July 1, 2012, Season 8 Premiere of Weeds
July 1, 2012, Spain defeat Italy, with a record-breaking scoreline to win their third consecutive major trophy. David Silva, Jordi Alba, Fernando Torres and Juan Mata all score goals, with Torres becoming the first footballer to score in two UEFA European Championship Finals and ending up as the tournament's Golden Boot winner, based on assists and minutes spent on the pitch. (Al Jazeera)
July 1, 2012,
July 1, 2012,
July 1, 2012,
July 1, 2012, Barclays chairman Marcus Agius is to resign following the Libor interest rate scandal. (BBC)
July 1, 2012, Japan provokes protests from its people by restarting the first nuclear reactor since last year's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. (BBC)
July 1, 2012, Voters in Mexico go to the polls for a general election with Institutional Revolutionary Party presidential candidate Enrique Pena Nieto claiming victory. (The New York Times)
July 1, 2012, A Soyuz space capsule containing Oleg Kononenko (Russia), André Kuipers (Netherlands) and Don Pettit (United States) lands safely in Kazakhstan. (Sky News Australia)
July 1, 2012, In golf, Tiger Woods wins the AT&T National passing Jack Nicklaus for PGA Tour wins and is now second behind Sam Snead. (USA Today)
July 2, 2012,
July 2, 2012,
July 2, 2012,
July 2, 2012, Finland says it will block the euro zone's permanent bailout fund (ESM) from buying government bonds in the open market, while The Netherlands also indicates opposition to the bond-buying idea. (Reuters)
July 2, 2012, GlaxoSmithKline settles the largest healthcare fraud case in US history for $3 billion dollars. (Reuters)
July 2, 2012, NASA and Lockheed Martin unveil the first space-bound Orion spacecraft in Cape Canaveral. (Florida Today)
July 3, 2012, Release of The Amazing Spiderman
July 3, 2012,
July 3, 2012, American actor Andy Griffith dies at the age of 86. (USA Today)
July 3, 2012,
July 3, 2012, Bob Diamond resigns as the Chief Executive of British bank Barclays following a scandal in which the bank tried to manipulate the Libor and Euribor interest rates systems. (BBC)
July 3, 2012, A major earthquake strikes New Zealand with minor damage reported. (The New Zealand Herald)
July 3, 2012, American gambler Antonio Esfandiari wins the 2012 World Series of Poker $1,000,000 Buy-In "The Big One for One Drop" with the highest prize money in poker of $18.3 million. (AP via NBC Sports)
July 4, 2012, CERN scientists present recent results from CMS and ATLAS experiments consistent with the existence of a Higgs boson particle. (BBC)
July 4, 2012,
July 4, 2012, China accuses the Vatican of obstructing the development of Catholicism after the latter threatens to excommunicate new bishops ordained without papal approval. (Washington Post)
July 4, 2012, Standard & Poor's raises the credit rating of the Philippines to BB+. (Reuters)
July 4, 2012, It is reported that former Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat, who died in 2004, might have been poisoned, according to Al Jazeera, after traces of radioactive polonium-210 were found on his toothbrush and other personal effects by a Swiss institute, leading the PLO and his widow to allow his exhumation. (Huffington Post)
July 4, 2012, The United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration states that mermaids probably do not exist. (BBC)
July 5, 2012, The Shard, the tallest building in Europe and the tallest habitable free-standing structure in the UK at 309.6 metres (1,016 ft), is officially opened. (LondonSEI)
July 5, 2012,
July 5, 2012, The central banks of the European Union, Great Britain, and the People's Republic of China, in what appears to be a co-ordinated action, each loosen their respective monetary systems. (Reuters)
July 5, 2012, WikiLeaks begins publishing the Syria Files, more than two million emails from Syrian political figures, ministries and associated companies, dating from August 2006 to March 2012. (BBC News)
July 6, 2012, Release of Savages
July 6, 2012,
July 6, 2012,
July 6, 2012, Andy Murray makes it to the final of the 2012 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Singles, becoming the first Briton to do so in 74 years. (BBC)
