Events in History
Event of Interest
Jul 1 Investiture of Prince Charles as the Prince of Wales is watched by large crowds in Caernarfon, Wales and by millions on television
- Jul 1 Shelby Singleton buys Sun Records from Sam Phillips
- Jul 3 Soviet N1 rocket explodes just after launch off at Baikonur Cosmodrome - one of the largest-ever non-nuclear human-made explosion, debris spread over 10 km
- Jul 4 "Give Peace a Chance" by Plastic Ono Band is released in UK
- Jul 4 The Ohio Fireworks Derecho kills 18 Ohioans and destroys over 100 boats on Lake Erie.
- Jul 4 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
- Jul 6 Frente Obrero y Liberacion (FOL) forms in Curacao
- Jul 7 Canada's House of Commons approves equality of French-English language
- Jul 7 German newspaper Der Spiegel reveals Bishop Defregger of Munich is a war criminal
- Jul 8 IBM CICS is made generally available for the 360 mainframe computer
- Jul 8 US troop withdrawal begins in Vietnam
- Jul 10 Chilean Association of Librarians created
- Jul 12 As the 'marching season' reaches its height there is serious rioting in Derry, Belfast and Dungiven; many families in Belfast are forced to move from their homes
Event of Interest
Jul 13 North Ireland loyalist Ian Paisley addresses a crowd at Loughgall, County Antrim, and is reported to have said: "I am anti-Roman Catholic, but God being my judge, I love the poor dupes who are ground down under that system."
- Jul 13 Russia launches unmanned Luna 15 to Moon
- Jul 14 "Futbol War" between El Salvador and Honduras begins
- Jul 14 A 67-year-old Catholic civilian dies after being attacked by RUC officers in Dungiven; many consider this the first death of 'the Troubles'
- Jul 14 The United States $500, $1,000, $5,000 and $10,000 bills are officially withdrawn from circulation.
Apollo 11 Bootprint
Jul 16 Apollo 11 launched, carrying 1st men to land on Moon
- Jul 19 Apollo 11 goes into Moon orbit
Event of Interest
Jul 20 Apollo 11 lunar module carrying Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin lands on the surface of the Moon; Aldrin and Armstrong walk on the moon seven hours later; Michael Collins remains in orbit in the lunar module
- Jul 21 Apollo 11: Neil Armstrong becomes the first person to step on the Moon at 2:56:15 AM (GMT)
- Jul 21 Russia's Luna 15 impacts moon after 52 lunar orbits
- Jul 22 USSR launches Sputnik 50 & Molniya 1-12 communications satellite
- Jul 23 USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
- Jul 24 Apollo 11 returns to Earth
Event of Interest
Jul 25 Edward Kennedy pleads guilty to leaving scene of an accident a week after the Chappaquiddick car accident that killed Mary Jo Kopechne
Birthdays in History
- Jul 2 Matthew Cox, American convicted felon
- Jul 13 Oleg Serebrian, Moldovan politician and political scientist
- Jul 18 Elizabeth Gilbert, American author (Eat Pray, Love), born in Waterbury, Connecticut
- Jul 23 Raphael Warnock, American pastor and politician (Senator from Georgia, 2021-), born in Savannah, Georgia
- Jul 28 Alexis Arquette, American transgender performer (Last Exit to Brooklyn), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 2016)
- Jul 31 Kenneth D. Schisler, American politician, born in Baltimore, Maryland
Deaths in History
- Jul 5 Tom Mboya, Kenyian economics minister, assassinated in Narobi at 65
- Jul 5 Walter Gropius, architect/found (Bauhaus school of design), dies at 86
- Jul 8 Charmian Clift, Australian writer and essayist, dies at 45
- Jul 9 Gertrude Dixon, compiler of Shunryu Suzuki's Zen Mind, dies
- Jul 13 Madiba Thembekile, Nelson Mandela's son, dies in a car accident at 24
- Jul 19 Mary Jo Kopechne, American political campaign specialist and Ted Kennedy's car passenger, drowns at 28
- Jul 19 Pavel I Apostolov, Russian military bandmaster, dies
- Jul 23 Dell Floyd, American editor, author and playwright (Little Accident), dies at 82
- Jul 24 Witold Gombrowicz, Polish author (Ferdydurke, Dziennik), dies at 64
- Jul 28 Ramón Grau, Cuban politician, 6th and 10th President of Cuba, dies at 87
- Jul 30 Oda Blinder [Yolanda Corsen], Curaçao-Dutch poet (Doorstep), dies at 50
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