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Julius Wolff (Dutch mathematician)

Julius Wolff was a Dutch mathematician and professor at Groningen and Utrecht, known for the Denjoy–Wolff theorem; dismissed in 1940, he died in Bergen-Belsen in 1945.

Julius Wolff (German surgeon)

Julius Wolff (1836–1902) was a German orthopedic surgeon in Berlin whose 1892 monograph gave his name to Wolff's law: bone adapts its structure to the loads placed on it.

Julius Wood

Julius Wood (born 2001, Columbus, Ohio) is an NFL safety for the Miami Dolphins; undrafted 2024 out of East Carolina via Blinn College, previously Cowboys and Titans.

Juliusz Rómmel

Juliusz Rómmel (1881–1967) was a Polish divisional general, praised as a cavalry commander in the 1920 Polish-Soviet War, who commanded Army Łódź and the defense of Warsaw in September 1939.

Juliusz Schauder

Juliusz Schauder, also known as Juliusz Paweł Schauder, was a Polish mathematician of the Lwów school, born in 1899 in Lemberg, known for the Schauder fixed point theorem.

Juliusz Słowacki

Juliusz Słowacki (1809–1849) was a Polish Romantic poet, playwright, and philosopher, one of the three national bards alongside Adam Mickiewicz, and the author of Kordian, Balladyna, and Król-Duch.

Julong Copper Mine

The Julong Copper Mine is a large open-pit copper-molybdenum mine in Maizhokunggar County near Lhasa, Tibet, holding China's largest copper resources at 25.88 million tonnes.

Julu Relief Army Coalition

The Julu Relief Army Coalition (巨鹿之战诸侯联军) was the alliance of rebel lords' armies formed to relieve the Qin siege of Julu, where Xiang Yu destroyed Wang Li's army.

Julun Yeti Reshimgathi (जुळून येती रेशीमगाठी)

Julun Yeti Reshimgathi (जुळून येती रेशीमगाठी), a Zee Marathi romantic family drama (2013–2015, 582 episodes) starring Lalit Prabhakar and Prajakta Mali as Aditya and Meghana Desai; directed by Hemant Deodhar, winner of eight Zee Marathi Awards in 2014.

July

July, the seventh month of the Gregorian calendar with 31 days, was renamed from Quintilis in 44 BCE for Julius Caesar. Known for Northern Hemisphere summer heat, the dog days, Bastille Day, Independence Day, and the 1914 July Crisis.

July 10

July 10 is a day in history marked by the start of the Battle of Britain in 1940 and the launch of Telstar 1, the first active communications satellite, in 1962.

July 11

July 11, the 192nd day of the Gregorian year, hosts World Population Day, the Srebrenica remembrance day, and Belgium's Flemish Community Day, and marks the 1302 Battle of the Golden Spurs, the 1804 Hamilton-Burr duel, and Skylab's 1979 reentry.

July 12

July 12 is the 193rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar, marked by Orangemen's Day in Northern Ireland and independence days in Kiribati and São Tomé and Príncipe.

July 12, 2007, Baghdad airstrike

The July 12, 2007, Baghdad airstrike was a US Army Apache attack in eastern Baghdad that killed Reuters photographer Namir Noor-Eldeen and driver Saeed Chmagh, among others.

July 14

July 14, the 195th day of the Gregorian year, is France's national day (Bastille Day, fête nationale), marking the 1789 storming of the Bastille and the 1790 Fête de la Fédération, made a holiday by the 1880 Raspail law.

July 15

July 15, the 196th day of the Gregorian year: date of the 1099 Crusader capture of Jerusalem, the 1799 Rosetta Stone discovery, the 1918 Second Battle of the Marne, the 1975 Apollo–Soyuz launch, Turkey's Democracy Day, and Twitter's 2006 launch.

July 16

July 16, the 197th day of the Gregorian year, marks the 1945 Trinity atomic bomb test, the 1969 Apollo 11 launch, the 1918 Romanov executions, the 1790 Residence Act, and the 1951 publication of The Catcher in the Rye.

July 17

July 17, the 198th day of the Gregorian year (167 days remaining), is marked by events including the 1754 opening of King's College, the 1944 Port Chicago disaster, the 1945 Potsdam Conference, the 1955 Disneyland opening, Apollo–Soyuz (1975), the Rome Statute (1998), and MH17 (2014).

July 19

July 19, the 200th day of the Gregorian year (201st in leap years), hosts Myanmar's Martyrs' Day, Nicaragua's Sandinista Revolution Day, US National Ice Cream Day, and marks the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention and the AD 64 Great Fire of Rome.

July 1932 German federal election

The July 1932 German federal election, held 31 July 1932, made the Nazi Party the largest party in the Reichstag with 37.3 percent of the vote.

July 2

July 2, the 183rd day of the year, is the 1776 date the Continental Congress voted for American independence, two days before adopting the Declaration; also the 1964 Civil Rights Act signing and World UFO Day.

July 20

July 20, the 201st day of the year, is the date of the Apollo 11 Moon landing (1969), the failed Stauffenberg plot against Hitler (1944), Viking 1's Mars landing (1976), and Colombia's Independence Day (1810).

July 2016 Dhaka attack

July 2016 Dhaka attack, or Holey Artisan Bakery attack: Islamist gunmen took hostages at a Gulshan café on 1 July 2016, killing 20 hostages and 2 police; army Operation Thunderbolt rescued 13; IS claimed it, Bangladesh blamed Neo-JMB.

July 2018 lunar eclipse

The July 2018 lunar eclipse was a total lunar eclipse on 27–28 July 2018, the longest total lunar eclipse of the 21st century at 1 hour 43 minutes.

July 2020 Armenian–Azerbaijani clashes

July 2020 Armenian–Azerbaijani clashes, or Tovuz clashes: 12–16 July 2020 border fighting in Azerbaijan's Tovuz and Armenia's Tavush regions, deadliest since 2016, killing at least 16 soldiers including Major General Polad Hashimov, precursor to the 2020 Karabakh war.

July 2025 Central Texas floods

The July 2025 Central Texas floods, also called the Kerr County floods, killed at least 135 people along the Guadalupe River on July 4, 2025.

July 2026 Balochistan attacks

July 2026 Balochistan attacks: wave of BLA-led insurgent violence in Pakistan's Balochistan province, including the Jiwani coast guard bombing and Ziarat police post massacre, killing 42 in early July and prompting Operation Shaban.

July 2026 political peerages

July 2026 political peerages: 26 UK life peerages announced 16 July 2026, Keir Starmer's final list, with 16 Labour, 5 Liberal Democrat, 3 Conservative, and 2 crossbench nominees including Sadiq Khan.

July 21

July 21 is the 202nd day of a common year in the Gregorian calendar, with 163 days remaining, marked by the Apollo 11 moonwalk and Belgium's national day.

July 22

July 22, the 203rd day of the Gregorian year, marks Wiley Post's 1933 first solo around-the-world flight, the Battle of Atlanta, the start of Warsaw ghetto deportations to Treblinka, and Pi Approximation Day.