28 June 2018
What’s on in July 2018
by AGGro
| Sun 1st | * Formula 1 – Austrian Grand Prix, Spielberg
* Cricket – Women’s T20 tri-series final, Chelmsford Debbie Harry (Blondie) is 73 today |
| Mon 2nd | * TENNIS – WIMBLEDON – until 15th July
* Cricket – England v India T20s * Cricket – T20 Blast starts * Football – World Cup quarter-finals – until 7th July * Cycling – Tour de France – until 29th July * Cricket – England women v New Zealand women, first ODI, Headingly |
| Tues 3rd | |
| Wed 4th | *AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE DAY – celebrating ‘The Declaration of Independence’ on 4th July 1776 when the Continental Congress declared that the 13 American colonies regarded themselves as a new nation, the USA, and were no longer part of the British Empire.
* 100 years ago: WW1 – Battle of Hamel – a successful attack by the Australian Army and US Army infantry, supported by British tanks, * 75 years ago: WW2 – Exiled Polish leader General Władysław Sikorski died in a mysterious air crash in Gibraltar. * Jo Whiley (BBC2 DJ) is 53 today |
| Thurs 5th | * 75 years ago: WW2 – Battle of Kursk (Operation Citadel), the largest tank battle in history, begins. The Russian Red Army halted the Axis forces. For the remainder of the war , the Germans were limited to reacting to Soviet advances and were never able to regain the initiative on the Eastern Front. |
| Fri 6th | * Buxton International Festival – until 12th July
* Cricket – England v India T20s * George Bush is 73 today |
| Sat 7th | * 13 years ago: 7/7 London bombings – four bombs on London Transport kill 56 people and injure 700 others.
* Ringo Starr is 78 today |
| Sun 8th | * Formula 1 – British Grand Prix, Silverstone
* Cricket – England v India T20s * Monty Don (BBC Gardeners World) is 73 today |
| Mon 9th | |
| Tues 10th | * Football – World Cup semi-final, St Petersburg
* Cricket – England women v New Zealand women, second ODI, Derby * 75 years ago: WW2 – Operation Husky (the Allied invasion of Sicily) begins |
| Wed 11th | * Football – World Cup semi-final, Moscow
* 75 years ago: WW2 -Ukrainian Insurgent Army massacre Poles at Dominopol. |
| Thurs 12th | * Orangeman’s Day, Ulster – Remember King Billy
* Cricket – England v India ODIs * Cricket – England women v New Zealand women, third ODI, Leicester (d/n) * Football – World Cup third-place play-off, St Petersburg * Triathlon – ITU World Series, Hamburg – until 15th July * Athletics – World Cup London 2018, London Stadium – until 15th July * 75 years ago: WW2 -The Japanese win a tactical victory at the Battle of Kolombangara. |
| Fri 13th | * 100 years ago: WW1 Battle of Abu Tellul. – until 1st July
* 75 years ago: WW2 -Hitler calls off the Kursk offensive, but the Soviets continue the battle 23 years ago: Srebrenica Massacre. 8000 Bosnians killed by Serbian Scorpion units despite the presence of 400 UN Dutch soldiers |
| Sat 14th | * BASTILLE DAY French National holiday. French prison stormed in 1789.
* Cricket – England v India ODIs |
| Sun 15th | * Saint Swuthun’s Day “St Swithun’s day if thou dost rain, For forty days it will remain.
St Swithun’s day if thou be fair, For forty days ’twill rain nae mare.” * FOOTBALL – WORLD CUP FINAL, MOSCOW * Golf – The Open, Carnoustie – until 22nd July * 100 years ago: WW1 Second Battle of the Marne and last German offensive on the Western Front, which fails when the Germans are counterattacked by the French. – until 6th Aug * David Miliband is 53 today |
| Mon 16th | |
| Tues 17th | * Cricket – England v India ODIs
* The Duchess of Cornwall is 71 & Angela Merkel is 64 today |
| Wed 18th | * Saint James Day patron saint of Spain and pilgrims
* 50 years ago: Intel (semiconductor company) is founded. * Richard Branson is 68 today |
| Thurs 19th | * 75 years ago: WW2 – The Allies bomb Rome for the first time.
* Nicola Sturgeon is 48 today |
| Fri 20th | *Rugby Union – Men’s and women’s Rugby Sevens World Cup, San Francisco – until 22nd July
* 50th Stainsby Hall Music Festival, Derbyshire – until 22nd July |
| Sat 21st | * Athletics: London Anniversary Games, London Stadium – until 22nd July
* Hockey: Women’s World Cup, London – until 5th Aug * 75 years ago: WW2 – Operation Bellicose targeting of Friedrichshafen Würzburg radars is the first bombing of a V-2 rocket facility.
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| Sun 22nd | * Cricket: Women’s Super League starts
* Formula 1: German Grand Prix, Hockenheim * 75 years ago: WW2 – U.S. forces under Patton capture Palermo, Sicily. |
| Mon 23rd | |
| Tues 24th | * 75 years ago: WW2 – Operation Gomorrah – RAF &USAAF bomb Hamburg, Germany. This created one of the largest firestorms in WW2 killing 42,600 civilians and wounding 37,000. The city was virtually destroyed. |
| Wed 25th | * 75 years ago: WW2 – Mussolini is arrested and relieved of his offices after a meeting with Italian King Victor Emmanuel III, who chooses Marshal Pietro Badoglio to form a new government. |
| Thurs 26th | * WOMAD UK Music Festival, Charlton Park, Malmesbury – until 29th July
* CarFest (North), Bolesworth, Cheshire – founded by Chris Evans (BBC DJ) n 2012,and raises funds for Children in Need – until 29th July * Mick Jagger is 75 today |
| Fri 27th | * CLA Game Fair , Ragley Hall, Warwickshire – until 29th July * Triathlon – ITU World Series, Edmonton – until 29th July
* Bugs Bunny is 78 today |
| Sat 28th | * Cycling: Ride London-Surrey – until 29th July |
| Sun 29th | * Formula 1: Hungarian Grand Prix, Budapest |
| Mon 30th | * Badminton: World Championships, Nanjing, China – until 5th Aug
*Sailing: World Championships, Aarhus, Denmark – until 12th Aug |
| Tues 31st | * Taekwondo: World Championships, Buenos Aires, Argentina – until 5th Aug
* 50 years ago: Dad’s Army was broadcast for the first time. * J. K. Rowling (Harry Potter’s creator) is 53 today |
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