Following the Egyptian dictator Colonel Nasser's nationialisation of the Suez Canal Company on 26 July 1956, Menzies led a delegation to Egypt to try to force Nasser to compromise with the West.

* 26 July 1956 — Egypt nationalizes the Suez Canal Company ; all its Egyptian assets, rights and obligations are transferred to the Suez Canal Authority, which compensates the previous owners at the established pre-nationalization price.

This would become the first Arab ambassador in Iraq since the kidnapping and murder of the Egyptian Ambassador Ihab el-Sherif in July 2005.

* July 26 – Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalizes the Suez Canal sparking international condemnation.

* July 14 – Youssef Wahbi, Egyptian actor and film director ( d. 1982 )

* July 15 – In the Egyptian port city of Rosetta, French Captain Pierre Bouchard finds the Rosetta Stone.

* July 25 – Abdur Rahman Badawi, Egyptian philosopher ( b. 1917 )

* July 19, 4242 BC: Egyptian New Year's Day ; the oldest calendar date known ( as of 2006 ).

* July 19 – Omar Suleiman, Egyptian general, diplomat and intelligence officer ( b. 1936 )

Bevan was as critical of the Egyptian dictator Colonel Nasser's seizure of the Suez Canal on 26 July 1956 as he was of the subsequent Anglo-French military response.

On 17 July 1978, the castle was the site of a meeting between the Egyptian Foreign Minister Mohammed Ibrahim Karmel and Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan and Cyrus Vance of the USA in preparation for the Camp David Accords.

Hapi, father of the gods, makes the fields fruitful for them and arranges the inundation at its time, the flooding of the Two Lands annual flooding of the Nile valley from July to October, irrigating the Egyptian farmland.

The Egyptian nationalisation of the Suez Canal by President Nasser on 26 July 1956 prompted the British government of Anthony Eden and the French government of Guy Mollet to commence plans for invading Egypt, regaining the canal, and toppling Nasser.

Palmerston, irritated at France's Egyptian policy, signed the London Convention of 15 July 1840 in London with Austria, Russia and Prussia-without the knowledge of the French government.

Burke co-hosted this celebration of Ertegun's life's work at the Rose Theater at the Lincoln Center in New York, as well as speaking at the tribute to Ertegun at the Egyptian Theater in Hollywood on July 31, 2007.

July 1, 1967: An Israeli armored infantry company attacks an Egyptian force entrenched at Ras el ' Ish, located 10 miles south of Port Said.

July 2, 1967: The Israeli Air Force bombs Egyptian artillery positions that had supported the commandos at Ras Al -' Ish.

July 4, 1967: Egyptian Air Force jets strike several Israeli targets in Sinai.

May – July 1969: Heavy fighting takes place between Israeli and Egyptian forces.

July 18, 1969: Egyptian commandos raid Israeli military installations in Sinai.

July 19 – 20, 1969: Operation Bulmus 6 – Israeli Shayetet 13 and Sayeret Matkal commandos raid Green Island, resulting in the total destruction of the Egyptian facility.

July 20 – 28, 1969: Operation Boxer – Nearly the entire Israeli Air Force attacks the northern sector of the Canal, destroying anti-aircraft positions, tanks and artillery, and shooting down eight Egyptian aircraft.

On 26 July 1956, with wide Egyptian acclaim, Nasser announced the nationalization of the Suez Canal as well as fair compensation for the former owners.

According to Roman writer Censorinus, the Egyptian New Year's Day fell on July 20 in the Julian Calendar in 139 CE, which was a heliacal rising of Sirius in Egypt.

In July he received reinforcements from Egypt in the form of howitzer batteries manned by Egyptian personnel.

" Meanwhile, Overkirk took the port of Ostend on 4 July thus opening a direct route to the English Channel for communication and supply, but the Allies were making scant progress against Dendermonde whose governor, the Marquis de Valée, was stubbornly resisting.

Garoua, on the Benoué River, is the main river port, but it is active only from July to September.

Currently, approximately 170 soldiers of the JGSDF and the JMSDF are currently stationed in Djibouti, with their base and naval port recently opening in July 2011.

Later that July, he met San Martín at the Guayaquil conference and convinced the Argentine general, who wanted the port to return to Peruvian jurisdiction, and the local Criollo elite in both major cities of the advantage of having the former Quito Audiencia join with the liberated lands to the north.

On July 8, 2008, RedBrick announced a new line called Age of Legend 4e, a port of the Earthdawn setting for use with the Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition rules.

Francis Xavier reached Japan on 27 July 1549, with Anjiro and three other Jesuits, but he was not permitted to enter any port his ship arrived at until 15 August, when he went ashore at Kagoshima, the principal port of the province of Satsuma on the island of Kyūshū.

Sometimes regarded as an act of terrorism, was the peace-time sabotage of the Rainbow Warrior, a yacht owned by Greenpeace, which occurred while in port at Auckland, New Zealand on July 10, 1985.

The ZX Interface 1 add-on module included 8 kB of ROM, an RS-232 serial port, a proprietary LAN interface ( called ZX Net ), and an interface for the connection of up to eight ZX Microdrives – somewhat unreliable but speedy tape-loop cartridge storage devices released in July 1983.

* July 1 – The presence of the German warship Panther in the Moroccan port of Agadir triggers the Agadir Crisis.

* July 20 – The United Kingdom cedes its brief control of the key Black Sea port of Batum to the Democratic Republic of Georgia.

In July 1943, when the invasion carried out with the ' Operation Husky was in full swing, the port of Milazzo was significantly strengthened in its defenses as an important maritime center, rail and military. On August 14, 1943 the troops of the 15th Tactical Group III of the regimental American Infantry Division occupied Milazzo following the disengagement of the 71 th regiment of German infantry belonging to the 29th Division Panzergrenadier.

On July 7, 2011, Marathon fan Daniel Blezek released a free version of Marathon 1 for Apple's iPad on the App Store, running off an iOS port of the Aleph One engine.

A major oil spill occurred on 16 July 2010 when a pipeline exploded at the north-east port of Dalian, causing a wide-scale fire and spreading about 1, 500 tonnes of oil over the sea area of 430 km².

The stone was discovered on July 15, 1799 in the port town of Rosetta Rosetta, Egypt, and has been held in the British Museum since 1802.

In July 1793, the East Indiamen Royal Charlotte, Triton, and Warley participated in the capture of Pondicherry by maintaining a blockade of the port.

In 1719, it was made a free port within the Habsburg Empire by Emperor Charles VI, and remained a free port until 1 July 1891.

During the Ecuadorian – Peruvian War, the Peruvian army had also established its own paratrooper unit and used it to great effect by seizing the Ecuadorian port city of Puerto Bolívar, on July 27, 1941, marking the first time in the Americas that airborne troops were use in combat.

During the Ecuadorian – Peruvian War, the Peruvian army established its own paratrooper unit and used it to great effect by seizing the Ecuadorian port city of Puerto Bolívar, on July 27, 1941, marking the first time in the Americas that airborne troops were used in combat.

In July 1940, the British navy shelled French warships in the port after they refused a British ultimatum to surrender which was designed to ensure the fleet would not fall into German hands.

On 1 July 1920, the port of Orkanger ( population: 1, 715 ) and the southern district of Orkland ( population: 1, 760 ) were separated from Orkdal to form separate municipalities.

The first expedition of five ships ( Saint Andrew, Caledonia, Unicorn, Dolphin, and Endeavour ) set sail from the east coast port of Leith to avoid observation by English warships in July 1698, with around 1200 people on board.

The port opened for business in July 1967.