July

 July 1, 2016, Release of The BFG

  July 1, 2016, Release of Tarzan

 July 1, 2016, Release of The Purge: Election Year

July 1, 2016, Season 2 Premiere of KillJoys

July 1, 2016, Season 2 Premiere of Marco Polo

July 1, 2016,

July 1, 2016, Paris, France, implements a pollution-reduction program that bans residents from driving cars built before 1997, and motorcycles built before 2000, on weekdays inside the city limits between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m. (NPR)

July 2, 2016, Elie Wiesel, Romanian-born Jewish American Holocaust survivor, writer, and Nobel Prize laureate, dies at age 87. (Haaretz)

July 3, 2016, Twin bombings in a pair of crowded commercial areas in Baghdad kill at least 125 people. ISIL claims responsibility. (AP)

July 5, 2016, NASA's Juno spacecraft reaches Jupiter and enters into its orbit after a five-year flight. (BBC)

July 5, 2016, The FBI recommends, with numerous reservations about her actions, no charges be filed against Hillary Clinton over her emails. (BBC)

 

July 5, 2016, Protests occur in the city of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, U.S., after a man, Alton Sterling is fatally shot by a police officer. (The Guardian)

July 5, 2016, Cybersecurity software maker Check Point reports HummingBad malware has infected at least 10 million Android devices, mostly in China and India. Check Point says a team of developers based in Beijing is behind HummingBad which gives hackers administrative-level access to infected devices. Apple devices have been hit by similar malware. (Time)

July 6, 2016, Season 3 Premiere of Tyrant

July 6, 2016, Loretta Lynch, the Attorney General of the United States, closes the investigation into Hillary Clinton's use of a personal email system to conduct official business without charges being laid. (CNN)

July 6, 2016, South African athlete Oscar Pistorius is sentenced to six years imprisonment for the murder of Reeva Steenkamp. (CNN)

July 7, 2016,

  July 7, 2016, Eleven police officers are shot, with five dying of gunshot wounds in Dallas, Texas during a protest against two black men killed within a day of each other. Police kill the shooter with a bomb delivered on a bomb defusing robot. (New York Post)

July 7, 2016, Typhoon Nepartak is expected to make landfall on mainland China on Friday and will make flooding worse. Nearly 200 people have died in flood waters in China in the past week with 41 people missing, 1.6 million relocated and almost 50000 houses collapsed. (The Telegraph)

July 7, 2016,  Germany's parliament passes a new law saying that it is rape to have sex with a person who says "No" to the sex. Under the previous law, sex was not considered rape unless the victim fought back. The new law also classifies groping as a sex crime, makes it easier to deport migrants who commit sex offences, and makes it easier to prosecute assaults committed by a large group. (BBC)
July 7, 2016, In a so-called VatiLeaks case, a Vatican City Court dismisses charges of publishing confidential information against two Italian journalists stating it lacked jurisdiction in this case. Emiliano Fittipaldi and Gianluigi Nuzzi wrote books on the inner workings of the Vatican. The court did convict a Vatican priest to 18 months, and assessed a 10-month suspended sentence on an Italian communications expert, for conspiring to pass documents to the journalists; a fifth defendant was cleared of all charges. (AP)
July 7, 2016, Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton requests a Justice Department investigation of last night's fatal police shooting of Philando Castile (an African-American) during a traffic stop. Castile's girlfriend, Lavish Reynolds, streamed the incident live over Facebook. It showed Castile had been shot several times and was slumped against Reynolds; he died in Minneapolis's Hennepin County Medical Center. (The New York Times)
July 7, 2016, The United States Department of State reopens an investigation into the possible mishandling of classified information by former Secretary of State and presumptive Democratic Party presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and her top aides. (AP via Seattle Times)
July 7, 2016, Scientists manage to extract one last image from the Hitomi x-ray spacecraft, which broke up last March while orbiting Earth. Before it died, the spacecraft captured an image which measured the X-ray activity of the Perseus cluster. (BBC)
July 7, 2016, Attorneys for 80-year old American pro football legend and Hall of Famer Paul Hornung, who has dementia, sue Riddell sports equipment manufacturer, stating its helmets failed to protect Hornung from brain injury. The suit says Hornung suffered multiple concussions as a player and his neurodegenerative disease has been linked to repetitive head trauma. (AP)


