Event of Interest
Jul 1 Fidel Castro nationalizes Esso, Shell & Texaco in Cuba
Fidel Castro
- Jul 2 "Once Upon a Mattress" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 460 performances
Golf Major
Jul 4 6th LPGA Championship won by Mickey Wright
Mickey Wright
- Jul 4 America's new 50-star flag honoring Hawaiian statehood unfurled
Baseball Record
Jul 4 Mickey Mantle is 18th 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
- Jul 9 89th British Golf Open: Kel Nagle shoots a 278 at St Andrews
- Jul 10 Belgium sends troops to Congo
- Jul 10 Louise Suggs wins LPGA Youngstown Kitchens (Trumball Golf Open)
- Jul 10 UEFA European Championship: Soviet Union defeat 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
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 Joyce Ziske wins LPGA Hoosier Celebrity Golf Tournament
- 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 Barbara Romack wins LPGA Leesburg Pro-Am Golf Tournament
- 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 Sirima Bandaranaike becomes 1st female premier of Ceylon
- 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 Sirima Bandaranaike is the first woman in modern times to become head of state, as Prime Minister in Sri Lanka (then Ceylon)
- 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 42nd PGA Championship: Jay Hebert shoots a 281 at Firestone CC Akron
- Jul 25 Companie Industrielle et Forestere (Indufor) forms in Brussels
- Jul 26 Italian government of Fanfani forms
Presidential Convention
Jul 27 US Vice-president Richard Nixon nominated for presidential candidate at Republican convention in Chicago
Richard Nixon
- Jul 28 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