Timeline July 2017

Events in July 2017 5

• 1943 – 2017 Sam Shepard (1943-2017) Died 27 July 2017, aged 73 American playwright, actor, and director who won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Buried Child and was nominated for an Academy Award for his role in The Right Stuff. His plays, including True West and Fool for Love, reshaped American theater. He died of complications from ALS.
• 1955 – 2017 Liu Xiaobo (1955-2017) Died 13 July 2017, aged 61 Chinese writer and human rights activist who won the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize while imprisoned for co-authoring a manifesto calling for political reform. He died in Chinese custody from liver cancer, having never been permitted to leave the country to receive treatment abroad. He was the first Nobel Peace laureate to die in state custody since 1938.
• 2017 Wimbledon 2017 Men: Roger Federer · Women: Garbiñe Muguruza Federer won his 8th Wimbledon without dropping a set — a stunning achievement at 35.
• 2017 Spider-Man: Homecoming #6 film of 2017 — $880m worldwide Directed by Jon Watts. Peter Parker balances high school life with being Spider-Man as he tries to impress Tony Stark.
• 2017 Iraqi forces retake Mosul from ISIS Nine-month battle ends Islamic State's hold on Iraq's second city Iraqi government forces, backed by a US-led coalition, declared victory over the Islamic State in Mosul after a nine-month battle that left much of the city in ruins. The battle was one of the largest urban combat operations since World War II. It marked a decisive blow to the territorial "caliphate" ISIS had declared in 2014.