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This article covers breaking news and events in July 2019.

Daily events

Monday 1st July 2019

• Canberra / Australia : David Hurley takes over the post of Governor General from Peter Cosgrove .
• Caracas / Venezuela : Germany's ambassador to Venezuela , Daniel Kriener , who was designated in March 2019 , is now allowed to return to Venezuela. The reason for the deportation was that Kriener supported the declared interim president of Venezuela Juan Guaidó .
• Helsinki / Finland : Finland takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union from Romania ( Finnish EU Council Presidency 2019 ).
• Kronach / Germany : The entertainment and communication technology manufacturer Loewe ceases production.
• Panama City / Panama : Laurentino Cortizo has taken office as the country's new President .
• Vienna / Austria : Bernhard Achitz ( SPÖ ), Werner Amon ( ÖVP ) and Walter Rosenkranz ( FPÖ ) have been sworn in as new ombudsmen .
• Severomorsk // Russia : 14 seafarers die in a fire on board a Russian deep-sea research submarine ( project 10831 ).
• Berlin / Germany : Start of the application phase for the SPD chairmanship

Tuesday 2nd July 2019

• Berlin / Germany : Award of the German Entrepreneur Award
• Brussels / Belgium : The European Council of Heads of State and Government nominates Ursula von der Leyen for the office of EU Commission President .
• South Pacific and South America : Solar eclipse
• Vaduz / Liechtenstein : As a result of so-called "consultants affair" deprives the parliament of the Minister for appearance, justice and culture , Aurelia Frick , confidence.
• Tegucigalpa / Honduras : For the sake of a dengue fever - epidemic proclaimed in June for most counties health emergency will be extended to the whole country.

Wednesday 3rd July 2019

• Frankfurt am Main / Germany : The higher regional court overturns the conviction of the doctor Kristina Hänel for advertising the abortion of the pregnancy and refers the case back to the regional court in Giessen .
• Naples / Italy : Opening of the Summer Universiade 2019 (until July 14th)
• Regensburg / Germany : As part of the legal processing of the Regensburg party donation affair , the regional court ruled against the mayor of the city, Joachim Wolbergs , and other defendants.
• Strasbourg / France : The members of the European Parliament , which was newly elected in May, elect the Italian David-Maria Sassoli ( PD / S&D ) as their President one day after the constituent session .
• Vienna / Austria : The National Council sets 29 September 2019 as the date for the early election .
• Tegucigalpa / Honduras : At least 27 people die when a fishing ship sinks in the Caribbean off the Honduran coast.
• Zarzis / Tunisia : A boat launched in Libya with over 80 migrants capsizes in the Mediterranean off the Tunisian coast. Few can be saved.

Thursday 4th July 2019

• Karlsruhe / Germany : The Federal Court of Justice announces its ruling on the actions of the German Environmental Aid as a consumer association.

Friday 5th July 2019

• At 00:11 a.m. CEST the earth in aphelion of its orbit reaches the greatest distance from the sun since 1984 due to the gravitational effects of the near new moon and the two large, opposed planets Jupiter and Saturn , which will not be exceeded again until the 23rd century.
• Poznan / Poland : The three-day Western Balkans Conference is coming to an end.

Saturday 6th July 2019

• Ankara / Turkey : The head of the country's central bank , Murat Çetinkaya , is fired. His successor will be his previous deputy Murat Uysal .
• Baku / Azerbaijan : The World Heritage Committee of UNESCO shall, inter alia, the Ore Mountain Mining Region and the Historic Water Augsburg in the World Heritage on.
• Brussels / Belgium : Start of the 106th Tour de France (until July 28)
• Karlsbad / Czech Republic : Last day of the International Film Festival
• Munich / Germany : Last day of the Munich Film Festival
• Ridgecrest / United States : In the south of the State of California enters earthquake of intensity 7.1 on. Several people were slightly injured. It was the second quake in this region within two days.
• Wels / Austria : Start of the 71st Tour of Austria (until July 12th)

Sunday 7th July 2019

• Athens / Greece : general election
• Chicago / United States : CONCACAF Gold Cup final at Soldier Field . The game between Mexico and the USA ends 1-0. Mexico wins its 11th title.
• Rio de Janeiro / Brazil : Brazil will be South American champions after beating Peru 3-1 in the final at the Copa America 2019 .
• Hamburg / Germany : The 12th Beach Volleyball World Championship ends in the Am Rothenbaum Stadium
• Lyon / France : In the final of the Women's World Cup , the USA beat the Netherlands 2-0 to win their 4th title.

