- Jul 1 Construction crews begin tearing up Market St to build BART
- Jul 1 NASA launches spacecraft Explorer 33
- Jul 1 Medicare goes into effect
- Jul 1 The first color television transmission in Canada takes place from Toronto.
- Jul 2 Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Spaniard Manuel Santana wins last of 4 major titles beating American Dennis Ralston 6-4, 11-9, 6-4
- Jul 2 1st France nuclear test on Mururoa atoll
Tennis Open
Jul 2 Wimbledon Women's Tennis: American Billie Jean King beats Maria Bueno of Brazil 6-3, 3-6, 6-1 for the first of her 12 Grand Slam singles titles
Billie Jean King
Maria Bueno
- Jul 2 West Indian cricket batsman Basil Butcher scores career best 209 not out to guide tourists to a 139-run 3rd Test win over England at Trent Bridge
- Jul 3 US Open Women's Golf, Hazeltine National: American Sandra Spuzich wins by 1 from Carol Mann for her only LPGA major title
- Jul 3 Atlanta Braves Tony Cloninger, 1st NL player and only pitcher to hit 2 grand slams in a MLB game (17-3 v SF Giants)
- Jul 3 Race riots in Omaha Nebraska
Event of Interest
Jul 4 Beatles attacked in Philippines after (unintentionally) insulting Imelda Marcos
Imelda Marcos
Lyndon B. Johnson
Event of Interest
Jul 7 Obscenity ban for "Naked Lunch" by William S. Burroughs is overturned by the Massachusetts Supreme Court after testimony by Allen Ginsberg and Norman Mailer
British Golf Open
Jul 9 British Open Golf, Muirfield: Jack Nicklaus beats Doug Sanders & Dave Thomas by 1 stroke to become only 4th in history to win all 4 majors
Jack Nicklaus
- Jul 12 10.51" (26.70 cm) of rainfall, Sandusky Ohio (state record)
- Jul 12 37th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 2-1 in 10 at Busch Stad, St Louis
- Jul 12 All star MVP: Brooks Robinson (Baltimore Orioles)
- Jul 12 Start of 3 day race riot in Chicago, looting brings out National Guardsmen
- Jul 12 US Treasury announces it will buy mutilated silver coins at silver bullion price at Philadelphia and Denver mints
- Jul 13 Richard Speck murders 8 nurses in Chicago
- Jul 13 A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada founds the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (Hare Krishna movement) in New York City
- Jul 14 Richard Speck rapes and kills 8 nurses in a Chicago dormitory
- Jul 14 53rd Tour de France won by Lucien Aimar of France
- Jul 16 "Half a Sixpence" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 512 performances
- Jul 16 Number of banned persons in South Africa totals 936; the individuals are banned under various laws, most prominently the Suppression of Communism and Riotous Assembly Acts
- Jul 16 Nigeria becomes the first Anglophone independent state in Africa to become an associate member of European Economic Community
- Jul 17 "It's a Bird... It's Superman" closes at Alvin NYC after 129 performances
- Jul 17 Indians set club record by hitting 7 HR in 15-2 win over Detroit
- Jul 17 Jim Ryun sets mile record (3m51s3)
- Jul 18 Carl Sagan turns 1 billion seconds old
- Jul 18 Gemini 10 launched (John Young & Michael Collins)
- Jul 19 France performs nuclear Test at Fangataufa Island
- Jul 19 Governor James Rhodes declares state of emergency in Cleveland (race riot)
- Jul 21 Gemini X returns to Earth
- Jul 21 USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
- Jul 23 Cavern Club in Liverpool reopens
- Jul 23 John Pennel pole vaults record (5.34 m)
- Jul 23 Napoleon XIV releases "They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha! Ha!"
Event of Interest
Jul 23 Frank Sinatra's album "Strangers In The Night" is No. 1 on the US charts, (Grammy for Record Of The Year and Best Male Vocal Performance)
Frank Sinatra
Event of Interest
Jul 25 Mao Zedong swims the Yangtze River
Mao Zedong
- Jul 25 Supremes release "You Can't Hurry Love"
- Jul 25 Yankee manager Casey Stengel elected to Hall of Fame
- Jul 26 WRLH TV channel 31 in Lebanon, NH (NBC) begins broadcasting
- Jul 26 Lord Gardiner issues the Practice Statement in the House of Lords stating that the House is not bound to follow its own previous precedent
- Jul 29 In Nigerian counter-coup, Head of State General Aguiyi Ironsi murdered, Yakubu Gowon appointed his successor
- Jul 30 Beatles' "Yesterday... & Today" album goes #1 & stays #1 for 5 weeks
- Jul 30 FIFA World Cup Final, Wembley Stadium, London, England: Striker Geoff Hurst scores a hat trick as England beats West Germany, 4-2 a.e.t
- Jul 30 US airplanes bombs demilitarized zone in Vietnam
Event of Interest
Jul 31 Alabamans burn Beatle products due to John Lennon's anti-Jesus remark
John Lennon