Events in History
- Jul 1 Arbitrator Raymond Goetz rules 43 players who are on Disabled List during 1981 players' strike not entitled to salaries for that period
- Jul 3 American Calvin Smith sets new world record of 9.93 for 100m in Colorado Springs, beats Jim Hines 1968 mark by 0.02 seconds
- Jul 5 France invades Algeria
- Jul 5 Woman gives birth to baby 84 days after brain death (Roanoke, Virginia)
- Jul 6 Supreme Court rules retirement plans can't pay women less
- Jul 7 11 year old Samantha Smith of Manchester, Maine, leaves for USSR
- Jul 12 Chad government troops reconquer Abéché
- Jul 13 The Transvaal Attorney General announces that Eugène Terre'Blanche, leader of the far-right Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB) and three associates will face terrorism charges, South Africa
- Jul 14 US politicians Dan Crane (Rep-R-Il) and Gerry Studds (Rep-D-Mas) admit to sex with pages
- Jul 15 8 killed, 54 wounded, by Armenian extremists bomb at Orly, France
- Jul 16 Sikorsky S-61 disaster: A helicopter crashes off the Isles of Scilly, causing 20 fatalities in Britain's worst helicopter accident
- Jul 17 1st USFL championship (Mich Panthers beats Philadelphia Stars 24-22)
- Jul 19 The first three-dimensional reconstruction of a human head in a CT is published.
- Jul 20 France performs nuclear Test at Mururoa atoll
- Jul 21 Polish government ends 19 months of martial law
- Jul 21 US announces Lebanon freed American hostage David Dodge
- Jul 21 World's lowest-ever natural temperature recorded −89.2 °C (−128.6 °F; 184.0 K) at Soviet Vostok Station, Antarctica
- Jul 22 Dick Smith makes 1st solo helicopter flight around the world
Event of Interest
Jul 22 Polish Prime Minister Wojciech Jaruzelski lifts martial law after 19 months
- Jul 23 Gimli Glider: Air Canada Flight 143 runs out of fuel and makes a deadstick landing at Gimli, Manitoba.
- Jul 24 Sonya Robinson, (Milwaukee), 23, crowned 16th Miss Black America
- Jul 25 1st non-human primate (baboon) conceived in a lab dish, San Antonio
- Jul 25 Washington Public Power Supply System defaulted $2.25 billion
- Jul 26 Challenger moves to Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center (Florida), for mating for STS-8
- Jul 26 Jarmila Kratochvilova of Czech sets 800m woman's record (1:53.28)
- Jul 26 Light flashes seen on Jupiter moon Io
- Jul 26 US threatens action to preserve navigation in Persian Gulf
- Jul 27 104°F (40.3°C) in Garmersdorf (German record)
- Jul 28 NASA launches Telstar-3A
- Jul 28 USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
- Jul 30 Official speed record for a piston-driven aircraft, 832 kph, California
- Jul 31 Dutch July average temperature is 20.1°C; warmest July since 1852
Birthdays in History
- Jul 7 Justin Davies, Australian rules footballer
Juan Guaidó (39 years old)
Jul 28 Venezuelan politician recognized by 54 countries as the President of Venezuela but disputed with Nicolás Maduro, born in La Guaira, Vargas
Weddings in History
Vladimir Putin
Jul 28 Russian president Vladimir Putin (30) weds flight attendant Lyudmila Shkrebneva (25)
Deaths in History
- Jul 1 R. Buckminster Fuller, American architect and inventor (geodesic dome), dies at 87
- Jul 3 John Fleming (Jack) Brock, South African nutritional scientist, physician and a professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Cape Town, dies at 78
- Jul 5 Arie Querido, psychiatrist (social psychiatry), dies
- Jul 7 Herman Kahn, American futurist and nuclear strategist, dies at 71
- Jul 7 Vicki Morgan, American mistress (Beautiful Bad Girl), murdered at 30
- Jul 9 Keith Wickenden, British Politician (b. 1932)
- Jul 11 Ross Macdonald [Kenneth Millar], American-Canadian detective novelist (Goodbye Look), dies at 67
- Jul 13 Gabrielle Roy, French Canadian author (The Tin Flute, Street of Riches), dies at 73
- Jul 14 Arnout Colnot, Dutch painter and graphic artist, dies at 96
- Jul 29 J. B. Charles [Willem H. Nagel], Dutch criminologist and writer, dies at 83
- Jul 30 Yuri Aleksandrovich Letunov, Russian cosmonaut, dies at 56
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