Historical Events in July 1997

Jul 1 Nevada Athletic Commission suspends Mike Tyson for biting Holyfield

Jul 6 111th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Pete Sampras beats C Pioline (64 62 64)

Jul 6 Montreal Expos retire Andre Dawson's uniform #10

Jul 7 Tiger Woods wins golf's Western Open

Jul 7 Tower, Minnesota temperature dips to 24°F
Jul 8 68th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 3-1 at Jacobs Field, Cleveland
Jul 8 NATO invites Poland, Hungary & Czech Republic to join
Jul 9 Baseball's triple A American Association (formed in 1902) votes to disband
Jul 9 Mike Tyson is banned from boxing for biting Evander Holyfield's ear
Jul 10 Hideki Irabu makes his debut as a NY Yankee, he beats Tigers 10-3
Jul 10 Louise Woodward's trial begins in Massachusetts Nanny murder trial
Jul 10 RJR Nabisco announces it will replace Joe Camel in new ads
Jul 10 Spain, Partido Popular member Miguel Ángel Blanco is kidnapped in the Basque city of Ermua by ETA members, sparking widespread protests
Jul 12 Cubs play in their 5,000th consecutive game without being no-hit
Jul 12 Pirates Francisco Cordova & Ricardo Rincon no-hit Astros 3-0 in 10 inn
Jul 13 15th Seniors Players Golf Championship: Larry Gilbert
Jul 13 52nd US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Alison Nicholas
Jul 13 David Toms wins Quad City Golf Classic at 265

Jul 13 Indonesian ferry sinks, killing at least 77
Jul 14 Bomb in Algiers kills 21 & wounds 40
Jul 15 Jerold Mackenzie awarded $26.6M (later reduced to $625,000) for being fired from Miller Brewing for sexual harassment for relaying a Seinfeld episode to a co worker
Jul 15 Donatella Versace launches her first couture collection for her brother's Versace label, a year after his murder
Jul 17 STS 94 (Columbia 23), lands
Jul 17 30th San Diego Comic-Con International opens at San Diego Convention Center
Jul 20 126th British Golf Open: American Justin Leonard shoots a 272 to win at Royal Troon
Jul 20 Michele Redman wins LPGA JAL Big Apple Classic
Jul 21 NY Yank Mike Whiton held in Milwaukee on charges of sexual assault
Jul 21 The fully restored USS Constitution (aka "Old Ironsides") celebrates her 200th birthday, setting sail for the first time in 116 years
Jul 22 Fire breaks out at Palais de Chaillot in Paris
Jul 22 The second Blue Water Bridge opens between Port Huron, Michigan and Sarnia, Ontario

Jul 22 Greg Maddux throws a complete game with just 76 pitches

Jul 22 The first shipments of oil produced from Kazakhstan's Tengiz field arrive at terminals on the Black Sea for subsequent export through the Bosphoros Strait
Jul 23 Dallas TV Station KXAS settle with Dallas Cowboys Michael Irvin and Erik Williams for reporting false sex assault allegations against them
Jul 23 The US State Department rules that Turkey's agreement to purchase $23 billion worth of natural gas from Iran does not violate the Iran and Libya Sanctions Act

Jul 25 Autumn Jackson, found guilty of trying to extort $40M from Bill Cosby

Jul 25 Carroll O'Connor found not guilty of slandering Harry Perzigian
Jul 25 Howard Stern is fired from radio station, KEGL Dallas
Jul 25 QB Brett Favre, re-signs with Green Bay Packers for $50M for 7 yrs
Jul 25 Rocker Rick Danko gets suspended sentence in Japan for drug smuggling
Jul 25 Vincent "The Chin" Gigante found guilty of racketeering in NYC
Jul 25 K. R. Narayanan is sworn-in as India's 10th president and the first Dalit, formerly called "untouchable" to hold the office
Jul 25 Scientists announce the first human stem cells to be cultured in a laboratory using tissue taken from aborted human embryos
Jul 27 "Candide" closes at Gershwin Theater NYC after 103 performances
Jul 27 "Victor/Victoria" closes at Marquis Theater NYC after 738 performances
Jul 27 Detroit Tigers retire pitching great Hal Newhouser's #16
Jul 27 Stewart Cink wins golfs Greater Hartford Open (267)
Jul 27 Tammie Green wins Giant Eagle LPGA Classic
Jul 27 Si Zerrouk massacre in Algeria; about 50 people killed.
Jul 27 84th Tour de France won by Jan Ullrich of Germany

Jul 28 NY Ranger center Mark Messier signs with Vancouver for $20M for 3 yrs

Jul 28 Peter Graf, father of Steffi, enters German jail for tax evasion
Jul 28 Guatemala becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty
Jul 30 Terrorist double suicide bombing in Jerusalem, kills 14
Jul 30 Eighteen lives are lost in the Thredbo Landslide in New South Wales, Australia

Jul 31 A's trade Mark McGwire to St Louis Cardinals