July 7th 1456

Though she had already been executed, Joan of Arc is acquitted

July 8th 1497

Vasco da Gama departs for trip to India

July 9th 1997

Mike Tyson is banned from boxing, for biting Holyfield’s ear

July 10th 1972

Herd of stampeding elephants kills 24, Chandka Forest India

July 11th 1975

Chinese archeologists discover a 3-acre burial site with 6,000 clay statues of warriors dating as early as 221 BC

July 12th 1996

Michael Jordan signs a NBA contract for 1 year for $25 million

July 13th 1945

1st atom bomb explodes in New Mexico

July 14th 1643

Four year old Louis XIV becomes king of France

July 15th 1932

US President Herbert Hoover cuts his own salary by 15%

July 16th 1981

India performs nuclear Test

July 17th 1959

Dr. Leakey discovers oldest human skull (600,000 years old)

July 18th 1980

Rohini 1, 1st Indian satellite, launches into orbit

July 19th 1984

Lynn Rippelmeyer is the 1st female to captain a 747 across the Atlantic

July 20th 1989

Burma government puts author Aung San Suu Kyi under house arrest

July 21st 1969

Neil Armstrong steps on Moon at 2:56:15 AM, GMT

July 22nd 1982

Biggest mass wedding, Reverend Sun Myung Moon weds 2,200 couples in New York City

July 23rd 1984

Vanessa Williams, 1st black Miss America, resigns due to posing nude

July 24th 1972

Jigme Singye Wangchuk becomes king of Bhutan at 16

July 25th 1973

George Harrison pays 1,000,000 pounds tax on his Bangladesh concert and album

July 26th 1953

Fidel Castro begins rebellion, the “26th of July Movement,” against Fulgenico Batista’s regime

July 27th 1982

Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi 1st visit to U.S. in almost 11 years

July 28th 2005

IRA issues a statement ordering the end to the armed campaign against the British

July 29th 1994

200,000 Moslems demand death to feminist Taslima Nasrin

July 30th 1988

Jordanian King Hussein renounces sovereignity over West Bank to PLO

July 31st 1658

Aurangzeb appoints himself Mungal emperor