56 people were killed and over 200 people were injured in 21 bomb blasts in Ahmedabad bombing in India.

Mumbai, India receives 99.5cm of rain (39.17 inches) within 24 hours, bringing the city to a halt for over 2 days.

Space Shuttle program: STS-114 Mission – Launch of ''Discovery'', NASA's first scheduled flight mission after the ''Columbia'' Disaster in 2003.

The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 is signed into law by President George H. W. Bush.

A federal grand jury indicts Cornell University student Robert T. Morris, Jr. for releasing the Morris worm, thus becoming the first person to be prosecuted under the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.

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Formation of a military triumvirate in Portugal.

Greek Prime Minister Constantinos Karamanlis forms the country's first civil government after seven years of military rule.

Apollo Program: launch of ''Apollo 15''.

Vietnam War: South Vietnamese opposition leader Trương Đình Dzũ is sentenced to five years hard labor for advocating the formation of a coalition government as a way to move toward an end to the war.

Full independence is granted to the Maldives.

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development votes to admit Japan.

An earthquake in Skopje, Yugoslavia (now in the Republic of Macedonia) leaves 1,100 dead.

Syncom 2, the world's first geosynchronous satellite, is launched from Cape Canaveral on a Delta B booster.

Explorer program: ''Explorer 4'' is launched.

Carlos Castillo Armas, dictator of Guatemala, is assassinated.

Following the World Bank's refusal to fund building the Aswan High Dam, Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalizes the Suez Canal sparking international condemnation.

Arizona Governor John Howard Pyle orders an anti-polygamy law enforcement crackdown on residents of Short Creek, Arizona, which becomes known as the Short Creek Raid.

Fidel Castro leads an unsuccessful attack on the Moncada Barracks, thus beginning the Cuban Revolution.

King Farouk of Egypt abdicates in favor of his son Fuad.

U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs Executive Order 9981 desegregating the military of the United States.

Cold War: U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs the National Security Act of 1947 into United States law creating the Central Intelligence Agency, United States Department of Defense, Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the United States National Security Council.

Aloha Airlines begins service from Honolulu International Airport

The Potsdam Declaration is signed in Potsdam, Germany.

The Labour Party wins the United Kingdom general election of July 5 by a landslide, removing Winston Churchill from power.

The US Navy cruiser {{USS|Indianapolis|CA-35|6}} arrives at Tinian with parts of the warhead for the Hiroshima atomic bomb.

World War II: the Soviet army enters Lviv, a major city in western Ukraine, liberating it from the Nazis. Only 300 Jews survive out of 160,000 living in Lviv prior to occupation.

The first German V-2 rocket hits Great Britain.

World War II: in response to the Japanese occupation of French Indo-China, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders the seizure of all Japanese assets in the United States.

End of the Battle of Brunete in the Spanish Civil War.

King Edward VIII, in one of his few official duties before he abdicates the throne, officially unveils the Canadian National Vimy Memorial.

The Axis Powers decide to intervene in the Spanish Civil War.

Serbia and Bulgaria interrupt diplomatic relationship.

United States Attorney General Charles Joseph Bonaparte issues an order to immediately staff the Office of the Chief Examiner (later renamed the Federal Bureau of Investigation).

France annexes Tahiti.

In Buenos Aires the Revolución del Parque takes place, forcing President Juárez Celman's resignation.

Publication of the ''Unua Libro'', founding the Esperanto movement.

The Republic of Stellaland is founded in Southern Africa.

Premiere of Richard Wagner's opera ''Parsifal'' at Bayreuth.

In California, the poet and American West outlaw calling himself "Black Bart" makes his last clean getaway when he steals a safe box from a Wells Fargo stagecoach. The empty box will be found later with a taunting poem inside.

American Civil War: Morgan's Raid ends – At Salineville, Ohio, Confederate cavalry leader John Hunt Morgan and 360 of his volunteers are captured by Union forces.

American Civil War: George B. McClellan assumes command of the Army of the Potomac following a disastrous Union defeat at the First Battle of Bull Run.

Liberia declares independence.

First day of the three-day Battle of Dervenakia, between the Ottoman Empire force led by Mahmud Dramali Pasha and the Greek Revolutionary force led by Theodoros Kolokotronis.

José de San Martín arrives in Guayaquil, Ecuador, to meet with Simón Bolívar.

The Surrey Iron Railway, arguably the world's first public railway, opens in south London.

New York ratifies the United States Constitution and becomes the 11th state of the United States.

The office that would later become the United States Post Office Department is established by the Second Continental Congress.

French and Indian War: the Siege of Louisbourg ends with British forces defeating the French and taking control of the Gulf of St. Lawrence.

The first recorded women's cricket match takes place near Guildford, England.

Plakkaat van Verlatinghe (Act of Abjuration): the northern Low Countries declare their independence from the Spanish king, Philip II.

Wars of the Roses: the Battle of Edgecote Moor pitting the forces of Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick against those of Edward IV of England takes place.

Henry VII is recognized King of the Romans by Pope Clement V.

Rout of an alliance of Christian troops from Navarre and Léon against the Muslims at Pamplona.

Battle of Pliska: Byzantine Emperor Nicephorus I is killed and his heir Stauracius is seriously wounded.

First Fitna: the Battle of Siffin see the troops led by Ali ibn Abi Talib and those led by Muawiyah I clashing.