- July 2
- US President George Bush annuls the 30-month prison sentence given to Lewis Libby for perjury and obstruction of justice. [96.13]
- July 3
- Torrential rains cause the onset of the 2007 Sudan floods, the worst in the Sudan's history. [38]
- South Korea passes legislation of deregulation to remove bureaucratic barriers in its securities industry. [97.78]
- In Islamabad, Pakistan, the army begins a seige on the Lal Masjid (Red Mosque), where thousands of Islamist extremists reside. In the day's clashes, at least 16 are killed, thousands surrender, hundreds continue resistance. Cleric Abdul Aziz is captured. [96.43]
- Ghana redenominates its currency at 1 Ghana cedi for 10,000 old cedi, and issues new coins denominated 1, 5, 10, 20, and 50 new pesewas and 1 Ghana cedi. [511.36] [762.66]
- July 4
- In Turin, Italy, Fiat launches the Cinquecento (Fiat 500) automobile. Price is 10,500-14,500 euros (US$14,400-19,900). [97.69]
- July 6
- A meteor breaks apart in the lower atmosphere with a trio of fericious explosions, and rains stones on Cali, Colombia. [521]
- July 7
- Live Earth Concerts are held throughout nine major cities around the world. [38]
- July 8
- Boeing launches the new Boeing 787. [38]
- July 9
- While celebrating Argentinean Independence Day, snow falls in Buenos Aires for the first time in almost 100 years. [38]
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- July 10
- Zheng Xiaoyu, head of State Food and Drug Administration of the People's Republic of China, is executed. [38]
- European Union finance ministers approve entry of Malta and Cyprus into the euro currency bloc. [97.57]
- A Cessna 310R twin-engine airplane crashes into two homes in Sanford, Florida, killing three adults and two children. [38]
- In Islamabad, Pakistan, 200 army troops storm Lal Masjid, killing almost 100, including Abdul Rashid, head of the group. [97.43]
- July 12
- Queen Elizabeth II visits the world's largest Commonwealth war grave in Ypres, Belgium to pay respects to fallen soldiers of the Battle of Passchendaele. [38]
- Rio Tinto mining firm offers US$38.1 billion for Canada's Alcan company. [100.62]
- July 14
- Following a presidential decree, Russia withdraws from the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe. [38]
- July 15
- In Tacoma, Washington, USA, the second span of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge opens to traffic, making it the longest twin suspension bridge in the world. [38]
- July 16
- Britain expels four Russian diplomats in response to a refusal by the Russians to extradite Andrei Lugovoi, suspected to be behind the murder of former KGB spy Alexander Litvinenko in London. [38]
- Earthquake occurs in Japan, killing seven and causing a pipe at a nuclear power plant to break and release about 300 gallons of radioactive water. [38]
- July 17
- TAM Linhas Aéreas Flight 3054 (Airbus 320 jet) overruns the runway of Congonhas-São Paulo International Airport and crashes into a warehouse, killing all 186 on board and others on the ground. [38] [100.38]
- July 18
- At the height of rush hour in New York City a major steam pipe bursts, releasing millions of gallons of boiling water and super heated steam. Only one fatality occurs, a pedestrian who goes into cardiac arrest. [38]
- Franco-Spanish cigarette-maker Altadis agrees to 16.2 billion euro (US$22.4 billion) takeover offer by Britain's Imperial Tobacco. [100.62]
- July 19
- Prathiba Patil is elected as the first female President of India. [38]
- Ol Doinyo Lengai mountain erupts, bringing a stop to the daily week long tremors experienced in Nairobi and Northern Tanzania. [38]
- Russia expels four British embassy staff in a tit-for-tat response over Britain's expulsion of four of Russia's diplomats, and announces its officials would no longer travel to Britain, and it will stop issuing visas to British officials. [38] [100.54]
- The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 14,000 for the first time in history. [38] [132.89] [227]
- July 20
- Death of senator Antonio Carlos Magalhães, three-time governor of Bahia state, in Brazil at age 79. [101.39]
- July 21
- The final epic novel in J.K. Rowling's bestselling series Harry Potter, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, is released, selling over 8 million copies in the first 24 hours. [38]
