- Jul 1 WEDway People Mover opens in Tomorrowland, Disney World, Florida
Tennis Open
Jul 4 Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Billie Jean King outclasses Evonne Goolagong 6-0, 6-1 for her 6th Wimbledon singles title
Billie Jean King
- 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
Event of Interest
Jul 8 Israeli premier Yitzhak Rabin visits West Germany
Yitzhak Rabin
Election of Interest
Jul 8 US President Gerald Ford announced he'll seek Republican presidential nomination
Gerald Ford
Event of Interest
Jul 10 Test Cricket debut of Graham Gooch, v Australia, out for a pair
Graham Gooch
Golf Major
Jul 12 104th British Golf Open: Tom Watson shoots a 279 at Carnoustie
Tom Watson
- 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 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
Event of Interest
Jul 22 US House of Representives votes to restore citizenship to General Robert E. Lee
Robert E. Lee
Event of Interest
Jul 25 David Bowie releases "Fame"
David Bowie
- Jul 26 Soyuz 18B returns to Earth
- 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