Monday 8th July 2019

Tuesday 9th July 2019

• Darmstadt / Germany : The German Academy for Language and Poetry announces the award of the Georg Büchner Prize to Lukas Bärfuss . The presentation of the award is scheduled for November 2, 2019.

Wednesday 10th July 2019

• Baku / Azerbaijan : The 43rd meeting of the World Heritage Committee ends.
• Belo Horizonte / Brazil : After the dam broke in an iron ore mine on January 26, 2019 , the mining company Vale was sentenced to pay for all damage. In total, over 200 people died in the accident.
• Wiesbaden / Germany : The district court delivered its verdict in the trial on the murder of Susanna F .

Thursday 11th July 2019

• Bonn / Germany : The Federal Cartel Office prohibits the takeover of the Dual System Deutschland by Remondis .
• Moscow / Russia : In a gas fire in a suburb of Moscow, one person dies and 13 others are injured.
• Kourou / French Guiana : The false start of a Vega rocket with the Falcon Eye 1 satellite results in the largest insurance loss in the history of space travel.

Friday 12th July 2019

• Berlin / Germany : On the Museum Island is James Simon Gallery opens.
• Gwangju / South Korea : start of the swimming world championships
• Vilnius / Lithuania : Gitanas Nausėda takes office as the country's new president .
• Kitzbühel / Austria : Belgian professional cyclist Ben Hermans from the Israel Cycling Academy team wins the overall ranking of the 71st Tour of Austria .

Saturday 13th July 2019

• Baikonur Cosmodrome / Kazakhstan : Launch of a Proton rocket with the eROSITA space telescope as part of the German-Russian Spektr-RG X-ray observatory .
• London / United Kingdom : The Romanian Simona Halep wins the women's singles at the Wimbledon Championships for the first time by beating the American Serena Williams .

Sunday 14th July 2019

• London / England : In the final of the ICC Cricket World Cup , the English selection prevailed against the representatives of New Zealand .
• London / United Kingdom : In the longest final in the history of the Wimbledon Championships , the Serb Novak Đoković defeated the Swiss Roger Federer .
• Umeå / Sweden : When a Gippsland Airvan 8 plane crashes on the island of Storsandskär , all nine occupants are killed.
• Yerevan / Armenia : Start of the U-19 European Football Championship

Monday 15th July 2019

• London / United Kingdom : The Bank of England has announced the issuance of a £ 50 banknote with the picture of Alan Turing for the end of 2021 .
• Munich / Germany : The board of FIBA Europe announces the award of the European basketball championship 2021 to Germany, Georgia, Italy and the Czech Republic. The final round should take place in Berlin.

Tuesday, July 16, 2019

• Paris / France : Environment Minister François de Rugy submits his resignation. The previous Deputy Minister for Transport, Élisabeth Borne , is appointed as his successor.
• Strasbourg / France : Ursula von der Leyen is elected by the EU Parliament as President of the European Commission and thus as successor to Jean-Claude Juncker .
• Brussels / Belgium : Martin Selmayr announces his resignation as Secretary General of the European Commission .
• Washington, DC / United States : The US Department of Justice has announced the end of the criminal investigation into the officers responsible for the Eric Garner death .
• South America , Europe , Africa , Asia , Australia , Antarctica : At 23:32 ( CEST ) the partial lunar eclipse reaches its maximum with about two thirds of the eclipse .

Wednesday 17th July 2019

• Berlin / Germany : After being elected President of the EU Commission the day before, Ursula von der Leyen resigns from her position as Federal Defense Minister . Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer is appointed as his successor by Deputy Federal Council President Michael Müller .
• Geneva / Switzerland : The World Health Organization declares an international health emergency in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda due to the Ebola virus epidemic from 2018 to 2020 . More than 1,600 people have already died and a further 2,000 people have been infected.
• Istanbul / Turkey : The journalist Erol Önderoğlu , the human rights activist Şebnem Korur Fincancı and the author Ahmet Nesin are acquitted of allegations of spreading terrorist propaganda.
• Minsk / Belarus : The conflicting parties to the war in eastern Ukraine agree to a ceasefire that will come into force on the night of July 21. In addition, the exchange of prisoners of war and the reconstruction of the border bridge at Stanyzja Luhanska are also planned .
• Munich / Germany : The Bavarian state parliament accepts the referendum Save the bees with 167 to 25 votes .
• New York , United States : Former Sinaloa cartel leader El Chapo is sentenced by a court to life imprisonment plus 30 years after a jury found him guilty on all charges in February .
• Punjab / Pakistan : The leader of the Islamist terrorist organization Laschkar-e Taiba , Hafiz Mohammad Saeed , is arrested. He is considered to be the mastermind behind the attacks in Mumbai in November 2008.