July 8, 2016, Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates

July 8, 2016, The Secret Life of Pets

 

July 8, 2016, Police kill Micah X Johnson, the gunman believed responsible for the killing of five police officers and shooting of seven more in Dallas, Texas following a standoff. (Los Angeles Times)

 

July 8, 2016, NATO members gather in Warsaw, Poland, for a two-day summit. Much of the focus will be on Russia and NATO's commitments in bolstering its presence in Eastern Europe. Other issues to be discussed will include Europe's migrant crises, ISIL extremists, and the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the European Union. (Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty)

July 8, 2016, The death of an elderly Utah woman with a Zika virus infection in late June is the first reported Zika-related death in the continental United States. The woman had traveled to an area where Zika is spreading. The exact cause of death has not been determined; the lady had an underlying medical condition. (NBC News)

July 9, 2016, Following the death of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile and the shooting of white police officers in Dallas, Texas, The Bahamas issues a rare travel warning for its citizens traveling to the United States. (BBC)

July 9, 2016, This week, the Gambia and Tanzania outlawed child marriages. Friday, the Tanzanian High Court — in a case filed by the Msichana Initiative, a lobbying group that advocates for girls' right to education — ruled in favor of protecting girls from the harms of early marriage. And during a feast ending the Muslim holy month of Ramadan on Wednesday, The Gambian President Yahya Jammeh announced that child and forced marriages are banned. Jammeh called on the National Assembly to quickly take up the issue. (AP)

July 9, 2016, Multiple gunshots strike the public safety headquarters of the San Antonio, Texas, Police Department. No injuries are reported. (USA Today)

July 9, 2016, In tennis, American defending champion Serena Williams defeats Angelique Kerber of Germany in straight sets to win her seventh Wimbledon Championships title and her 22nd Grand Slam title, tying the Open era record held by Steffi Graf. (BBC)

July 10, 2016, Series Premiere of The Night Of

July 10, 2016, Hamza bin Laden, the son of the slain Osama bin Laden, threatens a genocide against the United States of America to retaliate for his father's killing. (News.com.au)

July 10, 2016, An ancient Philistine cemetery has been unearthed in Israel. (BBC)

July 10, 2016, Protests continue in multiple cities across the United States following the death of two black men by police. Numerous confrontations and arrests have been reported. (Reuters)

July 10, 2016, In tennis, Andy Murray of Scotland defeats Canadian Milos Raonic in the finals of the men's singles to win his second Wimbledon championship. It is the first time that a men's Wimbledon final has not featured Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal or Novak Djokovic since 2002. (Wimbledon official live updates)
July 10, 2016, In football, host nation France plays against Portugal for the 2016 UEFA European Championship at the Stade de France in Saint-Denis. Portugal wins 1–0 with an Éder goal in extra time. (UEFA official)

July 11, 2016, The United States announces it will be sending 560 more United States Armed Forces soldiers to Iraq to help fight against ISIL. (BBC)

July 11, 2016, The 127 people who were massacred in the Srebrenica massacre in 1995 and were subsequently discovered in mass graves are buried at the Srebrenica Genocide Memorial following a funeral. For the first time, Bosnian Serbs were not welcome to attend the ceremony. (Reuters)

July 11, 2016, A Lockheed C-130 Hercules owned by the Portuguese Armed Forces catches fire while taking off from Montijo Air Base, killing at least three people. (Reuters)

July 11, 2016, At least three people die, including the shooter, in a shooting at the Berrien County courthouse in the U.S. state of Michigan. (Washington Examiner)

July 11, 2016, In basketball, Tim Duncan, who played his entire 19-season NBA career with the San Antonio Spurs, where he won five NBA titles and two MVP awards, made 15 All-Star appearances and made the All-NBA first team 10 times, announces his retirement. (ESPN)

July 12, 2016, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders endorses Democratic Party rival Hillary Clinton for president at a rally in New Hampshire, effectively suspending his presidential campaign. (NBC News)

