Events in History
- Jul 1 Kenneth Gibson, is 1st black president of US Conference of Mayors
- Jul 1 Portugal grants autonomy to Madeira.
- Jul 2 Formal reunification of North and South Vietnam
- Jul 2 Ramble Inn attack: the Ulster Volunteer Force killed 6 civilians (5 Protestants, 1 Catholic) in a gun attack at a pub near Antrim; the pub was targeted because it was owned by Catholics
- Jul 2 US Supreme Court rules death penalty not inherently cruel or unusual
- Jul 3 Adolfo Suárez becomes premier of Spain
- Jul 4 Israel launches hostage rescue mission of 106 Air France crew and passengers held at Entebbe Airport in Uganda by pro-Palestinian hijackers. Three hostages die along with all the hijackers, numerous Ugandan soldiers and Yonatan Netanyahu, an Israeli soldier
- Jul 4 Opening ceremony of the Dai Bosatsu monastery Catskill Mt NY
- Jul 6 Soyuz 21 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 5 space station
- Jul 7 119 women joined the Corps of Cadets, establishing the first class of women in the US Military Academy at West Point
- Jul 7 Lt General Vernon A Walters, USA, ends term as deputy director of CIA; succeeded by E Henry Knoche
- Jul 8 Randy Jones wins NL record 16 games before All Star break
- Jul 9 England all out for 71 v WI at Old Trafford, Holding 14 5-7-17-5
- Jul 9 Houston Astro Larry Dierker no-hits Montreal Expos, 6-0
- Jul 9 Uganda asks UN to condemn Israeli hostage rescue raid on Entebbe - it does not
- Jul 10 Chemical factory in Seveso, near Milan explodes covering the surrounding area in dioxin
- Jul 10 One American and three British mercenaries are executed in Angola following the Luanda Trial
- Jul 11 France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll
- Jul 11 In pre-game promo at Atlanta County Stadium, 34 couples wed at home plate followed by Championship Wrestling "Headlocks & Wedlocks"
- Jul 13 Court martial begins in USSR for Valery Sablin (Hunt for Red Oct)
Presidential Convention
Jul 14 Democratic Convention in NYC nominates former Georgia governor Jimmy Carter for president and US Senator Walter Mondale, from Minnesota, for vice president
- Jul 18 Stockhausens "Sirius" premieres in NYC
- Jul 18 Thiokol conducts 2-min firing of space shuttle's SRB at Brigham, Ut
- Jul 19 Sagarmatha National Park in Nepal is created.
- Jul 20 US Viking 1 lands on Mars at Chryse Planitia, 1st Martian landing
- Jul 20 Vietnam War: The US military completes its troop withdrawal from Thailand.
- Jul 21 1st outbreak of "Legionnaire's Disease" kills 29 in Philadelphia
- Jul 21 Christopher Ewart-Biggs, British Ambassador to the Republic of Ireland, and his secretary Judith Cook are assassinated by a bomb planted by the Provisional IRA in his car in Dublin
- Jul 23 France performs nuclear Test at Mururoa atoll
- Jul 23 USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
- Jul 24 John Naber is 1st to swim 200m backstroke under 2 minutes
- Jul 25 Annegret Richter runs 100m (11.01)
- Jul 27 Japanese ex-premier Tanaka arrested (Lockheed Affair)
- Jul 28 Eldon Joersz & Geo Morgan set world air speed record of 3,530 kph
- Jul 28 Tangshan Earthquake, 8.2 in magnitude kills over 240,000 Northern China in the largest loss of life from an earthquake in the 20th century
- Jul 29 In New York City, the "Son of Sam" kills one person and seriously wounds another in first of a series of attacks
- Jul 29 USSR performs underground nuclear Test
- Jul 30 4 Protestant civilians were shot dead at a pub off Milltown Road, Belfast; the attack was claimed by the Republican Action Force
- Jul 30 Giulio Andreotti sworn in as premier of Italy for the 2nd time
- Jul 31 Seychelles Independence (Independence day)
Birthdays in History
- Jul 3 Wanderlei Silva, Brazilian mixed martial artist
- Jul 10 Brendon Lade, Australian rules footballer
- Jul 12 Kyrsten Sinema, American politician (Senator-D-Arizona 2019-), born Tucson, Arizona
- Jul 17 Gino D'Acampo, Italian celebrity chef, born in Torre del Greco, Italy
- Jul 20 Erica Hill, American news anchor
- Jul 21 Cori Bush, American politician, nurse and activist, first African American woman representative from Missouri, born in St. Louis, Missouri
- Jul 24 Rashida Tlaib, American politician (Rep-D-Michigan 2018-), one of the first Muslim women elected to US House, born in Detroit, Michigan
- Jul 25 Jovica Tasevski-Eternijan, Macedonian poet, born in Skopje, Republic of Macedonia
- Jul 28 Huma Abedin, American political staffer to Hillary Clinton, born in Kalamazoo, Michigan
Deaths in History
- Jul 1 Anneliese Michel, German woman said to be possessed by demons (b. 1952)
- Jul 4 Antoni Słonimski, Polish poet (b. 1895)
- Jul 4 Yonatan Netanyahu, Israel commander killed freeing Israeli hostages during Operation Entebbe in Uganda, at 30 years
- Jul 6 Fritz Lenz, German geneticist, dies at 89
- Jul 6 Zhu De, Chinese general and politician (commander-in-chief of Eighth Route Army), dies at 89
- Jul 7 Gustav Heinemann, President of West Germany (1969-74), dies at 76
- Jul 13 Frederick Hawksworth, GWR Chief mechanical engineer. (b. 1884)
- Jul 13 Joachim Peiper, German military leader (SS, by assassination; b. 1915)
- Jul 15 Paul William Gallico, writer, dies at 78
- Jul 16 Carmelo Soria, Spanish diplomat assassinated in 1976 by the Chilean DINA
- Jul 18 Sally Salminen, Finnish writer (Katrina), dies at 70
- Jul 19 Sal Tas, Dutch journalist, dies at 70
- Jul 20 Samuel Mutendi, founder of the Zimbabwean Zion Christian Church, dies
- Jul 21 Christopher Ewart-Biggs, British ambassador to Ireland, assassinated
- Jul 23 Martin Wickramasinghe, Sri Lankan author (Gamperaliya - The Uprooted/Changing Village), dies at 85
- Jul 24 Afro Basaldella, Italian painter (The Garden of Hope), dies at 64
- Jul 27 Ray Brennan, retired US Air Force captain, American Legion bookkeeper and the 1st American to die of "Legionnaire's Disease", dies of an apparent heart attack at 61
- Jul 29 Mickey Cohen, American gangster (Cohen crime family), dies at 62
- Jul 30 Emil Solomon "Solly" Sachs, South African socialist, dies in London
Authors
Civil Rights Activists
Inventors
Kings
Revolutionaries
Scientists