- Jul 1 Kiersten Rickenbach, of NJ, crowned America's Junior Miss
- Jul 2 Thailand: Banharn Silpa-Archa's party wins election
- Jul 6 Venezuelan Congress approves the country's first investment law allowing for foreign participation in oil exploration and production
- Jul 7 Memphis Mad Dogs 1st CFL home game (vs BC Lions)
- Jul 7 Space shuttle STS-71 (Atlantis 14), lands
- Jul 8 1st CFL game between 2 US teams, Las Vegas Posse vs Sacramento Gold
- Jul 9 US international postage rates rise to 60 cents per ounce
Event of Interest
Jul 9 Former South African President F. W. de Klerk is implicated of knowing and condoning a 'dirty tricks' campaign that was waged against the ANC between 1990 and the 1994 election in a bid to destabilise the organisation
F. W. de Klerk
- Jul 11 7,000 Bosnian Muslim men are massacred when Bosnian Serbs overrun the UN 'safe haven' of Srebrenica
Album Release
Jul 12 Enrique Iglesias releases his first album, "Enrique Iglesias"
Enrique Iglesias
Event of Interest
Jul 17 Forbes Magazine announces Bill Gates is the richest man in world with a net worth of $12.9 billion dollars
Bill Gates
- Jul 18 DC3 crashes at Antananarivo, Madagascar, 34 die
Historic Publication
Jul 18 "Dreams from My Father", a memoir by Barack Obama is published by Times Books
Barack Obama
- Jul 20 The Regents of the University of California vote to end all affirmative action in the UC system by 1997.
- Jul 22 Space shuttle STS-70 (Discovery 20), lands
- Jul 22 Susan Smith found guilty of drowning her two children in South Carolina
- Jul 23 Comet Hale-Bopp is discovered and becomes visible to the naked eye nearly a year later
- Jul 25 A gas bottle explodes in Saint Michel station of line B of the RER (Paris regional train network). Eight are killed and 80 wounded.
- Jul 27 Korean War Veterans Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C.
- Jul 28 Art Modell's rep begins secrets talks to move team to Baltimore
- Jul 28 Norwegian Finance Minister Sigbjorn Johnsen says that Norway should not lower its crude oil production in an attempt to boost world oil prices