-Jonny Marray makes it to final of the men's doubles at Wimbledon, becoming the first Briton to do so in 52 years. (BBC)
July 6, 2012, British police arrest six men from the West Midlands and one from South Yorkshire on suspicion of terrorist offences. (AP via Google)
July 6, 2012, Britain's Serious Fraud Office launches a criminal investigation into the Libor scandal. (BBC)
July 7, 2012,
July 8, 2012, Serena Williams of the United States beats Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland in the final of the Women's Singles. (BBC)
-Britain's Jonathan Marray and Denmark's Frederik Nielsen win Wimbledon's men's double final by three sets to two. Marray becomes the first Briton to win such a match since 1936. (BBC)
July 7, 2012,
July 7, 2012, The Los Angeles County Coroner's Office re-categorizes Natalie Wood's 1981 drowning as "undetermined" on her death certificate, replacing the previous finding of an "accident". (CBS)
July 7, 2012, The United States declares Afghanistan one of its major non-NATO allies, a designation that permits it to buy advanced U.S. weaponry. (Al Jazeera)
July 7, 2012, A 22-year-old woman is arrested in east London in connection with an ongoing counter-terrorism operation. (BBC)
July 7, 2012, American politician Barney Frank marries his long-time partner James Ready, becoming the first member of the United States House of Representatives to enter into a same-sex marriage. (Reuters via MSNBC)
July 8, 2012, In tennis, Roger Federer of Switzerland defeats Andy Murray of the United Kingdom three sets to one at the men's singles final of the 2012 Wimbledon Championships in England. (BBC)
July 8, 2012, American actor Ernest Borgnine, winner of an Academy Award in the film Marty, dies at the age of 95. (CBS News)
July 9, 2012,
July 9, 2012, More than $200 million in customer funds is reportedly missing from the accounts of U.S. futures broker PFGBest, after the firm's founder Russell Wasendorf attempted suicide outside the company's Iowa headquarters. (The Guardian)
July 9, 2012, The Mexican drug cartel known as Los Zetas laundered millions of dollars through accounts at Bank of America; that money was then used to finance a horse racing business in the United States, allegedly ran by José Treviño Morales. (The Huffington Post)
July 9, 2012, The United States Department of Justice unseals an indictment charging five people for their alleged involvement in the murder of Border Patrol agent Brian Terry and offers up to $1 million reward for information leading to their arrest. (Fox News)
July 9, 2012, Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez says that he has completely recovered from cancer in the pelvic region. (Reuters)
July 10, 2012, The Episcopal Church is poised to become the first major religious denomination in the United States to approve a rite for blessing gay marriages this December, just after its bishops approved such a liturgy. (The Guardian)
July 10, 2012, Iran’s military continues to improve its long- and short-range ballistic missiles and other aspects of its armed forces, according to a Pentagon report to the US Congress. (Bloomberg)
July 10, 2012, A New Zealand court delays hearings on the extradition of Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom to the United States until 2013 due to concerns about the search and seizure of documents. (Reuters)
July 10, 2012, Eva Rausing, wife of Tetra Pak heir Hans Kristian Rausing, is found dead in west London and a man arrested in connection to her death. (BBC)
July 10, 2012, Britain's Trades Union Congress confirms the appointment of its first female General Secretary. Frances O'Grady will take up the role at the end of the year. (BBC)
July 10, 2012, The US city of San Bernardino becomes the third city in the state of California to file for bankruptcy protection. (Los Angeles Times)
July 10, 2012, The Olympic torch arrives at Windsor Castle in Berkshire, where the bearer is greeted by Queen Elizabeth II before taking off for the next leg of the torch's journey to London. (CNBC)
July 10, 2012, In baseball, the National League defeats the American League 8-0 in the All-Star Game played at Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City, Missouri. (SB Nation)
