Events Date 1962 July | History by KabAstro

First Walmart Opens

Jul 2 Sam Walton opens his first Walmart store in Rogers, Arkansas

Jul 3 Algerian Revolution against French rule ends (Algeria gains independence on 5th July)
Jul 4 KIKU (now KHNL) TV channel 13 in Honolulu, HI (IND) 1st broadcast
Jul 5 Algeria gains independence after 132 years of French rule
Jul 5 Massacre in Oran, Algeria: members of Algerian National Liberation Army kill Pied-Noir (Algerians of European descent) and European expatriates in ethnic genocide upon Algerian independence from France killing an estimated 95 to 400 people over 3 days
Jul 6 Emir Said al-Djazairi takes van Algerian throne in Syria
Jul 6 Nuclear test shot Sedan; part of Operation Plowshare

Jul 6 NY Yankees 'M&M boys' Roger Maris & Mickey Mantle hit 2 HRs each in 7-5 win v Twins, Mantle his 4th consecutive homer

Jul 6 Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Rod Laver beats fellow Australian Martin Mulligan 6-2, 6-2, 6-1 for the 3rd leg of his first Grand Slam

Jul 7 Bill Hartack becomes 8th jockey to win 3,000 American thoroughbred races
Jul 7 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
Jul 7 Wimbledon Women's Tennis: American Karen Susman beats Věra Suková of Czechoslovakia 6-4, 6-4 for her only Grand Slam singles title

Jul 9 Andy Warhol's first West Coast gallery exhibition in the Ferus Gallery of Los Angeles

Jul 10 Martin Luther King Jr. arrested during demonstration in Georgia

Jul 10 Telstar, 1st active communications satellite, launched, developed by American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) [1]
Jul 10 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island
Jul 11 1st transatlantic TV transmission via satellite (Telstar I)
Jul 11 Brothers Hank snd Tommie Aaron homer in same inning
Jul 11 Cosmonaut Micolaev set then record longest space flight - 4 days
Jul 11 Fred Baldasare is 1st to swim English Channel underwater (scuba)
Jul 11 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island
Jul 11 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
Jul 12 1st time 2 manned crafts in space (USSR)
Jul 12 Rolling Stones 1st performance (Marquee Club, London)
Jul 13 500 Indonesian parachutist land on New Guinea

Jul 13 British Open Men's Golf, Royal Troon: Arnold Palmer wins his 2nd consecutive Open, 6 strokes clear of runner-up Kel Nagle of Australia

Jul 15 49th Tour de France; Defending champion Jacques Anquetil of France claims his 3rd Tour victory

Jul 18 Cuba's Minister of Foreign affairs Raúl Castro meets Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev in Moscow [1]

Jul 18 Minnesota Twins Bob Allison and Harmon Killebrew hit grand slams in 1st inn & Harmon Killebrew connect in a club-record, 11-run 1st inning

Jul 20 Dmitri Shostakovich completes his 13th Symphony

Jul 20 France and Tunisia recover diplomatic relations
Jul 21 160 civil right activists jailed after demonstration in Albany, Georgia
Jul 21 Battles on Chinese & Indies boundary
Jul 22 1st US Venus probe, Mariner 1, fails at lift-off
Jul 22 Chicago White Sox outfielder Floyd Robinson goes 6 for 6 (all singles) as WS defeat Boston Red Sox, 7-3 at Fenway Park

Jul 22 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Aronimink GC: Gary Player of South Africa wins by 1 stroke from Bob Goalby

Jul 26 Milwaukee Brave Warren Spahn sets HR record of 31 by a pitcher

Jul 27 Mariner 2 launched to Venus; flyby mission
Jul 27 Martin Luther King Jr. jailed in Albany, Georgia
Jul 27 USSR performs nuclear Test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
Jul 28 19 die in a train crash in Steelton, Pennsylvania
Jul 28 Mariner I launched to Mars falls into Atlantic Ocean
Jul 30 33rd All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 9-4 at Wrigley Field, Chicago, MVP: Leon Wagner (LA Angels)
Jul 31 England fast bowler Brian Statham becomes Test cricket's leading wicket-taker with world-record tally of 237 as Australian wicketkeeper Barry Shepherd is caught by Fred Truman for 10 in drawn 4th Test in Adelaide