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This article covers breaking news and events in July 2011.
Daily events
Friday 1st July 2011
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- Berlin / Germany : After the abolition of compulsory military service , the first volunteers start their service in the Bundeswehr .
- La Plata / Argentina : Start of the 43rd South American Football Championship .
- Monaco / Monaco: Prince Albert II marries Charlene Wittstock .
- Rabat / Morocco : In a referendum, 98.5% of the electorate vote for a constitutional reform to restrict the power of King Mohammed VI. The opposition doubts the correctness of the result and announces further protests.
- Southern Ocean : During the partial solar eclipse , the earth near Antarctica is touched by the penumbra of the moon.
- Warsaw / Poland : Poland takes over the EU Council Presidency for six months and, as a result of the Lisbon Treaty, shares the EU Presidency with Herman Van Rompuy , who has been President of the European Council since December 1, 2009 .
Saturday 2nd July 2011
- Berlin / Germany : Rainer Woelki is appointed Archbishop of the local Catholic diocese .
- Hamburg / Germany : The Ukrainian box -Profi Wladimir Klitschko , heavyweight champion of the great organizations International Boxing Federation and World Boxing Organization and the smaller Association International Boxing Organization wins against the British David Haye unanimously on points and inherit it as the world heavyweight champion of the Association of World Boxing Association .
- London / United Kingdom : The Czech Petra Kvitová wins the women's singles tournament of the Wimbledon Championships in tennis against the Russian Marija Sharapova .
Sunday 3rd July 2011
- Bangkok / Thailand : The Pheu-Thai party around Yingluck Shinawatra, which is close to the “red shirts” , achieved an absolute majority in the parliamentary elections .
- Lodz / Poland : In the final of the 33rd European Basketball Championships the women defeated Russia the Turkey with 59:42.
- London / United Kingdom : In the Wimbledon Championships in tennis in the final of wins Men Novak Djokovic against Rafael Nadal with 6: 4, 6: 1, 1: 6 and 6: 3rd
- St. Pölten / Austria : In the municipal council elections, the SPÖ defends the absolute majority with 56.76% . The ÖVP achieved 25.29%, the FPÖ 10.71% and the GREEN 4.88%.
Monday 4th July 2011
- Regensburg / Germany : The appeal hearing against Richard Williamson begins before the district court on charges of sedition . The trial ends on July 11th with Williamson being sentenced to a fine of 6,500 euros.
Tuesday 5th July 2011
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- Bur Sudan / Sudan : At least 197 people are killed in a fire on a ship carrying refugees on the way to Saudi Arabia .
- The Hague / Netherlands : An appeals court holds the Netherlands responsible for the deaths of three Bosniaks during the Srebrenica massacre and orders compensation payments for the bereaved.
- Karlsruhe / Germany : Oral hearing on the lawsuit against the Monetary Union Financial Stability Act , which enables Germany to participate in the emergency loans for Greece , begins before the Federal Constitutional Court .
- London / United Kingdom : A group of art experts attribute the painting Salvator Mundi to Leonardo da Vinci after completing their research .
- Vienna / Austria : Opening of the 13th European Maccabiade .
- Washington, DC / United States : Christine Lagarde from France becomes Executive Director of the International Monetary Fund .
Wednesday 6th July 2011
- Durban / South Africa : The International Olympic Committee awards the 2018 Winter Games to the South Korean Pyeongchang .
Thursday 7th July 2011
- Berlin / Germany : The Bundestag decides to approve pre-implantation diagnostics within narrow limits.
- London / United Kingdom : As a result of a wiretapping scandal , the News Corporation announces that the tabloid News of the World , which is involved in it, will appear and be discontinued for the last time on July 10th.
- United Nations : The UN Security Council calls to the Resolution 1996 , the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) as a follow-up mission of the United Nations Mission in Sudan (UNMIS) to life. The occasion is the planned separation of South Sudan from Sudan two days later .
