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Events
- July 2 - France beat Italy 2-1 at the final of the 2000 European Football Championship.
- July 10 - In southern Nigeria, a leaking petroleum pipeline explodes killing about 250 villagers who were scavenging for gasoline
- July 14 - At Pine Lake in Central Alberta a tornado tears through the Green Acres Campground killing 12 people and critically injuring more than 60.
- July 14 - The First series of Big Brother (UK) starts.
- July 14 - A powerful solar flare, later named the Bastille Day event, causes a geomagnetic storm on Earth.
- July 17, The 10th President of Syria, Bashar al Assad Assumed office.
- July 18 - Alex Salmond resigns as the leader of the Scottish National Party
- July 25 - A Concorde supersonic passenger jet crashes just after takeoff from Paris killing all 109 aboard and 5 on the ground.
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