- Jul 1 The Beatles record "She Loves You" and "I'll Get You"
- Jul 1 ZIP (Zone Improvement Plan) Codes are introduced for United States mail
Baseball Record
Jul 2 SF Giants legend Willie Mays breaks up classic Juan Marichal vs Warren Spahn pitching dual, homering in 16th inning off Spahn for 1-0 win vs Milwaukee Braves
Wimbledon Men's Tennis
Jul 5 Wimbledon Men's Tennis: American Chuck McKinley wins his only Grand Slam singles title beating Fred Stolle of Australia 9-7, 6-1, 6-4
Wimbledon Women's Tennis
Jul 8 Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Australian Margaret Smith wins her first of 3 Wimbledon titles beating Billie Jean Moffitt 6-3, 6-4
- Jul 9 34th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 5-3 at Municipal Stadium, Cleveland
- Jul 9 All-Star game MVP: Willie Mays (SF Giants)
- Jul 9 Crusher Lisowski beats Verne Gagne in Minneapolis, to become NWA champ
- Jul 11 South-African ANC members Walter Sisulu, Andrew Mlangeni and Govan Mbeki arrested
British Golf Open
Jul 13 British Open Men's Golf, Royal Lytham & St Annes GC: Bob Charles of New Zealand wins his only major championship in a 36-hole playoff, 8 strokes ahead of runner-up Phil Rodgers; becomes first left-hander to win a major title
- Jul 13 Future Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Early Wynn, wins his 300th and last MLB game at 43
- Jul 13 Indian government announces it will cut last remaining links with South Africa by refusing landing facilities to South African aircraft
Tour de France
Jul 14 50th Tour de France: French cyclist Jacques Anquetil wins his 3rd consecutive general classification event; first rider to win Tour 4 times
- Jul 15 KAIT TV channel 8 in Jonesboro, AR (ABC) begins broadcasting
Music History
Jul 15 Paul McCartney is fined £17 for speeding
- Jul 16 Amazon river carries 190,000 m3/sec of water (record)
Sports History
Jul 17 Dave DeBusschere hits a single off Bennie Daniels, his 1st and only MLB hit
- Jul 17 Telstar soccer team forms in Ijmuiden
- Jul 18 Failed military coup in Syria
- Jul 18 The United Nations Special Committee on Apartheid releases its second interim report pressing for international sanctions against South Africa, particularly the supply of arms, ammunition and petroleum
- Jul 19 NASA civilian Test pilot Joe Walker in X-15 reaches 105 km
- Jul 20 17 African states & Madagascar sign peace treaty with EC
- Jul 20 Riots break out at Mt Eden Prison, Auckland, New Zealand
US Women's Golf Open
Jul 20 US Open Women's Golf, Kenwood CC: Mary Mills wins her first of 3 major titles by 3 strokes ahead of runners-up Louise Suggs and Sandra Haynie
- Jul 20 Verne Gagne beats Crusher Lisowski in Minneapolis, to become NWA champ
PGA Championship
Jul 21 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Dallas Athletic Club: Jack Nicklaus wins first of 5 PGA C'ships by 2 shots from fellow American Dave Ragan
Boxing Title Fight
Jul 22 In their second clash Sonny Liston once again KOs Floyd Patterson in round 1 at the Convention Center, Las Vegas to retain the world heavyweight boxing title
- Jul 22 Sarawak achieves independence from British colonial rule
- Jul 24 124 Unification church couples wed in Korea
- Jul 24 Dutch government of Marijnen forms
- Jul 25 Belgian Senate accept Law on language regulations
- Jul 25 US, Russia & Britain sign nuclear Test ban treaty
- Jul 26 Skopje, Yugoslavia, destroyed by earthquake, kills 1,000+
- Jul 26 The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development votes to admit Japan.
- Jul 26 US Syncom 2, 1st geosynchronous communications satellite, launched
- Jul 27 Fritz Von Erich beats Verne Gagne in Omaha, to become NWA champ
- Jul 27 General Amin al-Hafez becomes President of Syria
Music History
Jul 30 American singer Barbra Streisand opens for pianist Liberace at the International Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada
Event of Interest
Jul 30 British spy Kim Philby found in Moscow
- Jul 31 Arturo Illia elected President of Argentina
- Jul 31 MLB Cleveland Indians ties record of 4 consecutive home runs to beat California Angels, 9-5; Woodie Held, Pedro Ramos, Tito Francona and Larry Brown all go deep off Paul Foytack in 6th inning
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