Tennis Open
Jul 2 Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Roy Emerson scores second consecutive title win over fellow Australian Fred Stolle 6-2, 6-4, 6-4
Roy Emerson
- Jul 2 Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Australian Margaret Smith beats Maria Bueno of Brazil 6-4, 7-5, her second of 3 Wimbledon singles titles
- Jul 3 USSR and Persia sign dam building and economic aid pact
- Jul 3 Harold Strachan, member of the Communist Party of South Africa and Umkhonto we Sizwe, the armed wing of the African National Congress, is served with a restriction order in terms of the Suppression of Communism Act
- Jul 4 US Open Women's Golf, Atlantic City CC: Carol Mann wins by 2 shots from fellow American Kathy Cornelius
- Jul 6 Rock group "Jefferson Airplane" forms
- Jul 7 Otis Redding records "Respect"
- Jul 8 Joe Morgan is 1st Houston player with 6 hits in a game
- Jul 9 British Open Golf, Royal Birkdale GC: Australian Peter Thomson Peter Thomson wins his 5th Claret Jug, 2 strokes clear of runners-up Brian Huggett and Christy O'Connor Snr
- Jul 9 John Edrich completes 310* v NZ in 532 minutes, 52 fours 5 sixes
- Jul 9 Senators Frank Howard ties record with 7 strikeouts in DH
- Jul 10 Beatles' "VI" album goes #1 & stays #1 for 6 weeks
- Jul 10 Rolling Stones score their 1st US #1 single "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction"
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Jul 11 Israeli Mapai-party nominates David Ben-Gurion
David Ben-Gurion
- Jul 13 36th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 6-5 at Metropolitan Stadium, Minnesota
- Jul 13 All star MVP: Juan Marichal (SF Giant)
- Jul 14 Australian Ronald Clarke runs world record 10k (27:39.4)
- Jul 14 Israeli/Jordanian border fights
- Jul 14 US Mariner IV, 1st Mars probe, passes at 6,100 miles (9,800 km)
- Jul 14 52nd Tour de France won by Felice Gimondi of Italy
- Jul 15 "Mariner IV" sends back 1st pictures of Mars
- Jul 15 Athanassiades Novas succeeds Papandreo as premier of Greece
- Jul 16 Mont Blanc Road tunnel between France & Italy opens
- Jul 17 WLCY (now WTSP) TV channel 10 in St Petersburg-Tampa, Florida (ABC) begins
- Jul 18 Zond 3 launched to fly by Moon, enters solar orbit
- Jul 19 Shooting begins on Star Trek 2nd pilot "Where No Man Has Gone Before"
- Jul 20 18.18" (46.18 cm) of rainfall, Edgarton, Missouri (state 24-hr record)
- Jul 20 NY Yankee pitcher Mel Stottlemyre hits an inside-the-park grand slam
- Jul 21 Pakistan, Iran and Turkey sign Regional Co-Operation pact
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Jul 22 Edward Heath succeeds Alec Douglas-Home as leader of the British Conservative party
Edward Heath
Alec Douglas-Home
- Jul 24 Casey Stengel resigns as manager of NY Mets
- Jul 24 Rock group "The Animals" 1st time in British charts
- Jul 25 Bob Dylan is booed by sections of the crowd at the Newport Folk Festival for performing with an electric guitar, beginning of folk-rock
- Jul 26 Republic of Maldives gains independence from Britain (National Day)
- Jul 27 Pierre Harmel forms Belgium government
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Jul 27 President Lyndon B. Johnson signs a bill requiring cigarette makers to print health warnings on all cigarette packages about the effects of smoking
Lyndon B. Johnson
- Jul 28 LBJ sends 50,000 more soldiers to Vietnam (total of 125,000)
- Jul 29 Beatles movie "Help" premieres, Queen Elizabeth attends
- Jul 29 Gemini 5 returned after 12d 7h 11m 53s
- Jul 29 Major league record 26 strikeouts, Phillies (16), Pirates (10)
- Jul 29 USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
- Jul 30 Charles Ives' "From the Steeples & the Mountains" premieres
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Jul 30 Duke Ellington's "Golden Brown & the Green Apple" premieres
Duke Ellington