Events in July 2010
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Jul. 1
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Christian Wulff (51) becomes Germany’s youngest-ever President. |
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Jayant Patel Indian-born U.S. citizen dubbed “Dr. Death” in Australia gets a seven-year jail term fro a string of botched operations. |
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Russia’s math whiz Grigori Perelman turns down a $ 1 million prize awarded to him for proving the 106-year-old Poincare Conjecture. |
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At least 41 persons are killed and 175 injured as a series of blasts rips through the Data Darbar shrine in Lahore. |
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Jul. 2
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The United Nations General Assembly votes to create “U.N. Women” (UNW) for accelerating gender equality and women’s empowerment. |
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Two hundred and thirty persons are killed as a fuel tanker overturns and explodes in a village in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. |
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Jul. 3
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Rosa Otunbayeva is sworn in Kyrgyzstasn’s President in the capital Bishkek and becomes the first woman head of state in Central Asia. |
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Jul. 4
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Bronislaw Kamorowski wins Poland’s run off presidential elections. |
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U.S. Army General David Petraeus assumes command of the 130,000-strong international force in Afghanistan. |
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Jul. 5
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Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan launch a customs union. |
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The British Government announces plans for a major shake-up of the country’s electrol system. |
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The European Space Agency releases the first-ever all sky image of the entire universe. |
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Iceland authorities exhume the body of chess legend Bobby Fischer to carry out a paternity test to settle a dispute over his estate. |
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Jul. 7
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A Solar Impulse airplane takes off on a pioneering round-the-clock flight attempt at Payerne airport in Switzerland. |
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Jul. 8
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Solar Impulse, a giant Ilisder-like aircraft completes the first night flight propelled by solar energy. |
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The European Parliament gives nod for a legal blue-print for the formation of the European External Action Service, a 97,000 – strong diplomatic corps. |
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Ten persons suspected of spying for Russia in the U.S. are swapped for four Russians alleged of being U.S. double agents in Vienna, Austria. |
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Jul. 9
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Over 102 persons are killed and 168 injured in a suicide bomb attack at a government office in Mohmand tribal agency in Pakistan. |
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Jul. 10
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One of the biggest manhunts by British police ends after a fugitive Raoul Moat kills himself in Rothbury town, Northumber land following a six-hour face-off with armed police officers. |
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The European spacecraft Rosetta performs a fly by of Lutetia, a massive potato-shaped asteroid. |
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Jul. 11
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At least 74 people are killed in twin bombings at two bars packed with soccer fans in Uganda’s capital Kampala. |
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Jul. 12
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The Swiss government declares French-Polish film director Roman Polanski under house arrest at his chalet in Gstaad a freeman. |
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The International Criminal Court at the Hague charges Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir with genocide in Darfur. |
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Jul. 13
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France’s Lower House of Parliament votes to ban the wearing of the burqa and the niqab or full face Muslim veil in public. |
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Arun Kumar Narote, an Indian student hailing from Hyderabad is shot dead at a provision store in Bridgeport city in the U.S. |
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Jul. 15
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Argentina becomes the first country in Latin America to legalise same-sex marriage following a landmark Senate vote after a 15-hour debate. |
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The U.S. Senate passes an unprecedented and game-changing Wall Street reform bill. |
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At least 21 persons are killed and 100 injured in two suicide bomb attacks at a prominent Shia Muslim mosque in the Iranian city of Zahedan. |
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Jul. 16
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Germany and China ink a series of deals reportedly worth several billion dollars. |
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Jul. 17
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Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard calls for general election set for August 21. |
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NASA’s wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer or WISE completes its first survey of the entire sky. |
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Jul. 18
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At last 43 persons are killed in suicide attacks in Iraq aimed at the Sons of Sons of Iraq, a Sunni group also known as Sahia. |
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The world celebrates “Nelson Mandela International Day” as the anti-apartheid icon turns 92. |
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The six-day 18th International AIDS Conference opens in the Austrian capital Vienna. |
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Syria bans niqab the full Islamic veil at universities. |
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Jul. 21
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The U.S. President Barack Obama signs into law the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. |
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Jul. 22
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Kosovo’s declaration of independence from Serbia in February 2008 legal, says the International Court of Justice in a ground breaking ruling. |
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Muttiah Muralidharan becomes the first cricketer to take 800 wickets in Test matches playing in his last match in Galle. |
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Balochistan province in Pakistan is smothered by floods. |
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Jul. 24
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The 83-year-old Lake Delhi dam in Iowa, the U.S. breaches sending a torrent into the Maquoketa river affecting 8,000 people. |
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Nineteen persons are killed and 340 people injured in a stampede at Love Parade 2010 event in the Western German city of Duisburg. |
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Jul. 26
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In one of the biggest leaks in U.S. military history, online whistleblower WikiLeaks brings to light a huge cache of secret U.S. files exposing truth of the failing war of Afghanistan. |
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A Spanish man Oscar, who underwent the world’s first full face transplant on March 20 at a Barcelona hospital, appears on television. |
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Kaing Guek Eav, also known as Duch, a former Khmer Rouge official, is jailed for 35 years for his role in the mass execution of “enemies” between 1975 and 1979. |
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Jul. 28
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All 152 people, including six Youth Parliament members, on board a Pakistan aircraft are killed as it crashes into the Margalla Hills skirting the capital Islamabad. |
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The Bangladesh Supreme Court in a landmark judgment nullifies the controversial 5th Amendment to the Constitution made in 1977 that gave legitimacy to military-led governments. |
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Jul. 29
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New York city agrees to pay more than $7 million to settle a civil lawsuit filed by victims of a police brutality case dating back to November 2006. |
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Jul. 30
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Nepal’s Supreme Court upholds life term for Charles Sobhraj for a crime he committed in 1975. |
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At least 800 people are killed after three days of rainfall causes widespread flooding in Pakistan. |
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India and the U.S. sign an agreement for reprocessing spent nuclear fuel in Washington. |
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Jul. 31
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Chelsea Clinton marries investment banker Marc Mezvinsky at Astor Court in Rhinebeck, New York. |
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