Friday July 8th 2011
- Cape Canaveral / United States : The Atlantis starts the last space shuttle mission STS-135 and transports the multi-purpose logistics module Raffaello and a Lightweight Multi-Purpose Carrier (LMC) to the ISS .
- Innsbruck / Austria : Start of the American Football World Cup 2011 .
- Kisangani / DR Congo : At least 127 people are killed in the crash of a Boeing 727 operated by Hewa Bora Airways .
Saturday 9th July 2011
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- Juba / South Sudan : South Sudan declares its independence from Sudan .
Sunday 10th July 2011
- Bolgar / Russia : At least 110 people are killed in a shipwreck on the Volga .
- Klagenfurt / Austria : The Austrian writer Maja Haderlap is awarded the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize 2011 , endowed with 25,000 euros .
- Lucknow / India : In a train accident in the state of Uttar Pradesh , at least 69 people are killed and more than 210 others are injured.
- Roth / Germany : The German triathlete Andreas Raelert sets a new world record in the Challenge Roth over the Ironman distance, in the women’s race, the British Chrissie Wellington also wins in a new world record.
Monday 11th July 2011
- Limassol / Cyprus : At least 15 people are killed in the explosion of two gunpowder containers on the Evangelos Florakis naval base .
Tuesday July 12, 2011
- Locri / Italy : The main perpetrator of the Mafia murders in Duisburg is sentenced to life imprisonment.
Wednesday July 13, 2011
- Mumbai / India : At least 18 people are killed and more than 130 others are injured in a series of bomb attacks.
- Vienna / Austria : The National Council decides to change the national anthem on January 1, 2012, after which the text is to be supplemented by one line for the "daughters of the land." Currently only "sons" are mentioned.
- Vienna / Austria : End of the 13th European Maccabiade .
Thursday July 14, 2011
- Makassar / Indonesia : The Lokon volcano on Sulawesi island erupts and 30,000 people in its vicinity are evacuated.
- New York / United States : The UN General Assembly accepts South Sudan as the 193rd member of the United Nations .
Friday 15th July 2011
- Wiesbaden / Germany : The Hessian House Foundation sells the painting Darmstädter Madonna by Hans Holbein the Younger for an estimated price of 50 million euros to the entrepreneur Reinhold Würth .
Sunday 17th July 2011
- Frankfurt am Main / Germany : Japan defeated the USA 5-3 on penalties in the final of the women's soccer World Cup , making them world champions for the first time .
- São Tomé / São Tomé and Príncipe : In the first round of the presidential election , Manuel Pinto da Costa got 36%, Evaristo de Carvalho 22%, while Delfim Neves and Maria das Neves each got 14% of the vote. Manuel Pinto da Costa and Evaristo de Carvalho will face a runoff on August 7, 2011.
Monday July 18, 2011
- Ljubljana / Slovenia : The former Croatian Prime Minister Ivo Sanader , who is suspected of corruption, is extradited from Austria to Croatia .
Tuesday July 19, 2011
- London / United Kingdom : Publishers Rupert and James Murdoch and former editor-in-chief Rebekah Brooks apologize to a parliamentary committee for the wiretapping and corruption affair surrounding the News of the World newspaper , but refuse to accept responsibility.
Wednesday July 20, 2011
- Lilongwe / Malawi : At least 18 people are killed in demonstrations against the government and the fuel shortage in the country.
- Krušedol / Serbia : The police arrest Goran Hadžić ; the former President of the Republic of Serbian Krajina was the last suspected war criminals from the Yugoslav wars wanted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia .
- Washington, DC / United States : NASA announces the discovery of the fourth Pluto moon S / 2011 (134340) 1 .
Thursday July 21, 2011
- Brussels / Belgium : Against the background of the Greek financial crisis , the euro states agree on a second aid package for Greece . Private creditors are also taking part, whose share of the total package should amount to 37 of 109 billion euros.
Friday July 22, 2011
- Oslo / Norway : In two attacks in Norway , at least 77 people are killed and dozens more are injured or missing. There was a bomb attack in the government district and an attack on the island of Utøya in a holiday camp run by the Norwegian Young Socialists.
