Sports History
Jul 1 Cleveland Indians veteran hurler Bob Feller pitches his 3rd career no-hitter beating Detroit Tigers, 2-1
- Jul 2 "Bob & Ray show" premieres on NBC radio
Sports History
Jul 2 Bill Veeck buys St Louis Browns from Bill & Charlie DeWitt; after 1953 season sells franchise to Clarence Miles, team moves to Baltimore (Orioles)
- Jul 2 Island advisor of Curacao installed
- Jul 2 Leidse astronomers discover radio signal out of Milky Way system
- Jul 2 Worcestershire cricket wicket-keeper Hugo Yarnold makes a record 6 stumpings in an innings in a 1st-class match vs Scotland at Dundee
PGA Championship
Jul 3 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Oakmont GC: Sam Snead beats Walter Burkemo, 7 & 6 for his 3rd PGA C'ship title
Historic Invention
Jul 5 Dr William Shockley invents the junction transistor (Murray Hill, NJ)
- Jul 6 British Open Men's Golf, Royal Portrush GC: Englishman Max Faulkner wins by 2 strokes from Antonio Cerdá of Argentina
- Jul 6 Wimbledon Men's Tennis: American Dick Savitt wins his only Wimbledon title beating Ken McGregor of Australia 6-4, 6-4, 6-4
Wimbledon Women's Tennis
Jul 7 Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Doris Hart outclasses fellow American Shirley Fry 6-1, 6-0 for her only Wimbledon singles title
Sports History
Jul 8 Yankee Joe DiMaggio and manager Casey Stengel feud after Stengel pulls DiMaggio out of game
Historic Event
Jul 9 US President Harry Truman asks Congress to formally end state of war with Germany
Sports History
Jul 12 NY Yankees pitcher Allie Reynolds throws no-hitter in Cleveland against the Indians, his former team, in a 1-0 win
- Jul 13 Great Flood: 2.000,000 acres in Kansas and Missouri in central US are flooded from rain swollen Missouri and Kansas Rivers
- Jul 14 "Courtin' Time" closes at National Theater NYC after 37 performances
- Jul 14 "Make a Wish" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 102 performances
- Jul 14 1st color telecast of a sporting event (CBS-horse race)
- Jul 14 In his last race, 1948 Triple Crown champion Citation wins the Hollywood Gold Cup by 4 lengths, to become American racing's first millionaire horse.
- Jul 16 King Leopold III of Belgium abdicates
- Jul 16 Len Hutton scores his 100th 100, Yorkshire v Surrey at The Oval
Historic Publication
Jul 16 Novel "Catcher in Rye" by J. D. Salinger published by Little Brown and Company
- Jul 17 Leopold III, King of the Belgians, abdicates in favour of his son Boudouin I
- Jul 17 Western New England College in Springfield, Massachusetts, is chartered
Boxing Title Fight
Jul 18 Jersey Joe Walcott at 37 becomes oldest to win heavyweight champion
Historic Event
Jul 21 Dalai Lama returns to Tibet
Musical Finale
Jul 28 Cole Porter's musical "Kiss Me, Kate", an adaptation of Shakespeare's " The Taming of the Shrew", closes at Shubert Theatre, NYC. after 1077 performances, and 5 Tony Award wins
Film Release
Jul 28 Walt Disney releases animated musical film "Alice In Wonderland", featuring Kathryn Beaumont, J. Pat O'Malley, Ed Wynn, and Sterling Holloway and songs by Sammy Fain and Bob Hilliard
- Jul 29 38th Tour de France won by Hugo Koblet of Switzerland
- Jul 31 Japan Airlines is established