Editing 1997 (section)

===July===
* [[July]] – The [[1997 Central European flood]] occurs across Poland, Germany, and the Czech Republic.
* [[July 1]] – The United Kingdom [[Transfer of sovereignty over Hong Kong|hands sovereignty]] of Hong Kong to the People's Republic of China.
* [[July 2]] – The Bank of Thailand floats the [[baht]], triggering the [[1997 Asian financial crisis|Asian financial crisis]].<ref>Joseph E. Stiglitz, ''The roaring nineties: a new history of the world's most prosperous decade'' (WW Norton & Company, 2004) pp 12–16.</ref>
* [[July 4]] – [[NASA]]'s [[Mars Pathfinder|Pathfinder]] space probe lands on the surface of [[Mars]].
* [[July 5]] 
** In Cambodia, [[Hun Sen]] of the [[Cambodian People's Party]] overthrows [[Norodom Ranariddh]] in a [[1997 Cambodian coup d'état|coup]].
** The Egyptian [[Gamaa Islamiya|Islamic Group]] announces a [[Al-Jama'a al-Islamiyya#Failed nonviolence initiative|cessation-of-violence initiative]].
* [[July 8]] – [[NATO]] invites the [[Czech Republic]], [[Hungary]], and [[Poland]] to [[Enlargement_of_NATO#Visegrád_Group|join the alliance]] in [[1999]].
* [[July 10]] – In London, scientists report their [[DNA]] analysis findings from a [[Neanderthal]] skeleton, which support the [[out of Africa theory]] of [[human evolution]], placing an "[[African Eve]]" at 100,000 to 200,000 years ago.
* [[July 11]] – [[Royal Jomtien Resort Hotel fire]] at [[Pattaya]], [[Thailand]]'s worst hotel fire, kills 90.
* [[July 13]] – The remains of [[Che Guevara]] are returned to [[Cuba]] for burial, alongside some of his comrades. [[Ñancahuazú Guerrilla|Guevara and his comrades]] were executed on October 9 [[1967]] in [[Bolivia]].
* [[July 15]] – [[Spree killer]] [[Andrew Cunanan]] shoots fashion designer [[Gianni Versace]] dead outside Versace's [[Miami Beach]] residence.
* [[July 17]] – The [[F. W. Woolworth Company]] closes after 117 years in business.
* [[July 25]] – [[K. R. Narayanan]] is sworn in as India's 10th president and the first member of the [[Dalit]] caste to hold this office.
* [[July 27]] – About 50 are killed in the [[Si Zerrouk massacre]] in Algeria.
* [[July 30]] – 18 people are killed in the [[1997 Thredbo landslide|Thredbo landslide]] in the [[Snowy Mountains]] resort in Australia.