Event of Interest
Jul 3 CBS announces a 21% stock buy-back to thwart Ted Turner's takeover
Ted Turner
- Jul 3 Tinker Bell's first nightly flight at Walt Disney World Resort, Florida
Film Release
Jul 3 "Back to the Future" directed by Robert Zemeckis and starring Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd is released
Michael J. Fox
Election of Interest
Jul 5 Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe African National Union - Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) party wins re-election in Zimbabwe for a second term
Robert Mugabe
- Jul 5 Nicholas Mark Sanders (England) begins circumnavigation of globe, covering 13,035 road miles in 78 days, 3 hr, 30 min
Tennis Open
Jul 6 Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Martina Navratilova beats Chris Evert 4-6, 6-3, 6-2 for her 6th Wimbledon singles title
Martina Navratilova
Chris Evert
- Jul 6 Mom's Command wins the Coaching Club American Oaks at Belmont to clinch American thoroughbred racing's Triple Tiara for fillies
- Jul 7 Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Boris Becker beats South African Kevin Curren 6-3, 6-7, 7-6, 6-4 to become the youngest man (17) to win a Wimbledon singles title
- Jul 8 Marge Schott becomes CEO of Cincinnati Red
- Jul 9 South Africa police arrested Dutch ANC'er Klaas de Jong
- Jul 10 Coca-Cola Co announces it will resume selling old formula Coke
The Sinking of the Rainbow Warrior
Jul 10 French foreign intelligence agents blow up the Greenpeace boat Rainbow Warrior in Auckland harbor, New Zealand to prevent it interfering with French nuclear tests in the South Pacific. Dutch photographer Fernando Pereira is killed.
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Event of Interest
Jul 11 Astros' Nolan Ryan, 1st to strike out 4000 (Mets' Danny Heep)
Nolan Ryan
Event of Interest
Jul 12 Doctors discover a cancerous growth in President Reagan's colon
Ronald Reagan
Event of Interest
Jul 13 NY Yankees retire Roger Maris (9) and Elston Howard (32) uniforms
Roger Maris
- Jul 14 40th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Kathy Baker
- Jul 14 Columbia returns to Kennedy Space Center via Offutt AFB, Neb
- Jul 14 Last USFL game-Baltimore Stars defeats Oakland Invaders, 28-24
- Jul 15 Deborah Carthy-Deu, of Puerto Rico, crowned 34th Miss Universe
- Jul 16 56th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 6-1 at Humphrey Metrodome, Minn
- Jul 16 All star MVP: LaMarr Hoyt (SD Padres)
- Jul 16 Bill to abolish Greater London Council receives royal assent
- Jul 18 USSR performs underground nuclear Test
- Jul 19 Christa McAuliffe chosen as 1st school teacher to fly aboard the space shuttle
- Jul 19 The Val di Stava Dam collapse killing 268 people in Val di Stava, Italy.
- Jul 20 Divers find wreck of Spanish galleon Atocha
- Jul 20 The government of Aruba passes legislation to secede from the Netherlands Antilles
- Jul 21 "Leader of the Pack" closes at Ambassador Theater NYC after 120 performances
- Jul 21 114th British Golf Open: Sandy Lyle shoots a 282 at Royal St George
- Jul 21 Amina Fakir (Detroit), 23, crowned 18th Miss Black America
- Jul 21 Judy Clark wins LPGA Boston Five Golf Classic
- Jul 21 72nd Tour de France won by Bernard Hinault of France
- Jul 24 Gandhi signs peace contract with Sikh leader Harchand Singh Longowai
- Jul 24 French DGSE officers Dominique Prieur and Alain Mafart are arrested and charged with murder over the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior
- Jul 25 Spokeswoman for Rock Hudson confirms he has AIDS
- Jul 25 Steve Cram runs world record mile (3:46.32)
- Jul 25 US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
- Jul 25 USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
- Jul 25 Uganda suspends constitution following coup
Golf Major
Jul 28 Canadian Open Golf (du Maurier Classic), Beaconsfield GC: Pat Bradley wins by 1 from Jane Geddes
Pat Bradley
Jane Geddes
- Jul 28 Alan Garcia sworn in as president of Peru
- Jul 28 L Brock, Enos Slaughter, A Vaughan, & H Wilhelm inducted into Baseball Hall of Fame
- Jul 29 19th Space Shuttle Mission (51-F)-Challenger 8-launched
- Jul 30 Discovery moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 51-I mission
- Jul 30 Valerie Lowrance, of Texas, 18, crowned America's Junior Miss