- Shanghai / China : The open water swimmer Swann Oberson wins the World Swimming Championships in long distance competition over 5 km of the women and wins the first Swiss swimmer in the history of a world title.
Saturday July 23, 2011
- Shangyu / China : At least 16 people are killed when two high-speed trains collide.
- Tehran / Iran : The 35-year-old scientist and university lecturer Dariusch Rezaie is killed by two gunshots on the street. Iran accuses Israel and the US of planning the attack to sabotage the Iranian nuclear program .
Sunday July 24th 2011
- Buenos Aires / Argentina : In the final of 43. Football Friendly Match wins Uruguay 3: 0 against Paraguay and is now sole with 15 successes record title holder of the tournament.
- Paris / France : The Australian racing driver Cadel Evans is the overall winner of the 98th Tour de France .
Monday 25th July 2011
- Frankfurt am Main / Germany : Deutsche Bank announces that the previous head of investment banking Anshu Jain and the head of Deutsche Bank Germany Jürgen Fitschen will jointly take over the chairmanship of the Board of Management from May 2012, thus succeeding Josef Ackermann .
- Hanoi / Vietnam : The presidential candidate Trương Tấn Sang proposed at the eleventh congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam is sworn in by the National Assembly and confirms the previous Prime Minister Nguyễn Tấn Dũng in his office.
- Istanbul / Turkey : More than four years after the murder of the Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink , a court sentenced the perpetrator to almost 23 years in prison.
Tuesday July 26, 2011
- Berlin / Germany : Almost three months after the start of the EHEC epidemic , the Robert Koch Institute declares it over.
Wednesday July 27, 2011
- Addis Ababa / Ethiopia : South Sudan joins the African Union as the 54th country .
- Jarinje / Kosovo : At a border crossing to Serbia there are violent clashes in which KFOR soldiers are also involved.
- Nairobi / Kenya : Due to the famine in the Horn of Africa , the UN World Food Program begins to set up an airlift to Somalia .
- Pamukkale / Turkey : Archaeologists locate the presumed grave of the apostle Philip during excavation work .
- Seoul / South Korea : According to police, 39 people across the country are killed by landslides and floods after heavy rains.
Thursday July 28, 2011
- Lima / Peru : Ollanta Humala is sworn in by the Congress as President .
- Santa Cruz / United States : In the journal Nature , astronomers from the University of Western Ontario announce the 2010 discovery of TK7 , the only known Trojan on earth to date .
Friday 29th July 2011
- Kiev / Ukraine : At least 32 people are killed in two mine accidents in the east of the country.
- Warsaw / Poland : Defense Minister Bogdan Klich draws conclusions from the investigation report into the plane crash near Smolensk , which revealed serious omissions on the part of the military, and resigns from his post. Prime Minister Donald Tusk appointed the previous Vice Minister of the Interior Tomasz Siemoniak as his successor .
Saturday 30th July 2011
- Rio de Janeiro / Brazil : Draw of the qualifying groups for the soccer World Cup 2014 for Africa, Europe, North and Central America as well as the Caribbean, South America and Oceania.
Sunday 31st July 2011
- Hama / Syria : At least 80 people are killed in a military offensive by the army against insurgents .
- Manila / Philippines : Tropical storm Nock-ten has killed at least 52 people and injured 27 others in the island state, the People's Republic of China and Vietnam since July 24th .
- Shanghai / China : The 14th FINA World Championships the FINA going to end. The most successful nation is China with 36 medals. The swimmers from Germany win 13 medals and Switzerland has a swimming world champion for the first time in Swann Oberson .
See also
- Nekrolog July 2011 for deaths this month
- List of annually recurring days of remembrance and action in July
- Category for commemorative days, holidays or action days in July
Web links
Commons : July 2011 - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Individual evidence
- ↑ The first volunteers start their military service , focus.de, accessed on July 6, 2011.
- ↑ Copa America 2011 , ca2011.com, accessed on 19 July 2011 (Spanish).
