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July 15: Marine Day in Japan (2024)

Psy

• 1799 – French soldiers at Fort Julien, near the Egyptian port city of Rashid, uncovered the Rosetta Stone, which was essential in the decipherment of ancient Egyptian scripts.
• 1870 – Following the transfer of Rupert's Land from the Hudson's Bay Company, Manitoba was established as a province of Canada.
• 1943 – The all-female Emilia Plater Independent Women's Battalion was formed in the Soviet Union's First Polish Army.
• 2009 – Caspian Airlines Flight 7908 crashed in northwestern Iran, killing all 168 people aboard.
• 2012 – South Korean rapper Psy (pictured) released his hit single "Gangnam Style".

• Almira Lincoln Phelps (b. 1793; d. 1884)
• Anton Chekhov (d. 1904)
• Nigel Williams (b. 1944)
• Christine Chubbuck (d. 1974)

More anniversaries:

• July 14
• July 15
• July 16

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July 15, 2024 (2024-07-15) (Monday)

Law and crime

• The prime suspect arrested over the discovery of nine mutilated female bodies in a rubbish dump in the Mukuru slums of Nairobi, Kenya, confesses to killing 42 women. Another man is also arrested. (Al Jazeera)

Politics and elections

• 2024 Rwandan general election
  • Rwandans vote to elect their president. (Reuters)
• 2024 Syrian parliamentary election
  • Syrians vote to elect the 250 members of their parliament. (AP)

Sports

• 2024 Copa América
  • In association football, defending champions Argentina defeat Colombia 1–0 after extra time in the final match to win a record 16th Copa América title, with Lautaro Martínez scoring the winning goal in the 112th minute. Kick-off was delayed by 82 minutes due to fans breaching the security gates of Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida, United States, the venue of the match. (AP) (The New York Times)

July 14, 2024 (2024-07-14) (Sunday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israel–Hamas war
  • Siege of Gaza City
    • At least 17 Palestinians are killed and 80 others are injured in overnight Israeli strikes on a UN-run school used to shelter displaced people in the Nuseirat refugee camp in Gaza City. (Reuters) (The Guardian)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Eastern Ukraine campaign
    • Russia takes control of Urozhaine in Donetsk Oblast, which Ukraine had previously recaptured in July 2023. (Reuters)
• Somali civil war
  • Nine people are killed and 20 others are injured when a car bomb explodes outside a cafe in Mogadishu, Somalia, while customers were watching the Euro 2024 final. (Al Jazeera)

International relations

• China–Russia relations
  • The Russian Navy and China's People's Liberation Army Navy begin joint military drills in Zhanjiang, Guangdong, China. (AP)

Law and crime

• Attempted assassination of Donald Trump
  • The Federal Bureau of Investigation identifies Thomas Matthew Crooks as the "subject involved" in yesterday's attempted assassination of former U.S. President Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, United States. (Reuters)
• Two people are killed and two others are injured in a mass shooting at a home in Lautlingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. The shooter later commits suicide. (Reuters)

Politics and elections

• Israel–Hamas war protests in Palestine
  • Palestinians in several cities in the occupied West Bank enact a general strike in protest against a recent Israeli strike on Gaza that killed 90 people and injured 300 more. (Al Jazeera)
• KP Sharma Oli is named as the new Prime Minister of Nepal in his fourth term in office, with his communist party forming a coalition with the Nepali Congress party. (Al Jazeera)

Sports

• 2024 Wimbledon Championships
  • In tennis, defending champion Carlos Alcaraz defeats Novak Djokovic 6–2, 6–2, 7–6^(7–4) in the Men's singles final to win his second Wimbledon title and his fourth overall Grand Slam title. (The Guardian) (Wimbledon)
• UEFA Euro 2024
  • In association football, Spain defeat England 2–1 in the final match to win their fourth UEFA European Championship title, having previously won in 1964, 2008, and 2012, the most by any team. (Al Jazeera)

