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World War I begins
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Vinnie Ream with her earlier
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Members of the "Bonus Army" in front of the US Capitol building
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Sutton Hoo helmet
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Maximilien de Robespierre
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Louis Antoine de Saint-Just
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Ian Thorpe
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SY Aurora
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Negroes' Protest a Silent Parade 1917, Universal Animated Weekly newsreel
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Reconstruction of the Sutton Hoo helmet
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Wreckage of the Empire State Building crash
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| Blurb | Reason |
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| World Hepatitis Day | refimprove |
| Independence Day in Peru (1821) | refimprove section |
| 1794 – French Revolution: Maximilien Robespierre and Louis Antoine de Saint-Just, architects of the Reign of Terror, were executed after their arrest on the previous day. | Robespierre: [better source needed] x1, [citation needed] x5, [clarification needed] x1 |
| 1809 – Peninsular War: French forces under Joseph Bonaparte suffered 7,270 casualties while Sir Arthur Wellesley's Anglo-Spanish army had 6,700 at an inconclusive battle in Talavera, Spain. | needs more footnotes |
| 1896 – Miami, today the principal city and the center of the South Florida metropolitan area, the seventh largest metro area in the United States, was incorporated with a population of just over 300. | Miami: refimprove/unreferenced sections; History of Miami: refimprove |
| 1914 – Austria-Hungary declared war after rejecting Serbia's conditional acceptance of only part of the July Ultimatum following the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo, starting [[World War I|World Template:Nowrap]]. | globalize section |
| 1932 – U.S. president Herbert Hoover ordered the eviction of the "Bonus Army"—a group of veterans who were occupying government property to demand immediate payment for money owed. | lots of CN tags (8) |
| 1935 – The Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber, which dropped more bombs than any other U.S. aircraft in World War II, made its first flight. | [citation needed] x10, [clarification needed] x1, [dead link] x1, [page needed] x2 |
| 1973 – About 600,000 people attended what was the largest musical concert in history at the Watkins Glen International Raceway near Watkins Glen, New York. | refimprove |
| 1990 – Alberto Fujimori took office as President of Peru, becoming the first person of Japanese descent to be the head of government of a Latin American nation. | Hook not cited in article |
| 1996 – The remains of the prehistoric Kennewick Man were discovered on a bank of the Columbia River near Kennewick, Washington, U.S. | lead too long |
| Beatrix Potter |b|1866| | unreferenced section on Publications |
| Hugo Chávez|b|1954| | [citation needed] x10, [dead link] x5, [non-primary source needed] x5, |
| Francis Crick|d|2004| | POV, [citation needed] x7 |
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- 1148 – Crusades: The siege of Damascus ended in a decisive victory for the Muslims, leading to the disintegration of the Second Crusade.
- 1540 – King Henry VIII of England had his chief minister Thomas Cromwell executed for treason and heresy.
- 1821 – Peruvian War of Independence: Argentine general José de San Martín declared the independence of Peru from the Spanish Empire.
- 1866 – Aged 18, Vinnie Ream became the youngest artist and first woman to receive a United States government commission for a statue—that of Abraham Lincoln currently in the Capitol rotunda.
- 1911 – The Australasian Antarctic Expedition began with the departure of SY Aurora from London.
- 1917 – In New York City, the NAACP and church and community leaders organized a silent march of at least 8,000 people to protest violence directed towards African Americans.
- 1939 – During the excavation of a 7th-century ship burial at Sutton Hoo in Suffolk, England, archaeologists discovered a helmet (reconstruction pictured) that is widely associated with King Rædwald of East Anglia.
- 1945 – A [[North American B-25 Mitchell|Template:Nowrap]] bomber crashed into the Empire State Building in New York City, killing 14 people and causing an estimated $1 million in damage.
- 1976 – An earthquake registering 7.6 Mw, one of the deadliest in history, devastated Tangshan, China, and killed at least 240,000 people.
- 1995 – Two followers of the Indian mystic Rajneesh were convicted of a 1985 plot to assassinate Charles Turner, the U.S. attorney for the District of Oregon.
- 2001 – At the World Aquatics Championships in Fukuoka, Japan, Australian Ian Thorpe became the first swimmer to win six gold medals at a single FINA world championship.
- 2005 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army announced the formal end of its armed campaign to overthrow British rule in Northern Ireland and create a united Ireland.
- Born/died: | Athanasius I Gammolo|d|631| Judith Leyster|baptised|1609| Marguerite Louise d'Orléans |b|1645| Antonio Vivaldi|d|1750| Louis Antoine de Saint-Just|d|1794| Edward Drinker Cope|b|1840| George Law Curry|d|1878| Lucy Burns|b|1879| R. A. B. Mynors|b|1903| Baruch Samuel Blumberg|b|1925| Richard Johns|b|1939| Bill Bradley|b|1943| Richard Wright|b|1943| Vida Blue|b|1949| Ray Kennedy|b|1951| Manu Ginóbili|b|1977| Michael Carrick|b|1981| Juan Guaidó|b|1983| Zach Parise|b|1984| Dulquer Salmaan|b|1986| Ahmed Sofa|d|2001| Ryne Sandberg|d|2025|
Notes
- Provisional Irish Republican Army campaign featured on July 19 so IRA should not appear in the same year.
- July Crisis featured on July 23 so WWI should not appear in the same year.
- Thermidorian Reaction featured on July 27 so Robespierre/Saint-Just should not appear in the same year
- Quietly Confident Quartet appears on July 24 and Neil Brooks appears on July 27, so Ian Thorpe should not appear in the same year
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- 1899 – A Category 1 hurricane (map pictured) made landfall in Azua Province, Dominican Republic, and destroyed three large schooners at Santo Domingo; only one crew member on the three vessels survived.
- 1915 – U.S. Marines landed at Port-au-Prince to begin a nineteen-year occupation of Haiti.
- 1940 – At the Salzburg Conference, Adolf Hitler demanded the replacement of much of Slovakia's cabinet.
- 2005 – Britain's costliest tornado struck Birmingham, injuring 39 people and causing £40 million of damage across the city.
- 2010 – In the deadliest air accident in Pakistan's history, Airblue Flight 202 crashed into the Margalla Hills north of Islamabad, killing all 152 aboard.