- ↑ Wedding in Monaco: The Prince finally has his Princess , spiegel.de, accessed on July 2, 2011.
- ↑ Referendum in Morocco - More than 98 percent for the new constitution , sueddeutsche.de, accessed on July 4, 2011.
- ↑ Partial Solar Eclipse of 2011 Jul 01. In: nasa.gov . Retrieved March 4, 2017 (English).
- ^ Presidency of the Council of the European Union. In: cvce.eu, University of Luxembourg . July 28, 2016, accessed January 30, 2017 .
- ^ Catholic Church: Woelki becomes Berlin's new Archbishop , spiegel.de, accessed on July 2, 2011.
- ↑ This is Wladimir Klitschko. In: rtl.de . August 4, 2017. Retrieved June 10, 2019 .
- ↑ Draws Archive - Ladies' Singles 2011. In: wimbledon.com . Retrieved February 18, 2017 .
- ↑ Success for Yingluck Shinawatra: Thailand's election winner must stop the split , spiegel.de, accessed on July 4, 2011.
- ↑ Wimbledon, men's final - Djokovic is fulfilling his dream , kicker.de, accessed on July 3, 2011.
- ↑ St. Pölten: SPÖ holds an absolute majority , noe.orf.at, accessed on July 3, 2011.
- ^ Judgment at the Regional Court of Regensburg - fine for Holocaust denier Williamson , sueddeutsche.de, accessed on July 30, 2011.
- ↑ 200 dead in disaster with refugee ship in the Red Sea , nzz.ch, accessed on July 6, 2011.
- ↑ tagesschau.de : Netherlands liable for three murders in Srebrenica ( Memento from July 6, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Lawsuit in Karlsruhe - Euro-skeptics want to overturn aid to Greece , spiegel.de, accessed on July 30, 2011.
- ↑ Leonardo da Vinci's "World Savior" discovered , welt.de, accessed on July 18, 2011.
- ↑ 13th European Maccabiade , derstandard.at, accessed on July 7, 2011.
- ↑ Christine Lagarde. In: imf.org . July 16, 2019, accessed September 8, 2019 .
- ↑ Decision Day in Durban - Mourning in Munich: Olympic Games 2018 in Pyeongchang! , kicker.de, accessed on July 6, 2011.
- ↑ Bundestag permits PGD to a limited extent , focus.de, accessed on July 7, 2011.
- ↑ wiretapping affair: Murdoch takes the scandal sheet "News of the World" from the market , spiegel.de, accessed on July 7, 2011.
- ^ STS-135 Mission Information , nasa.gov, accessed July 10, 2011.
- ↑ Plane crash in the Congo - more than 120 deaths feared , sueddeutsche.de, accessed on July 9, 2011.
- ↑ South Sudan: A Nation Is Born , spiegel.de, accessed on July 9, 2011.
- ↑ 110 dead in a shipwreck on the Volga , tagesspiegel.de, accessed on July 11, 2011.
- ↑ derstandard.at: 35th Bachmann Prize to Maja Haderlap (accessed on July 10, 2011).
- ↑ 69 dead and hundreds injured after two train accidents , fr-online.de, accessed on July 11, 2011.
- ↑ Mixed Zone: New world record in triathlon, David Haye calls for rematch , spiegel.de, accessed on July 13, 2011.
- ^ "Like a war zone" , orf.at, accessed on July 11, 2011.
- Jump up ↑ Lifelong for Mafia Murders. In: rp-online.de . July 13, 2011, accessed October 1, 2018 .
- ↑ spiegel.de: Terror in Mumbai - No trace of the attackers yet (accessed on July 14, 2011).
- ↑ derstandard.at: Change of the national anthem - decided: Daughters come in the anthem (accessed on July 13, 2011).
- ↑ Mount Lokon spits fire and ashes. In: rp-online.de . July 15, 2011, accessed October 1, 2018 .
- ↑ un.org: UN welcomes South Sudan as 193rd Member State (accessed July 15, 2011).
