Dick Giordano, an only child, was born in New York City on July 20, 1932, in the borough of Manhattan to Josephine and Graziano " Jack " Giordano.

The resignation of the Rev. Warren I. Densmore, headmaster of St. Stephen's Episcopal Day School in Coconut Grove, becomes effective July 15.

* 1928 – Tich Freeman becomes the only bowler ever to take 200 first-class wickets before the end of July.

Still farther to the south, however, the Anti-Lebanon Mountains bar the rains from the Mediterranean, and the area, including the capital city of Damascus, becomes part of the semiarid climatic zone of the steppe, with precipitation averaging less than a year and with temperatures from in January to in July and August.

* July 23 – Vanessa Lynn Williams becomes the first Miss America to resign when she surrenders her crown, after nude photos of her appear in Penthouse magazine.

* July 25 – Salyut 7: Cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya becomes the first woman to perform a space walk.

* July or August – Portuguese Jesuit priest António de Andrade becomes the first European to enter Tibet.

* July 14 – In Joplin, Missouri, the George Washington Carver National Monument becomes the first United States National Monument to honor an African American.

* July 11 – His Highness Prince Karim Aga Khan becomes the 49th Imam of the Shia Ismaili Muslims at age 20.

* July 25 – Tunisia becomes a republic, with Habib Bourguiba its first president.

* July 26 – WWII: A Messerschmitt Me 262 becomes the first jet fighter aircraft to have an operational victory.

* July 26 – New York ratifies the United States Constitution and becomes the eleventh U. S. state.

* July 28 – Albert Fujimori becomes president of Peru.

* July 8 – Martina Hingis becomes the youngest person in history ( age 15 years and 282 days ) to win at Wimbledon in the Ladies ' Doubles event.

* July 23 – Dr. Ernst Pfenning of Chicago becomes the first owner of a Ford Model A.

* July 25 – Korea becomes a protectorate of Japan.

* July 17 – Saddam Hussein becomes Vice Chairman of the Revolutionary Council in Iraq after a coup d ' état.

* July 21 – Mercury program: Gus Grissom, piloting the Mercury-Redstone 4 capsule Liberty Bell 7, becomes the second American to go into space ( sub-orbital ).

* July 24 – Reconstruction: Tennessee becomes the first U. S. state to be readmitted to the Union following the American Civil War.

* July 25 – The U. S. Congress passes legislation authorizing the rank of General of the Army ( now called " 5-star general "); Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant becomes the first to have this rank.

* July 28 – The Metric Act of 1866 becomes law and legalizes the standardization of weights and measures in the United States.

* July 11 – Wilfrid Laurier becomes Canada's seventh prime minister and the first French-speaker to hold that office.

* July 13 – Yitzhak Rabin becomes prime minister of Israel.

** Tich Freeman becomes the only bowler ever to take 200 first-class wickets before the end of July.

* July 17 – Voting in federal elections becomes compulsory in Australia, after a private member's bill proposed by Tasmanian Nationalist senator Herbert Payne results in the passing of the Commonwealth Electoral ( Compulsory Voting ) Act 1924.

* July 23 – Arthur Meighen becomes Canada's ninth prime minister.

Charles N. Brown, the publisher of Locus, which primarily addresses the science-fiction publishing world, wrote in the July 2006 issue: " Two Charles McCarry hardcover reprints from Overlook ... aren't really SF or fantasy, but they are two of the best spy thrillers ever written and form a secret or alternate history of the 20th century.

International Federation of Cheerleading ( IFC ): Established on the 5th July 1998, the International Federation of Cheerleading ( IFC ) is a non-profit federation based in Tokyo, Japan and is the world governing body of cheerleading.

Also, a Pro wakeboard competition, ' Wakejam ', took place between July 27 and July 29, 2007, where top riders from around the world, as well as local riders, took part in the event, hosted by Erne Wakeboard Club ( EWC ).

On 18 July 2007 in Johannesburg, South Africa, Nelson Mandela, Graça Machel, and Desmond Tutu convened a group of world leaders to contribute their wisdom, independent leadership and integrity to tackle some of the world's toughest problems.

On 3 July 2005, the country became the first country in the world to give full marriage and adoption rights to homosexual couples ( Belgium has allowed same-sex marriage since 2003 and co-parenting since April 2006, and the Netherlands has allowed same-sex marriage since 2001 and now has a law in preparation to provide full adoption rights in equal conditions to opposite-sex marriages ).

For the most part, religious traditions in the world reserve marriage to heterosexual unions, but there are exceptions including certain Buddhist and Hindu traditions, Unitarian Universalist, Metropolitan Community Church and some Anglican dioceses and some Quaker, United Church of Canada and Reform Jewish congregations .< ref >" World Religions and Same Sex Marriage ", Marriage Law Project, Columbus School of Law at The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, July 2002 revision

In Great Britain, the Whitley Commission, a subcommittee of the Reconstruction Commission, recommended in its July 1918 Final Report that " industrial councils " be established throughout the world.

Polgár was ranked number 36 in the world on the July 2012 FIDE rating list with an Elo rating of 2709, the woman on FIDE's Top 100 Players list, and has been ranked as high as eighth ( in 2005 ).

This brought her to her highest ever rating, 2735, in the July 2005 FIDE list and enabled her to retain her spot as the eighth ranked player in the world.

On July 9, 1922, Weissmuller broke Duke Kahanamoku's world record on the 100-meters freestyle, swimming it in 58. 6 seconds.

At the 35th G8 summit in July 2009, Muammar Gaddafi called Switzerland a " world mafia " and called for the country to be split between France, Germany and Italy.

On July 14, 1999, the three men lost their lives when the Lampson " Big Blue " crane, one of the largest in the world, collapsed while trying to lift a 400 ton right field roof panel.

In 1985 Sergey Bubka became the first pole vaulter to clear 6 metres ; he also holds the outdoor world record at 6. 14 metres, set on 31 July 1994 in Sestriere.

In July 1931, Nurmi showed he still had pace for the shorter distances by beating Lauri Lehtinen, Lauri Virtanen and Volmari Iso-Hollo, and breaking the world record on the now-rare two miles.

On the famous race on 11 July 1957 when the " three Olavis " ( Salsola, Salonen and Vuorisalo ) broke the world record for the 1, 500 m, Matti Nurmi finished a distant ninth with his personal best, 2. 2 seconds slower than his father's world record from 1924.

Released at the Sundance Film Festival on 27 January 2011, it incorporates footage shot on 24 July 2010 submitted by YouTube users from around the world.

In July 1961 during the Berlin Crisis of 1961 KGB chief Alexander Shelepin sent a memorandum to Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev containing an array of proposals to create a situation in various areas of the world which would favor dispersion of attention and forces by the US and their satellites, and would tie them down during the settlement of the question of a German peace treaty and West Berlin.

Wish Tree, her installation in the Sculpture Garden – Museum of Modern Art, New York ( since July 2010 ), has become very popular with contributions from all over the world.

* July 21 – July 23 – G-8 Nations hold their 26th Annual Summit ; issues include AIDS, the ' digital divide ', and halving world poverty by 2015.

* July 14 – Rawya Ateya takes her seat in the National Assembly of Egypt, thereby becoming the first female parliamentarian in the Arab world.

* July 9 – Irish racing driver Kaye Don breaks the world water speed record at Lake Garda, Italy.

* July 31 – The first narrow gauge mainline railway in the world opens at Grandchester, Australia.