July 12, 2016, AMC Theatres is purchasing London-based Odeon & UCI Cinemas Group in a deal valued at about £921 million ($1.21 billion). AMC has 385 theaters with 5,380 screens, most in the United States. Odeon & UCI has 242 theaters and 2,236 screens in the U.K. and Ireland. AMC noted its $1.1 billion (£835 million) acquisition of Columbus, Georgia's Carmike Cinemas (276 thrs/2,954 scrs) is still in the works. (AP)

July 12, 2016, Restoration work at the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, Palestine reveals a hidden angel mosaic. (Wafa)

July 13, 2016, Release of The Infiltrator

July 13, 2016, Season 2 Premiere of Mr. Robot 

July 13, 2016, Theresa May becomes the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. (The Telegraph)

July 13, 2016, Dr. Carla Hayden is confirmed to be the 14th Librarian of Congress, becoming the first woman and African-American to lead the Library of Congress.(Washington Post)

July 13, 2016, In Brooklyn, New York 33 people are treated for a possible K2 overdose. The drug is illegal to sell or produce in the state. (New York Daily News)

July 13, 2016, In American football, a United States appeals court has denied New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady's appeal for his role in the Deflategate controversy. (ESPN)

July 14, 2016, A truck plows into a mass of revelers during the Bastille Day fireworks on the Promenade des Anglais in Nice, France, with a death toll as high as 80 and 100 people injured. (Le Parisien)
 

July 14, 2016, Elizabeth Truss is named Secretary of State for Justice and first ever female Lord Chancellor of the United Kingdom as former chancellor Michael Gove is ousted from the cabinet. (The Lawyer)

July 15, 2016, Series Premiere of Stranger Things

July 15, 2016, The Prime Minister of Turkey Binali Yıldırım calls for "calm" over what he states was an "illegal attempt" by sections of the Turkish military to claim power. (The Telegraph)

July 15, 2016, Herbalife, a multi-level marketer of dietary supplements and personal care products, has reached an agreement with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission to settle charges arising out of the appearance that it is a pyramid scheme. (BBC)
July 15, 2016, Donald Trump chooses Indiana governor Mike Pence as his vice presidential running mate. (CNN)
July 15, 2016, The largest video fighting game tournament in the world begins its three day event running from July 15–17. Over 15,000 players registered to compete with record breaking entrants for Street Fighter 5 at 5,107, Super Smash Bros for Wii U at 2,662 and Super Smash Bros. Melee at 2,372 entrants. (ESPN)

July 16, 2016, Erdoğan declares that the coup is over with over 1,500 members of the Turkish military in detention. (CNN)

-General Ümit Dündar reports at least 194 people were killed: two soldiers, 41 police officers, 47 civilians, and 104 alleged coup plotters. An official later adds that 1,440 people have been reported wounded. (NBC News)

July 16, 2016, ISIL claims responsibility for the attack with four people allegedly involved in the attack arrested overnight. (AP, Fox News via West Australian)
July 16, 2016, Pakistani social media celebrity Qandeel Baloch is killed by her brother in what is being described as an "honor killing." (BBC)

July 17, 2016, Series Premiere of Vice Principals

July 17, 2016, Season 2 Premiere of Ballers

July 17, 2016, Season 3 Premiere of Power

July 17, 2016, At least three Baton Rouge Police Department officers are shot dead and several others are wounded by a gunman in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. (USA Today)

July 17, 2016, A helicopter crashes at Breighton Aerodrome in the United Kingdom, with reports of five casualties. (BBC)

July 18, 2016, Four people have been injured after a man with an axe attacks people on board a train near Würzburg in Germany. The axeman has reportedly been shot by police and is reportedly a 17-year-old Afghan man who pledged allegiance to ISIL before the attack. (BBC)
July 18, 2016, Japanese telecommunications company SoftBank agrees to buy British IT company ARM Holdings for more than $32 billion. (Wall Street Journal)
July 18, 2016, The World Anti-Doping Agency finds that the Government of Russia was involved in an intensive doping program including at the 2014 Winter Olympics at Sochi. (ABC News)

July 19, 2016, Donald Trump is nominated as the Republican Party candidate for this year's presidential election. (NBC News)

 
July 19, 2016,

July 19, 2016, A crane collapses across the Tappan Zee Bridge in New York. No vehicles are hit, but several contractors suffer minor injuries. (ABC News)
July 19, 2016, A Kansas City police captain has been shot dead in Kansas City, Kansas. One suspect is in custody and two others are possibly at large. (Breaking 911)