- ↑ handelsblatt.com: Important work of art: Entrepreneur Würth buys Holbein-Madonna (accessed on July 16, 2011).
- ↑ Japan ascends the World Cup throne for the first time. In: fifa.com . Retrieved July 12, 2017 .
- ↑ derstandard.at: Sao Tomé and Príncipe - runoff election via presidential office (accessed on August 10, 2011).
- ↑ focus.de: Austria extradites Ivo Sanader to Croatia (accessed on July 30, 2011).
- ↑ tagesschau.de: media mogul in front of the parliamentary committee - Murdoch claims not to have known anything ( memento from July 21, 2011 on WebCite ) (accessed on July 30, 2011).
- ^ Nzz.ch: Deaths in riots in Malawi (accessed July 22, 2011).
- ↑ spiegel.de: Goran Hadzic: Serbian police arrest suspected war criminals (accessed on July 23, 2011).
- ↑ tagesspiegel.de: Fourth Pluto moon discovered (accessed on July 22, 2011).
- ↑ faz.net: Agreement at EU summit - New aid package for Greece (accessed on July 22, 2011).
- ↑ focus.de: Authorities correct the number of victims downwards (accessed on July 25, 2011).
- ↑ Swimming - World Open Water Championships - 2011, Results Women. In: the-sports.org. Retrieved June 30, 2018 .
- ↑ n24.de: Trains collide - at least 16 dead - accident in China (accessed on July 23, 2011).
- ↑ reuters.com - Iran: USA and Israel behind the death of a scientist
- ↑ kicker.de: Final of the Copa America: Sovereign 3-0 against Paraguay - Suarez and Forlan secure title No. 15 - Barrios injured (accessed on July 25, 2011).
- ↑ nachrichten.at: Cadel Evans is the overall winner of the Tour de France (accessed on July 24, 2011).
- ↑ n24.de : Deutsche Bank elects dual leadership for 2012 ( Memento from May 15, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ stern.de: Truong Tan Sang new President of Vietnam ( Memento from September 16, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on July 27, 2011).
- ↑ tagesschau.de: More than four years after the attack on journalists - Dink murderer has to be in prison for almost 23 years ( memento from February 11, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on July 27, 2011).
- ↑ nzz.ch: Ehec epidemic ended in Germany - a total of 50 deaths and around 4320 cases of illness registered (accessed on July 27, 2011).
- ↑ au.int : African Union Welcomes South Sudan as the 54th Member State of the Union ( Memento from August 12, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
- ↑ faz.net: Kosovar-Serbian border - Kfor secures crossings (accessed on July 29, 2011).
- ↑ sueddeutsche.de: Famine in East Africa - UN launch airlift to Somalia (accessed July 30, 2011).
- ↑ kathweb.at: Allegedly the tomb of the apostle Philip discovered in Turkey (accessed on July 27, 2011).
- ^ Heavy Rain in South Korea Sets Off Deadly Mudslides. In: nytimes.com . July 27, 2011, accessed September 15, 2018 .
- ↑ derstandard.at: Ollanta Humala sworn in as president - after election victory in June (accessed on July 29, 2011).
- ↑ tagesspiegel.de: Egg dance through space - little companion of the earth discovered (accessed on July 31, 2011).
- ↑ de.reuters.com: At least 32 dead in mining accidents in Ukraine (accessed July 31, 2011).
- ↑ stern.de: Poland's defense minister resigns due to the Smolensk accident ( memento of March 12, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on July 30, 2011).
- ↑ de.fifa.com: Solvable Tasks for Germany (accessed August 1, 2011).
- ↑ tagesschau.de: Syria: Dozens of dead in military offensive in Hama ( memento from February 12, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on August 1, 2011).
- ↑ mysinchew.com: Philippine storm toll hits 52 as more go missing (English, accessed on 31 July 2011).
- ↑ World Cup review: Franklin's breakthrough and Steffen's escape from Shanghai. In: swimsportnews.de. July 18, 2013, accessed February 28, 2017 .
