British Golf Open
Jul 3 British Open Golf, Muirfield: 23 year old South African Gary Player wins the first of his 9 major titles, 2 strokes clear of runners-up Fred Bullock and Flory Van Donck
Gary Player
- Jul 3 Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Maria Bueno of Brazil wins her first of 3 Wimbledon singles titles beating Darlene Hard 6-4, 6-3
- Jul 4 America's new 49-star flag honoring Alaska statehood unfurled
- Jul 4 Cayman Islands separated from Jamaica, made a crown colony
- Jul 4 Island Records founded in Jamaica
- Jul 5 Ben-Gurion's Israeli government resigns
- Jul 5 Indonesia restores constitution
- Jul 5 Jack Gelber's "Connection" premieres in NYC
LPGA Championship
Jul 6 LPGA Championship, Sheraton Hotel CC: Betsy Rawls wins her second title in the event by 1 stroke from Patty Berg
Betsy Rawls
Event of Interest
Jul 7 26th MLB All Star Game, Forbes Field, Pittsburgh: Willy Mays triples to score Hank Aaron as NL wins 5-4
Hank Aaron
- Jul 12 NBC uses cameras to show catchers signals during Yankee-Red Sox game
- Jul 14 USS Long Beach, first nuclear powered cruiser launched at Quincy, Mass
- Jul 15 The US steel strike of 1959 begins, leading to significant importation of foreign steel for the first time in United States history.
- Jul 17 2,000 ft long by 1,300 foot wide section of ridge falls into Madis
- Jul 17 Tibet abolishes serfdom
- Jul 17 River Canyon extending man-made Lake Hebgen by 5 miles. (Montana)
Scientific Discovery
Jul 17 Paleoanthropologist Mary Leakey discovers partial skull of a new species of early human ancestor, Zinjanthropus boisei or 'Zinj' (now called Paranthropus boisei) lived in Africa almost 2 million years ago
Mary Leakey
Film Premier
Jul 17 "North by Northwest" directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint premieres in Los Angeles
Alfred Hitchcock
Cary Grant
- Jul 18 African American William 'Bill' Wright is the 1st colored person to win a major golf tournament (U.S. Amateur Public Links Championships)
Film Premier
Jul 18 "The Nun's Story" based on the novel by Kathryn Hulme, starring Audrey Hepburn premieres in Los Angeles
Audrey Hepburn
The Worst Movie Ever
Jul 22 Ed Wood's cult classic "Plan 9 From Outer Space", called one of the worse films ever, premieres
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Event of Interest
Jul 23 US Vice Presidnet Richard Nixon begins visit to USSR
Richard Nixon
- Jul 24 500,000th Dutch TV set registered
Kitchen Debate
Jul 24 US Vice President Richard Nixon argues with Nikita Khrushchev, known as "Kitchen Debate"
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- Jul 25 SR-N1 hovercraft crosses the English Channel from Calais to Dover in just over 2 hours.
- Jul 27 Abbas Ali Baig scores 112 for India v England on debut
- Jul 27 William Shea announces plans to have a baseball team in NYC in 1961
- Jul 28 United Kingdom starts using postal codes
- Jul 28 Hawaii's 1st US election sends 1st Asian-Americans to Congress
- Jul 29 First United States Congress elections in Hawaii as a state of the Union.
- Jul 30 In his major league debut, SF Giant Willie McCovey goes 4-for-4
- Jul 31 1st exhibit of bongos at Cleveland Metroparks Zoo opens
Event of Interest
Jul 31 Cliff Richard and the Shadows have their 1st British No. 1 single with "Living' Doll" (biggest British single of 1959)
Cliff Richard