July 20, 2016, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan declares a state of emergency for three months following Friday night's failed coup. (BBC News)
July 20, 2016, Unilever buys Dollar Shave Club for US$1 billion. (BBC)
July 20, 2016, Breitbart tech editor and outspoken conservative gay activist Milo Yiannopoulos with more than 338,000 registered followers is "permanently" banned from Twitter. (Guardian)

July 21, 2016, 21st Century Fox announced that the head of Fox News, Roger Ailes, is resigning. Rupert Murdoch will replace him as interim Chief Executive and Chairman. (Mediaite)

July 21, 2016, Donald Trump accepts the nomination of the Republican Party in the 2016 US Presidential election. (New York Times)
July 21, 2016, Russia's track and field athletes will not be allowed to compete in the Rio Olympic Games, even if they did not fail drug tests, after an appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport is rejected. (BBC)

July 22, 2016, Ten people, including the gunman, are killed and 21 wounded in a shooting in and around the Olympia-Einkaufszentrum shopping mall in the Moosach district of Munich, Germany, next to the Olympic stadium.(CNN)
July 22, 2016, Presumptive Democratic Party presidential nominee Hillary Clinton selects Senator Tim Kaine (Virginia) as her vice-presidential running mate. (Fox News)
July 22, 2016, American hurdler Kendra Harrison sets a new world record in the women's 100 meters hurdles with a time of 12.20 seconds in the London Anniversary Games at the Olympic Stadium. (Daily Mail)

July 23, 2016, Emails released by Wikileaks show that the Democratic National Committee (DNC), led by Debbie Wasserman Schultz, supported the candidacy of Hillary Clinton over Bernie Sanders. (ABC News)
July 23, 2016, California governor Jerry Brown rejects a parole for Leslie van Houten, a cult follower of Charles Manson. (Fox News)
July 23, 2016, Wikileaks reveals that Ariana Grande was prevented from perfoming in the White House because of the July 2015 donut-licking incident. (Billboard)
July 23, 2016, Rihanna has been announced to play the iconic role of Marion Crane from the 1960 classic horror film Psycho for the final season of the American television series Bates Motel. (Rolling Stone)
July 23, 2016, Munich Police Chief Hubertus Andrae identifies the attacker as a dual national, 18-year-old Iranian-German who apparently acted alone. He was found dead of a suspected self-inflicted gunshot wound to his head. (Reuters)

July 23, 2016, Russian balloonist Fyodor Konyukhov breaks the world record of American Steve Fossett for the fastest hot air balloon ride to circumnavigate the globe. (BBC)

July 24, 2016, Debbie Wasserman Schultz resigns from her position as Chairperson of the Democratic National Committee. Wasserman Schultz had reportedly been removed from a speaking role after a WikiLeaks email leak proved her implicit support of Hillary Clinton's campaign during the primaries. Her resignation will take effect upon the close of the convention. Donna Brazile will serve as interim chair. (Reuters) (The Washington Post)
July 24, 2016, The International Olympic Committee states it considers all Russian athletes tainted by the country’s state-run doping scheme but individual athletes can compete in 2016 Games if they are able to convince individual sports federations of their innocence. A daunting task for these organizations to handle hundreds of appeals just 12 days before the start of the Rio Games on 5 August. (The New York Times)
July 24, 2016, A machete attack in the German city of Reutlingen by a Syrian asylum-seeker leaves one woman dead and two others injured. (BBC)

July 25, 2016, At least two people are killed after as many as 17 people are injured during a mass shooting at Club Blu, a nightclub in Fort Myers, Florida, with most of the victims reportedly minors. Two suspects and a person of interest have been detained in connection with the shooting. (BBC)
July 25, 2016, Verizon Communications buys Yahoo! for $4.83 billion in cash, ending the latter's over 20-year run as an independent corporation. (Los Angeles Times)

July 25, 2016, Senator Bernie Sanders is booed by his own supporters during his keynote speech after telling them, "We must elect Hillary Clinton." (ABC News)

July 26, 2016, Hillary Clinton is nominated as the Democratic Party candidate for this year's presidential election. She becomes the first woman ever to be nominated for president by a major party in the United States.(CNN)

