Historical Events in July 1960

Jul 1 Fidel Castro nationalizes Esso, Shell & Texaco in Cuba

Jul 1 Wimbledon Men's Tennis: In an all-Australian final Neale Fraser beats Rod Laver 6-4, 3-6, 9-7, 7-5

Jul 2 "Once Upon a Mattress" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 460 performances

Jul 4 LPGA Championship, Sheraton Hotel CC: Mickey Wright wins by 3 from Louise Suggs

Jul 4 Yankees outfielder Mickey Mantle hits 3-run homer vs Washington, 18th MLB player to hit 300 HRs

Jul 8 Fidel Castro ends Havana's International League team, Sugar Kings move to New Jersey
Jul 9 British Open 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
Jul 10 Belgium sends troops to Congo
Jul 10 UEFA European Championship Final: Viktor Ponedelnik scores in extra time as Soviet Union beat Yugoslavia 2-1 in Paris
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

Jul 11 "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee is first published by J. B. Lippincott & Co.

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

Jul 13 US Democratic convention nominates JFK as presidential candidate

Jul 14 Fire rages through a Guatemala City insane asylum killing 225 and severely injuring 300
Jul 15 Balt Orioles' Brooks Robinson goes 5 for 5 including the cycle
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 19 SF Giants Juan Marichal debuts, with a 1 hitter against Phillies
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

Jul 21 Sirimavo Bandaranaike becomes the world's 1st female head of state in modern times, as Prime Minister of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka)

Jul 21 Francis Chichester arrive in NY aboard Gypsy Moth II, setting record of 40 days for a solo Atlantic crossing
Jul 22 Cuba nationalizes all US-owned sugar factories
Jul 23 15th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Betsy Rawls
Jul 24 PGA Championship, Firestone CC: Jay Hebert wins his only major title by 1 stroke from Australian Jim Ferrier
Jul 25 Companie Industrielle et Forestere (Indufor) forms in Brussels
Jul 26 Italian government of Fanfani forms

Jul 27 US Vice-president Richard Nixon nominated for presidential candidate at Republican convention in Chicago

Jul 28 Republican National convention selects Richard Nixon as candidate
Jul 30 1st AFL preseason game Boston Patriots defeat Bills in Buffalo (28-7)

Jul 31 Elijah Muhammad, leader of Nation of Islam, calls for a black state