Historical Events in July 1957

Catholic Encyclical

Jul 2 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Le pelerinage De Lourdes

Jul 4 Dutch 2nd Chamber accepts temporary tax increase

Wimbledon Men's Tennis

Jul 5 Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Lew Hoad successfully defends in crown beating fellow Australian Ashley Cooper 6-2, 6-1, 6-2

Jul 5 England cricket batsman Tom Graveney scores a brilliant 258 in the drawn 3rd Test v West Indies at Trent Bridge
Jul 5 British Open Men's Golf, St Andrews: South African Bobby Locke wins his 4th Open by 3 strokes from defending champion Peter Thomson of Australia

Music Concert

Jul 6 John Lennon (16) & Paul McCartney (15) meet for 1st time as Lennon's rock group Quarrymen perform at St. Peter's, Woolton's Parish Church in Liverpool

Wimbledon Women's Tennis

Jul 6 Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Althea Gibson becomes the first black female athlete to win Wimbledon beating Darlene Hard 6-3, 6-2

Historic Event

Jul 6 Harry S. Truman Library forms in Independence, Missouri

Jul 7 Heavy storm ravages Belgian coast
Jul 8 Baseball Owners re-elect Commissioner Ford Frick

Historic Event

Jul 8 Irish premier Eamon de Valera arrests Sinn Féin leaders

Revolutionary and President of Ireland Éamon de Valera

Conference of Interest

Jul 8 First Pugwash Conference, the "Thinkers Lodge" held on nuclear disarmament at Pugwash, Nova Scotia, Canada, founded by Joseph Rotblat and hosted by Cyrus Eaton

Jul 9 24th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 6-6 at Sportsman's Park, St Louis
Jul 9 Discovery of element 102 (Nobelium) announced

Historic Event

Jul 12 1st President to fly in helicopter-Dwight Eisenhower

34th US President & WWII General Dwight D. Eisenhower

Jul 12 US Surgeon General Leroy Burney connects smoking with lung cancer
Jul 14 Soviet steamer "Eshghbad" sinks in Caspian Sea, drowning 270
Jul 15 Dutch Super Constellation crashes near New Guinea, 56 die
Jul 15 US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site

John Glenn Orbits Earth

Jul 16 US Marine Major John Glenn sets transcontinental speed record (03:28:08)

John Glenn, the first American to orbit the Earth, getting into his spacecraft Friendship 7 in 1962

Jul 19 1st rocket with nuclear warhead fired, Yucca Flat, Nevada
Jul 19 US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site

Sports History

Jul 20 44th Tour de France: French cyclist Jacques Anquetil wins first of 5 general classification titles

Sports History

Jul 21 1st black to win a major US tennis tournament (Althea Gibson)

Jul 21 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Miami Valley GC: Lionel Hebert wins 2 & 1 from Dow Finsterwald; last time event played under match-play format
Jul 24 KTVC TV channel 6 in Ensign, KS (CBS) begins broadcasting
Jul 24 US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
Jul 25 Monarchy in Tunisia abolished in favor of a republic
Jul 25 Peter Loader takes a cricket hat-trick for England v WI at Headingley
Jul 25 US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site

Sports History

Jul 26 Mickey Mantle hits career HR # 200

Jul 26 USSR launches 1st intercontinental multistage ballistic missile
Jul 26 Carlos Castillo Armas, Dictator and President of Guatemala, is assassinated by a palace guard with leftist sympathies
Jul 27 St James' Theatre in London closes