erupts. (Jakarta Globe)

July 17, 2011,






July 17, 2011, Japan wins the FIFA Women's World Cup 2011 by beating the USA 3-2 in the Penalty Shootout. (NBC Sports)



July 17, 2011, Egyptian revolution: Ousted Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak suffers stroke, falls into coma. (Haaretz)
July 17, 2011, Warner Bros. has reported that Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2, the final instalment of the Harry Potter film series has broken box office records, taking $92.1m (£57m) in North America on Friday, its opening day. (Box Office Mojo)
July 17, 2011, Mount Lokon, a volcano on Sulawesi in Indonesia erupts again sending ash 3,500 metres in the air. (AFP via Google News)
July 18, 2011, US General David Petraeus hands over command of NATO forces in Afghanistan to United States Marine Corps Lieutenant General John R. Allen. (CNN)
July 18, 2011, The Philadelphia Daily News reports that Cardinal Justin Rigali will resign five months after a U.S. grand jury accuses the Archdiocese of Philadelphia that he heads of failing to investigate claims of sexual abuse of children by clergy in the diocese. (Philly.com)
July 18, 2011, The U.S. city of Phoenix, Arizona, is hit by a haboob or dust storm. (Fox News)
July 18, 2011, A new Cabinet is sworn in in Egypt, with half the former members being replaced due to ongoing protests since the 2011 Egyptian revolution. (Al-Jazeera)
July 18, 2011, The Dawn spacecraft takes its first photo of the asteroid 4 Vesta. (USA Today)

July 19, 2011, Iran says it has installed faster nuclear centrifuges to enrich uranium. (AFP via Google News)



July 19, 2011,News Corporation Chief Executive Rupert Murdoch and his son James Murdoch appear before a select committee of the United Kingdom parliament over the News of the World phone hacking affair. Murdoch Senior apologises for the scandal, but says he is not responsible for it. (Reuters)

-A man attacks Murdoch during the final part of questioning with a shaving cream pie. (Los Angeles Times)



July 19, 2011, Typhoon Ma-on, the second typhoon of the 2011 Pacific typhoon season, approaches the main Japanese island of Honshu leading to cancellation of air services. (APA)
July 19, 2011, Sixteen alleged members of the computer hacking group Anonymous are arrested in FBI raids across several states in the US. (CNN)
July 19, 2011, Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping says the Chinese government will "smash" attempts for an independent Tibet in a speech outside the Potala Palace. (BBC)
July 19, 2011, Pope Benedict XVI appoints Charles J. Chaput, the current Archbishop of Denver, as the head of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia replacing Cardinal Justin Rigali. (AP via Google News)
July 19, 2011,The Space Shuttle Atlantis undocks from the International Space Station for the final time in the history of the space shuttle program. (NASA)
July 19, 2011, The Japan women's national football team returns home to be greeted by thousands of fans after winning the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup. (AP via Straits Times)

July 20, 2011, British artist Lucian Freud dies at his home in London following a brief illness. (New York Times)
July 20, 2011, 2011 Horn of Africa famine: The United Nations declares a famine in southern Somalia. (Al Jazeera)

July 21, 2011, Space Shuttle Atlantis lands at the Kennedy Space Center, concluding its final mission and marking the end of the 30-year Space Shuttle program. (USA TODAY)



July 21, 2011, Euro zone leaders secure a 109 billion euro bailout for Greece with the country going into default for a short period, but with increased powers for the main European rescue fund to assist countries that have not been bailed out, such as Spain and Italy. (New York Times)



July 21, 2011, The Government of Japan publishes a reconstruction plan for areas devastated by the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami. (NHK World)

July 22, 2011, Release of Captain America: The First Avenger



July 22, 2011, Release of Friends with Benefits



July 22, 2011, Release of Horrid Henry the Movie



July 22, 2011, 2011 Norway attacks: An explosion damages government buildings in Oslo, Norway at 15.20; at least seven people are killed and several injured reported. (Al Jazeera)

-A gunman opens fire at a Labour Party camp in Utøya with 76 people killed. (Al Jazeera)
-Police arrest a Norwegian man Anders Behring Breivik for the shooting at Utøya with reports of links to right-wing extremism. (CTV News)







July 22, 2011, CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) produces notable fluctuations in search for Higgs Boson particle. (BBC News)



July 22, 2011, In American football, the NFL Players Association executive unanimously accepts a 10 year pay deal with team owners in the US National Football League. (ESPN)



July 22, 2011,



July 22, 2011,Elliot Handler who cofounded Mattel with his wife dies at age 95. (The New York Times)
July 22, 2011, Debt negotiations between President of the United States Barack Obama and Speaker of the House of Representatives John Boehner collapse. (Washington Post)

July 23, 2011, English singer Amy Winehouse, 27, is found dead at her London home. (BBC)



July 23, 2011, Anders Behring Breivik, the man arrested in connection with terrorism in Norway, reveals himself as to have anti-Muslim and right-wing extremist views, stating that the attacks were "atrocious, but necessary." (Dokument)



July 24, 2011, Timothy Geithner, the United States Secretary of the Treasury, says that President Barack Obama will not invoke the United States Constitution to raise the debt ceiling unilaterally. The idea has been under consideration due to the 14th amendment requiring that "the validity of the public debt of the United States [...] shall not be questioned." (Reuters)
July 24, 2011, The 2011 Tour de France finishes in Paris with cyclist Cadel Evans becoming the first Australian to win the event. (Herald Sun)
July 24, 2011, The Tevatron collider near Chicago produces results similar to recent results from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in the on-going search for the Higgs Boson. (BBC News)

July 25, 2011, Anders Behring Breivik attends court for the first time in connection with the attacks. (AFP via France24)



July 25, 2011, Moody's cuts Greece's credit rating further to Ca on the grounds that a proposed debt swap is equivalent to a default. (BBC)
July 25, 2011, 2011 Horn of Africa famine: The World Bank promises $500 million in aid to drought victims in East Africa as a United Nations agency hosts an emergency meeting aimed at fighting famine. (CBC News)
July 25, 2011, An Egyptian court decides to try former President of Egypt Hosni Mubarak and Interior Minister Habib al-Adly together on charges relating to the death of protesters in the 2011 Egyptian revolution. (AFP via Maan News)
July 26, 2011, U.S. Senator Al Franken of Minnesota, in a letter to the Justice Department and the Federal Communications Commission, demands that they block the effort of telephone giant AT&T to buy rival T-Mobile USA. (Reuters)

July 27, 2011,



July 27, 2011,



July 28, 2011,

July 29, 2011, Release of The Smurfs



July 29, 2011, Release of Cowboys & Aliens



July 29, 2011, Release of Crazy, Stupid, Love



July 29, 2011, Release of The Devil's Double



July 29, 2011, Release of Attack the Block



July 29, 2011, 2011 Tunisian revolution: Former President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali is sentenced in absentia to 16 years imprisonment for corruption. (Xinhua)