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===July=== * [[July 5]] ** [[Iraq disarmament crisis]]: UN inspection teams leave Iraq. Iraq then agrees to [[UNSCOM]] demands and the inspection teams return. ** Electrochemist [[Faiza Al-Kharafi]] is appointed rector (president) of [[Kuwait University]], the first woman to head a major university in the Middle East. * [[July 7]]β[[July 9|9]] β The [[19th G7 summit]] is held in Tokyo, Japan. * [[July 8]] β [[1993 India floods|Monsoonal floods in South Asia]] begin, going on to kill more than three thousand people over the next month.<ref name="dartmouth-register">{{Cite web|title=1993 Global Register of Extreme Flood Events|url=http://www.dartmouth.edu/~floods/Archives/1993sum.htm|archive-date=2003-10-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20031018232924/http://www.dartmouth.edu/~floods/Archives/1993sum.htm}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=MONSOON FLOODS SPREAD DESTRUCTION ACROSS SOUTH ASIA, KILLING 3,000|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1993/07/31/monsoon-floods-spread-destruction-across-south-asia-killing-3000/daf85676-a95d-4f2f-a755-731f47d7a22e/}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=S. Asia Floods Kill 4,200; More Deaths Feared|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-07-27-mn-17522-story.html}}</ref> * [[July 11|July 7]] β [[Hurricane Calvin (1993)|Hurricane Calvin]] lands in Mexico. It is the second Pacific hurricane on record to land in Mexico in July and kills 34. * [[July 12]] β The 7.7 {{M|w}} [[1993 Okushiri earthquake|HokkaidΕ earthquake]] affects northern Japan with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (''Severe'') and triggers a devastating [[tsunami]] that kills 230 on the small island of [[Okushiri, Hokkaido]]. * [[July 19]] β [[1993 Japanese general election]]: The loss of majority of the Liberal Democratic Party results in a coalition taking power. * [[July 25]] β In a [[terrorist attack]] members of the [[Azanian People's Liberation Army]] open fire on a congregation inside [[Saint James' Church Massacre|St James Church]] in [[Kenilworth, Cape Town]], killing eleven and injuring fifty.<ref name="Jeffery">{{Jeffery-People's War}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=TRC Reports on St James Church Massacre|url=http://www.sahistory.org.za/archive/trc-reports-st-james-church-massacre-video|website=South African History Online|publisher=Truth and Reconciliation Commission|access-date=January 31, 2015|quote=A terrorist attack on St. James Church in Cape Town, South Africa left 11 people dead and 58 wounded.|archive-date=January 31, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150131152112/http://www.sahistory.org.za/archive/trc-reports-st-james-church-massacre-video|url-status=live}}</ref> * [[July 26]] ** [[Miguel Indurain]] wins the [[1993 Tour de France]]. ** [[Asiana Airlines Flight 733]] crashes into Mt. Ungeo in [[Haenam]], South Korea; 68 are killed. * [[July 29]] β The [[Israeli Supreme Court]] acquits accused [[Nazi]] death camp guard [[John Demjanjuk]] of all charges and he is set free.
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