July 11, 2012, British Armed Forces are on standby to provide an extra 3,500 troops to help with security at the 2012 Olympics. (BBC)
July 11, 2012, Astronomers announce the discovery of S/2012 P 1, the fifth moon of Pluto. (Fox News)
July 11, 2012,
July 11, 2012,
July 11, 2012, The Republican-controlled United States House of Representatives votes for the thirty-third time to repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, commonly known as Obamacare; the measure is not likely to pass the Democratic-controlled United States Senate. (USA Today)
July 12, 2012, English rock group, The Rolling Stones, celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of their first performance at the Marquee Club in Oxford Street, London. (Herald Sun)
July 12, 2012, Wells Fargo decides to pay a $175 million settlement in a subprime mortgage compensation case. (Chicago Tribune)
July 12, 2012, The US Treasury states that sanctions on Iran due to its nuclear program are further tightened. (BBC)
July 12, 2012, Former FBI Director Louis Freeh's report into the Penn State sex abuse scandal is released, alleging that late head football coach Joe Paterno and other school officials covered up child sexual abuse by former assistant coach Jerry Sandusky. (ESPN)
July 13, 2012, Release of Ice Age: Continental Drift
July 13, 2012, Release of Red Lights
July 13, 2012,
July 13, 2012,Moody's Investor Services downgrades Italy's government rating from A3 to Baa2. (Dow Jones via The Australian)
July 13, 2012, The Federal Reserve Bank of New York is set to release documents outlining what it knew about the Libor scandal and what action it took. (Washington Post)
July 14, 2012, The musical Chicago is to close after a run of 15 years on London's West End, the longest run for a revival in British theatre. (The Scotsman)
July 14, 2012, A fire onboard the German container ship MSC Flaminia forces the crew to abandon ship in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. (TradeWinds)
July 14, 2012, Shipper International Port Corp, with permission from the United States, delivers the first shipment of humanitarian aid to Cuba, the first time in 50 years. (Al Jazeera)
July 14, 2012, Organisers pull the plug on a duet between Bruce Springsteen and Paul McCartney at Hyde Park, London, after it breached its legal curfew. (Philadelphia Daily News)
July 15, 2012, Season 5 Premiere of Breaking Bad
July 15, 2012, Season 5 Premiere of Leverage
July 15, 2012, A Russian Soyuz rocket begins its mission to the International Space Station with three international crew members. (AP via The Washington Post)
July 16, 2012,
July 16, 2012, English composer and pianist Jon Lord dies after suffering a pulmonary embolism. (BBC)
July 16, 2012, American singer Kitty Wells, the "Queen of country music" and the first female singer to have a number one song on the country charts with "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels", dies of complications of a stroke. (Los Angeles Times)
July 16, 2012, The United States Senate accuses the HSBC bank of laundering Mexican drug money. (BBC News)
July 16, 2012, NBCUniversal buys full control of the US news website MSNBC.com and rebrands it as NBCNews.com. (NBC News)
July 16, 2012, The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approves Truvada as the first drug shown to reduce the risk of HIV infection. (CBS News)
July 16, 2012, Thousands of athletes and officials start arriving in the United Kingdom for the London Olympics. (BBC)
July 17, 2012,
July 17, 2012, Seventeen people being shot in a bar in are wounded after being shot in a bar in Alabama, United States. (SMH)
July 18, 2012,
July 18, 2012, Kim Jong-un is officially announced as the Supreme Leader of North Korea, a position that he occupied de facto since his father's death. He also gains the rank of Marshal in the Korean People's Army. (News Limited)
July 18, 2012, 2012 Burgas bus bombing: At least 6 Israeli tourists are killed and more than 30 others are injured after a bomb explodes on an Israeli tourism bus at Burgas Airport, Bulgaria. (Times of Israel)
July 18, 2012, The US city of San Bernardino, California, declares that it has an "immediate and severe" fiscal emergency allowing it to declare bankruptcy without negotiating with creditors. (Bloomberg)
July 19, 2012,