- U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney serves as Acting President for two and a half hours, while President George W. Bush undergoes a colonoscopy procedure. [38]
- July 22
- Floods cause chaos through wide areas of Britain, especially the counties of Gloucestershire, Warwickshire, Worcestershire and Oxfordshire, leaving hundreds homeless and thousands of vehicles stranded on major roads. [38]
- Parliamentary elections take place in Turkey. Recep Tayyip Erdogan of the Justice and Development Party is elected Prime Minister with almost 47 percent of votes. [38] [45.41] [101.13] [1134.115]
- July 23
- The US dollar drops to US$2.06 against the British pound sterling, the lowest since 1981. [101.80]
- July 25
- Pratibha Patil is sworn in as India's first female president. [101.43]
- July 26
- A 50-pound chunk of white ice crashes through the roof of a house, in Dubuque, Iowa, USA. Other large chunks of ice fall from the clear sky, tearing through nearby trees. [521]
- July 27
- Nikola Radosavljevic shoots dead nine people and wounds two in village Jabukovac in eastern Serbia. [38]
- Two television news helicopters collide in midair while covering a police chase in Phoenix, Arizona, killing both pilots and two photojournalists. [38]
- July 29
- The ruling coalition of Japan loses its majority in the upper house after the election. [38]
- July 30
- New British Prime Minister Gordon Brown visits U.S. President George W. Bush for the first time as Prime Minister. [38]
- July 31
- Operation Banner, the presence of the British Army in Northern Ireland, the longest-running British Army operation, comes to an end. [5]
- August 1
- The I-35W Mississippi River Bridge on I-35W over the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, Minnesota between University Avenue and Washington Avenue collapses at 6:05 pm CST during the later part of rush hour, killing 13 people. [38]
- An 8-cm diameter meteorite falls in a field in Hotipur village, India. [521]
- August 3
- A strain of foot and mouth disease is found on a farm at Wanborough, near to Guildford, Surrey. [38]
- August 4
- Smoking in public places is banned in Slovenia. [38]
- At Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, NASA launches a Delta II rocket carrying the Mars Phoenix lander to explore the north of Mars. (The Phoenix will successfully land and return pictures in May 2008.) [38] [57]
- (to August 11) The National Eisteddfod of Wales is held at Mold, Flintshire, Wales. [38]
- (to August 11) The 92nd World Congress of Esperanto is held in Yokohama, Japan. [38]
- A UK-wide ban on movement of all livestock is in place after foot and mouth disease is found on the Surrey farm. [38]
- August 6
- The Crandall Canyon Mine in Emery County, Utah collapses, trapping six miners. [38]
- Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert arrives in historic Palestianian town of Jericho, becoming the first Prime Minister of Israel to visit the West Bank or Gaza Strip in over seven years. Olmert meets with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. [38]
- American Home Mortgage files for bankruptcy. [132.89]
- August 8
- The Space Shuttle Endeavour is successfully launched on mission STS-118. [38]
- August 9
- The Dow Jones Industrial Average loses 387.18 points, its largest single-day drop since February 27. [38]
- Large French bank B.N.P. Paribas suspends withdrawals from three of its mutual funds, due to investments in American subprime securities. [132.89] [190.92]
- August 10
- The European Central Bank injects about US$130 billion into money markets. [132.89]
- The US Federal Reserve announces it would lend banks as much cash as necessary to keep money markets operating smoothly. [132.89]
- August 11
- Presidential and parliamentary elections are held in Sierra Leone. [38]
- A likely meteor shower is reported over Sonora, California. [521]
- August 13
- In Canada, investment bank Coventree declares it is seeking CDN$700 million in liquidity funding. Seventeen other funds seek secure bank credit lines. [45.65]
- August 14
- At least 22 people are killed, and at least 39 missing, as a bridge collapses in the southeastern province of Hunan, China. [38]
