Wimbledon Women's Tennis
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 GC: 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 the 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 overturned by the Massachusetts Supreme Court after testimony by Allen Ginsberg and Norman Mailer
British Golf Open
Jul 9 British Open Men's 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 Baltimore Orioles third baseman Brooks Robinson voted MLB All Star game MVP
- 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 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 launches 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
- Jul 24 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Firestone CC: Al Geiberger wins his only major title by 4 shots from Dudley Wysong
- Jul 25 Brian Jones final performance as a Rolling Stone
Event of Interest
Jul 25 Mao Zedong swims the Yangtze River
Mao Zedong
Event of Interest
Jul 25 The Supremes release "You Can't Hurry Love"
Diana Ross
Hall of Fame
Jul 25 Yankee manager Casey Stengel elected to Hall of Fame
Casey Stengel
- 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 after extra time
- 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