What Happened In July 2000 In History

Historical Events for July, 2000

• 2nd » Vicente Fox Quesada is elected the first President of Mexico President of México from an opposition party, the National Action Party (Mexico) Partido Acción Nacional, after more than 70 years of continuous rule by the Institutional Revolutionary Party Par
• 14th » A powerful solar flare, later named the Bastille Day event, causes a geomagnetic storm on Earth.

Famous Birthdays on July in 2000

• 7th » Princess Purnika of Nepal
• 8th » Sophie Nyweide, American actress
• 17th » Maria Aragon, Canadian singer
• 17th » Nico Liersch, German TV and film teen actor
• 25th » Preston Bailey, American actor
• 28th » Emily Hahn (actress) called Emily Hahn, American actress
• 31st » Kim Sae-ron, South Korean actress

Famous Deaths for July 2000

• 1st » Walter Matthau, American actor and singer (b. 1920)
• 2nd » Joey Dunlop, Irish motorcycle racer (b. 1952)
• 3rd » Kemal Sunal, Turkish actor and producer (b. 1944)
• 4th » Gustaw Herling-Grudziński, Polish journalist and author (b. 1919)
• 6th » Władysław Szpilman, Polish pianist and composer (b. 1911)
• 7th » Kenny Irwin, Jr., American race car driver (b. 1969)
• 9th » Doug Fisher (actor) or Doug Fisher, English actor (b. 1941)
• 10th » Vakkom Majeed, Indian politician (b. 1909)
• 10th » Justin Pierce, English-American actor and skateboarder (b. 1975)
• 11th » Pedro Mir, Dominican lawyer, author, and poet (b. 1913)
• 11th » Robert Runcie, English archbishop (b. 1921)
• 12th » Charles Merritt, Canadian colonel and politician, Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1908)
• 13th » Jan Karski, Polish-American activist and academic (b. 1914)
• 14th » Pepo (cartoonist) known as Pepo, Chilean cartoonist (b. 1911)
• 14th » William Roscoe Estep, American historian and educator (b. 1920)
• 14th » Meredith MacRae, American actress and singer (b. 1944)
• 14th » Georges Maranda, Canadian baseball player (b. 1932)
• 15th » Louis Quilico, Canadian opera singer (b. 1925)
• 17th » Zhao Lirong, Chinese actress (b. 1928)
• 20th » Malaclypse the Younger American author (b. 1941)
• 21st » Marc Reisner, American environmentalist and author (b. 1948)
• 22nd » Eric Christmas, English-American actor (b. 1916)
• 22nd » Carmen Martín Gaite, Spanish author (b. 1925)
• 22nd » Raymond Lemieux, Canadian chemist and academic (b. 1920)
• 22nd » Claude Sautet, French director and screenwriter (b. 1924)
• 24th » Ahmad Shamloo, Iranian poet and journalist (b. 1925)
• 24th » G. Wood, American actor (b. 1919)
• 25th » Rudi Faßnacht, German footballer, coach, and manager (b. 1934)
• 26th » John Tukey, American mathematician and academic (b. 1915)
• 27th » Gordon Solie, American wrestling announcer (b. 1929)
• 28th » Abraham Pais, Dutch-American physicist and historian (b. 1918)
• 31st » William Keepers Maxwell, Jr., American journalist and author (b. 1908)

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