Event Information

Fashion Day

World Misophonia Awareness Day

Call of the Horizon Day

International Emergency Kit Day

Palau Constitution Day

Brazil - State Rebellion Day

Argentina - Independence Day

1877 – The inaugural Wimbledon Championships begins.

1893 – Daniel Hale Williams, American heart surgeon, performs the first successful open-heart surgery in United States without anesthesia.

1937 – The silent film archives of Fox Film Corporation are destroyed by the 1937 Fox vault fire.

1955 – The Russell–Einstein Manifesto calls for a reduction of the risk of nuclear warfare.

1962- Telstar 1, the first communications satellite to transmit live television signals and telephone conversations across the Atlantic Ocean, was launched this day in 1962, inaugurating a new age in electronic communications.

1962- Swedish engineer Nils Bohlin was issued a U.S. patent for a three-point seatbelt for cars; a major safety innovation, it featured a strap that extended across the upper body in addition to a standard lap restraint.

1985- The Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior was sunk by two bomb explosions while berthed in Auckland Harbour, New Zealand; it was later revealed that French intelligence agents had planted the explosives.

1986 – The New Zealand Parliament passes the Homosexual Law Reform Act legalising homosexuality in New Zealand.

1991- Russian politician Boris Yeltsin was sworn into office as the country's first elected president

2002 – The African Union is established in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, replacing the Organisation of African Unity (OAU). The organization's first chairman is Thabo Mbeki, President of South Africa.

2011 – South Sudan gains independence and secedes from Sudan.

2019- German automaker Volkswagen ended production of the Beetle, the first model of which had been introduced in 1938.

Birth Anniversary

Jacob Perkins (1766-1949) - Inventor who is considered the "Father of the refrigerator."

Elias Howe (1819-1967) - Inventor of the sewing machine.

Harold Fox (1910-1996) - Fashion designer who created the "Zoot Suit."

1930 – K. Balachander, Indian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2014)

1938 – Sanjeev Kumar, Indian film actor (died 1985)

O. J. Simpson, born on July 9, 1947

Tom Hanks, born on July 9, 1956

Marc Andreessen (1971-Still Living) - Co-founder of Netscape.

Death Anniversary

1967 – Fatima Jinnah, Pakistani dentist and politician (born 1893)