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This article covers daily news and events in July 2021 . An overview of articles on thematic "long-running hits" and on longer-lasting events can be found on the page on current events .

Daily events

Thursday 1st July 2021

• Batley and Spen / United Kingdom : Kim Leadbeater , sister of the murdered MP Jo Cox , wins the by-election for the seat in the House of Commons vacated by the move from Tracy Brabin to the head of the metropolitan area of West Yorkshire .
• Berlin / Germany : The minimum wage increases by +1.1% to € 9.60
• Berlin / Germany : The new State Treaty on Gambling comes into force.
• Berlin / Germany : At the request of the Federal Constitutional Court , Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier is temporarily suspending the execution of the law adopted by the Bundestag and approved by the Bundesrat to implement the reform of the Treaty on the European Stability Mechanism .
• Brussels / Belgium : Slovenia takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union
• Paris / France : After the finance ministers of the G7 countries had already agreed at the beginning of June on the cornerstones of a globally applicable minimum taxation for large international companies in order to prevent tax dumping in view of the increasing digitalization of the economy, 130 of 139 agree under the umbrella of the OECD - Project Inclusive Framework on Base Erosion and Profit Shifting about solutions to the problem negotiating states on the fundamentals of a comprehensive tax reform that includes a worldwide minimum tax rate for such corporations of 15%. The 130 countries, including all members of the group of the twenty most important industrial and emerging countries , represent around 90% of global gross domestic product . So far, Ireland , Hungary , Estonia , Barbados , St. Vincent and the Grenadines , Kenya , Nigeria , Peru and Sri Lanka have not given their consent .

Friday 2nd July 2021

• Mainz / Germany : The ZDF television council elects program director Norbert Himmler to succeed Thomas Bellut as the new ZDF director (probably from March 2022).
• Neckarsulm / Germany : Klaus Gehrig , head of the Schwarz Group , the largest retail group in Europe, is stepping down from office.
• New York City / United States : Cyber ​​criminals launch a large-scale cyber attack with ransomware on VSA servers of the company Kaseya .

Saturday 3rd July 2021

• Brussels / Belgium : In the European Union , the deadline for transposing Directive 2019/904 / EU on reducing the impact of certain plastic products on the environment (single-use plastic directive) into national law ends . From now on, it should be prohibited in the member states of the European Union to use these plastic products (including cotton swabs, disposable cutlery and plates, drinking straws, stirring sticks and balloon sticks, to-go food containers and beverage cups made of expanded polystyrene and products made of oxo-degradable plastic ) Bring traffic.
• Vienna / Austria : The film festival on Rathausplatz begins. (until September 4th)

Sunday 4th July 2021

The machine that crashed in the Philippines

• Frankfurt am Main / Germany : Ex-Federal President Joachim Gauck is awarded the Franz Werfel Human Rights Prize in the Paulskirche .
• Patikul / Philippines : The crash of a military aircraft of the type Lockheed C-130 Hercules arrive at least 50 people dead.
• Near-Earth Orbit : The astronaut Liu Boming and Tang Hongbo left the Chinese space station for a six and a half hour spacewalk to the mechanical arm to test the station and carry out assembly work.

Monday 5th July 2021

• Damishi / Nigeria : During the night, armed attackers kidnap several dozen boarding school students from the Bethel Baptist High School in the local government area of Chikun in the northern Nigerian state of Kaduna .
• Paris / France : Reporters Without Borders publishes the new list of enemies of press freedom . With Viktor Orbán , a head of government from the European Union is represented for the first time.

Tuesday 6th July 2021

The machine that crashed at Palana

• Amsterdam / Netherlands : The investigative journalist Peter R. de Vries is gunned down in the street and seriously injured. He dies nine days later.
• Palana / Russia : When approaching the city's airport , an Antonov An-26 of the regional airline Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky Air Enterprise crashes ; all 28 people on board die.

Wednesday 7th July 2021

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  Port au Prince / Haiti : The Haitian President Jovenel Moïse is assassinated in the early hours of the morning. Prime Minister Claude Joseph takes over the official business on a provisional basis.

Thursday, July 8, 2021

• Dhaka / Bangladesh : A fire in a beverage factory in Rupganj, Narayanganj district near Dhaka kills at least 52 people.
• Vienna / Austria : Awarding of the Austrian Film Awards in the Globe Vienna .

Friday 9th July 2021

• Jerusalem / Israel : Jitzchak Herzog succeeds Reuven Rivlin as President of the country .
• Köthen / Germany : Because a cyber attack paralyzed the IT infrastructure , the district of Anhalt-Bitterfeld discovered the disaster .
• Salzburg / Austria : train derailment on the Murtalbahn .

