Editing 1985 (section)

===July===
[[File:Live Aid at JFK Stadium, Philadelphia, PA (cropped1).jpg|thumb|250px|[[Live Aid]] at JFK Stadium in Philadelphia]]
* [[July 1]] – The [[Convention on the Transfer of Sentenced Persons]] enters into force.
* [[July 10]] 
** The [[Greenpeace]] vessel ''[[Rainbow Warrior (1955)|Rainbow Warrior]]'' is [[sinking of the Rainbow Warrior|bombed and sunk]] in [[Auckland Harbour]] by French [[Directorate-General for External Security|DGSE]] agents.
** [[Aeroflot Flight 5143]] crashes near [[Uchquduq]], [[Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic|Uzbek SSR]], [[Soviet Union]], killing all 200 people on board.

* [[July 13]] – ''[[Live Aid]]'' benefit concerts in [[London]] and [[Philadelphia]] raise over £50&nbsp;million for [[1983–1985 famine in Ethiopia|famine]] relief in [[Derg|Ethiopia]].
* [[July 19]]
**[[New Hampshire]] teacher [[Christa McAuliffe]] is selected as the first person to go into space under the [[Teacher in Space Project]], and designated to ride aboard the [[Space Shuttle Challenger|Space Shuttle ''Challenger'']].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=38909|title=Remarks of the Vice President Announcing the Winner of the Teacher in Space Project|access-date=March 16, 2009|date=July 19, 1985|publisher=The American Presidency Project}}</ref>
** The [[Val di Stava dam collapse]]s in Italy, killing 268 people, destroying 63 buildings, and demolishing eight bridges.
* [[July 20]] – [[State President of South Africa]], [[P. W. Botha]], declares a state of emergency in 36 magisterial districts of South Africa amid growing civil unrest in [[Bantustan|black townships]].