July 2006 Timeline
July 1A car bomb in northeastern Baghdad marketplace killed 62 people and wounded 114 others
July 1
Finland took over the EU presidency for 6 months
July 3
Both leading candidates, Lopez Obrador and Felipe Calderon, claimed victory in presidential elections in Mexico
July 3
41 people were killed and over 45 others were wounded in Valencia underground train crash, Spain
July 4
North Korea test-fired a long-range missile and five shorter-range rockets
July 7
Poland's Prime Minister Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz resigned
July 8
Amelie Mauresmo won the 2006 Wimbledon
July 9
An Airbus A-310 passenger jet with 200 people on board crashed at Irkutsk Airport in eastern Siberia, Russia, killing at least 122 people
July 9
Italy won the 200 FIFA World Cup in Germany
July 9
Roger Federer won the 2006 Wimbledon
July 10
Polish President Lech Kaczynski appointed his twin brother, Jaroslaw, as prime minister
July 10
Chechen warlord Shami Basayev was killed by Russian security agents
July 10
A Pakistan International Airlines plane crashed, killing all 45 people on board
July 11
At least 186 people were killed and about 700 others were wounded by seven bombs on the train network in Mumbai, India
July 11
The American League won the MLB All-Star Game
July 12
After Lebanon's Hezbollah guerrillas kidnapped two Israeli soldiers, Israel launched attack on Lebanon
July 14
Tropical storm Bilis which caused massive flooding, killed more than 600 people and forced 3 million people from their homes in China
July 14
General Bantz Craddock was named Supreme Allied Commander in Europe
July 17
A tsunami triggered by an earthquake with a magnitude of 7,7 killed over 100 people on the island of Java, Indonesia
July 18
At least 59 were killed and 130 others were wounded in a suicide car bomb in Kufa marketplace, Iraq
July 19
At least 150 died or are missing in Korean peninsula in landslides and floods caused by days of heavy rain
July 21
Ta Mok, one of the main leaders of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge regime, died in the capital Phnom Penh
July 22
An earthquake with a magnitude of 5,1 hit Yunan province, in the south-west China, killing at least 18 people
July 23
Floyd Landis from USA won the 2006 Tour de France
July 23
Tiger Woods won the PGA Championship
July 23
Two car bombers in Kirkuk city courthouse and Baghdad market killed least 50 people and wounded 165 others
July 28
Nazi Germany's only aircraft carrier, the Graf Zeppelin, has been located in the Baltic Sea
July 28
The shooting at the Jewish Federation offices in downtown Seattle committed by a Muslim who was a US citizen of Pakistani descent, killed one woman and wounded 5 people
July 30
First multi-party elections in more than 40 years were held in the Democratic Republic of Congo
July 31
A 4-year cease-fire between Tamil Tiger rebels and Sri Lankan government was broken