Event of Interest
Jul 2 Architect Le Corbusier is made Grand Officiers of the Légion d'honneur
It's For You
Jul 2 Cilla Black records Lennon/McCartney song "It's For You", Paul McCartney plays piano
Murder of Interest
Jul 2 Grand jury indicts Byron De La Beckwith in murder of Medger Evers
Event of Interest
Jul 2 US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act into law
Wimbledon Men's Tennis
Jul 3 Wimbledon Men's Tennis: In an all-Australian final Roy Emerson beats Fred Stolle 6-4, 12-10, 4-6, 6-3; Emerson's 1st of 2 straight Wimbledon titles
- Jul 4 Beachboys' "I Get Around" reaches #1
Wimbledon Women's Tennis
Jul 4 Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Brazilian Maria Bueno earns a 3rd Wimbledon singles title with a 6-4, 7-9, 6-3 win over Margaret Smith of Australia
British Golf Open
Jul 10 British Open Men's Golf, St Andrews: Tony Lema wins his only major title, 5 strokes clear of runner-up and fellow American Jack Nicklaus
- Jul 10 Jesús Alou is the first San Francisco Giant in 40 years to get 6 hits in a game in a 10-3 win over the Chicago Cubs at Wrigley Field
- Jul 10 Moïse Tshombé, leader of the Confederation of Tribal Associations of Katanga, becomes Prime Minister of the Congo
- Jul 10 The Beatles release "A Hard Day's Night", their 3rd studio album
US Women's Golf Open
Jul 12 US Open Women's Golf, San Diego CC: Mickey Wright wins her 4th Open in a playoff with Ruth Jessen
Tour de France
Jul 14 51st Tour de France: Jacques Anquetil of France wins 4th consecutive Tour and is first to claim 5 titles
Event of Interest
Jul 17 ANC leader Nelson Mandela, recently sentenced to life imprisonment, is awarded the Joliot Curie Gold Medal for Peace
- Jul 17 Don Campbell sets record for turbine vehicle, 690.91 kph (429.31 mph)
- Jul 17 Great Britain performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
- Jul 18 Race riot in Harlem, New York City; riots spread to Bedford-Stuyvesant in Brooklyn
- Jul 19 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Columbus CC: Bobby Nichols wins his only major title by 3 strokes from 'Big-2' Jack Nicklaus & Arnold Palmer; leads wire-to-wire
- Jul 19 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
- Jul 20 1st surfin' record to go #1-Jan & Dean's "Surf City"
Music History
Jul 20 Dmitri Shostakovich completes his 10th String quartet
- Jul 21 Arnold Long takes 11 catches in the match for Surrey v Sussex
- Jul 21 Last Dutch whaling ship Willem Barents Sea sold to Japan
- Jul 21 Race riots in Singapore between Chinese and Malay groups, 23 killed, 454 injured
- Jul 23 Egyptian munition ship "Star of Alexandria" explodes at dockside in Bone, Algeria. 100 die, 160 injured, $20 million damage
Baseball Record
Jul 23 Kansas City A's Bert Campaneris HRs on 1st pitch he sees from Twins' Jim Kaat, adds a 2nd HR later, also off of Kaat (in Minnesota)
- Jul 24 -27) race riot in Rochester, New York, 4 killed
- Jul 25 Australian cricket captain and opening batsman Bob Simpson hits 311 v England in the drawn 4th Test in Manchester
- Jul 25 Beatles' album "A Hard Day's Night" goes #1, stays #1 for 14 weeks
- Jul 25 Meredith Wilson's musical "Here's Love", based on thefil "Miracle on 34th Street". closes at Shubert Theater, NYC. after 338 performances
- Jul 25 Race riot in Rochester, NY
- Jul 26 Teamsters President and US union leader Jimmy Hoffa convicted of fraud and conspiracy
- Jul 26 Train from Povoa de Varzin, Portugal derails near Oporto, 94 die
- Jul 27 "Sometimes a Great Notion", the second novel by Ken Kesey is published by Viking Press
- Jul 28 England all out 611 in reply to Australia's 8-656 Match a draw
- Jul 28 Ranger 7 launched toward the Moon; sends back 4,308 TV pictures
- Jul 30 South Vietnamese commandos attack North Vietnamese radar and military installations on Hòn Mê and Hòn Ngư islands in the Gulf of Tonkin
- Jul 31 American glider pilot Al Parker glides 644 miles without a motor
- Jul 31 US Ranger 7 takes 4,316 pictures before crashing on Moon
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