Events in History
- Jul 1 The PG-13 rating is introduced by the MPAA
- Jul 3 Dolphin rocket launched off San Clemente Island
- Jul 3 Supreme Court rules Jaycees may be forced to admit women as members
- Jul 4 Funeral for S Nakagawa and burial of half his ashes next to N Senzaki
- Jul 5 Supreme Court weakens 70-year-old "exclusionary rule"-evidence seized with defective court warrants can now be used in criminal trials
- Jul 7 5 die in a train crash in Williston, Vermont
- Jul 9 12th Century York Minster damaged in lightning storm
- Jul 11 Government orders air bags or seat belts would be required in cars by 1989
- Jul 11 Lucas Mangope re-elected president of Bophuthatswana
- Jul 12 A car bomb set off by the military wing of the ANC, explodes in Durban South Africa killing 5 and injuring 27 people
Appointment of Interest
Jul 12 Geraldine Ferraro becomes the 1st US female major-party vice-presidential candidate, after Walter Mondale selects her as his Democratic Party running mate
- Jul 13 The last sitting of an all-white Parliament in South Africa
Election of Interest
Jul 14 New Zealand snap election, David Lange's Labour Party defeats Robert Muldoon's National Party
- Jul 14 STS 41-D vehicle moves to Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center (Florida) for remanifest of payloads
- Jul 14 USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
- Jul 17 Pierre Mauroy resigns as Prime Minister of France
- Jul 17 Soyuz T-12 carries 3 cosmonauts to space station Salyut 7
- Jul 17 US passes National Minimum Drinking Age Act, prohibiting under 21's from buying or possessing alcohol as a condition of receiving federal highway funds
- Jul 18 21 people are killed and 19 are injured in a massacre in a McDonalds restaurant in San Ysidro, California; it ends with the shooting of its perpetrator, James Oliver Huberty
Presidential Convention
Jul 18 Walter Mondale wins the Democratic Party presidential nomination in San Francisco
- Jul 19 1st female to captain a 747 across Atlantic (Lynn Rippelmeyer)
- Jul 19 Geraldine Ferraro (US Representative, New York), becomes the 1st US female major-party vice-presidential nominee, officially joining Walter Mondale's Democratic Party ticket
- Jul 21 Marita Koch of East Germany sets world women's mark for 200m, 21.71s
- Jul 21 USSR performs underground nuclear Test
- Jul 25 Cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya becomes 1st woman to walk in space
- Jul 30 Alvenus tanker at Cameron Louisiana, spills 2.8 million gallons of oil
- Jul 30 Holly Roffey aged 11 days is the youngest ever to receive a heart transplant
- Jul 31 Venz commandos terminate hijacking of an aircraft, 2 killed
Birthdays in History
Deaths in History
- Jul 1 Moshé Feldenkrais, Ukrainian-Israeli engineer and physicist (founder of the Feldenkrais method), dies at 80
- Jul 2 Paul Dozois, Quebec politician (b. 1908)
- Jul 3 Raoul Salan, French Army general and leader of OAS; Secret Army Organization (Algeria), dies at 85
- Jul 8 Brassaï [Gyula Halász], Hungarian-French artist, dies at 84
- Jul 9 Peter Hurd, American painter (Portrait of Jose Herrera), dies at 80
- Jul 14 Ernest Tidyman, American writer (b. 1928)
- Jul 19 Geert Lubberhuizen, Dutch publisher (Busy Bee), dies at 68
- Jul 20 Jim Fixx, American jogger and writer (Jim Fixx on Running), dies at 52
George Gallup (1901-1984)
Jul 26 American survey sampling pioneer and inventor of the Gallup poll, dies of a heart attack at 82
- Jul 27 Guillermo Díaz-Plaja, Spanish literary and poet (Lorca), dies at 75
- Jul 27 Oswald Jacoby, US contract bridge champion, dies at 81
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