July 12th – Birthdays and Events
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 – Birthdays and Events
1848 - London’s Waterloo Station was officially opened. With over 91 million passenger entries and exits between April 2010 and March 2011, it is Britain’s busiest railway station.
July 10th – Birthdays and Events
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 – Birthdays and Events
1982 - Queen Elizabeth II woke to find an intruder (Michael Fagan) sitting at the end of her bed, raising concerns about poor Palace security.
July 8th – Birthdays and Events
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 – Birthdays and Events
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.
July 6th – Birthdays and Events
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 – Birthdays and Events
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 – Birthdays and Events
1990 – Footballer Paul Gascoigne’s booking, (that would have excluded him from the World Cup Final, had England got there), resulted in the famous on pitch crying scenes from Gascoigne.