Preparedness Day Bombing: In San Francisco, a bomb explodes on Market Street during a parade, killing ten and injuring 40.
18 July 1976
Nadia Com?neci becomes the first person in Olympic Games history to score a perfect 10 in gymnastics at the 1976 Summer Olympics.
16 July 1999
John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife, Carolyn, and her sister, Lauren Bessette, died when the Piper Saratoga PA-32R aircraft he was piloting crashed into the…
15 July 2006
Twitter, later one of the largest social media platforms in the world, is launched.
14 July 1960
Jane Goodall arrives at the Gombe Stream Reserve in present-day Tanzania to begin her famous study of chimpanzees in the wild.
13 July 1985
The Live Aid benefit concert takes place in London and Philadelphia, as well as other venues such as Moscow and Sydney.