Saturday 10th July 2021

• Munich / Germany : The Munich Film Festival is coming to an end.
• Rio de Janeiro / Brazil : The final of the Copa America between defending champions Brazil and Argentina will take place in the Maracanã Stadium .
• Venice / Italy : The finance ministers of the group of the twenty most important industrialized and emerging countries (G 20) decide on a global tax reform with minimum taxes of 15% for large companies.

Sunday 11th July 2021

• Chișinău / Moldova : parliamentary election
• Havana / Cuba : 144 people are arrested or considered missing and one person killed in protests critical of the government. The cause of the protests is the worst economic crisis in 30 years.
• London / United Kingdom : In the final of the 2021 European Football Championship between Italy and England at Wembley Stadium , Italy wins UEFA EURO 2020 on penalties with 1 (3) to 1 (2) goals.
• Sofia / Bulgaria : parliamentary elections

Monday, July 12, 2021

• Görlitz / Germany : After around 30 years of renovation, the synagogue is reopened as a cultural and event center.
• Nasiriya / Iraq : 92 patients die in the Covid isolation ward due to a fire in a hospital in Nasiriya.

Tuesday 13 July 2021

• Uedem / Germany : The Bundeswehr's space command is put into service.

Wednesday July 14, 2021

• Brussels / Belgium : The European Commission is presenting a first package of reformed and new EU directives and regulations under the name Fit for 55 , with which the goal anchored in the European Green Deal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the EU by at least 2030 The aim is to reduce 55 percent and make Europe climate neutral by 2050.
• Johannesburg / South Africa : More than 200 people are killed in the provinces of KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng in violent riots that have been going on for days after the arrival of former President Jacob Zuma . Shops are looted and partly set on fire. Military supports the outnumbered police force.
• Washington, DC / United States : In the White House, German Chancellor Angela Merkel is received by US President Joe Biden on one of her last trips abroad . The focus of the discussions is inter alia. dealing with the Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline .

Thursday 15th July 2021

• Düsseldorf and Mainz / Germany : One of the biggest storms of the post-war period occurred in North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate . A flood after the storm "Bernd" caused severe devastation and claimed more than 160 lives. Belgium, France, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Switzerland are also affected.

Friday, July 16, 2021

• Antananarivo / Madagascar : President Andry Rajoelina asks heads of state and government as well as the international community to help prevent a famine in southern Madagascar.

Saturday 17th July 2021

• Cannes / France : At the 74th Cannes International Film Festival , the French director Julia Ducournau is awarded the Palme d'Or for her fantasy film Titane . Jodie Foster and Marco Bellocchio are honored with the Festival Prize (Palme d'or d'honneur).

Sunday 18th July 2021

• Paris / France : Defending champion Tadej Pogačar wins the 108th Tour de France in Paris .

Monday, July 19, 2021

• Sadr City / Iraq : A suicide bomber killed at least 35 people and wounded 60 in a terrorist attack on a market in Sadr City. The terrorist organization Islamic State is committed to the attack.

Tuesday, July 20, 2021

• Berlin / Germany : The newly built Humboldt Forum opens its doors to visitors.
• Corn Ranch / United States : First manned flight of the space tourism rocket New Shepard
• Port-au-Prince / Haiti : Two weeks after the assassination of the Haitian President Jovenel Moïse and the resignation of the previous Prime Minister Claude Joseph , Ariel Henry is sworn in as Prime Minister.
• Taipei / Taiwan : The Taiwanese government announces that it will open a representative office in the Lithuanian capital Vilnius . It is the first representative office in the European Union to have Taiwan on its behalf.
• Zhengzhou / China : After heavy rains, at least 33 people are killed by flooding in Henan province . 376,000 people have been evacuated. The government announces emergency aid for Henan.

Wednesday July 21, 2021

• Fuzhou / China : At its 44th session, the World Heritage Committee revokes the status of the historic port of Liverpool as a World Heritage Site because the northern English city has lost its character due to numerous buildings.
• Nyingchi / China : With President Xi Jinping , a Chinese head of state is visiting the Autonomous Region of Tibet for the first time in 30 years .

Thursday July 22, 2021

• Dushanbe / Tajikistan : In response to Afghan security forces who fled the Taliban offensive to Tajikistan , President Emomalij Rahmon holds the largest military exercise in the country's history. The aim is to secure the southern border with Afghanistan. 130,000 reservists are mobilized for the military exercise.
• Kandahar / Afghanistan : Following the violent takeover of the Spin Boldak district in southern Afghanistan by the Taliban , over 100 civilians are shot dead for no apparent reason.

Friday 23 July 2021

• Gelsenkirchen / Germany : The 48th season of the 2nd Bundesliga begins with a win for Hamburger SV at Schalke 04
• Tokyo / Japan : Opening ceremony and start of the 2020 Summer Olympics

Saturday 24th July 2021

• Fuzhou / China : At its 44th session, the World Heritage Committee names four German sites as UNESCO World Heritage . A total of eleven sites in seven countries will be honored.

