Trans World Airlines Flight 800 ( TWA 800 ), a Boeing 747-131, exploded and crashed into the Atlantic Ocean near East Moriches, New York, on July 17, 1996, at about 20: 31 EDT, 12 minutes after takeoff from John F. Kennedy International Airport, killing all 230 people on board.

It opened at the American Airlines Theatre on 13 January and ran until 3 July 2011.

* On 26 July 1993, Asiana Airlines Flight 733 crashes into Mt.

* On 17 July 1996 Trans World Airlines Flight 800 ( TWA 800 ), a Boeing 747 – 131, exploded and crashed into the Atlantic Ocean near East Moriches, New York, killing 230.

On 4 July 1948 a Scandinavian Airlines Douglas DC-6 on a flight from Amsterdam to RAF Northolt collided with a RAF Avro York coming from Malta over Northwood.

* July 1973: Red Army members led a hijacking of Japan Airlines ( JAL ) plane over the Netherlands.

The airline was established on 20 July 1989, trading with the name Zagal ( formally, Zagreb Airlines ), and started operations using a single Cessna 402 aircraft on cargo services for UPS.

After the first democratic elections held in Croatia, Zagal changed its name to Croatia Airlines on 23 July 1990.

The crash of Flight 90, coupled with Air Florida's high financial leverage and reliance on foreign currency trading for profits, led the company to declare bankruptcy and cease operations on July 3, 1984, despite an effort by new head Donald Lloyd-Jones ( an alumnus of American Airlines ) to save the company.

* On 1 July 2010, Austrian Airlines announced that they will be resuming flights to Baghdad beginning in winter 2010.

On 19 July 2006, the first direct chartered all-cargo flight since 1949 operated by China Airlines landed in Shanghai from Taipei.

China Airlines and its Mandarin Airlines subsidiary would offer 29 return flights in the month of July to Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou and Xiamen, while Eva Air would offer 7 flights per week initially from Taiwan Taoyuan and Songshan airports.

* Beverly Lynn Burns, American Airlines stewardess class of 1971 ; first woman Boeing 747 Captain in the world July 1984

In July 2006, Williams proposed to girlfriend Tara Fowler, an American Airlines flight attendant.

On 12 April 2006 Geoff Dixon, CEO of the Qantas Group, announced that the group would be focusing its two-brand strategy, Qantas and Jetstar brands, and as such Australian Airlines brand would cease to exist from July 2006.

On 31 July 2007, Libyan Airlines became a subsidiary of the state owned Libyan Afriqiyah Aviation Holding Company ( LAAHC ), together with Afriqiyah Airways.

JetBlue carried 23. 44 % of all passengers for the 12-month period ending July 31, 2011 ; other leading carriers include US Airways ( 13. 27 %), Delta Air Lines ( 11. 86 %), and American Airlines ( 11. 47 %).

In July 2001, the LTTE carried out a devastating suicide attack on Bandaranaike International Airport, destroying eight of the air force's planes ( 2 IAI Kfirs, 1 Mil-17, 1 Mil-24, 3 K-8 trainers, 1 MiG-27 ) and four Sri Lankan Airlines planes ( 2 Airbus A330s, 1 A340 and 1 A320 ), dampening the economy and causing tourism, a vital foreign exchange earner for the government, to plummet.

On July 16, 2007, Continental Airlines announced that it would seek government approval for nonstop flights between Newark and Shanghai in 2009.

In July 2012, United Airlines announced resumption of flights to Taipei and Paris.

The top five airlines in terms of market share from July 2011-June 2012 are Southwest Airlines ( 71. 65 %), Alaska Airlines ( 6. 13 %), JetBlue Airways ( 5. 09 %), US Airways ( 2. 84 %) and Hawaiian Airlines ( 2. 49 %).

Boeing 737-500 from Lithuanian Airlines in Frankfurt, July 2005.

Nevertheless, in late July it was announced that the Orbital Workshop would be launched as a part of Apollo mission AS-209, originally one of the Earth-orbit CSM test launches, followed by two Saturn I / CSM crew launches, AAP-1 and AAP-2.

** Mariner program: NASA launches the Mariner 4 space probe from Cape Kennedy toward Mars to take television pictures of that planet in July 1965.

* July 12 – A magnitude 7. 8 earthquake off Hokkaidō, Japan launches a devastating tsunami that kills 202 on the small island of Okushiri, Hokkaido.

* July 5 – Japan launches a probe to Mars, joining the United States and Russia as an outer space-exploring nation.

* July 23 – The United States launches Landsat 1, the first Earth-resources satellite.

* July 17 – The Army of Africa launches a coup d ' état against the Second Spanish Republic, beginning the Spanish Civil War.

* July 22 – In Philippines, ABS-CBN Radio launches DZMM was started broadcast at 630 kHz on AM Band.

* July 2, 1829 – Russo-Turkish War, 1828-1829: Russian Field-Marshal Hans Karl von Diebitsch launches the Transbalkan offensive, which brings the Russian army within 68 km of Istanbul.

* July 2 – Russo-Turkish War, 1828-1829: Russian Field-Marshal Hans Karl von Diebitsch launches the Transbalkan offensive, which brings the Russian army within 68 km of Istanbul.

* July 23 – Commodore launches the Amiga personal computer at the Lincoln Center in New York.

* IBM launches POWER5-based p5 server line – Ars Technica, 14 July 2004

* 1961-President John F. Kennedy launches Space Race, promising Americans on the Moon ; they landed July 20, 1969

File: P2V_launch_CVB-42_1951. jpg | A Lockheed P-2 Neptune launches from the aircraft carrier USS Franklin D. Roosevelt ( CV-42 ), 2 July 1951.

In 2012, Val d ' Aran launches the first edition of Dig @ ran European Festival on digital arts from June 29 to July 8.

Additionally, in the game, ORCA launches a large-scale offensive on " 13 Thermidor ", as the game narration states that " for many, the chaos began in early July ".

Bought in France by Evelyn Ellis, who had three Daimler motor launches moored by his home at Datchet, it was landed at Southampton on 3 July and driven by Ellis to Micheldever near Winchester where Ellis met Simms and they drove together to Datchet.

In a catalog listing known launches up to July 2009, the Union of Concerned Scientists listed 902 operational satellites.

The location was among the best in the continental United States for this purpose as it allowed for launches out over the Atlantic Ocean, and it was closer to the equator than most other parts of the United States, allowing rockets to get a boost from the Earth's rotationA Bumper ( rocket ) | Bumper V-2 was the first missile launched at Cape Canaveral, on July 24, 1950.

* July 5 – Japan launches a probe to Mars, and thus joins the United States and Russia as a space-exploring nation.

As of July 2012, three further Delta II launches are scheduled ; carrying the SMAP and OCO 2 satellites in 2014, and the JPSS-1 satellite in 2016.

* 20 July – Jayalalitha launches another salvo against the coalition government, giving it a two-day ultimatum to implement a Supreme Court ruling on supply of river water to her southern state of Tamil Nadu or face " disastrous consequences ".

The Space Coast is a region in the U. S. state of Florida around Kennedy Space Center ( KSC ), where NASA launched Space Shuttles until the last one on July 8, 2011 at 11: 29 a. m .; and Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, site of unmanned civilian and military space launches.

* July 19 – A U. S. Air Force Northrop F-89J Scorpion launches a live AIR-2 Genie (" Ding Dong ") unguided nuclear air-to-air missile.