Event of Interest
Jul 1 John Lennon and Yoko Ono are admitted to hospital after a car crash
John Lennon
Yoko Ono
- Jul 1 Shelby Singleton buys Sun Records from Sam Phillips
Event of Interest
Jul 1 Investiture of Prince Charles as the Prince of Wales is watched by large crowds in Caernarfon, Wales and by millions on television
Prince Charles
- Jul 2 Leslie West & Felix Pappalardi form rock group Mountain
- Jul 2 Ireland cricketers dismiss West Indies for just 25 (Dougie Goodwin 5 for 6, Alec O'Riordan 4 for 18) to set up a huge upset in Londonderry
- Jul 3 78,000 attend Newport Jazz Festival, Newport, Rhode Island
- Jul 4 "Give Peace a Chance" by Plastic Ono Band is released in UK
Event of Interest
Jul 4 140,000 attend Atlanta Pop Festival featuring Led Zep and Janis Joplin
Janis Joplin
Tennis Open
Jul 4 Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Home favourite Ann Jones upsets 3-time defending champion Billie Jean King 3-6, 6-3, 6-2
Billie Jean King
- Jul 4 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
- Jul 4 The Ohio Fireworks Derecho kills 18 Ohioans and destroys over 100 boats on Lake Erie.
- Jul 5 Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Rod Laver beats John Newcombe 6-4, 5-7, 6-4, 6-4 for the 3rd leg of his Grand Slam
- Jul 5 Rolling Stones play a free concert in London's Hyde Park
Event of Interest
Jul 6 Filming begins on "Ned Kelly" starring Mick Jagger
Mick Jagger
- Jul 6 Frente Obrero y Liberacion (FOL) forms in Curacao
- Jul 7 Canada's House of Commons approves equality of French-English language
- Jul 7 German newspaper Der Spiegel reveals Bishop Defregger of Munich is a war criminal
- Jul 8 US troop withdrawal begins in Vietnam
- Jul 8 IBM CICS is made generally available for the 360 mainframe computer
- Jul 9 Tom Seaver's no-hit bid against Cubs ends with 1 out in 9th
- Jul 10 Chilean Association of Librarians created
Music Single
Jul 11 David Bowie releases the single "Space Oddity" 9 days before Apollo 11 lands on the moon
David Bowie
- Jul 11 Rolling Stones release "Honky Tonk Woman"
- Jul 12 British Open Golf, Royal Lytham & St Annes GC: Tony Jacklin wins the first of his 2 major titles, 2 strokes ahead of Bob Charles of New Zealand; first Briton to win The Open since 1951
- Jul 12 As the 'marching season' reaches its height there is serious rioting in Derry, Belfast and Dungiven; many familles in Belfast are forced to move from their homes
- Jul 13 Russia launches unmanned Luna 15 to Moon
- Jul 13 North Ireland loyalist Ian Paisley addresses a crowd at Loughgall, County Antrim, and is reported to have said: "I am anti-Roman Catholic, but God being my judge, I love the poor dupes who are ground down under that system."
Film Release
Jul 14 "Easy Rider", directed by Dennis Hopper, starring himself, Peter Fonda and Jack Nicholson, is released
Jack Nicholson
- Jul 14 "Futbol War" between El Salvador and Honduras begins
- Jul 14 WMUL (now WPBY) TV channel 33 in Huntington, WV (PBS) 1st broadcast
- Jul 14 The United States $500, $1,000, $5,000 and $10,000 bills are officially withdrawn from circulation.
- Jul 14 A 67-year-old Catholic civilian dies after being attacked by RUC officers in Dungiven; many consider this the first death of 'the Troubles'
- Jul 15 Cincinnati Red Lee May hits 4 HRs in a doubleheader
- Jul 15 Rod Carew ties record with his 7th steal of home in a season
Apollo 11 Bootprint
Jul 16 Apollo 11 launched, carrying 1st men to land on Moon
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Event of Interest
Jul 20 1st Moon Landing: Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin step out from Apollo spacecraft 11, 530 million watch live global broadcast
Neil Armstrong
Buzz Aldrin
- Jul 20 56th Tour de France won by Eddy Merckx of Belgium
- Jul 21 Neil Armstrong becomes the first person to step on the Moon at 2:56:15 AM (GMT)
- Jul 21 Russia's Luna 15 impacts moon after 52 lunar orbits
Event of Interest
Jul 22 Aretha Franklin arrested for disturbing the peace in Detroit
Aretha Franklin
- Jul 22 USSR launches Sputnik 50 & Molniya 1-12 communications satellite
- Jul 23 40th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 9-3 at RFK Memorial, Washington, D.C.
- Jul 23 All star MVP: Willie McCovey (SF Giants)
- Jul 23 USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
- Jul 24 Apollo 11 returns to Earth
- Jul 25 70,000 attend Seattle Pop Festival
- Jul 25 Edward Kennedy pleads guilty to leaving scene of an accident a week after the Chappaquiddick car accident that killed Mary Jo Kopechne
- Jul 26 Sharon Sites Adams, 39, becomes 1st lady to solo sail the Pacific
Golf Major
Jul 27 15th LPGA Championship won by Betsy Rawls
Betsy Rawls
Event of Interest
Jul 30 Barbra Streisand opens for Liberace at International Hotel, Las Vegas
Barbra Streisand
Liberace