July 20, 2012, Release of Dark Knight Rises
July 20, 2012,
July 20, 2012, Space Shuttle Enterprise goes on display at the Intrepid Air and Sea Musuem
July 20, 2012,
July 20, 2012,
July 20, 2012,
July 20, 2012, A gunman opens fire at a movie premiere of The Dark Knight Rises in Aurora, Colorado, USA, killing at least 12 people and injuring 59 others. (BBC)
July 20, 2012, The Olympic Torch arrives in London for the final stages of the UK-wide relay ahead of the 2012 Summer Olympics. (BBC)
July 21, 2012,
July 21, 2012, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a federal law "On ratification of the Protocol on the Accession of the Russian Federation to the Marrakesh Agreement Establishing the World Trade Organization on April 15, 1994" that authorizes Russia's accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) after almost 18 years of negotiations. (RIA Novosti)
July 21, 2012, Rupert Murdoch resigns from a number of directorships, including that of News International. (BBC)
July 21, 2012, A subcontractor at Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant reportedly told workers to lie about possible high radiation exposure in an apparent effort to keep its contract. (Asahi Shimbun)
July 21, 2012, 61 schools in Chile's capital Santiago are to be investigated for possible child sex abuse. (Al Jazeera)
July 21, 2012, Pope Benedict XVI's butler is placed under house arrest while awaiting trial for allegedly leaking confidential papers revealing fraud and disputes within the Vatican. (AFP via Google News)
July 22, 2012,
July 22, 2012, Bradley Wiggins becomes the first British cyclist to win the Tour de France after coming first in this year's race. (BBC)
July 22, 2012, U.S. President Barack Obama visits the town of Aurora, Colorado, to console the families of victims of the recent shooting that left 12 dead and dozens injured. (AP via Fox News)
July 23, 2012, James Eagan Holmes, the suspect of the 2012 Aurora shooting, makes his first court appearance. (The New York Times)
July 23, 2012, The Olympic torch features in a special live section of the British soap EastEnders when actor Perry Fenwick, in character as Billy Mitchell, carries it through the fictional London borough of Walford as part of the 2012 Olympic torch relay. (BBC)
July 23, 2012, Sally Ride, the first American female astronaut, dies of pancreatic cancer at the age of 61. Her obituary acknowledges her 27-year relationship with a woman. (CNN)
July 23, 2012, The NCAA announces severe penalties against Penn State's football program as a result of the school's child sex abuse scandal. (ESPN)
July 24, 2012,
July 24, 2012, Four barrels containing 248 human fetuses are found in a forest in Russia's Sverdlovsk region. (USA Today)
July 24, 2012, Britain's Crown Prosecution Service confirms that eight people, including Andy Coulson and Rebekah Brooks, will face charges relating to the News International phone hacking scandal. (BBC)
July 25, 2012, The 2012 Summer Olympics commences in Great Britain with the Women's football tournament. (CNN)
July 25, 2012, North Korea state media declares the marriage of Kim Jong-un and Ri Sol-ju. (BBC)
July 25, 2012, Egan-Jones Ratings Company downgrades Italy to CCC+ from B+, saying the country has a one-year default probability of 22%. (MarketWatch)
July 25, 2012, A 6.4 magnitude earthquake occurs off the Indonesian island of Sumatra with one man dying while fleeing his home. (AFP via Google News)
July 25, 2012, The Scottish Government announce plans to legalise same-sex marriage, prospectively becoming the first part of the United Kingdom to do so. (BBC)
July 26, 2012,
July 27, 2012, Release of Step Up: Revolution
July 27, 2012, Release of The Watch
July 27, 2012, The opening ceremony for the 2012 Summer Olympics takes place at the London Olympic Stadium with Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom declaring the Games open. (CNN)
July 27, 2012,
July 27, 2012,
July 30, 2012,
July 31, 2012, In swimming, Michael Phelps of the United States wins a record 19th Olympic medal, with gold in the 4x200 metres freestyle relay. (BBC)
July 31, 2012, United States President Barack Obama announces additional sanctions against Iran for its nuclear program. (CNN)
