Event of Interest
Jul 2 Pope John Paul II hospitalized for Cat Scan test
John Paul II
- Jul 2 Royals Stadium is renamed Kauffman Stadium shortly before the death of Kansas City Royals owner Ewing Kauffman
Wimbledon Women's Tennis
Jul 3 Wimbledon Women's Tennis: In the centenary women's singles final, German Steffi Graf beats Czech Jana Novotná 7-6, 1-6, 6-4
Steffi Graf
Jana Novotna
Wimbledon Men's Tennis
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
- 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)
US Senior Golf Open
Jul 11 US Senior Open Men's Golf, Cherry Hills CC: Jack Nicklaus wins by 1 stroke ahead of Tom Weiskopf for his second US Senior title
Jack Nicklaus
Music Premiere
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 breaks the world hour cycling record, riding 51.596km on Old Faithful at the Hamar velodrome in Norway [1]
British Golf Open
Jul 18 British Open Men's Golf, Royal St George's GC: Australian Greg Norman fires final round 64 (–6) to win his 2nd Open title, 2 strokes ahead of Englishman Nick Faldo
Greg Norman
Nick Faldo
Event of Interest
Jul 18 Afghan President Ishaq Khan and Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif resign
Nawaz Sharif
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 s. Sessions
Bill Clinton
Event of Interest
Jul 22 NY Yankee Don Mattingly hits his 200th HR
Don Mattingly
- Jul 22 Soyuz TM-17 lands
- Jul 23 David 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 cycles a world record 1 hour distance of 52.27 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 US Open Women's Golf, Crooked Stick GC: Lauri Merten fires a final round 68 (−4) to win her lone major title, 1 stroke ahead of runners-up Donna Andrews and Helen Alfredsson
- 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
Federation Cup
Jul 25 Federation Cup Women's Tennis, Frankfurt, Germany: Spain wins 2nd title with 3-0 win over Australia; Arantxa Sánchez Vicario clinches victory with 6-2, 6-3 win against Nicole Provis
Arantxa Sánchez Vicario
- Jul 26 Boeing 737-500 crashes in South Korea, 66 killed
- Jul 26 The first of four photos of Mars is taken by the Mars Observer, just under a month before the spacecraft failed in flight
- 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
Baseball Record
Jul 28 Mariner Ken Griffey Jr. is 3rd to hit HRs in 8 straight games
Ken Griffey Jr.
- 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 Toronto Blue Jays obtain future Baseball Hall of Fame OF Rickey Henderson from Oakland in exchange for minor leaguers Steve Karsay and Jose Herrera
- Jul 31 The Allman Brothers Band 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