Event of Interest
Jul 1 John Lennon's 1st full art exhibition (You are Here)
John Lennon
- Jul 1 US, Britain, USSR & 58 nations sign Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty
- Jul 1 USSR performs underground nuclear test
- Jul 1 The CIA's Phoenix Program is officially established.
- Jul 1 Formal separation of the United Auto Workers from the AFL-CIO.
- Jul 2 An El Al Israeli airliner is hijacked and diverted to Algeria by three armed members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP)
- Jul 3 41°F lowest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in July
- Jul 3 Cleve Indian Luis Tiant strikes out 19 Minnesota Twins
- Jul 3 As part of a series of protests against housing conditions in Derry, the Derry Housing Action Committee (DHAC) hold a sit-down protest on the newly opened second deck of the Craigavon Bridge in the city, Northern Ireland
- Jul 4 Arthur Kopit's "Indians" premieres in London
- Jul 4 Radio astronomy satellite Explorer 38 launched
- Jul 5 "Manifest of 1000 words" published in Prague
Tennis Open
Jul 5 82nd Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Rod Laver beats Tony Roche (6-3 6-4 6-2)
Rod Laver
Tony Roche
- Jul 5 John Lennon sells his psychedelic painted Rolls-Royce
Event of Interest
Jul 5 Philadelphia 76'ers trade Wilt Chamberlain to LA Lakers
Wilt Chamberlain
- Jul 6 75th Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Billie Jean King beats J Tegart (97 75)
- Jul 6 Sacharov publishes "Manifest of 10,000 words"
- Jul 7 23rd US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Susie Maxwell Berning
- Jul 7 France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll
- Jul 7 Rock group "Yardbirds" disband
- Jul 8 Israeli-Egyptian artillery duel along Suez Canal
- Jul 9 15.68" (39.83 cm) of rainfall, Columbus, Mississippi (state 24-hour record)
- Jul 9 39th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 1-0 at Astrodome, Houston
Event of Interest
Jul 9 All star MVP: Willie Mays (SF Giants), 1st player to win a second times
Willie Mays
- Jul 10 US Major League baseball announces it will split into 2 divisions for 1969
- Jul 11 Earl Weaver replaces Hank Bauer as manager of Orioles
- Jul 11 Start of Colin Cowdrey's 100th Test, 1st person to do so
- Jul 12 Couve de Murville forms government in France
- Jul 12 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
Golf Major
Jul 13 97th British Golf Open: Gary Player shoots 289 at Carnoustie Scotland
Gary Player
- Jul 13 French government-Couve de Murville forms
Event of Interest
Jul 14 Brave Hank Aaron hits his 500th HR off SF Giant Mike McCormick
Hank Aaron
- Jul 14 Carol Mann wins LPGA Pabst Ladies' Golf Classic
- Jul 14 Houston Astro Don Wilson strikes-out 18, beats Reds 6-1
- Jul 14 WSWO TV channel 26 in Springfield, OH (ABC) begins broadcasting
- Jul 15 "One Life to Live", American soap opera, premieres on TV
- Jul 15 Commercial air travel begins between US & USSR
- Jul 15 France performs nuclear Test at Mururoa atoll
- Jul 15 NJ Americans moved to Comack & become NY Nets (ABA)
- Jul 17 The Beatles' animated film "Yellow Submarine" premieres in London
- Jul 17 Bloodless coup in Iraq led by General Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr
- Jul 18 The Intel Corporation is founded in Santa Clara, California
- Jul 20 Jane Asher breaks her engagement with Paul McCartney on live TV
- Jul 20 Iron Butterfly's "In-a-gadda-da-vida" becomes 1st heavy metal song to hit charts, it comes in at #117
- Jul 21 50th PGA Championship: Julius Boros shoots a 281 at Pecan Valley, Texas
- Jul 21 Carol Mann wins LPGA Buckeye Savings Golf Invitational
- Jul 21 55th Tour de France won by Jan Janssen of Netherlands
- Jul 22 Sir John Newsome recommends public schools should take 50% of their intake from the state school system
- Jul 23 Fred Blasie wins 5th wrestling world championship belt
- Jul 23 PLO's 1st hijacking of an El Al plane
- Jul 23 Race riot in Cleveland, 11 including 3 police officers killed
- Jul 24 Hoyt Wilhelm's 907th pitch breaks Cy Young's record for pitching appearances
- Jul 24 Hoyt Wilhelm pitches in a record 907th major league game
- Jul 25 Pope Paul VI encyclical against On regulation of birth
- Jul 27 Carol Mann wins LPGA Supertest Canadian Golf Open
- Jul 27 Race Riot in Gary Indiana
- Jul 29 Cincinnati Red George Culver no hits Phillies, 6-1
- Jul 29 Gram Parsons refuses to play with the Byrds in South Africa
- Jul 29 Mount Arenal, Costa Rica kills 80 in Pelee-type eruption
- Jul 29 Pope Paul VI, in an encyclical entitled "Humanae Vitae" (Of Human Life), declares any artificial forms of birth control prohibited
- Jul 29 Washington, D.C. Ron Hansen makes unassisted triple play vs Cleve
- Jul 30 Wash Senator Ron Hansen makes 1st unassisted triple-play in 41 years
- Jul 31 The Beatles close Apple Boutique in London, giving clothes away for free