- In western Uganda, a 29-year-old miner dies of Marburg disease, likely contracted from bats in the Kitaka gold mine. [45.40]
- Multiple suicide bombings kill 572 people in Yazidi community in Qahtaniya, northwest Iraq. [38] [45.6,12] [68.8]
- American toy-maker Mattel announces a recall of 436,000 toy cars painted lead-based paint and 18 million toys containing small magnets that could be swallowed by children. All were made in China. [45.58]
- In China, Zhang Shuhong, owner of a toy manufacturing company, commits suicide. His company made the flswed toys for Mattel. [45.58]
- August 15
- An 8.0 Richter scale earthquake strikes off the southwest coast of Peru, near Pisco, killing 512 people, injuring more than 1,500, leaving 100,000 homeless, and causing tsunami warnings in the Pacific Ocean. [38] [68.35]
- Shares in large American mortgage lender Countrywide Financial fall 13 percent, following a stock analyst's rating switch from buy to sell. [45.63] [132.89]
- August 16
- The Crandall Canyon Mine in Emery County, Utah, collapses a second time, killing three rescue workers and injuring six more. [38]
- Brazilian stock market index Ibovespa has lost 17 percent of its value since July 23. [68.67]
- José Padilla is convicted in the USA of conspiracy to murder individuals overseas, conspiracy to materially aid terrorists, and materially aiding terrorists in fact. Padilla had first been arrested in May 2002. [68.32]
- August 17
- Vladimir Putin issues a statement, revealing that Russia is to resume the flight exercises of its strategic bombers in remote areas. The flights were suspended in 1991 after the collapse of the Soviet Union. [38]
- The US Federal Reserve reduces the discount rate from 6.25 to 5.75 percent. [68.9,68]
- August 18
- Typhoon Sepat makes landfall in eastern Taiwan. [38]
- Parliamentary elections take place in Kazakhstan. Nursultan Nazarbayev is re-elected President. His Nur Otan Party wins all contested seats (98) of the lower house of parliament, with 88 percent of the vote. [68.42]
- In Myanmar, the government imposes fuel price increases: gasoline up 67 percent, diesel up 100 percent, canisters of gas up 500 percent. [68.39]
- August 19
- Thailand holds its first-ever referendum, on a new constitution. Voter turnout is 58 percent, with 57 percent voting in favor. [68.38]
- August 20
- Chief veterinary officer in China reports Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome in pigs had been brought under "preliminary control". The disease had infected 257,000 pigs in 26 provinces; 68,000 died, 175,000 were destroyed. 100 million re now protected through vaccination program. [68.41]
- NASDAQ announces its intention to sell its 31 percent stake in the London Stock Exchange. [68.66]
- August 21
- STS-118 lands at the Kennedy Space Center, completing Space Shuttle Endeavour's 19th flight. [38]
- Hurricane Dean, a powerful Category 5 storm, slams into a sparsely populated area of the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico. Hundreds of Mayan village houses are destroyed. [38] [68.36]
- August 22
- Myanmar government arrests thirteen dissidents who led protests against huge rises in fuel prices. [68.39]
- August 25
- Forty-four people are dead after two bombs explode in Hyderabad, India. [38]
- Greek Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis declares a national state of emergency after a series of devastating wildfires ravage western Peloponese and southern Euboea, killing 68 people. [38]
- August 27
- Acer of Taiwan announces it will buy Gateway of the USA for US$710 million. [4] [77.60]
- August 28
- Abdullah Gül is elected as the eleventh President of Turkey by the Turkish Parliament, after secularist concerns delayed his initial candidacy. [38] [77.48]
- The Venetian Macau casino opens in Macau. With a capacity of 15,000 patrons, it is the world's biggest casino, with 870 tables, and 3400 slot machines. Cost to build was US$2.4 billion. [77.62]
- August 30
- United States Air Force nuclear weapons incident in which a B-52 flies from Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota to Barksdale Air Force Base, Lousiana carrying six nuclear warheads. [38]
- August 31
- Canada begins arming customs officers along the border with the USA. [81.48]
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