July 12th – On This Day
2017 - Iceberg A-68 broke from the Larsen C Ice Shelf, along the east coast of the Antarctic Peninsula. At the time, it was the largest iceberg in the world and the sixth-largest berg in three decades of records.
July 11th – On This Day
1900 - Charlotte Cooper from Ealing in Middlesex won a gold medal in the women’s tennis singles tournament in the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris. She also won a gold medal in the mixed doubles, making her the first individual female Olympic champion.
July 10th – On This Day
1997 - More than 100,000 people packed Hyde Park in London for a countryside rally to protest against Government proposals to ban fox hunting.
July 9th – On This Day
1984 - A massive fire, caused by a lightning strike, devastated large parts of York Minster causing an estimated £1m damage. Despite the best efforts of the firefighters, who worked tirelessly to save the cathedral, the fire raged for several hours and caused extensive damage to the building.
July 8th – On This Day
1996 - A patent was filed by two British scientists to use genetically engineered mosquitoes to immunize their victims against malaria by transferring a protein in their saliva.
July 7th – On This Day
2013 - Andy Murray won his first Wimbledon title and ended Britain’s 77 year wait for a men’s champion with a victory over world number one Novak Djokovic. The Scot won 6-4, 7-5 and 6-4.
July 6th – On This Day
1988 - An explosion aboard the North Sea oil rig Piper Alpha, off the coast of Aberdeen, resulted in the loss of 167 lives. It is the world’s deadliest ever oil rig accident.
July 5th – On This Day
2012 - The Shard, Europe’s tallest building to date and ‘a gleaming feat of glass and gravity-defying engineering’, was officially unveiled in London.
July 4th – On This Day
1990 - Paul Gascoigne collected a booking against West Germany, which would have ruled him out of the FIFA World Cup final if England got there. This resulted in the famous on pitch crying scenes.