July 1, 2012, Spain defeat Italy, with a record-breaking scoreline to win their third consecutive major trophy. David Silva, Jordi Alba, Fernando Torres and Juan Mata all score goals, with Torres becoming the first footballer to score in two UEFA European Championship Finals and ending up as the tournament's Golden Boot winner, based on assists and minutes spent on the pitch. (Al Jazeera)
July 1, 2012,
July 1, 2012,
July 1, 2012,
July 1, 2012, Barclays chairman Marcus Agius is to resign following the Libor interest rate scandal. (BBC)
July 1, 2012, Japan provokes protests from its people by restarting the first nuclear reactor since last year's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. (BBC)
July 1, 2012, Voters in Mexico go to the polls for a general election with Institutional Revolutionary Party presidential candidate Enrique Pena Nieto claiming victory. (The New York Times)
July 1, 2012, A Soyuz space capsule containing Oleg Kononenko (Russia), André Kuipers (Netherlands) and Don Pettit (United States) lands safely in Kazakhstan. (Sky News Australia)
July 1, 2012, In golf, Tiger Woods wins the AT&T National passing Jack Nicklaus for PGA Tour wins and is now second behind Sam Snead. (USA Today)
July 2, 2012,
July 2, 2012,
July 2, 2012,
July 2, 2012, Finland says it will block the euro zone's permanent bailout fund (ESM) from buying government bonds in the open market, while The Netherlands also indicates opposition to the bond-buying idea. (Reuters)
July 2, 2012, GlaxoSmithKline settles the largest healthcare fraud case in US history for $3 billion dollars. (Reuters)
July 2, 2012, NASA and Lockheed Martin unveil the first space-bound Orion spacecraft in Cape Canaveral. (Florida Today)
July 3, 2012, Release of The Amazing Spiderman
July 3, 2012,
July 3, 2012, American actor Andy Griffith dies at the age of 86. (USA Today)
July 3, 2012,
July 3, 2012, Bob Diamond resigns as the Chief Executive of British bank Barclays following a scandal in which the bank tried to manipulate the Libor and Euribor interest rates systems. (BBC)
July 3, 2012, A major earthquake strikes New Zealand with minor damage reported. (The New Zealand Herald)
July 3, 2012, American gambler Antonio Esfandiari wins the 2012 World Series of Poker $1,000,000 Buy-In "The Big One for One Drop" with the highest prize money in poker of $18.3 million. (AP via NBC Sports)
July 4, 2012, CERN scientists present recent results from CMS and ATLAS experiments consistent with the existence of a Higgs boson particle. (BBC)
July 4, 2012,
July 4, 2012, China accuses the Vatican of obstructing the development of Catholicism after the latter threatens to excommunicate new bishops ordained without papal approval. (Washington Post)
July 4, 2012, Standard & Poor's raises the credit rating of the Philippines to BB+. (Reuters)
July 4, 2012, It is reported that former Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat, who died in 2004, might have been poisoned, according to Al Jazeera, after traces of radioactive polonium-210 were found on his toothbrush and other personal effects by a Swiss institute, leading the PLO and his widow to allow his exhumation. (Huffington Post)
July 4, 2012, The United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration states that mermaids probably do not exist. (BBC)
July 5, 2012, The Shard, the tallest building in Europe and the tallest habitable free-standing structure in the UK at 309.6 metres (1,016 ft), is officially opened. (LondonSEI)
July 5, 2012,
July 5, 2012, The central banks of the European Union, Great Britain, and the People's Republic of China, in what appears to be a co-ordinated action, each loosen their respective monetary systems. (Reuters)
July 5, 2012, WikiLeaks begins publishing the Syria Files, more than two million emails from Syrian political figures, ministries and associated companies, dating from August 2006 to March 2012. (BBC News)
July 6, 2012, Release of Savages
July 6, 2012,
July 6, 2012,
July 6, 2012, Andy Murray makes it to the final of the 2012 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Singles, becoming the first Briton to do so in 74 years. (BBC)
-Jonny Marray makes it to final of the men's doubles at Wimbledon, becoming the first Briton to do so in 52 years. (BBC)
