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July 2008
Ongoing events
2008 Summer Olympics
Diplomatic response to Kosovar independence
Economic crisis in U.S. and Europe
EU Treaty ratification
Subprime mortgage crisis
U.S. presidential election
World food price crisis
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Recent deaths
July
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30
:
Anne Armstrong
27
:
Youssef Chahine
27
:
Horst Stein
24
:
Norman Dello Joio
25
:
Randy Pausch
22
:
Victor McKusick
22
:
Estelle Getty
17
:
John Hunt, Baron Hunt of Tanworth
16
:
Jo Stafford
15
:
György Kolonics
14
:
Susumu Ōno
13
:
Les Crane
13
:
Bronisław Geremek
12
:
Bobby Murcer
12
:
Tony Snow
11
:
Roy M. Huffington
11
:
Michael DeBakey
9
:
Charles H. Joffe
8
:
John Templeton
5
:
Huyền Quang
4
:
Jesse Helms
4
:
Evelyn Keyes
4
:
Terrence Kiel
4
:
Charles Wheeler
3
:
Larry Harmon
1
:
Mogens Glistrup
1
:
Mel Galley
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Ongoing conflicts
Acholiland insurgency
Israeli–Palestinian conflict
Colombian armed conflict
Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir
Iraq War
Insurgency in the Philippines
Fatah–Hamas conflict
War in Somalia
Turkey–PKK conflict
Second Chechen War
Insurgency in Ogaden
South Thailand insurgency
Sri Lankan Civil War
War in Afghanistan
War in North-West Pakistan
War in Darfur
Chadian Civil War
Shia insurgency in Yemen
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Elections
July
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8
:
Grenada
,
Parliament
19
:
Nepal
,
President
(1stround) (by the parliament)
21
:
Nepal
,
President
(2ndround) (by the parliament)
27
:
Cambodia
,
Parliament
30
:
Republic of the Congo
,
Senate
(indirect)
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Trials
Upcoming
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Austria:
Josef Fritzl
Canada:
Larry O'Brien
Netherlands:
ICTY
Radovan Karadžić
Singapore:
Peter Lloyd
U.S.:
Aníbal Acevedo Vilá
U.S.:
Viktor Bout
U.S.:
Tom DeLay
U.S.:
Noshir Gowadia
U.S.:
William J. Jefferson
U.S.:
Kwame Kilpatrick
U.S.:
James Charles Kopp
U.S.:
O. J. Simpson
U.S.:
Ehren Watada
Ongoing
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Cambodia:
Khmer Rouge Tribunal
Iraq:
Supreme Iraqi Criminal Tribunal
Netherlands:
ICC
Thomas Lubanga
Netherlands:
ICTY
Peru:
Alberto Fujimori
Sierra Leone:
SCfSL
Charles Taylor
UK:
Barry George
US:
Jena Six
US:
Brian Nichols
US:
José Padilla
US:
Phil Spector
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Upcoming holidays
and observances
1
–
Canada Day
(
Canada
)
1
–
July Morning
(
Bulgaria
)
1
–
Republic Day
(
Ghana
)
3
–
Independence Day
(
Belarus
)
4
–
Independence Day
(
United States
)
5
–
Independence Day
(
Venezuela
)
6
–
Independence Day
(
Malawi
)
7
–
Saba Saba Day
,
Tanzania
7
–
San Fermin
(
Pamplona
and
Spain
)
7
–
Tanabata
(
Japan
)
9
–
Independence Day
(
Argentina
)
14
–
Bastille Day
(
France
)
15
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Birthday of Don Luis Muñoz Rivera
(
Puerto Rico
)
17
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Constitution Day
(
South Korea
)
20
–
Independence Day
(
Colombia
)
20
–
Seventeenth of Tammuz
and beginning of
The Three Weeks
(
Judaism
)
20
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August 10
:
The Three Weeks
(Judaism)
21
–
Racial Harmony Day
(
Singapore
)
21
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Independence Day
(
Belgium
)
25
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Commonwealth Constitution Day
(
Puerto Rico
)
28
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Independence Day
(
Peru
)
30
:
Lailat al Miraj
(Islam)
30
:
Independence Day (Vanuatu)
31
:
Flag Day
(Hawaii)
31
:
Hari Pahlawan
(
Malaysia
)
August
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1
:
Lammas
/
Lughnasadh
(
Gaelic
,
Pagan
, England, Scotland)
1
:
Emancipation Day
(
Barbados
)
1
:
Independence Day (Benin)
1
:
Army Day
(China)
1
:
Province Day
(
Guadalcanal
)
1
:
Swiss National Day
(Switzerland)
1
:
Coronation of George Tupou V
(
Tonga
)
1
:
Yorkshire Day
(
Yorkshire
)
1
:
Emancipation Day
(
Barbados
,
Jamaica
,
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
,
Trinidad and Tobago
)
2
:
Virgen de los Angeles
(
Costa Rica
)
2
:
Ilinden–Preobrazhenie Uprising Day
(
Balkans
)
2
-
10
:
The Nine Days
(Judaism)
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