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 Cleveland pitcher Luis Tiant strikes out a record 19 Minnesota Twins (10 inns) for another record 32 Ks in consecutive games
- 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
- Jul 5 John Lennon sells his psychedelic painted Rolls-Royce
Tennis Open
Jul 5 Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Billie Jean King beats Judy Tegart 9-7, 7-5 to earn first ever prize money (£750) offered at Wimbledon
Billie Jean King
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Jul 7 US Open Women's Golf, Moselem Springs GC: Susie Maxwell Berning beats Mickey Wright by 3 strokes
Mickey Wright
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Jul 9 Wilt Chamberlain becomes the first reigning NBA MVP to be traded the next season when he moves from Philadelphia 76'ers to LA Lakers
Wilt Chamberlain
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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 reach the milestone
- Jul 12 Couve de Murville forms government in France
- Jul 12 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
Golf Major
Jul 13 British Open Golf, Carnoustie: South African Gary Player wins second of his 3 Open titles, 2 strokes clear of Bob Charles and Jack Nicklaus; 5th of Player's 9 major titles
Gary Player
Jack Nicklaus
- Jul 13 French government-Couve de Murville forms
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Jul 14 Brave Hank Aaron hits his 500th HR off SF Giant Mike McCormick
Hank Aaron
- 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
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Jul 21 PGA Championship, Pecan Valley GC: Julius Boros (48) becomes oldest winner of a major; wins by 1 from Bob Charles & Arnold Palmer
Arnold Palmer
- 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 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