Historical Events in July 1975

Jul 4 Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Billie Jean King outclasses Evonne Goolagong 6-0, 6-1 for her 6th Wimbledon singles title

Jul 4 Ted Bundy victim Nancy Baird disappears from Layton, Utah

Jul 5 Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Arthur Ashe becomes first African-American to win Wimbledon, beats Jimmy Connors 6-1, 6-1, 5-7, 6-4
Jul 5 Cape Verde Islands gain independence after 500 years of Portuguese rule
Jul 6 Argentine government falls
Jul 6 Comoros declare independence from France (most of them)
Jul 6 Dmitri Shostakovitch completes Sonate for alto opus 147
Jul 6 Art Wall Jr. at 51 years, 7 months, 10 days becomes the second oldest to win a PGA Tour event, beating Gary McCord by 1 at the Greater Milwaukee Open (oldest Sam Snead)
Jul 7 TV soap opera "Ryan's Hope" premieres

Jul 8 Israeli premier Yitzhak Rabin visits West Germany

Jul 8 US President Gerald Ford announced he'll seek Republican presidential nomination

Jul 8 Quake damages over 2,000 temples in Pagan Burma, 20-foot-high seated Buddha of Thandawgya decapitated
Jul 9 The National Assembly of Senegal passes a law that paves way for a (albeit highly restricted) multi-party system
Jul 10 Gladys Knight and Pips Summer Series premieres on NBC-TV

Jul 10 Test Cricket debut of Graham Gooch, v Australia, out for a pair

Jul 12 104th British Golf Open: Tom Watson shoots a 279 at Carnoustie

Jul 12 Bob Taylor catches 7 in an innings, Derbyshire v Yorkshire
Jul 12 Sao Tomé e Príncipe gains independence from Portugal (National Day)
Jul 13 8.5" (21.6 cm) of rainfall, Dover, Delaware (state record)
Jul 13 Carol Mann wins LPGA Borden Golf Classic
Jul 14 EPCOT Center (Florida) plans announced
Jul 15 46th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 6-3 at County Stadium, Milwaukee
Jul 15 All star MVP: Bill Madlock (Pittsburgh Pirates) & John Matlock (NY Mets)
Jul 15 Soyuz 19 and Apollo 18 launched; will rendezvous 2 days later
Jul 16 Commissioner Bowie Kuhn is reelected for a 7-year term

Jul 17 Apollo 18 and Soyuz 19 make 1st US/USSR linkup in space
Jul 17 Four British soldiers are killed by a Provisional Irish Republican Army remote-controlled bomb near Forkill, County Armagh; attack the first major breach of a February truce
Jul 18 Jury can't decide on trial of Dave Forbes of Boston Bruins (1st athlete indicted for excessive violence during play)
Jul 19 Apollo and Soyuz linked in orbit for 2 days, separate
Jul 19 NY Yankee catcher Thurman Munson's 1st-inning single & RBI are nullified because tar on his bat handle exceeds 18" limit
Jul 20 30th US Women's Open Golf Championship: American Sandra Palmer wins her second major (Titleholders Championship 1972)
Jul 20 India expels three reporters from "The Times", "The Daily Telegraph", and "Newsweek" because they refuse to sign a pledge to abide by government censorship
Jul 20 62nd Tour de France won by Bernard Thevenet of France
Jul 21 Billy Martin fired as Texas Rangers manager
Jul 21 NY Met Félix Millán hits 4 singles; erased by Joe Torres 4 double plays

Jul 22 US House of Representives votes to restore citizenship to General Robert E. Lee

Jul 23 Alan Ayckbourn's "Absent Friends" premieres in London
Jul 23 LA Dodgers W Crawford and Lee Lacy are 5th to hit consecutive pinch HRs

Jul 25 "A Chorus Line", longest-running Broadway show (6,137), premieres
Jul 26 Soyuz 18B returns to Earth
Jul 27 Carol Mann wins LPGA George Washington Ladies Golf Classic
Jul 27 The British government closes its consulate in Angola following increasing fighting between the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola and South African troops
Jul 29 Ford became 1st US President to visit Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz
Jul 29 Military coup by General Mohammed leads to firing of President Jakubu Gowon
Jul 30 Simon Gray's "Otherwise Engaged" premieres in London
Jul 30 US Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa disappears in suburban Detroit; Hoffa legally declared dead in 1982
Jul 30 7th San Diego Comic-Con International opens at El Cortez Hotel
Jul 30 Murtala Mohammed overthrows General Gowon to become Nigerian Head of State
Jul 31 The Miami Showband killings: Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF), a loyalist paramilitary group, shoot dead three members of an Irish showband at Buskhill, County Down, Ireland