06 July 2017
What’s on in July 2017?
SAT 1ST: * Canada Day – British North America Act 1867 united the provinces of Canada
* Football: League Transfer window re-opens.
* Rugby union – New Zealand v British & Irish Lions, 2nd Test, Wellington
* Cricket – One-Day Cup final, Lord’s
* Cycling – Tour de France until 23/07 – with Grand Depart from Dusseldorf
* Intelsat 35e communications satellite to be launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida USA, (approx 23.30 GMT).
* 20 years ago: United Kingdom hands sovereignty of Hong Kong to the People’s Republic of China.
* 50 years ago: UK colour television broadcasts begin on BBC2. First was from Wimbledon -full colour service begins 2nd Dec 1967.
* 75 years ago: WW2 – Sevastopol falls to the Germans; the end of Red Army resistance in the Crimea.
* 100 years ago: WW1 – Russian Army’s Kerensky Offensive fails – last Russian initiative in the war – until 19/07
* Pamela Anderson (Bay Watch) is 50 and Dan Akroyd in 65 today
* British Airways cabin crew will strike for two weeks in a long-running row over pay and perks
SUN 2ND: * Chris Huhn is 63 today and Ken Clarke is 77 today
MON 3RD: * WIMBLEDON TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIP until 16/07
* Aphelion Day: Earth is farthest from the sun for the year today at 94,505,901 miles
* 50 years ago: Rebellion in Katanga, Democratic Republic of the Congo started by Jean Schramme (Belgian mercenary)
* Sebastian Vettel (F1 World Champion x 4) is 30 and Tom Cruise is 55 today
TUES 4TH: * AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE DAY
* RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show, South West London – the largest flower show in the world. Until 09/09
* 50 years ago: British Parliament decriminalizes homosexuality.
* 75 years ago: WW2 – First air missions by the United States Army Air Forces in Europe & End of Siege of Sebastapol when Russian Army surrendered to invading German, Italian and Romanian forces.
WED 5TH : * 55 years ago: Oran Massacre – 3,500 European civilians (mostly French) massacred by Algerians at end of war of independence.
* Film Premiere release: ‘Spider-Man: Homecoming ‘
THURS 6TH: * Cricket – England v South Africa, first Test, Lord’s until 10/07
* 50 years ago: Start of the Nigerian Civil War (aka Biafra War) 1967-1970 attributed to Britain’s de-colonisation 1960-3 problems. Nigerian forces invaded Biafra region – home of the Igbo tribe with oil production playing a vital strategic role.
* 70 years ago: AK-47 assault rifle enters production, becoming the most produced rifle in history.
* 100 years ago: WW1 – The Battle of Aqaba fought for the Red Sea port of Aqaba (now in Jordan). The attacking forces of the Arab Revolt, led by Auda ibu Tayi and advised by T. E. Lawrence (aka T. E. Shaw & “Lawrence of Arabia”), were victorious over the Ottoman defenders.
FRI 7th:: * Buxton International Festival until 23/07
* Pop music: Wireless Music Festival, London until 09/07
* Football: Gold Cup, USA until 26/07
* Film Premiere release: Hounds of Love
* 12 years ago: London Bombings 7/7 – Four suicide bombers struck in Central London killing 52 persons and injuring 770.
* 80 years ago: Sino-Japanese War – Battle of Lugou Bridge (aka Marco Polo Bridge Incident): Japanese forces invade China (often seen as the beginning of World War II in Asia).
* 75 years ago: WW2 – Convoy PQ-17 disaster. German U-boats sank 23 out of 36 British merchant ships in the Barents Sea, off Norwegian coast en route to Russia, with a loss of 153 merchant navy seamen and 100,000 tons of cargo.
* 50 years ago: ‘All You Need Is Love’ by the Beatles is released in the UK.
* Ringo Starr is 77 and Marc Almond is 60 today
SAT 8TH * Rugby union – New Zealand v British & Irish Lions, 3rd Test, Auckland
* Monty Don (BBC Gardeners World) is 72 today
SUN 9TH:* Formula 1: Austrian Grand Prix, Austria Red Bull Ring, Spielberg
* Athletics – London Anniversary Games, London Stadium
* O.J. Simpson is 70 and Marc Almond (Soft Cell) is 60 day
MON 10TH: * Southern Rail ‘possible’ one-day walkout strike
* Arlo Guthrie (American folk singer-songwriter) is 70 today
TUES 11TH:* World Population Day – In 1989, the Governing Council of the United Nations Development Programme recommended that 11 July be observed by the international community as World Population Day, a day to focus attention on the urgency and importance of population issues.
