Roosevelt Nominated for President
Jul 1 NY Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt nominated for president at Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois
- Jul 1 NY newspaper Evening Standard goes bankrupt
Wimbledon Women's Championship
Jul 1 Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Helen Wills Moody beats fellow American Helen Jacobs 6-3, 6-1 for her 5th of 8 titles
Hagen Wins 5th Western Open
Jul 2 American golfer Walter Hagen wins his 5th and last Western Open in Cleveland, 16 years after he won his first
- Jul 2 FDR makes 1st presidential nominating conventional acceptance speech
Wimbledon Men's Championship
Jul 2 Wimbledon Men's Tennis: American Ellsworth Vines beats hometown favourite Bunny Austin 6-4, 6-2, 6-0 for his only Wimbledon title
- Jul 3 After 30 years as manager of the New York Giants, John McGraw retires from baseball (2,583 wins / 1,948 losses NY)
Bradman Sets North American Record
Jul 4 Don Bradman scores a North American record 260 v Western Ontario in Guelph during Australian cricket team's Goodwill Tour of North America
Estado Novo Regime
Jul 5 António de Oliveira Salazar becomes the premier and dictator of Portugal (1932-1968), founding the authoritarian Estado Novo (New State) regime
- Jul 6 1st class postage back up to 3 cents from 2 cents
- Jul 6 Cubs' future All Star shortstop Billy Jurges is shot twice in Chicago hotel room by a spurned girlfriend, Violet Popovich Valli; no charges laid
- Jul 7 Australian cricket batsman supreme Don Bradman scores a double century during a Goodwill Tour in Montreal, Canada
- Jul 8 Depression low point of Dow Jones Industrial Average, 41.22
- Jul 8 Herbert Sutcliffe scores his 100th 100, Yorkshire v Gloucshire
- Jul 9 The state of São Paulo revolts against the Brazilian federal government, starting the Constitutionalist Revolution
- Jul 9 Washington Redskins (then Boston Braves) formed
- Jul 9 Yanks' Ben Chapman hits 2 inside-the-park HRs, tying record
- Jul 10 Jack Burnett gets 9 hits, Eddie Rommel relieves in 2nd 18-17 victory in 18 as his A's beats Indians in longest relief job
- Jul 12 Hedley Verity establishes a first-class cricket record by taking all ten wickets for only ten runs against Nottinghamshire on a pitch affected by a storm
- Jul 14 Belgian Chamber rules Dutch language for education of Flanders
- Jul 15 LPGA Western Open Women's Golf, Ozaukee CC: Jane Weiller beats June Beebe 5 & 4 for golf's only major title
Hoover Cuts Own Salary
Jul 15 US President Herbert Hoover cuts own salary 15%
- Jul 18 Belgium, Luxembourg & Netherlands sign Ouchy Convention, a customs treaty
- Jul 18 US and Canada sign a treaty to develop St Lawrence Seaway
The Babe meets The Don
Jul 20 An injured Babe Ruth entertains the touring Australian cricketers in his private box at Yankee Stadium as his NY Yankees beat Chicago White Sox, 7-2; 'The Babe' meets 'The Don' (Don Bradman)
Prussian Coup d'état
Jul 20 Franz von Papen launches a coup against the Prussian government
- Jul 20 In Washington, D.C., police fire tear gas on World War I veterans part of the Bonus Expeditionary Force who attempt to march to the White House
- Jul 27 Paul Gorgoulov, assassin of French president Doumer, sentenced to death
White Zombie
Jul 28 "White Zombie" - 1st feature length zombie film directed by Victor Halperin and starring Bela Lugosi is released in the US
- Jul 28 US President Herbert Hoover uses federal troops to evict the Bonus Army (WWI veterans and their families) from their encampment, 4 die
- Jul 29 Great Depression: in Washington, D.C., U.S. troops disperse the last of the "Bonus Army" of World War I veterans
- Jul 30 X Summer Olympic Games open in Los Angeles, California
- Jul 31 26th Tour de France: French cyclist André Leducq wins after tallying 6 stage victories; his second Tour triumph (1930)
- Jul 31 Cleveland Indians christen their new home, Municipal Stadium before more than 76,000 fans; lose opener, 1-0 to the Philadelphia A's
- Jul 31 German Election (NSDAP gets 37.3%)
International Lawn Tennis Challenge
Jul 31 International Lawn Tennis Challenge, Paris, France: Home team wins 6th straight title as Jean Borotra beats American Wilmer Allison 1-6, 3-6, 6-4, 6-2, 7-5 for unassailable 3-1 lead; ends 3-2
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