July 6, 2012, British police arrest six men from the West Midlands and one from South Yorkshire on suspicion of terrorist offences. (AP via Google)
July 6, 2012, Britain's Serious Fraud Office launches a criminal investigation into the Libor scandal. (BBC)
July 7, 2012,
July 8, 2012, Serena Williams of the United States beats Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland in the final of the Women's Singles. (BBC)
-Britain's Jonathan Marray and Denmark's Frederik Nielsen win Wimbledon's men's double final by three sets to two. Marray becomes the first Briton to win such a match since 1936. (BBC)
July 7, 2012,
July 7, 2012, The Los Angeles County Coroner's Office re-categorizes Natalie Wood's 1981 drowning as "undetermined" on her death certificate, replacing the previous finding of an "accident". (CBS)
July 7, 2012, The United States declares Afghanistan one of its major non-NATO allies, a designation that permits it to buy advanced U.S. weaponry. (Al Jazeera)
July 7, 2012, A 22-year-old woman is arrested in east London in connection with an ongoing counter-terrorism operation. (BBC)
July 7, 2012, American politician Barney Frank marries his long-time partner James Ready, becoming the first member of the United States House of Representatives to enter into a same-sex marriage. (Reuters via MSNBC)
July 8, 2012, In tennis, Roger Federer of Switzerland defeats Andy Murray of the United Kingdom three sets to one at the men's singles final of the 2012 Wimbledon Championships in England. (BBC)
July 8, 2012, American actor Ernest Borgnine, winner of an Academy Award in the film Marty, dies at the age of 95. (CBS News)
July 9, 2012,
July 9, 2012, More than $200 million in customer funds is reportedly missing from the accounts of U.S. futures broker PFGBest, after the firm's founder Russell Wasendorf attempted suicide outside the company's Iowa headquarters. (The Guardian)
July 9, 2012, The Mexican drug cartel known as Los Zetas laundered millions of dollars through accounts at Bank of America; that money was then used to finance a horse racing business in the United States, allegedly ran by José Treviño Morales. (The Huffington Post)
July 9, 2012, The United States Department of Justice unseals an indictment charging five people for their alleged involvement in the murder of Border Patrol agent Brian Terry and offers up to $1 million reward for information leading to their arrest. (Fox News)
July 9, 2012, Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez says that he has completely recovered from cancer in the pelvic region. (Reuters)
July 10, 2012, The Episcopal Church is poised to become the first major religious denomination in the United States to approve a rite for blessing gay marriages this December, just after its bishops approved such a liturgy. (The Guardian)
July 10, 2012, Iran’s military continues to improve its long- and short-range ballistic missiles and other aspects of its armed forces, according to a Pentagon report to the US Congress. (Bloomberg)
July 10, 2012, A New Zealand court delays hearings on the extradition of Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom to the United States until 2013 due to concerns about the search and seizure of documents. (Reuters)
July 10, 2012, Eva Rausing, wife of Tetra Pak heir Hans Kristian Rausing, is found dead in west London and a man arrested in connection to her death. (BBC)
July 10, 2012, Britain's Trades Union Congress confirms the appointment of its first female General Secretary. Frances O'Grady will take up the role at the end of the year. (BBC)
July 10, 2012, The US city of San Bernardino becomes the third city in the state of California to file for bankruptcy protection. (Los Angeles Times)
July 10, 2012, The Olympic torch arrives at Windsor Castle in Berkshire, where the bearer is greeted by Queen Elizabeth II before taking off for the next leg of the torch's journey to London. (CNBC)
July 10, 2012, In baseball, the National League defeats the American League 8-0 in the All-Star Game played at Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City, Missouri. (SB Nation)
July 11, 2012, British Armed Forces are on standby to provide an extra 3,500 troops to help with security at the 2012 Olympics. (BBC)
