- Jul 1 KOTA TV channel 3 in Rapid City, SD (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting
Wimbledon Men's Tennis
Jul 1 Wimbledon Men's Tennis: American Tony Trabert beats Kurt Nielsen of Denmark 6-3, 7-5, 6-1 for his only Wimbledon success
- Jul 2 "7th Heaven" closes at ANTA Theater NYC after 44 performances
- Jul 2 "Lawrence Welk Show" premieres on ABC
- Jul 2 Portia Nelson, Raymond Taylor and James Shelton's musical revue "Almost Crazy" closes at Longacre Theater, NYC, after 16 performances
US Women's Golf Open
Jul 2 US Open Women's Golf, Wichita GC: Uruguayan Fay Crocker beats Louise Suggs & Mary Lena Faulk by 4 to become the tournament's first overseas winner
Wimbledon Women's Tennis
Jul 2 Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Louise Brough beats fellow American Beverly Fleitz 7-5, 8-6 for her 4th Wimbledon singles title
- Jul 5 Six week old British dock strike ends as London dockers return to work
British Golf Open
Jul 8 British Open Men's Golf, St Andrews: Peter Thomson of Australia wins the 2nd of 3 consecutive Open titles, 2 strokes clear of runner-up John Fallon
Music History
Jul 9 Bill Haley & His Comets "Rock Around the Clock" tops the billboards chart, one of the best-selling singles ever
- Jul 9 E. Frederic Morrow is the first African American executive on US White House staff
- Jul 9 Strike in Belgium for 5 day work week
Event of Interest
Jul 9 The Russell-Einstein Manifesto is released by Bertrand Russell in London on the need to avoid nuclear war
- Jul 11 Congress authorizes all US currency to say "In God We Trust"
- Jul 11 New USAF Academy dedicated at Lowry AFB in Colorado with 300 cadets
- Jul 12 22nd All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 6-5 in 12 at County Stad, Milw
- Jul 12 Christian Democratic Party forms in Argentina
- Jul 13 Beaux Arts Trio (Menahem Pressler, piano; Daniel Guilet, violin; Bernard Greenhouse, cello) makes their debut at the Berkshire Music Festival (now Tanglewood Music Center), Lenox, Massachusetts, United States
Eatons Offer to Host Nuclear Conference
Jul 13 Industrialist Cyrus Eaton first offers to host a conference on dangers of nuclear weapons in Pugwash, Nova Scotia
- Jul 13 The last execution of a woman in Britain, Ruth Ellis, takes place at Holloway Prison, London
- Jul 14 Two killed and many dazed by lightning strikes at Ascot racecourse in England
- Jul 15 18 Nobel laureates sign the Mainau Declaration against nuclear weapons, later co-signed by 34 more laureates
- Jul 15 WNDU TV channel 16 in South Bend, IN (NBC) begins broadcasting
F1 World Champion
Jul 16 Juan Manuel Fangio of Argentina clinches his third Formula 1 World Drivers Championship by finishing 2nd to fellow Mercedes driver Sterling Moss in the British Grand Prix at Aintree
- Jul 17 1st LPGA Championship Women's Golf, Orchard Ridge CC: Beverly Hanson wins by 3 shots from Louise Suggs
- Jul 17 Arco, Idaho, becomes 1st US city lit by nuclear power
- Jul 17 Charlie LaVere and Tom Adair's musical "Golden Horseshoe Revue" opens at Disneyland in Anaheim, California; runs for over 50,000 performances,
- Jul 17 Disneyland televises its grand opening in Anaheim, California.
- Jul 18 1st electric power generated from atomic energy sold commercially
- Jul 18 280 mm rain in Martinstown, Dorset (UK-record)
- Jul 19 1st performance of Gerald Finzi's Cello Concerto, his last major work; John Barbirolli leading the Hallé Orchestra, with soloist Christopher Bunting at Cheltenham Music Festival in Gloucestershire, England
- Jul 19 Balclutha ties up at Pier 43 & becomes a floating museum
- Jul 19 Yarkon Water Project opens to supply water to Negev desert in Israel
- Jul 21 USS Seawolf launched, 1st submarine powered by liquid metal cooled nuclear reactor
- Jul 22 Philadelphia Phillies beat the St. Louis Cardinals, 5-3 to complete a team record 11-game winning streak; longest win-streak since 1892
Event of Interest
Jul 22 Richard Nixon becomes the first US Vice President to preside over a cabinet meeting
- Jul 23 English speed ace Donald Campbell drives Bluebird K7 to new water speed record at Ullswater in English Lakes District; first boat past 200 mph: 202.32 mph (325.60 km/h)
- Jul 23 NY Yankees Bob Cerv and E Howard are 1st to hit consecutive pinch HRs
- Jul 24 Ali Sastroamidjojo of government resigns in Indonesia
- Jul 26 Last day as Test Cricket umpire for Frank Chester
PGA Championship
Jul 26 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Meadowbrook CC: Doug Ford scores a 4 & 3 win over Cary Middlecoff in the Tuesday final; first of 2 majors (Masters 1957)
- Jul 26 Ted Allen throws a record 72 consecutive horseshoe ringers
- Jul 27 Austria regains full independence after 4-power occupation since WWII
- Jul 27 Israeli passenger plane shot down above Bulgaria, 58 die
- Jul 28 The Union Mundial pro Interlingua is founded at the first Interlingua congress in Tours, France.
- Jul 29 Smokey Burgess hits 3 HRs to help Pirates beat Reds 16-5
- Jul 29 USSR performs nuclear Test
- Jul 30 42nd Tour de France: French cyclist Louison Bobet claims last of his 3 straight general classification victories
- Jul 31 KRNT (now KCCI) TV channel 8 in Des Moines, Iowa (CBS) 1st broadcast
- Jul 31 WHIS (now WVVA) TV channel 6 in Bluefield, West Virginia (NBC) 1st broadcast
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