Wikinews:2009/July
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[edit] July 1
- Bomb blast kills 27 in Iraq
- File sharing site The Pirate Bay sold
- Russian singer Lyudmila Zykina dies at age 80
- Heat wave proves deadly for Nebraska cattle
- Severe storms impact the northeast U.S.
[edit] July 2
- Honduras interim government rejects orders to reinstate deposed president
- 2.8 magnitude earthquake rattles northern Delaware, southwest New Jersey
[edit] July 3
- U.S. forces settle into Afghan Taliban heartland
- Toyota employs the Japanese hybrid solar powered vehicle carrier ship 'Auriga Leader'
- British Army officer killed in Afghanistan
- ESA launches largest commercial telecom satellite
- Trees continue to die in Houston, Texas
- Kenya confirms first swine flu case
[edit] July 4
- Rupert Grint, Harry Potter's "Ron Weasley", recovers from H1N1 swine flu virus
- Bulgarian officials in Grand Prix talks
- Three new dinosaurs discovered in Australia
- Wife of British Prime Minister attends gay pride parade in London
- African Union refuses to arrest Sudan's President for war crimes
- Gunmen abduct aid workers in Sudan
- Virgin lizard reproduces
[edit] July 5
- Swine flu patients taken to Kenyan capital to fly home to UK Sunday
- Ousted president Manuel Zelaya heads back to Honduras
- Two explosives factories explode in India
- Former NFL quarterback Steve McNair shot dead
- UK Serious Fraud Office to investigate MG Rover collapse
- One dead, eighteen injured in Florida lightning strike
[edit] July 6
- Tropical Storm Blanca forms in the Pacific
- Alzheimer's disease reversed in mice using caffeine
- NSA to participate in U.S. cybersecurity
- Serena Williams wins the Wimbledon Women's Singles title after defeating Venus Williams
[edit] July 7
- Irish Nobel laureate remains in detention in Israel
- Rachel Weisz wants Botox ban for actors
- Tributes paid to the victims of the July 7 2005 London bombings
- Iran warns West about meddling while clerics opine
- Bowler Brett Lee to miss first Ashes Test
[edit] July 8
- Thaksin still pervades Thai political landscape
- Google announces new operating system
- More than 100 die in riots in Ürümqi, China
[edit] July 9
- Australian businessmen arrested in China for spying
- Brush fires threaten neighborhoods in Los Angeles, California
- Serbian Mig-29 crashes near Belgrade
[edit] July 10
- G8 leaders set new emissions target
- Major fire reported in Soho, London
- Canada pursues new nuclear research reactor to produce medical isotopes
[edit] July 11
- Space Shuttle Endeavour's launchpad struck by lightning delaying launch
- Roller skating babies become YouTube sensation
- New words added to Webster's dictionary
- Two pilots dead in Richmond plane crash
- NHC upgrades Tropical Depression Four-E to Tropical Storm Carlos
[edit] July 12
- Firefighter killed while tackling pub blaze in Edinburgh, Scotland
- Daisy Dick wins Barbury International Horse Trials
- Former president Rafsanjani to lead Friday Iran prayers
[edit] July 13
- Former Lebanese Prime Minister Amin al-Hafez dies at age 83
- Flash flooding kills fourteen hikers near Chongqing, China
- North Korean leader Kim Jong-il 'has cancer'
- Mark Webber wins 2009 German Formula One Grand Prix
[edit] July 14
- Microsoft announces web version of Office
- Javier Velásquez named as Peru’s new Prime Minister
- U.K. National Portrait Gallery threatens U.S. citizen with legal action over Wikimedia images
- British conductor Edward Downes and wife die in double assisted suicide
- 'Monster' fish killed in Swiss lake after biting swimmers
- US wildfire reaches Interstate 5 near Los Angeles
- Two French journalists kidnapped by Somali gunmen
- Tropical Storm Carlos re-strengthens over the Pacific
[edit] July 15
[edit] July 16
- Tanker explodes on I-75 north of Detroit
- U.S. Capitol Police kill man during traffic stop turned chase
- Tropical Storm Dolores now active
[edit] July 17
- French workers use threats in compensation demand
- Four Indonesian airlines allowed back into Europe; Zambia, Kazakhstan banned
- Explosions kill eight in Jakarta
- Former Iranian president Hashemi Rafsanjani leads Friday prayers
- Wikinews interviews Mike Lebowitz, chairman of the U.S. Modern Whig Party
- Chicago's Sears Tower renamed Willis Tower
- Delayed Endeavour carries Japanese lab to International Space Station
[edit] July 18
- Blob off Alaskan coast identified
- Swine flu cases in Fiji reach 97
- Australian and New Zealander freemasons arrested for sorcery in Fiji
- Iceland makes application for membership of the European Union
- Iconic American newscaster Walter Cronkite dies at 92
- U.S. investigators probe in-flight hole in passenger jet
[edit] July 19
- Report from Royal International Air Tattoo 2009
- British Formula Two driver Henry Surtees dies after race accident
- Torchwood star John Barrowman in high speed crash
- Redcar, UK steelworkers march to save their jobs
[edit] July 20
- Fortieth anniversary of first manned Moon landing
- Two separate fighter jet crashes kill two, injure two in Afghanistan
- Taliban publicize video of captured U.S. soldier Bowe Bergdahl
- Helicopter crash kills sixteen at NATO base in Afghanistan
[edit] July 21
- Black spot on Jupiter is impact site, says NASA
- 20 years on: Sioux City, Iowa remembers crash landing that killed 111
- Workers at England wind turbine plant stage occupation
[edit] July 22
- Ukranian former official admits to murdering journalist
- Foxconn employee commits suicide over missing iPhone in China
- Former U.S. Presidential candidate Gene Amondson dies following a stroke
[edit] July 23
- Vestas occupation continues; left-wing political parties voice support
- Canberra's Sophie Lavers crowned Miss World Australia
- Ivory Coast fined US$47,000 by FIFA over March stampede
- 65-year-old woman arrested over the death of two Mexican wrestlers
- British schoolboy found guilty of racial harassment of schoolgirl
- Taco Bell mascot Gidget dies from stroke at 15
- Rugby Union: Queensland's Ballymore Cup quarter finals
[edit] July 24
[edit] July 25
- Fernando Alonso takes pole at 2009 Hungarian Grand Prix, Felipe Massa badly injured
- Tilting train derails in Croatia, six dead
[edit] July 26
- Rugby Union: Ballymore Cup North Queensland carnival
- Lewis Hamilton wins 2009 Hungarian Grand Prix
- Contador wins 2009 Tour de France; Cavendish wins six stages
- Iranian plane crashes on runway, 17 dead
[edit] July 27
[edit] July 28
- 22 killed as heavy rain hits Panzhihua, China
- North Carolina terrorist ring broken up, seven arrested
[edit] July 29
- Colombia's relations with Venezuela deteriorate over Swedish rockets
- Ukrainian journalist Gongadze's skull may have been found
- Seven million dollar Iraq bank heist leaves eight dead
- Haitian migrants drown and many more still missing
[edit] July 30
- Airbus offers funding to search for black boxes from Air France disaster
- Jaipur's Queen Gayatri Devi dies at 90
- Michael Schumacher returns to Formula One to replace injured Massa
- Vestas protesters sacked with immediate effect