July 11, 2012, Astronomers announce the discovery of S/2012 P 1, the fifth moon of Pluto. (Fox News)
July 11, 2012,
July 11, 2012,
July 11, 2012, The Republican-controlled United States House of Representatives votes for the thirty-third time to repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, commonly known as Obamacare; the measure is not likely to pass the Democratic-controlled United States Senate. (USA Today)
July 12, 2012, English rock group, The Rolling Stones, celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of their first performance at the Marquee Club in Oxford Street, London. (Herald Sun)
July 12, 2012, Wells Fargo decides to pay a $175 million settlement in a subprime mortgage compensation case. (Chicago Tribune)
July 12, 2012, The US Treasury states that sanctions on Iran due to its nuclear program are further tightened. (BBC)
July 12, 2012, Former FBI Director Louis Freeh's report into the Penn State sex abuse scandal is released, alleging that late head football coach Joe Paterno and other school officials covered up child sexual abuse by former assistant coach Jerry Sandusky. (ESPN)
July 13, 2012, Release of Ice Age: Continental Drift
July 13, 2012, Release of Red Lights
July 13, 2012,
July 13, 2012,Moody's Investor Services downgrades Italy's government rating from A3 to Baa2. (Dow Jones via The Australian)
July 13, 2012, The Federal Reserve Bank of New York is set to release documents outlining what it knew about the Libor scandal and what action it took. (Washington Post)
July 14, 2012, The musical Chicago is to close after a run of 15 years on London's West End, the longest run for a revival in British theatre. (The Scotsman)
July 14, 2012, A fire onboard the German container ship MSC Flaminia forces the crew to abandon ship in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. (TradeWinds)
July 14, 2012, Shipper International Port Corp, with permission from the United States, delivers the first shipment of humanitarian aid to Cuba, the first time in 50 years. (Al Jazeera)
July 14, 2012, Organisers pull the plug on a duet between Bruce Springsteen and Paul McCartney at Hyde Park, London, after it breached its legal curfew. (Philadelphia Daily News)
July 15, 2012, Season 5 Premiere of Breaking Bad
July 15, 2012, Season 5 Premiere of Leverage
July 15, 2012, A Russian Soyuz rocket begins its mission to the International Space Station with three international crew members. (AP via The Washington Post)
July 16, 2012,
July 16, 2012, English composer and pianist Jon Lord dies after suffering a pulmonary embolism. (BBC)
July 16, 2012, American singer Kitty Wells, the "Queen of country music" and the first female singer to have a number one song on the country charts with "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels", dies of complications of a stroke. (Los Angeles Times)
July 16, 2012, The United States Senate accuses the HSBC bank of laundering Mexican drug money. (BBC News)
July 16, 2012, NBCUniversal buys full control of the US news website MSNBC.com and rebrands it as NBCNews.com. (NBC News)
July 16, 2012, The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approves Truvada as the first drug shown to reduce the risk of HIV infection. (CBS News)
July 16, 2012, Thousands of athletes and officials start arriving in the United Kingdom for the London Olympics. (BBC)
July 17, 2012,
July 17, 2012, Seventeen people being shot in a bar in are wounded after being shot in a bar in Alabama, United States. (SMH)
July 18, 2012,
July 18, 2012, Kim Jong-un is officially announced as the Supreme Leader of North Korea, a position that he occupied de facto since his father's death. He also gains the rank of Marshal in the Korean People's Army. (News Limited)
July 18, 2012, 2012 Burgas bus bombing: At least 6 Israeli tourists are killed and more than 30 others are injured after a bomb explodes on an Israeli tourism bus at Burgas Airport, Bulgaria. (Times of Israel)
July 18, 2012, The US city of San Bernardino, California, declares that it has an "immediate and severe" fiscal emergency allowing it to declare bankruptcy without negotiating with creditors. (Bloomberg)
July 19, 2012,
July 20, 2012, Release of Dark Knight Rises