Thursday July 18, 2019

• Greer / United States : The BMW supervisory board decides on Oliver Zipse, Board Member for Production, to succeed Harald Krüger as CEO of the company. Head of development Klaus Fröhlich was also considered a promising candidate .
• Washington, DC / United States US President Donald Trump announces the nomination of Eugene Scalia , son of Antonin Scalia , to succeed the resigned Secretary of Labor Alexander Acosta .
• Kyōto / Japan : At least 30 people were killed in an arson attack on the Japanese animation studio Kyōto Animation .
• Königswinter / Germany : The 18th Petersburg Dialogue with Foreign Ministers Heiko Maas and Sergej Lavrov begins on Petersberg near Bonn .

Friday 19th July 2019

• Athens / Greece : With a earthquake of intensity 5.3 and at a depth of 15 kilometers, two people slightly injured. According to the authorities, no major damage has occurred.
• Bonn / Germany : Announcement of the decision as to which German universities will receive special funding as so-called universities of excellence in the future as part of the federal and state excellence strategy.
• Cairo / Egypt : In the Cairo International Stadium , the representation of Algeria beats Senegal's team 1-0 in the final of the Africa Cup .
• Munich / Germany : The 3rd soccer league starts the new season with a 1-1 draw between 1860 Munich and Preußen Münster .
• Pristina / Kosovo : Ramush Haradinaj resigns as Prime Minister of the country .
• Sion / Switzerland : At the start of the new soccer Super League season , FC Basel brim FC Sion wins 4-1.
• South Pacific : The Chinese Tiangong 2 space station crashes in a controlled manner.

Saturday 20th July 2019

• Baikonur Cosmodrome / Kazakhstan : At 18:28 CEST , the Soyuz MS-13 spacecraft with astronauts Alexander Skworzow , Luca Parmitano and Andrew Morgan will take off for the International Space Station .

Sunday 21st July 2019

• Aachen / Germany : Last day of the CHIO
• Kiev / Ukraine : parliamentary elections
• Tokyo / Japan : election of the upper house

Monday 22nd July 2019

• Vienna / Austria : The demolition of the Rinter tent begins.
• Sriharikota / India : Launch of the Indian lunar probe Chandrayaan-2 at 11:13 am CEST with a GSLV-3 rocket from the Satish Dhawan Space Center .

Tuesday 23 July 2019

• Budapest / Hungary : Last day of the World Fencing Championships
• London / United Kingdom : Vince Cable hands over the leadership of the Liberal Democrats to his successor. Previously, Jo Swinson had prevailed in a ballot among the members of the party against Ed Davey .
• London / United Kingdom : The Conservative Party announces that Boris Johnson has won the election as party leader. His opponent Jeremy Hunt is clearly defeated. Anne Milton resigns as Secretary of State in the Department of Education.
• Madrid / Spain : Almost three months after the parliamentary elections , Pedro Sánchez is standing for re-election as Prime Minister. A possible second ballot is planned for July 25th.
• Vienna / Austria : The Anti-Doping Law Commission (ÖADR) announces that cross-country skiers Max Hauke and Dominik Baldauf will be banned for four years each for autologous doping . All titles, medals, prizes, entry and prize money won since April 1, 2016 will be withdrawn from them.

Wednesday 24th July 2019

• Berlin / Germany : With the swearing-in of Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer in front of the German Bundestag , authority over the Bundeswehr is also transferred to the new Federal Minister of Defense .
• London / United Kingdom : After Theresa May's resignation , Boris Johnson is appointed as the new Prime Minister.
• Luxembourg / Luxembourg : The public prosecutor announces that they will be bringing charges against nine other suspects in the criminal proceedings concerning the so-called " bombing affair ", which have been suspended since July 2014 .
• Neuenkirchen-Vörden / Germany : Around 86,500 laying hens perish in a barn fire.
• Greater Banjul Area / Gambia : Thousands of citizens protested in the Greater Banjul Area against - in their opinion - prevailing police violence; there were acts of violence.
• Brikama / Gambia : Violent protests in Brikama left around 50 injured, the #OccupyBAC movement sees mismanagement and corruption in the Brikama Area Council .

