July 13

In a rare and catastrophic aviation incident, a mid-air collision occurred between a commercial airliner and a private jet over Lumut, Malaysia, leaving no survivors and prompting sweeping changes in aviation safety protocols.

On July 20, 2015, the town of Suruç in Şanlıurfa Province, Turkey, near the Syrian border, was rocked by a devastating suicide bombing. The attack targeted a group of young activists gathered to support reconstruction efforts in the war-torn Syrian town of Kobani. The bombing, linked to ISIS, resulted in the deaths of 34 people and left over 100 injured, marking a significant escalation in regional tensions and violence.

On July 10, 1941, in the small northeastern Polish town of Jedwabne, a large group of Jewish residents were rounded up, brutally murdered and many burned alive in a wooden building. The killings occurred in the chaotic weeks after Nazi Germany’s invasion of Soviet-held Poland; historical investigations since 2001 have shown that local non‑Jewish residents participated in the massacre while German forces were present and created the conditions for violence. Estimates of the dead range from several hundred (the conservative figure settled on by official Polish investigators is in the mid‑300s) to higher totals reported in earlier accounts; many questions about exact numbers and command remain.