die when the king's troops storm the palace (ten high-ranking officers are later executed for involvement). July 10 – Gloria Steinem makes her Address to the Women of America. July 11 – Copper mines in Chile are nationalized. July 13 Ólafur Jóhannesson forms a government in Iceland. Jordanian army troops launch an offensive against Palestinian guerillas in Jordan. The Yugoslavian government begins allowing foreign companies to take their profits from the country. Reggie Jackson's long home run, which hits a transformer on the roof of Tiger Stadium, helps the American League defeat the National League 6–4 in the Major League Baseball All-Star Game in Detroit. July 14 – Libya severs its diplomatic ties with Morocco. July 15 – American President Richard Nixon announces his 1972 visit to China. July 17 – Italy and Austria sign a treaty that ends the dispute (Südtirolfrage) regarding South Tyrol. July 18 – The Trucial States are formed in the Persian Gulf. July 19 – The South Tower of the World Trade Center in New York City tops out at , making it the second-tallest building in the world. July 19–23 – Major Hashem al-Atta ousts Jaafar Muhammad al-Nimeiri in a military coup in Sudan. Fighting continues until July 22, when pro-Nimeiri troops regain power. Al-Atta and three officers are executed. July 22 A BOAC flight from London to Khartoum is ordered to land at Benghazi, Libya, where two leaders of the unsuccessful Sudanese coup, travelling as passengers, are forced to leave the plane and are subsequently executed. A partial solar eclipse is visible from Asia and North America, and is the 70th and final solar eclipse of Solar Saros 116. July 24 – Georgina Rizk of Lebanon is crowned Miss Universe 1971. July 25–30 – Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli records two Debussy works in Munich for Deutsche Grammophon, his fifth recording. July 26 – Apollo 15 (carrying astronauts David Scott, Alfred Worden and James Irwin) is launched. July 28 – Abdel Khaliq Mahjub, Sudanese communist leader, is hanged. July 29 – The United Kingdom opts out of the Space Race with the cancellation of its Black Arrow launch vehicle. July 30 – In Japan, an All Nippon Airways Boeing 727 collides with a Japanese fighter jet; 162 people are killed. July 31 – Apollo 15 astronauts David Scott and James Irwin become the first to ride in the Lunar Roving Vehicle, a day after landing