Event of Interest
Jul 1 Benjamin Britten's cantate "Carmen Baseliense" premieres in Basel
Benjamin Britten
- Jul 1 The independent Somali Democratic Republic, commonly known as Somalia, is formed out of former British and Italian territories
Event of Interest
Jul 1 Fidel Castro nationalizes Esso, Shell & Texaco in Cuba
Fidel Castro
Wimbledon Men's Tennis
Jul 1 Wimbledon Men's Tennis: In an all-Australian final Neale Fraser wins is first and only Wimbledon singles title; beats Rod Laver 6-4, 3-6, 9-7, 7-5
Rod Laver
- Jul 2 "Once Upon a Mattress" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 460 performances
Wimbledon Women's Tennis
Jul 2 Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Defending champion Maria Bueno of Brazil beats South African Sandra Reynolds 8–6, 6–0
Maria Bueno
LPGA Championship
Jul 4 LPGA Championship Women's Golf, Sheraton Hotel CC: Mickey Wright wins by 3 from Louise Suggs
Mickey Wright
Louise Suggs
- Jul 4 America's new 50-star flag honoring Hawaiian statehood unfurled
Baseball Record
Jul 4 Yankees outfielder Mickey Mantle hits 3-run homer vs Washington, 18th MLB player to hit 300 HRs
Mickey Mantle
- Jul 5 Mongolia adopts constitution
- Jul 6 Dr Barbara Moore completes a 3,207 mile walk from LA to NYC
- Jul 7 US cemetery officially opens at Margraten, Netherlands
- Jul 7 USSR shoots down a US aircraft over Barents sea
- Jul 8 Fidel Castro ends Havana's International League team, Sugar Kings move to New Jersey
British Golf Open
Jul 9 British Open Men's Golf, St Andrews: Australian Kel Nagle wins his only major title by 1 stroke from Arnold Palmer in the centenary year of the Open Championship
Arnold Palmer
- Jul 10 Belgium sends troops to Congo
- Jul 10 UEFA European Championship Final, Parc des Princes, Paris, France: Viktor Ponedelnik scores in extra time as Soviet Union beats Yugoslavia, 2-1
- Jul 11 28th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 5-3 at Municipal Stadium, KC
- Jul 11 Czechoslovakia adopts Constitution
- Jul 11 Ivory Coast, Dahomey, Upper Volta and Niger declare independence
- Jul 11 Moise Tsjombe declares Congolese county Katanga independent
Historic Publication
Jul 11 "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee is first published by J. B. Lippincott & Co.
Harper Lee
- Jul 12 Congo, Chad and Central African Republic declare independence
- Jul 12 USSR's Sputnik 5 launched with 2 dogs
- Jul 12 XEWT TV channel 12 in Tijuana-San Diego, CA (IND) begins broadcasting
- Jul 12 Orlyonok, the main Young Pioneer camp of the Russian SFSR, is founded.
- Jul 13 29th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 6-0 at Yankee Stadium, New York
- Jul 13 KDBQ-AM in San Francisco CA changes call letters to KYA
John F. Kennedy
- Jul 14 Fire rages through a Guatemala City insane asylum killing 225 and severely injuring 300
- Jul 15 Baltimore's future Baseball Hall of Fame third baseman Brooks Robinson goes 5 for 5 including the cycle in the Orioles' 5-2 win over the Chicago White Sox
The Twist Dance Craze
Jul 15 Chubby Checker releases his version of "The Twist" in the US (date approximate)
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- Jul 15 UN troops arrive in Congo to help deal with the political crisis after Moïse-Kapenda Tshombé's declaration of independence for Katanga province
- Jul 16 205,000 (record sports attend) see Brazil-Uruguay World Cup soccer
- Jul 16 George Crowe sets record of 12 pinch hit HRs with a runner on
- Jul 17 47th Tour de France won by Gastone Nencini of Italy
- Jul 18 1st UN troops reach Congo
- Jul 18 Baseball's NL votes to add Houston and NY franchises
- Jul 18 Premier Kishi of Japan resigns
- Jul 19 Italian government of Tambroni resigns
- Jul 20 1st submerged submarine to fire Polaris missile (George Washington)
- Jul 20 USSR recovers 2 dogs; 1st living organisms to return from space
- Jul 20 The head of the Physics Department at the Israel Institute of Technology, Kurt Sitte, is arrested for espionage
- Jul 21 Country of Katanga forms in Africa
Election of Interest
Jul 21 Sirimavo Bandaranaike becomes the world's 1st female elected head of government, as Prime Minister of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka)
Sirimavo Bandaranaike
US Women's Golf Open
Jul 23 US Open Women's Golf, Worcester CC: Betsy Rawls wins her 4th Open title, 1 stroke ahead of runner-up Joyce Ziske
Betsy Rawls
Presidential Convention
Jul 27 US Vice-president Richard Nixon nominated for presidential candidate at Republican convention in Chicago
Richard Nixon
- Jul 28 US Republican National convention selects Richard Nixon as candidate
- Jul 30 1st AFL preseason game Boston Patriots defeat Bills in Buffalo (28-7)
Event of Interest
Jul 31 Elijah Muhammad, leader of Nation of Islam, calls for a black state
Elijah Muhammad
- Jul 31 KSOO (now KSFY) TV channel 13 in Sioux Falls, SD (NBC) 1st broadcast