Sunday 25th July 2021

• Apia / Samoa : Several months after the Samoan parliamentary elections, the defeated long-term prime minister Sailele Tuilaʻepa Malielegaoi gives up his resistance to the elected head of government Naomi Mataʻafa , thereby ending a state crisis.
• Blackpool / United Kingdom : Last day of the World Matchplay
• Tunis / Tunisia : After days of violent protests, according to which the ruling party Ennahda and the Prime Minister were accused of failure in the fight against numerous new infections from corona diseases, Tunisian President Kais Saied is replacing Prime Minister Hichem Mechichi and dissolving parliament. Parliamentary leader Rached al-Ghannouchi speaks of a coup.

Monday, July 26th 2021

Mary Simon (2006)

• al-Chums / Libya : At least 57 migrants from Nigeria , Ghana and Gambia die in a ship accident in the Mediterranean Sea off the Libyan coast and 18 are rescued.
• Beirut / Lebanon : President Michel Aoun appoints Najib Miqati as prime minister. However, it remains to be seen whether the third attempt to form a government since the devastating explosion in Beirut will be successful.
• Ottawa / Canada : With Mary Simon , an Inuk is sworn in as governor general for the first time .
• Tehran / Iran : Increasing protests against water scarcity and the deteriorating economic situation reach the Iranian capital.

Tuesday, July 27, 2021

• Jijiga / Ethiopia : Attacks by armed men from the Afar region kill at least 300 civilians in Garbaiisa in the Somali region . In the aftermath, protesters set up road blockades and damaged the rail link between the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa and Djibouti . The cessation of rail traffic poses a threat to the Ethiopian economy.
• Leverkusen / Germany : In the morning there is a serious explosion in the tank farm of the Currenta waste disposal center in Chempark , Wiesdorf district near Bürrig. At least two people die; more than 30 are injured.
• Vatican City : In front of the Court of Vatican City State , the criminal case against ten accused, including the then substitutes the start Secretariat of State , Giovanni Angelo Becciu for one with Peter's Pence funds of several hundred million euros incurred heavy losses financial investments in a London property in height.

Wednesday July 28, 2021

• Accra / Ghana : In Ghana, a bill is being introduced, according to which same-sex intercourse can be punished with a penalty of up to ten years.
• Lima / Peru : Pedro Castillo is sworn in as president of the country.

Thursday July 29, 2021

• Lima / Peru : President Pedro Castillo appoints Guido Bellido of the Marxist Free Peru party as prime minister. The new head of government will give part of his inaugural speech in Quechua . The cabinet proposal comes without a finance minister after the nominee for financial affairs withdrew. The prime minister and cabinet have yet to be ratified by the center-right dominated Congress.
• Worldwide: Earth Overshoot Day

Friday 30th July 2021

Saturday 31 July 2021

See also

• Nekrolog July 2021 for deaths this month
• List of annually recurring commemorative and action days in July
• Category for commemorative days, public holidays or days of action in July

