- Jul 1 1 second is added to the clock
- Jul 1 Russian manned space craft TM-17, launches into orbit
- Jul 1 STS-57 (Endeavour) lands
- Jul 1 Richard Riordan elected as Los Angeles first Republican mayor in 36 years
- Jul 2 Boat sinks at Bocaue Philippines, 325 die
- Jul 2 F-28 crashes at Sorong Irian Barat, 41 die
- Jul 2 Muslim fundamentalists in Sivas, Turkey, set hotel on fire, kill 36
Event of Interest
Jul 2 Pope John Paul II hospitalized for Cat Scan test
John Paul II
Tennis Open
Jul 4 Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Pete Sampras beats fellow American Jim Courier 7-6, 7-6, 3-6, 6-3 for his first of 7 Wimbledon titles
Pete Sampras
Baseball Record
Jul 5 As' outfielder Rickey Henderson leads off both games of Oakland's doubleheader vs Cleveland with homers (first time since 1913)
Rickey Henderson
Album Release 
- Jul 6 England cricket batsman Graham Thorpe scores 114 on Test debut, in drawn 3rd Test v Australia at Trent Bridge
Event of Interest
Jul 6 John F. Kennedy Jr, gives notice of quitting as ADA in Manhattan
John F. Kennedy Jr.
- Jul 7 Guntis Ulmanis elected president of Latvia
- Jul 7 Lenny Dykstra hits bases loaded 2-run double to end Phillies 7, LA Dodgers 6 in 20 innings in Philadelphia
- Jul 7 Prodigy announces it will offer Cox newspapers
- Jul 10 Melchior Ndadaye becomes 1st Hutu Burundi President, Sylvie Kinigi Prime Minister
- Jul 10 Yobes Ondieki runs world record 10km (26:58.38)
Event of Interest
Jul 11 14th U.S. Senior Golf Open: Jack Nicklaus
Jack Nicklaus
Event of Interest
Jul 12 Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical "Sunset Promenade" opens in London
Andrew Lloyd Webber
Event of Interest
Jul 13 All star MVP: Kirby Puckett (Minnesota Twins)
Kirby Puckett
- Jul 14 Aeroflot starts non-stop flights between Moscow and NY
- Jul 16 President Lissouba calls emergency rule in Congo-Brazzaville
- Jul 16 S van Ruysdael's "Winter Landscape" sold for £705,500 in London
- Jul 16 SF outfielder Darren Lewis sets record of 267 consecutive errorless games
- Jul 17 Graeme Obree bicycles world record time, 51,596 km
Golf Major
Jul 18 122nd British Golf Open: Greg Norman shoots a 267 at Royal St George
Greg Norman
- Jul 18 Afghan President Ishaq Khan and Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif resign
- Jul 18 Graeme Obree bicycles world record time (51,596 K)
- Jul 18 Hiromi Kobayash wins LPGA JAL Big Apple Golf Classic
- Jul 18 Liberal-Democratic Party loses Japan's parliamentary election
- Jul 19 Glen Chapple (Lancs) scores fastest F-C century, 21 minutes
Event of Interest
Jul 19 Last day of 1st-class cricket for Ian Botham
Ian Botham
Event of Interest
Jul 19 President Clinton fires FBI director William Sessions
Bill Clinton
- Jul 20 Fire in the press box at Altanta Fulton County Stadium
- Jul 21 Angela Kennedy swims world record 50 m butterfly stroke (26.93)
- Jul 22 NY Yankee Don Mattingly hits his 200th HR
- Jul 22 Soyuz TM-17 lands
- Jul 23 Boon completes 17th Test Cricket century, 107 at Headingley
- Jul 23 China Northwest Airlines BAe146-300 crashes at Yinchuan, 55 killed
- Jul 23 Chris Boardman bicycles world record 1 hour distance (52,270 km)
- Jul 23 NY Yankee Mark Hutton is 1st Australian to be a starting pitcher, He beats Angels 5-2; Yanks, Red Sox, Blue Jays 3 way tie for 1st
- Jul 24 Met Vince Coleman injures 3 when he throws cherry bomb at Dodger fans
- Jul 24 NY Met Anthony Young loses record 27th straight
- Jul 25 31st Tennis Fed Cup: Spain beats Australia in Frankfurt Germany (3-0)
- Jul 25 48th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Lauri Merten
- Jul 25 Israeli offensive against terrorist bases in South Lebanon
- Jul 25 The St James' Church massacre in Kenilworth, Cape Town by Azanian Peoples' Liberation Army
- Jul 25 Tour de France: Spaniard Miguel Induráin makes it 3 straight Tour titles; Djamolidine Abdoujaparov points winner
- Jul 26 Boeing 737-500 crashes in South Korea, 66 killed
- Jul 26 Mars Observer takes 1st photo of Mars, from 5 billion km
- Jul 27 Detroit Tiger Fryman hits for cycle but loses 12-7 to Yankees
- Jul 27 Javier Sotomayor jumps world record 2.45 m high
- Jul 27 Mafia bombs historical buildings in Rome, Milan and Vatican City, 5 killed
- Jul 27 NBC TV awarded 1996 Olympic coverage for $456 million
- Jul 27 NY Met Anthony Young wins ending his losing streak at 27 games
- Jul 28 Mariner Ken Griffey Jr is 3rd to hit HRs in 8 straight games
- Jul 29 Cincinnati Reds pitcher Thomas Browning arrested for marijuana possession
- Jul 29 Walter Koenig (Chekov in Star Trek) suffers a mild heart attack
- Jul 29 Israeli Court of Appeal overturns (5-0) conviction of John Demjaujuk, saying not enough evidence he is Concentration Camp Ivan the Terrible
- Jul 31 A's trade Rickey Henderson to Blue Jays
- Jul 31 Allman Bros guitarist Dickey Betts arrested for shoving 2 cops
- Jul 31 Inkatha-arm forces killed 49 ANC-followers in Johannesburg
- Jul 31 Prince Ronald "Ronnie" Mutebi crowned king of Uganda