July 13, 2024 (2024-07-13) (Saturday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israel–Hamas war
  • 2024 targeted assassination of Muhammad Deif
    • At least ninety people are killed and over 300 others are wounded in a strike on the al-Mawasi humanitarian zone, in what the IDF states was a targeted strike against Al-Qassam Brigades leader Mohammed Deif. (AP) (Al Jazeera)
  • July 2024 al-Shati refugee camp attack
    • At least twenty people are killed by Israeli military shelling on a prayer hall in the al-Shati refugee camp during Zuhr prayer. (Al Jazeera)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Kharkiv strikes
    • Two people are killed and twenty-five people, including two children, are injured in a Russian double tap strike on the village of Budy, Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine. (Reuters)
• Attempted assassination of Donald Trump
  • Former U.S. President and current presidential candidate Donald Trump is injured in an assassination attempt at a campaign rally in Butler County, Pennsylvania, United States, with his condition later reported as "fine" by a spokesperson. The Butler County District Attorney reports that the suspect was shot dead and that a member of the audience was killed in the shooting. (AP) (The Guardian)
• Western DR Congo clashes
  • The FARDC repel an attack by Mobondo militiamen on the village of Kinsele, Kwamouth, Democratic Republic of the Congo. 42 Mobondo militiamen, 9 FARDC soldiers, and a civilian are killed. (Radio Okapi) (Radio Okapi)
• Ituri Conflict
  • CODECO militiamen attack Zaire militia-controlled Pluto, Democratic Republic of the Congo, displacing the population. After four hours of fighting, the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (FARDC) intervene. Thirteen Zaire, seven CODECO, and six FARDC soldiers are killed. (Radio Okapi)
• Somali Civil War
  • At least eight people are killed and 21 others are injured in a shootout between security forces and inmates at a prison in Mogadishu, Somalia, in an attempted prison break. The prisoners who attempted escape are allegedly al-Shabaab members. (Al Jazeera)

International relations

• Australia–Russia relations
  • Russia accuses Australia of inciting "anti-Russian paranoia" after Australia charged a Russian-born Australian couple with espionage. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• Three people are killed and four injured after a mass shooting at a birthday party in Espinasse-Vozelle, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France. The perpetrator kills himself. (France 3 Régions)
• Four people are killed and nine injured after a mass shooting at a nightclub in Birmingham, Alabama, United States. (CNN)

Sports

• 2024 Wimbledon Championships
  • In tennis, Barbora Krejčíková defeats Jasmine Paolini 6–2, 2–6, 6–4, in the Women's singles final to win her first Wimbledon title and her second overall Grand Slam title. (Reuters) (Eurosport)

July 12, 2024 (2024-07-12) (Friday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israel–Hamas war
  • Siege of Gaza City
    • Gaza City rescue crews discover at least 60 Palestinian bodies in the Tel Al-Hawa and Sabra districts following a week of attacks on Gaza City by Israeli forces. (Reuters)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Eastern Ukraine campaign
    • Six people are killed and at least 19 others are injured in Russian attacks across Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. (The Kyiv Independent)

Disasters and accidents

• 2024 Saints Academy college collapse
  • At least 22 children are killed and 132 are wounded after a school building collapses in Jos, Plateau State, Nigeria. (Al Jazeera)
• Gazpromavia Flight 9608
  • A Gazpromavia Sukhoi Superjet 100 crashes near Kolomna, Moscow Oblast, Russia, killing the crew of three people. (Reuters)
• Madan Ashrit Highway disaster
  • Fifty-one people are missing after two buses are swept off the Madan Ashrit Highway in Chitwan District, Bagmati Province, Nepal, due to landslides caused by heavy rain. (Reuters)
• Tulsa race massacre
  • Intermountain Forensics names the first identified victim of a mass gravesite holding over one hundred Tulsa race massacre deaths as World War I veteran C. L. Daniel from Georgia, United States. (AP)

International relations

• Finland–Russia relations, Finland–Russia border barrier
  • The Parliament of Finland passes a law allowing border guards to restrict trafficked asylum seekers from crossing the Finland–Russia border. (CNN)
• Argentina designates Hamas as a terrorist organization over its October 7 attacks on Israel. (Al Arabiya)

Law and crime

• Assassination of Fernando Villavicencio
  • A court in Quito, Ecuador, sentences three people to 12 years in prison and two people to over 34 years in prison for the assassination of presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio. At least two of the five are allegedly part of the Los Lobos criminal organization. (Reuters)
• Rust shooting incident
  • A judge dismisses American actor Alec Baldwin's involuntary manslaughter trial due to the withholding of evidence. (The Guardian)
• The Metropolitan Police seeks a 24-year-old suspect after human remains of two men are found in two suitcases in Bristol and more remains today in Shepherd's Bush, West London, United Kingdom. (Evening Standard)
• The Philippine Senate orders the arrest of Bamban mayor Alice Guo for failing to attend hearings investigating her alleged involvement in Chinese transnational crime. (Reuters)

Politics and elections

• LGBT rights in Burkina Faso
  • Burkinabè Justice Minister Edasso Rodrigue Bayala announces a ban on homosexuality in the country. (BBC News)
• Same-sex marriage in Aruba, Curaçao and Sint Maarten
  • The Supreme Court of the Netherlands rules that same-sex marriage is legal in Aruba and Curaçao. (De Telegraaf)