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Sister of the murdered MP Cox wins parliamentary seat. Der Spiegel , July 2, 2021, accessed on the same day.
2. ↑ https://www.oecd.org/tax/beps/statement-on-a-two-pillar-solution-to-address-the-tax-challenges-arising-from-the-digitalisation-of-the-economy -july-2021.pdf
3. ↑ https://www.bbc.com/news/business-57573380
4. ↑ https://www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/oecd-mindeststeuer-101.html
5. ↑ https://www.euronews.com/2021/07/02/ireland-hungary-and-estonia-opt-out-of-oecd-tax-deal-and-cast-shadow-over-eu-s-unified -pos
6. ↑ Heiko Fritze / dpa: Klaus Gehrig is no longer the head of the Schwarz Group. Heilbronn Voice, July 2, 2021 . 
7. ↑ https://www.bundesregierung.de/breg-de/themen/nachhaltigkeitspektiven/einwegplastik-wird-verboten-1763390
8. ↑ https://www.bmu.de/gesetz/politik-eu-2019904-des-europaeischen-parlaments-und-des-rates-vom-5-juni-2019-ueber-die-verring/
9. ↑ https://apnews.com/b2b5035872af955277e73f01f78c1d14
10. ↑ Viktor Orbán - Enemy of the Freedom of the Press. Der Spiegel, July 5, 2021, accessed on the same day.
11. ↑ An attack shocks the Netherlands. spiegel.de July 7, 2021.
12. ^ Accident report , Aviation Safety Network , accessed on July 6, 2021.
13. ↑ Laura Frommberg: Russian passenger plane crashed in Kamchatka. aerotelegraph.com July 6, 2021, accessed on the same day
14. ↑ https://apnews.com/article/business-fires-bangladesh-19a033b8302726a5ff018edbbd5b5a2b
15. ^ Peter Temel: Austrian Film Prize 2021: Film list and date fixed. In: Kurier.at . February 3, 2021, accessed February 3, 2021 . 
16. ↑ https://www.anhalt-bitterfeld.de/de/meldung-detail/katastrophenfall-feststellungs.html
17. ↑ https://salzburg.orf.at/stories/3111969/
18. ↑ https://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/g20-mindeststeuer-101.html
19. ↑ One dead in protests critical of the government. In: time online . July 14, 2021, accessed July 15, 2021 . 
20. ↑ Iraq hospital fire: Protests as Covid ward blaze kills at least 92. In: BBC . July 13, 2021, accessed July 25, 2021 . 
21. ↑ https://www.europarl.europa.eu/legislative-train/theme-a-european-green-deal/package-fit-for-55
22. ↑ A country is cleaning up. In: Tagesschau . July 18, 2021, accessed July 18, 2021 . 
23. ↑ https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/merkel-usa-101.html
24. ↑ R. Mandimbisoa: Andry Rajoelina plaide en faveur of victimes du changement climatique. In: Madagascar Tribune. July 16, 2021, accessed July 25, 2021 (French). 
25. ↑ [1] . Pogacar wins the tour, van Aert the last stage, July 18, 2021.
26. ↑ Suicide attack in Iraq's Sadr City kills at least 35, wounds dozens. In: Reuters . July 20, 2021, accessed July 25, 2021 . 
27. ↑ Jeff Bezos to go into space on first crewed flight of New Shepard rocket. The Guardian, June 7, 2021 . 
28. ^ Strife-torn Haiti gets new prime minister. In: BBC . July 21, 2021, accessed July 25, 2021 . 
29. ↑ Keoni Everington: Taiwan to open representative office in Lithuania. In: Taiwan News . July 20, 2021, accessed July 25, 2021 . 
30. ↑ At least 33 dead in floods. In: Tagesschau . July 22, 2021 . 
31. ↑ Liverpool is no longer a "World Heritage Site". In: Spiegel online . July 21, 2021, accessed July 23, 2021 . 
32. ↑ Xi travels to Tibet surprisingly. In: Spiegel online. July 23, 2021, accessed July 23, 2021 . 
33. ^ Afghan neighbor Tajikistan holds largest ever military exercise. In: Reuters . July 22, 2021, accessed July 25, 2021 . 
34. ↑ Anisa Shaheed: Sources allege 100 Civilians killed after Fall of Spin Boldak. In: Tolo News. July 22, 2021, accessed July 25, 2021 . 
35. ↑ tagesschau.de: Baden-Baden, Bad Ems, Bad Kissingen and Mathildenhöhe are world heritage sites. Retrieved July 25, 2021 . 
36. ↑ Long-term prime minister recognizes election defeats after months. In: Spiegel online . July 26, 2021, accessed July 31, 2021 . 
37. ↑ Tunisia's President fires premier military vehicles on the streets. In: Spiegel online. July 26, 2021, accessed July 31, 2021 . 
38. ↑ https://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/afrika/libyen-schiffunsglueck-fluechtlinge-101.html
39. ↑ https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/7/26/un-at-least-57-people-drown-off-libyan-coast
40. ↑ Billionaire Mikati new Prime Minister. In: Tagesschau . July 26, 2021, accessed July 31, 2021 . 
41. ↑ Catharine Tunney, Darren Major: Mary Simon officially becomes Canada's first Inuk Governor General. In: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation . July 26, 2021, accessed July 31, 2021 . 
42. ↑ Demonstrators chant 'Death to the Dictator' in Tehran as Protests spread. In: Radio Farda . July 26, 2021, accessed July 31, 2021 . 
43. ↑ Simon Marks, Fasika Tadesse: Protesters block Ethiopia Rail Link after Clashes leave 300 dead. In: Bloomberg . July 27, 2021, accessed July 31, 2021 . 
44. ↑ A missing person found dead. Currenta, July 27, 2021, accessed July 27, 2021 . 
45. ↑ Two deaths from an explosion in a chemical park. Currenta, July 28, 2021, accessed July 28, 2021 . 
46. ↑ Danielle Paquette: Lawmakers in Ghana seek to outlaw advocacy for gay rights. In: The Washington Post . July 28, 2021, accessed July 31, 2021 . 
47. ↑ Marco Aquino, Marcelo Rochabrun: Peru's Castillo names far-left PM; no finance minister in cabinet. In: Reuters . July 30, 2021, accessed July 31, 2021 . 

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