EVENTS:
- 1853 – Opening of the first major US world’s fair, the Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations in New York City.
- 1911 – Harry Atwood, an exhibition pilot for the Wright Brothers lands his airplane at the South Lawn of the White House. He is later awarded a Gold medal from U.S. President William Howard Taft for this feat.
- 1928 – New Vietnam Revolutionary Party is founded in Huế amid providing some of the communist party’s most important leaders in its early years.
- 1957 – Rawya Ateya takes her seat in the National Assembly of Egypt, thereby becoming the first female parliamentarian in the Arab world.
- 1976 – Capital punishment is abolished in Canada.
- 2000 – A powerful solar flare, later named the Bastille Day event, causes a geomagnetic storm on Earth.
- 2011 – Israeli Tent Protests movement launched.
- 2015 – NASA‘s New Horizons probe performs the first flyby of Pluto, and thus completes the initial survey of the solar system.
- 2016 – A terrorist vehicular attack in Nice, France kills 86 civilians and injures over 400 others.
BIRTHS:
- 1893 – Garimella Satyanarayana, Indian poet (d. 1952)
- 1920 – Shankarrao Chavan, Indian politician, Minister of Finance for India (d. 2004)
- 1921 – Geoffrey Wilkinson, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1996)
- 1932 – Rosey Grier, American football player and actor
- 1955 – L. Brent Bozell III, American journalist and activist, founded the Media Research Center
- 1966 – Owen Coyle, Scottish-Irish footballer and manager
- 1971 – Madhu Sapre, Indian model, Miss India 1992
- 1971 – Howard Webb, English footballer and referee
- 1982 – Achille Coser, Italian footballer
- 1985 – Billy Celeski, Australian footballer
- 1987 – Adam Johnson, English footballer
- 1988 – James Vaughan, English footballer
HOLIDAYS and OBSERVANCES:
- Bastille Day (France and French dependencies)
- Birthday of Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden, an official flag day. (Sweden)
- Republic Day (Iraq)