Sports

• The International Olympic Committee announces that Saudi Arabia will host the inaugural Olympics Esports Games in 2025. (ESPN)

July 11, 2024 (2024-07-11) (Thursday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• CNN reports that American and German intelligence agents foiled a plan by Russia to assassinate Armin Papperger, the CEO of German defence company Rheinmetall. (CNN) (Politico)

Disasters and accidents

• 2024 Atlantic hurricane season
  • Effects of Hurricane Beryl in Texas
    • At least 11 people are killed in the U.S. states of Texas and Louisiana from severe weather caused by Hurricane Beryl, with more than 1.3 million homes and businesses in Texas experiencing a power outage for four days amid persistent daytime temperatures exceeding 90 °F (32 °C) and high humidity. (CNN)
• Eleven people are killed when their pickup truck collides with a passenger bus in Abulug, Cagayan, Philippines. (The Straits Times)
• At least 4,500 people are displaced by storms in Cape Town, South Africa. (AP)
• A fire damages the spire of the 11th-century Rouen Cathedral, in Normandy, France, while undergoing restoration. No further damage or injuries are reported. (Reuters)

Law and crime

• Israeli–Palestinian conflict
  • Israeli occupation of the West Bank
    • The United States Department of State and Department of the Treasury announce sanctions against three violent Israeli settlers who blocked humanitarian aid to Gaza and four illegal Israeli settlement outposts, and also blacklists the far-right Jewish supremacist organization Lehava. (Al Jazeera) (The Jerusalem Post)
• Antisemitism during the Israel–Hamas war, Antisemitism in Europe
  • The European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights reports significant increases (as much as 1200%) in reported antisemitic incidents in countries such as Austria, Sweden, Denmark, and Belgium since the Israel–Hamas war began. (BBC News) (European Union)
• The U.S. Treasury Department and the White House announce sanctions on the Venezuelan criminal organization Tren de Aragua and designate it as a "transnational criminal organization." The State Department also places a $12 million reward for information leading to the arrest of the organization's leaders. (Reuters)

Politics and elections

• Israel–Hamas war
  • Accusations of United States complicity in Israeli war crimes in the Israel–Hamas war
    • Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan accuses U.S. President Joe Biden and his administration of complicity in Israeli war crimes by being Israel's largest supporter during the Israel–Hamas war and also condemns all nations not imposing sanctions on Israel. (Reuters)
• Kenya Finance Bill protests
  • Kenyan President William Ruto dismisses all of his cabinet ministers as well as the attorney general in response to deadly protests against a finance bill drafted by his administration. (BBC News)
• Thousands of anti-government protesters gather outside the Albanian Prime Minister's office and the Presidential office building in Tirana, accusing Prime Minister Edi Rama of corruption and demanding his resignation, as well as the release of opposition leader Sali Berisha from house arrest. (Reuters)

July 10, 2024 (2024-07-10) (Wednesday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israel–Hamas War
  • Siege of Gaza City
    • The Israel Defense Forces orders a complete evacuation of all Palestinians from Gaza City to areas south of the city in advance of a new offensive against Hamas. (AP)
  • United States support for Israel in the Israel–Hamas war
    • U.S. President Joe Biden's administration resumes shipments of 500-pound bombs to Israel following a suspension in May 2024 due to worries of harm to Palestinian civilians. The initial suspension provoked public criticism from Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu. (Reuters)
• Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
  • Four security officials and three Pakistani Taliban insurgents are killed in a shootout in Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. (AP)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Two Ukrainians are killed by Russian drone and missile attacks on a port in southern Odesa Oblast, Ukraine, which damaged port infrastructure, an energy facility, and a civilian ship. (Reuters)

Business and economy

• The National Samsung Electronics Union announces that around 30,000 Samsung Electronics workers will now strike indefinitely after accusing the company of refusing to hold talks on better pay. (BBC News)

Disasters and accidents

• Thirteen people, including 12 children, are killed in a school bus crash in Merafong, Gauteng, South Africa. (AP)
• A plane fighting the Horse Gulch fire crashes into Hauser Lake in Montana, United States, killing the pilot onboard. (KWYB)

International relations

• 2024 Washington summit, Foreign relations of China, China and the Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • NATO Washington Summit Declaration
    • All 32 NATO member states approve an official statement classifying China as a "decisive enabler" of Russia's invasion of Ukraine due to its "no-limits" economic and political partnership with Russia. (AP)
• Russia–Saudi Arabia relations, International sanctions during the Russo-Ukrainian War
  • Bloomberg reports that Saudi Arabia warned the G7 earlier this year that it would sell off Eurobonds and French bonds if the G7 proceeded with the seizure of US$280 billion in Russian frozen assets to give to Ukraine. (The Kyiv Independent)

