July 12th 2006
Israel invades Lebanon in response to Hezbollah’s kidnapping of Israeli soldiers
July 13th 1930
1st-ever soccer World Cup competition began in Uruguay
July 14th 1789
Bastille Day-French Revolution begins with the fall of Bastille
July 15th 1996
Prince Charles and Princess Di sign divorce papers
July 16th 1994
Anna Nicole Smith (26) weds billionaire J. Howard Marshall II (89)
July 17th 1994
French youngster (4) becomes Buddhist Lama Tulkou Kalu Rinpoche
July 18th 1925
Adolf Hitler publishes Mein Kampf
July 19th 1941
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill launched his “V for Victory” campaign
June 20th 1969
1st men on Moon, Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin, Apollo 11
July 21st 1960
In Sri Lanka (then Ceylon) Sirima Bandaranaike is world’s 1st woman PM
July 22nd 1982
Biggest mass wedding, Reverend Sun Myung Moon weds 2,200 couples in New York City
July 23rd 1964
Egyptian munition ship “Star of Alexandria” explodes at dockside in Bone, Algeria. 100 die, 160 injured, $20 million damage
July 24th 2005
Lance Armstrong retires after winning his 7th straight Tour de France
July 25th 1984
Cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya becomes 1st woman to walk in space
July 26th 1953
Fidel Castro begins rebellion, the “26th of July Movement,” against Fulgenico Batista’s regime
July 27th 1988
General Sein Lwin succeeds Ne Win as President of Burma
July 28th 1914
World War I began when Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia
July 29th 1981
Prince Charles of England weds Lady Diana Spencer
July 30th 1984
Soap Opera “Santa Barbara” premieres on NBC TV
July 31st 1861
9,300 mm rainfall in July in Cherrapunji, Assam: world record