Thursday 25th July 2019

• Jiuquan Cosmodrome / People's Republic of China : The Beijing Interstellar Glory Space Technology Ltd. - better known as iSpace - their new Hyperbola-1 rocket is the first private Chinese company to launch a satellite .
• Ismajil / Ukraine : The Russian tanker Nika Spirit is arrested in the port of the city on charges of having been involved in the incident off Crimea in November 2018 and of blocking Ukrainian ships there .
• Leipzig / Germany : The Constitutional Court of Saxony is ruling on a complaint against the decision of the state election committee not to allow part of the list of candidates submitted by the AfD for the state election .
• Tunis / Tunisia : After the death of President Beji Caid Essebsi , President of the Parliament Mohamed Ennaceur is appointed acting President. In addition, the presidential election will be brought forward from November to September 15 .
• Al-Chums / Libya : About 5 kilometers from the coastal town there is a boat accident in which up to 200 people are killed. According to the Red Crescent , a boat with around 360 migrants that started in Al-Chums breaks into two parts. By July 27, 160 passengers had been rescued and 67 bodies recovered, 138 people were missing.
• Lingen / Germany : The German heat record of 40.5 ° C set the day before in Geilenkirchen is exceeded at several measuring stations, while it is warmest at 42.6 ° C in Lingen in Emsland .

Friday 26th July 2019

• Boca Chica (Texas) / United States : Around 5:45 a.m. CEST, the Starhopper test rocket from the US space company SpaceX successfully completed its first, short test flight.
• Stuttgart / Germany : VfB Stuttgart and Hannover 96 open the new season of the 2nd Bundesliga .
• Salzburg / Austria : In the solitaire at the Mozarteum University Salzburg , the French author Michel Houellebecq is awarded the Austrian State Prize for European Literature .
• Vienna / Austria : Rapid Wien and RB Salzburg contest the first game of the new season of the Bundesliga .
• Lima / Peru : Opening ceremony of the Pan American Games

Saturday 27th July 2019

• Berlin / Germany : Christopher Street Day
• Gwangju / South Korea : Finals of the Water Polo World Cup
• Borno / Nigeria : With three suspected Islamist terrorist group Boko Haram associated attackers on motorcycles are in the district Nganzai near the capital Maiduguri killed 65 men and injured 10, walking on the way home from a funeral in the village of Goni Abachari in their neighboring village Badu Kuluwu were .
• Yerevan / Armenia : The Spanish team wins the U-19 European Football Championship with a 2-0 win over Portugal .

Sunday 28th July 2019

• Blackpool / United Kingdom : In the Winter Gardens , the Englishman Rob Cross prevailed against his compatriot Michael Smith in the final of the World Matchplay .
• Gwangju / South Korea : Last day of the World Swimming Championships
• Hockenheim / Germany : Max Verstappen from the Netherlands wins the last German Grand Prix for the time being .
• Nuremberg / Germany : Marco Reus prevailed among the men , Dzsenifer Marozsán with the women and Jürgen Klopp with the coaches in the election for Footballer of the Year .
• Paris / France : Last stage of the Tour de France . The overall winner is the Colombian Egan Bernal .
• Paisley / Scotland : In St. Mirren Park , the representation of France beats the German team 2-1 in the final of the U-19 European Women's Football Championship .

Monday 29th July 2019

• Oakland / United States : Earth Overshoot Day determined by the Global Footprint Network , the day on which human demand for renewable resources exceeds the supply and capacity of the earth to reproduce these resources in 2019, falls on July 29th this year.
• Frankfurt am Main / Germany : At the main train station , an 8-year-old boy and his mother are pushed from the platform in front of an arriving train . The mother can save herself, the child dies.
• Altamira / Brazil : 62 people are killed in the Altamira massacre , a prison riot in the Centro de Recuperação Regional de Altamira .

Tuesday 30th July 2019

• Bucharest / Romania : Interior Minister Nicolae Moga resigns after only six days in office.

Wednesday July 31, 2019

• Munich / Germany : Tottenham Hotspur defeated Bayern Munich on penalties in the final of the Audi Cup .

See also

• Nekrolog July 2019 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 2019  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

 Wikinews: Articles Published in July 2019  - News

Individual evidence

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