Tennis Open
Jul 1 84th Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Virginia Wade beats B Stove (46 63 61)
Virginia Wade
- Jul 1 FC Volendam soccer team forms in Volendam Neth
- Jul 1 Marlies Gohr runs Europen record 100m (10.88 sec)
- Jul 2 91st Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Bjorn Borg beats Connors (36 62 61 57 64)
- Jul 3 5th du Maurier Golf Classic (Peter Jackson Classic): Judy Rankin
- Jul 3 The Senegalese Republican Movement (MRS) is founded
- Jul 4 Cubs use fielder Larry Bittner as a pitcher
- Jul 4 Nigel Harrison replaces Gary Valentine as bassist of Blondie
- Jul 4 Red Sox wallop a major league-record 8 HRs beating Toronto 9-6
- Jul 5 Pakistani army, led by Gen Mohammad Zia ul-Haq, seizes power
- Jul 6 France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll
- Jul 7 12,000 police occupy university in Mexico City
Film Premier
Jul 7 "The Spy Who Loved Me", 10th James Bond film starring Roger Moore and Barbara Bach, premieres in London
Barbara Bach
Roger Moore
- Jul 8 Sabra Starr finishes longest recorded belly dance (100 hrs)
Golf Major
Jul 9 106th British Golf Open: Tom Watson shoots a 268 at Turnberry Scotland
Tom Watson
- Jul 10 "Happy End" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 75 performances
- Jul 10 Pat Bradley wins LPGA Bankers Trust Golf Classic
Event of Interest
Jul 11 US Medal of Freedom awarded posthumously to Rev Martin Luther King Jr
Martin Luther King Jr.
- Jul 12 John Edrich scores his 100th 100, Surrey v Derbyshire at The Oval
- Jul 13 NYC experiences 25 hr black-out
- Jul 14 North Korea shoots down US helicopter, killing 3
- Jul 14 US House establishes permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
- Jul 16 Janelle Commissiong, of Trinidad & Tobago crowned 26th Miss Universe
- Jul 17 Joanne Carner wins LPGA Borden Golf Classic
- Jul 18 Hugh Leonard's "Da" premieres in London
- Jul 18 Vietnam becomes a member of the UN
- Jul 19 48th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 7-5 at Yankee Stadium, NY
- Jul 19 All star MVP: Don Sutton (LA Dodgers)
- Jul 19 Floods in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, kill 76
- Jul 20 Flash flood hits Johnstown, Pennsylvania, kills 80 and causes $350 million damage
- Jul 20 The Central Intelligence Agency releases documents under the Freedom of Information Act revealing it had engaged in mind control experiments
- Jul 20 10th San Diego Comic-Con International opens at El Cortez Hotel
- Jul 21 Libyan-Egyptian border fights
- Jul 21 Sri Lanka premier Bandaranaike loses election
- Jul 21 Sanjiva Reddy is elected sixth President of India unopposed
- Jul 23 Washington jury convicts 12 Hanafi Muslims on hostage charges
- Jul 24 32nd US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Hollis Stacy
- Jul 24 Seattle's John Montague pitches 6 2/3 innings of perfect relief tying 2 game record of retiring 33 consecutive batsmen
- Jul 24 64th Tour de France won by Bernard Thevenet of France
- Jul 26 USSR performs underground nuclear Test
- Jul 26 The 'Committee of 10' formed by prominent Soweto residents, issues a programme for the election of a new community board to have total autonomy in Soweto, South Africa
- Jul 27 John Lennon is granted a green card for permanent residence in US
- Jul 28 1st oil through the TransAlaska Pipeline System reach Valdez, Alaska
- Jul 28 Roy Wilkins turn over NAACP leadership to Benjamin Hooks
Event of Interest
Jul 28 Test Cricket debut of Ian Botham v Aust Trent Bridge, 5-74 1st innings
Ian Botham