July 26, 2016, Two men armed with knives take a priest, two nuns and two parishioners hostage in a church near Rouen in the French region of Normandy. French police kill the hostage-takers after the 86-year-old priest, Jacques Hamel, was killed by slitting his throat. (NBC News)

July 26, 2016, Solar Impulse 2 becomes the first solar-powered aircraft to travel around the world without fuel after it returns to Abu Dhabi. (Deutsche Welle)

July 26, 2016,

July 26, 2016,

July 27, 2016, Barack Obama chooses his home city of Chicago for his presidential library. (The Hill)
July 27, 2016, Tesla motors opens a 'Gigafactory' near Reno in the middle of the Nevada desert. (BBC)

July 27, 2016, Four Florida residents may have been infected by the virus locally. (The Independent)
July 27, 2016, The regional Parliament of Catalonia defies the Constitutional Court of Spain by holding an informal and unilateral vote for secession.(The Guardian)
July 27, 2016, During a press conference, Republican nominee Donald Trump calls on Russia to find Hillary Clinton's 30,000 missing emails. (BBC)
July 27, 2016, A federal judge, Paul L. Friedman, rules that John Hinckley Jr., who attempted to assassinate U.S. President Ronald Reagan outside the Washington Hilton on March 30, 1981, is to be released after 35 years at St. Elizabeths Hospital as he no longer poses a danger to himself or others. (The Washington Post)
July 27, 2016, Baltimore prosecutors drop all charges against the final three police officers with pending cases in the death of Freddie Gray. None of the six cases resulted in a conviction. (Baltimore Sun)
July 27, 2016, Scientists have discovered that the region directly above the Great Red Spot on the planet Jupiter is about 700° F (370° C) warmer than the surrounding upper atmosphere. (Space)
July 27, 2016, Researchers have discovered that orangutans can control their vocal pitch, a link to human speech. (Christian Science Monitor)
July 27, 2016, Biologists have determined that the only 'true' species of wolf in North America is the gray wolf while the red wolf is a wolf hybridized with a coyote. (The New York Times)

July 28, 2016,

July 28, 2016, Around 1.8 million people are affected, and the Kaziranga National Park is submerged, due to heavy rains causing flooding in Assam. (The Guardian)
July 28, 2016, North Korea says the United States has "crossed the red line in our showdown" after placing sanctions on its leader Kim Jong-un over human rights abuses, and considers the sanctions to be a "declaration of war" by the United States. (Sky News)
July 28, 2016, Kīlauea, a shield volcano on the island of Hawai'i, erupts lava into the ocean for the first time since 2013. (The Weather Channel)

July 29, 2016, Hillary Clinton accepts her party's nomination as the candidate for this year's presidential election. (The New York Times)

July 29, 2016, The American Federal Bureau of Investigation is investigating claims that the Hillary Clinton campaign has been hacked as part of recent cyber-attacks on the Democrats. (Washington Examiner)
July 29, 2016, The United States Geological Survey (USGS) reports a 7.7 magnitude earthquake has struck off the Northern Mariana Islands in the Pacific Ocean. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center says there is no tsunami threat because the quake was very deep in the earth. (Pacific Daily News)
July 29, 2016, The Bank of Japan announces a 6 trillion yen stimulus package to help invigorate the Japanese economy. (Marketwatch)

July 30, 2016, At least 16 people are killed after a hot air balloon catches fire and crashes near Lockhart, Texas. (BBC)

July 30, 2016, In skydiving, American Luke Aikins sets a world record for jumping from a height of 25,000 feet (7,620 meters) without a parachute or wing suit. (NPR)

July 30, 2016,

July 30, 2016, The deadly, nine-day old Soberanes Fire, blazing south of Carmel-by-the-Sea, has destroyed 57 homes and is expected to grow to 170,000 acres (265 square miles) before it's done. It is 15 percent contained. Six major Big Sur State Parks remain closed through August 6. (Reuters)

July 31, 2016,

July 31, 2016, Democratic presidential election nominee Hillary Clinton accuses Russian intelligence services of being behind recent hacks into Democratic National Committee computers, while also accusing Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump of supporting Russian President Vladimir Putin. (Reuters)
July 31, 2016, American Jimmy Walker wins the 98th PGA Championship, his first major championship. (BBC)