July 20, 2012,
July 20, 2012, Space Shuttle Enterprise goes on display at the Intrepid Air and Sea Musuem
July 20, 2012,
July 20, 2012,
July 20, 2012,
July 20, 2012, A gunman opens fire at a movie premiere of The Dark Knight Rises in Aurora, Colorado, USA, killing at least 12 people and injuring 59 others. (BBC)
July 20, 2012, The Olympic Torch arrives in London for the final stages of the UK-wide relay ahead of the 2012 Summer Olympics. (BBC)
July 21, 2012,
July 21, 2012, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a federal law "On ratification of the Protocol on the Accession of the Russian Federation to the Marrakesh Agreement Establishing the World Trade Organization on April 15, 1994" that authorizes Russia's accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) after almost 18 years of negotiations. (RIA Novosti)
July 21, 2012, Rupert Murdoch resigns from a number of directorships, including that of News International. (BBC)
July 21, 2012, A subcontractor at Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant reportedly told workers to lie about possible high radiation exposure in an apparent effort to keep its contract. (Asahi Shimbun)
July 21, 2012, 61 schools in Chile's capital Santiago are to be investigated for possible child sex abuse. (Al Jazeera)
July 21, 2012, Pope Benedict XVI's butler is placed under house arrest while awaiting trial for allegedly leaking confidential papers revealing fraud and disputes within the Vatican. (AFP via Google News)
July 22, 2012,
July 22, 2012, Bradley Wiggins becomes the first British cyclist to win the Tour de France after coming first in this year's race. (BBC)
July 22, 2012, U.S. President Barack Obama visits the town of Aurora, Colorado, to console the families of victims of the recent shooting that left 12 dead and dozens injured. (AP via Fox News)
July 23, 2012, James Eagan Holmes, the suspect of the 2012 Aurora shooting, makes his first court appearance. (The New York Times)
July 23, 2012, The Olympic torch features in a special live section of the British soap EastEnders when actor Perry Fenwick, in character as Billy Mitchell, carries it through the fictional London borough of Walford as part of the 2012 Olympic torch relay. (BBC)
July 23, 2012, Sally Ride, the first American female astronaut, dies of pancreatic cancer at the age of 61. Her obituary acknowledges her 27-year relationship with a woman. (CNN)
July 23, 2012, The NCAA announces severe penalties against Penn State's football program as a result of the school's child sex abuse scandal. (ESPN)
July 24, 2012,
July 24, 2012, Four barrels containing 248 human fetuses are found in a forest in Russia's Sverdlovsk region. (USA Today)
July 24, 2012, Britain's Crown Prosecution Service confirms that eight people, including Andy Coulson and Rebekah Brooks, will face charges relating to the News International phone hacking scandal. (BBC)
July 25, 2012, The 2012 Summer Olympics commences in Great Britain with the Women's football tournament. (CNN)
July 25, 2012, North Korea state media declares the marriage of Kim Jong-un and Ri Sol-ju. (BBC)
July 25, 2012, Egan-Jones Ratings Company downgrades Italy to CCC+ from B+, saying the country has a one-year default probability of 22%. (MarketWatch)
July 25, 2012, A 6.4 magnitude earthquake occurs off the Indonesian island of Sumatra with one man dying while fleeing his home. (AFP via Google News)
July 25, 2012, The Scottish Government announce plans to legalise same-sex marriage, prospectively becoming the first part of the United Kingdom to do so. (BBC)
July 26, 2012,
July 27, 2012, Release of Step Up: Revolution
July 27, 2012, Release of The Watch
July 27, 2012, The opening ceremony for the 2012 Summer Olympics takes place at the London Olympic Stadium with Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom declaring the Games open. (CNN)
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July 31, 2012, In swimming, Michael Phelps of the United States wins a record 19th Olympic medal, with gold in the 4x200 metres freestyle relay. (BBC)
July 31, 2012, United States President Barack Obama announces additional sanctions against Iran for its nuclear program. (CNN)
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