Samuel Colt

Samuel Colt was born on July 19, 1814 and he was an American inventor and industrialist. He was the founder of Colt's Patent Fire-Arms Manufacturing Company, and made the mass-production of the revolver commercially viable for the first time.He died on January 10, 1862.

Nelson Mandela

 

Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela is a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary and politician who served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999.He was born on born 18 July 1918.http://datesupdates.blogspot.in/2013/02/nelson-rolihlahla-mandela-released-from.html

International Justice Day

World Day for International Justice is also referred to as Day of International Criminal Justice or International Justice Day is celebrated throughout the world on July 17 as part of an effort to recognize the emerging system of international criminal justice. July 17 was chosen because it is the anniversary of the adoption of the Rome Statute, the treaty that created the International Criminal Court.

Roald Amundsen - First to reach South Pole

Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen was was born on July 16, 1872. He was a Norwegian explorer of polar regions. He led the Antarctic expedition to discover the South Pole in December 1911 and he was the first expedition leader to reach the North Pole in 1926. He died on June 18, 1928.  

Indian Rupee Sign Adopted

The rupee sign Rs was  formerly used to represent the Indian rupee until July 15, 2010, when it was replaced by a new currency symbol, and officially adopted by the Government of India.

 

Telegram service in India to close

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL- It is an Indian state-owned telecommunications company headquartered in New Delhi, India.) announced it was closing the 160-year-old telegraph service with the last transmission on July 14, 2013.

Jean Baptiste Andre Dumas

Jean Baptiste Andre Dumas was born on 14 July 1800 was a French chemist, best known for his works on organic analysis and synthesis, as well as the determination of atomic weights (relative atomic masses) and molecular weights by measuring vapor densities. He died on 10 April 1884. 

Stanislao Cannizzaro

Stanislao Cannizzaro was born on July 13, 1826, he was an Italian chemist. He is remembered today largely for the Cannizzaro reaction and for his influential role in the atomic-weight deliberations of the Karlsruhe Congress in 1860. He died on May 10, 1910. 

Elias James Corey

Elias James Corey is an American organic chemist. In 1990 he won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his development of the theory and methodology of organic synthesis", specifically retrosynthetic analysis. He was born on July 12, 1928.

World Population Day

 

World Population Day is an annual event, observed on July 11 every year, which seeks to raise awareness of global population issues. The event was established by the Governing Council of the United Nations Development Programme in 1989.

First black man to win Wimbledon

Arthur Robert Ashe was an American professional tennis player. He was born on July 10, 1943. He won three Grand Slam titles, ranking him among the best tennis players from the United States. He is an African American, was the first black player ever selected to the United States Davis Cup team and the only black man ever to win the singles title at Wimbledon, the US Open, and the Australian Open.
He died on February 6, 1993.

1st Wimbledon tennis championship is held

 

The Wimbledon Championships or simply Wimbledon is the oldest tennis tournament in the world, and widely considered the most prestigious. It has been held at the All England Club in Wimbledon, London, since 1877.The inaugural 1877 Wimbledon Championship opened on 9 July 1877.

First Rupee Symbol Coins

The first series of coins with the rupee symbol ( )was launched on 8 July 2011.

Peruman Train Tragedy

On July 8, 1988, the Peruman Train Tragedy, the Bangalore - Kanyakumari Island Express train derailed on the Peruman bridge over Ashtamudi Lake, near Perinadu, Kollam, Kerala, India and fell into the lake, killing 105 people.

Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched in the final mission

Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched in the final mission of the U.S. Space Shuttle program on July 8,2011 and landing at the John F. Kennedy Space Center on 21 July 2011  . The last mission of Atlantis was STS-135,This final flight, authorized in October 2010, brought additional supplies to the International Space Station and took advantage of the processing performed for the Launch on Need mission, which would only have been flown in the event that Endeavour's STS-134 crew required rescue.

United Communist Party of Armenia formed

United Communist Party of Armenia  is a political party in Armenia. It was formed on July 7, 2003
through the merger of Renewed Communist Party of Armenia, Armenian Labour Communist Party, Armenian Workers Union, Union of Communists of Armenia, Marxist Party of Armenia, Party of Intellectuals.

Nettie Maria Stevens

 

Nettie Maria Stevens was born on July 7, 1861. She was an early American geneticist. She and Edmund Beecher Wilson were the first researchers to describe the chromosomal ( X,Y) basis of sex. She died on May 4, 1912.

Vince McMahon, Sr

Vincent James "Vince" McMahon, better known as Vince McMahon, Sr,  was born on July 6, 1914. He was was an American professional wrestling promoter. He is best known for founding the American World Wide Wrestling Federation promotion. He died on May 24, 1984.

Dolly the sheep

Dolly was a female domestic sheep born on  5 July 1996 and the first mammal to be cloned from an adult somatic cell, using the process of nuclear transfer. She was cloned by Ian Wilmut, Keith Campbell and colleagues at the Roslin Institute and the biotechnology company PPL Therapeutics near Edinburgh in Scotland, the United Kingdom. She died on 14 February 2003. 

United States of America Independence Day

 

The Declaration of Independence is a statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, which announced that the 13 American colonies, then at war with Great Britain, regarded themselves as independent states, and no longer a part of the British Empire. Instead they formed a union that would become a new nation—the United States of America.