Wimbledon Women's Tennis
Jul 1 Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Suzanne Lenglen of France beats doubles specialist Elizabeth Ryan 6-2, 6-0 for her 3rd straight Wimbledon singles title
- Jul 1 The Communist Party of China is founded and Chen Duxiu elected its leader
- Jul 2 Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Bill Tilden beats South African Brian Norton 4-6, 2-6, 6-1, 6-0, 7-5 for the third of 10 Grand Slam singles titles
Boxing Title Fight
Jul 2 In boxing's first million dollar gate ($1.7m), world heavyweight champion Jack Dempsey KOs Frenchman Georges Carpentier in round 4 of his 3rd title defence; crowd 91,000 at Boyle's Thirty Acres in Jersey City, New Jersey
Historic Event
Jul 2 Warren G. Harding signs a joint congressional resolution declaring the official end of war with Germany
- Jul 11 Mongolia gains independence from China (National Day)
Historic Event
Jul 16 Encouraged by the British, King Constantine of Greece launches a drive to take Asia Minor from nationalists under Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
- Jul 18 Babe Ruth achieves 139 home runs and becomes the all-time home run leader in Major League Baseball, taking the title from Roger Connor
- Jul 18 Black Sox trial begins in Chicago
- Jul 18 Babe Ruth smacks a home run a MLB record 575 feet in New York Yankees' 10-1 win over the Tigers at Detroit's Navin Field
Historic Event
Jul 20 Congresswoman Alice Mary Robertson becomes the first woman to preside over the floor of US House of Representatives
US Golf Open
Jul 22 US Open Men's Golf, Columbia CC: Englishman Jim Barnes wins the 3rd of his 4 major titles by 9 strokes ahead of runners-up Walter Hagen and Fred McLeod
Historic Event
Jul 27 Frederick Banting and Charles Best isolate insulin at the University of Toronto
- Jul 29 New rules of language assumed (equal rights Flemings/Walen Belgium)
Historic Event
Jul 29 Adolf Hitler becomes leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party
- Jul 30 The Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) forms; the party changed its name to the South African Communist Party (SACP) in 1953, after it had been forced underground