Editing 2007 (section)

===July===
* [[July 4]] &ndash; The [[International Olympic Committee]] awards [[Sochi]] the right to host the [[2014 Winter Olympics]].
* [[July 7]] &ndash; [[Live Earth]] Concerts are held in nine major cities around the world to raise [[Environmentalism|environmental awareness]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://in.reuters.com/article/idINIndia-35574720080920?sp=true|title=Live Earth show to help light homes with solar energy|last=Jamkhandikar|first=Shilpa|date=2008-09-20|newspaper=Reuters|access-date=2017-01-11|language=en-IN|archive-date=2017-01-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170113105624/http://in.reuters.com/article/idINIndia-35574720080920?sp=true|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[July 11]] – The traffic accident between Toyota Kijang Kapsul's car and the truck which contains a lot of cement in front of Krendetan Market, [[Purworejo Regency|Purworejo]], [[Central Java]], [[Indonesia]]. [[Taufik Savalas]], Indonesian [[comedian]] died in the tragedy at the age of 41 years old.
* [[July 17]]
** [[TAM Airlines Flight 3054]] an Airbus A320-233 overruns the runway of [[São Paulo–Congonhas Airport]] runway 35L, flies over Avenida Washington Luís and crashes into TAM Express building and a [[Shell_plc|Shell]] filling station adjacent to the TAM Express building. All 187 passengers and crew are killed instantly. 12 people inside the TAM Express and the Shell filling station are also killed.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-23609524|title=Brazil trial over plane crash that killed 199|date=2013-08-08|newspaper=BBC News|access-date=2017-02-18|language=en-GB|archive-date=2020-11-28|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201128163634/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-23609524|url-status=live}}</ref>
** The [[dwarf planet]] [[Gonggong (dwarf planet)|Gonggong]] is discovered by astronomers [[Megan Schwamb]], [[Michael E. Brown|Michael Brown]], and [[David L. Rabinowitz|David Rabinowitz]] from the [[Palomar Observatory]].<ref name="MPC-object">{{cite web
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* [[July 24]] &ndash; Five [[Bulgaria]]n nurses are released from Libyan prison after eight and a half years spent behind bars in [[Benghazi]] and [[Tripoli, Libya|Tripoli]], marking the end of the so-called "[[HIV trial in Libya]]".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6912965.stm|title=HIV medics released to Bulgaria|date=2007-07-24|work=BBC News|access-date=2015-11-25|archive-date=2007-08-08|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070808075931/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6912965.stm|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[July 31]] – [[Operation Banner]] comes to an end, thus ending the longest continuous deployment in [[British military history]].