Law and crime

• Capital punishment in Iraq
  • A criminal court in Baghdad, Iraq, sentences the widow of Islamic State caliph Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi to death over her ties to the Islamic State and for detaining Yazidi women in her house. (Al Arabiya)
• Killings of Carol, Hannah and Louise Hunt
  • Louise's ex-boyfriend Kyle Clifford, wanted for the crossbow attack in Bushey, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom, is arrested in Enfield, London. (USA Today)
• Two Australian tourists and a Filipino woman are killed during a mass stabbing at a hotel in Tagaytay, Philippines. (AP)

Science and technology

• Researchers from Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and Harvard Medical School publish a claim for the cause and curative path for the autoimmune disease systemic lupus erythematosus in the journal Nature. (Newsmax) (Nature)

July 9, 2024 (2024-07-09) (Tuesday)

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Israel–Hamas war
  • Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip
    • 9 July 2024 Gaza attacks
      • At least 50 Palestinians are killed and dozens of others are injured in Israeli attacks on Tel al-Hawa, Sabra, and Shuja'iyya, Gaza City. (Al Jazeera)
    • Al-Awda School massacre
      • At least 29 Palestinians are killed in an Israeli attack targeting the entrance of a UNRWA-run school sheltering displaced Palestinians, becoming Israel's fourth attack on Gaza schools in the past four days. (BBC News)
    • United Nations human rights experts accuse Israel of carrying out a "targeted starvation campaign" that resulted in child malnutrition and death in Gaza. (Al Jazeera)
  • Israel–Hezbollah conflict
    • Hezbollah launches dozens of rockets at the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights in Syria, killing two Israelis. (The Jerusalem Post)
  • Humanitarian aid during the Israel–Hamas war
    • U.S. military officials announce that the Gaza floating pier will be permanently removed after being reinstalled for several more days, due to weather and aid distribution problems. (AP)
• Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Eastern Ukraine campaign
    • Russian forces reportedly capture the village of Yasnobrodivka in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. (Barron's)

Disasters and accidents

• 2024 Brazil wildfires
  • Wildfires burn 760,000 hectares (1.8 million acres) of the Brazilian Pantanal, destroying over 4% of Brazil's largest wetland. (The Guardian)
• 2024 Sulawesi landslide
  • The death toll from the collapse of an illegal gold mine in Bone Bolango, Indonesia, amid heavy rains, increases to 23 people. Thirty-five others are still missing and 23 more were rescued. (AP)

International relations

• Ethiopia–Sudan relations, Sudanese peace process
  • Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed meets in Port Sudan with Sudanese Transitional Sovereignty Council leader and armed forces commander Abdel Fattah al-Burhan to seek an end to the Sudanese Civil War. (Sudan Tribune)
• Georgia–European Union relations, Accession of Georgia to the European Union
  • The European Union pauses the accession of Georgia to the organization and freezes €30 million (US$32.5 million) in aid to the Georgian Ministry of Defense after the Georgian parliament passed a law requiring media and nonprofit groups to be deemed as foreign agents if they receive more than 20% of their funding from foreign sources. (AP)
• Ukraine–NATO relations
  • NATO announces that it will establish a senior representative to Kyiv to coordinate with Ukrainian officials and strengthen Ukraine's ties to NATO. (Al Jazeera)

Law and crime

• 2024 pro-Palestinian protests on university campuses, Iran–United States relations
  • United States Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines accuses the Iranian government of using social media to covertly encourage and finance pro-Palestinian campus protests, in order to deepen American political divisions and increase distrust in democratic institutions. (AP)
• Killings of Carol, Hannah and Louise Hunt
  • Three women are killed during a crossbow attack at a house in Bushey, United Kingdom. A 26-year-old man is wanted. (AP)
• A court in Moscow, Russia, issues an arrest warrant for Yulia Navalnaya, the widow of opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who is currently residing outside of Russia. (BBC News)

Politics and elections

• 2024 Washington summit
  • The 33rd NATO summit begins in Washington, D.C., United States. (Al Jazeera)

Sports

• UEFA Euro 2024
  • In association football, Spanish player Lamine Yamal becomes the youngest goalscorer at a UEFA European Championship tournament after scoring in Spain's 2–1 semi-final win against France at 16 years and 362 days old. (AP)

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