* 10 years ago: Smoking in the workplace ban throughout the UK
WED 12TH :* ORANGE DAY, Ulster ‘Remember King Billy’
People in Northern Ireland have a bank holiday on or after July 12 to commemorate the Battle of Boyne, which occurred on Ireland’s east coast in 1690. It’s also known as “Orangemen’s Day”.
* Film Premiere release: War For the Planet of the Apes release date July 12
* Sir Gareth Edwards CBE (Welsh Rugby International) is 70 today
THURS 13TH: * Harrison Ford is 75 today
FRI 14TH :* BASTILLE DAY French prison stormed in 1789, marking the start of the `revolution’. France’s largest national holiday.
* Pop music: Lovebox Music Festival, Victoria Park, Mile End, London – until 15/07
* Film Premiere releases: ‘The Beguiled’, ‘Cars 3’ and ‘The Art Life’
*, Cricket – England v South Africa, second Test, Trent Bridge until 18/07
* Disability sport – World ParaAthletics Championships, London – until 23/07
* Swimming and diving – World Aquatics Championships, Budapest – until 30/07
SAT 15TH:* SAINT SWITHUN’S DAY
Saint Swithun’s Day if thou dost rain, For forty days it will remain.
St Swuthun’s day if thou be fair, For forty days ‘twill rain no mare.
* David Miliband is 52 today
SUN 16TH:* FORMULA 1: BRITISH GRAND PRIX Silverstone Circuit, Silverstone
* Football – Women’s Euro 2017, Netherlands until 06/08
* 75 years ago: WW2 – Vel’ d’Hiv Roundup: On order from the Vichy France government, French police officers arrested 13,152 Jews and hold them at the Winter Velodrome, Paris before deportation to Auschwitz.
MON 17TH :* Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall is 70, Angela Merkel is 63 and Fern Britton (TV presenter) is 60 today
TUES 18TH:* Saint James Day patron saint of Spain and pilgrims
* Richard Branson is 67 today & Vin Diesel (actor) is 50 today
* 50 years ago: The United Kingdom announces the closing of its military bases in Malaysia, Singapore & Australia.
WED 19TH : * 75 years ago: WW2 – Battle of the Atlantic: German Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz orders the last U-boats to withdraw from their United States Atlantic coast positions in response to an increasingly effective American convoy system.
* Nichola Sturgeon is 47 & Brian May (Queen) is 70 today
THURS 20TH: * House of Commons rises for Summer recess (returns 05/09)
* Golf – The Open, Royal Birkdale until 23/07
* Carlos Santana is 70 today
FRI 21ST: * Most English & Welsh Schools break up for the summer holidays to return on 5th Sept
* Film Premiere releases: – “Dunkirk” & “Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets” (sci-fi ).
* 75 years ago: WW2 – Japanese army capture New Guinea.
SAT 22ND :* 75 years ago: WW2 – The systematic deportation of Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto begins – Treblinka II, “a model” extermination camp, is opened in Poland.
* Prince George of Cambridge (3rd in line to QE2) is 4 today & Rhys Ifans (Welsh actor) is 50 today
SUN 23RD : * David Essex is 70 today
MON 24TH: 90 years ago: The Menin Gate is dedicated as a war memorial at Ypres, Belgium.
TUES 25TH : * Matt LeBlanc (Friends & Top Gear) is 50 today
WED 26TH : * 5 years ago: London Olympics opened
* Mick Jagger is 74 today
THURS 27TH: * Cricket – England v South Africa, third Test, The Oval until 31/07
* 75 years ago: WW2 – Heavy RAF incendiary attack on Hamburg.
FRI 28TH: *CLA Game Fair, Hatfield House, Herts until 30/07
* 103 years ago: Start of First World War (WW1) when Austro-Serbian Empire declares war on Serbia
* 80 years ago: IRA attempt to assassinate King George VI with a bomb in Belfast.
SUN 30TH: * Formula 1: Hungarian Grand, Hungaroring, Budapest
* Arnold Schwarzenburger is 70 today
MON 31st : * English and Welsh Courts and Tribunal Judiciary: End of Trinity term
* 30 years ago: Docklands Light Railway in London formally opened by Elizabeth II.
* 80 years ago: Soviet Union NKVD operative order 00447 “The operation for repression of former kulaks, criminals and other anti-Soviet elements” a 4-month plan for 75,950 people to be executed and an additional 193,000 to be sent to the Gulag.
* 100 years ago: WW1 – Third Battle of Ypres (also known as Battle of Passchendale) begins.
* J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter) is 55 today
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