Portal:Current events/July 2008/Sidebar

Ongoing events
2008 Summer Olympics Diplomatic response to Kosovar independence Economic crisis in U.S. and Europe EU Treaty ratification Subprime mortgage crisis U.S. presidential election World food price crisis

Recent deaths

July 30: Anne Armstrong 27: Youssef Chahine 27: Horst Stein 24: Norman Dello Joio 25: Randy Pausch 22: Victor McKusick 22: Estelle Getty 17: John Hunt, Baron Hunt of Tanworth 16: Jo Stafford 15: György Kolonics 14: Susumu Ōno 13: Les Crane 13: Bronisław Geremek 12: Bobby Murcer 12: Tony Snow 11: Roy M. Huffington 11: Michael DeBakey 9: Charles H. Joffe 8: John Templeton 5: Huyền Quang 4: Jesse Helms 4: Evelyn Keyes 4: Terrence Kiel 4: Charles Wheeler 3: Larry Harmon 1: Mogens Glistrup 1: Mel Galley

Ongoing conflicts
Acholiland insurgency Israeli–Palestinian conflict Colombian armed conflict Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir Iraq War Insurgency in the Philippines Fatah–Hamas conflict War in Somalia Turkey–PKK conflict Second Chechen War Insurgency in Ogaden South Thailand insurgency Sri Lankan Civil War War in Afghanistan War in North-West Pakistan War in Darfur Chadian Civil War Shia insurgency in Yemen

Elections
July 8: Grenada, Parliament 19: Nepal, President (1stround) (by the parliament) 21: Nepal, President (2ndround) (by the parliament) 27: Cambodia, Parliament 30: Republic of the Congo, Senate (indirect)

Trials

Upcoming Austria: Josef Fritzl Canada: Larry O'Brien Netherlands: ICTY Radovan Karadžić Singapore: Peter Lloyd U.S.: Aníbal Acevedo Vilá U.S.: Viktor Bout U.S.: Tom DeLay U.S.: Noshir Gowadia U.S.: William J. Jefferson U.S.: Kwame Kilpatrick U.S.: James Charles Kopp U.S.: O. J. Simpson U.S.: Ehren Watada Ongoing Cambodia: Khmer Rouge Tribunal Iraq: Supreme Iraqi Criminal Tribunal Netherlands: ICC Thomas Lubanga Netherlands: ICTY Peru: Alberto Fujimori Sierra Leone: SCfSL Charles Taylor UK: Barry George US: Jena Six US: Brian Nichols US: José Padilla US: Phil Spector

Upcoming holidays and observances

1 – Canada Day (Canada) 1 – July Morning (Bulgaria) 1 – Republic Day (Ghana) 3 – Independence Day (Belarus) 4 – Independence Day (United States) 5 – Independence Day (Venezuela) 6 – Independence Day (Malawi) 7 – Saba Saba Day, Tanzania 7 – San Fermin (Pamplona and Spain) 7 – Tanabata (Japan) 9 – Independence Day (Argentina) 14 – Bastille Day (France) 15 – Birthday of Don Luis Muñoz Rivera (Puerto Rico) 17 – Constitution Day (South Korea) 20 – Independence Day (Colombia) 20 – Seventeenth of Tammuz and beginning of The Three Weeks (Judaism) 20-August 10: The Three Weeks (Judaism) 21 – Racial Harmony Day (Singapore) 21 – Independence Day (Belgium) 25 – Commonwealth Constitution Day (Puerto Rico) 28 – Independence Day (Peru) 30: Lailat al Miraj (Islam) 30: Independence Day (Vanuatu) 31: Flag Day (Hawaii) 31: Hari Pahlawan (Malaysia) August 1: Lammas/Lughnasadh (Gaelic, Pagan, England, Scotland) 1: Emancipation Day (Barbados) 1: Independence Day (Benin) 1: Army Day (China) 1: Province Day (Guadalcanal) 1: Swiss National Day (Switzerland) 1: Coronation of George Tupou V (Tonga) 1: Yorkshire Day (Yorkshire) 1: Emancipation Day (Barbados, Jamaica, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago) 2: Virgen de los Angeles (Costa Rica) 2: Ilinden–Preobrazhenie Uprising Day (Balkans) 2 - 10: The Nine Days (Judaism)