Reports are broadcast that a UFO crash landed in Roswell, New Mexico in what became known as the Roswell UFO incident.
7 July 1980
Institution of sharia law in Iran.
6 July 1947
The AK-47 goes into production in the Soviet Union.
5 July 1954
The BBC broadcasts its first television news bulletin.
4 July 1997
NASA’s Pathfinder space probe lands on the surface of Mars.
3 July 1996
British Prime Minister John Major announced the Stone of Scone would be returned to Scotland.
2 July 2016
Suicide bombing of Karrada in Baghdad kills at least 341 people.
1 July 1903
Start of first Tour de France bicycle race.
30 June 1953
The first Chevrolet Corvette rolls off the assembly line in Flint, Michigan.
29 June 2007
Apple Inc. releases its first mobile phone, the iPhone.