- Jul 1 Dutch soccer clubs Sportclub Enschede & Enschedese Boys merge to form FC Twente '65 FC (2009-10 Eredivisie champions)
- Jul 1 Kinderstraf trial starts
- Jul 1 KUID TV channel 12 in Moscow, ID (PBS) begins broadcasting
Wimbledon Men's Tennis
Jul 2 Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Roy Emerson scores second consecutive title win over fellow Australian Fred Stolle 6-2, 6-4, 6-4
- Jul 3 Harold Strachan, member of the Communist Party of South Africa and Umkhonto we Sizwe, the armed wing of the African National Congress, is served with a restriction order in terms of the Suppression of Communism Act
- Jul 3 USSR and Persia sign dam building and economic aid pact
Wimbledon Women's Tennis
Jul 3 Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Australian Margaret Smith beats Maria Bueno of Brazil 6-4, 7-5, her second of 3 Wimbledon singles titles
US Women's Golf Open
Jul 4 US Open Women's Golf, Atlantic City CC: Carol Mann wins by 2 shots from fellow American Kathy Cornelius
Music History
Jul 5 Greek-American soprano Maria Callas makes her final opera stage appearance in the title role of Giacomo Puccini's "Tosca" at Convent Garden, London, England
- Jul 6 Psychedelic rock band "Jefferson Airplane" forms in San Francisco, California
Respect
Jul 7 Otis Redding records the song "Respect" at Stax Studios in Memphis, Tennessee; it later becomes a signature piece for Aretha Franklin
Sports History
Jul 8 Joe Morgan is 1st Houston player with 6 hits in a game
British Golf Open
Jul 9 British Open Men's Golf, Royal Birkdale GC: Australian Peter Thomson Peter Thomson wins his 5th Claret Jug, 2 strokes clear of runners-up Brian Huggett and Christy O'Connor Snr
- Jul 9 John Edrich completes 310* v NZ in 532 minutes, 52 fours 5 sixes
- Jul 9 Senators Frank Howard ties record with 7 strikeouts in DH
- Jul 10 Beatles' "VI" album goes #1 & stays #1 for 6 weeks
- Jul 10 Rolling Stones score their 1st US #1 single "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction"
Event of Interest
Jul 11 Israeli Mapai-party nominates David Ben-Gurion
Sports History
Jul 13 36th MLB All Star Game, Metropolitan Stadium, Minnesota: NL wins, 6-5; MVP: Juan Marichal, SF Giants, P
- Jul 14 52nd Tour de France: In his first year as a professional, Italian Felice Gimondi, a replacement on the Salvarani team, captures overall title ahead of Raymond Poulidor
- Jul 14 Australian Ronald Clarke runs world record 10k (27:39.4)
- Jul 14 Israeli Jordanian border fights
- Jul 14 US Mariner IV, 1st Mars probe, passes at 6,100 miles (9,800 km)
- Jul 15 "Mariner IV" sends back 1st pictures of Mars
- Jul 15 Athanassiades Novas succeeds Papandreo as premier of Greece
Music History
Jul 15 Leonard Bernstein premieres his "Chichester Psalms" for chorus and orchestra at Philharmonic Hall, NYC
- Jul 16 Mont Blanc Road tunnel between France & Italy opens
- Jul 17 WLCY (now WTSP) TV channel 10 in St Petersburg-Tampa, Florida (ABC) begins
- Jul 18 Zond 3 launched to fly by Moon, enters solar orbit
- Jul 19 Shooting begins on Star Trek 2nd pilot "Where No Man Has Gone Before"
- Jul 20 18.18" (46.18 cm) of rainfall, Edgarton, Missouri (state 24-hr record)
Sports History
Jul 20 NY Yankee pitcher Mel Stottlemyre hits an inside-the-park grand slam
- Jul 21 Pakistan, Iran and Turkey sign Regional Co-Operation pact
Event of Interest
Jul 22 Edward Heath succeeds Alec Douglas-Home as leader of the British Conservative party
- Jul 23 Dick Stuart homers in a major league-record 23rd different park
- Jul 23 The Beatles' single "Help" is released in the UK
Sports History
Jul 24 Casey Stengel resigns as manager of NY Mets
Flora, the Red Menace
Jul 24 John Kander and Fred Ebb's musical "Flora, the Red Menace", Their first collaboration stars Liza Minnelli (19) in her Broadway debut, closes at Alvin Theater, NYC, after 87 performances and a Tony Award for Liza
- Jul 24 Rock group "The Animals" 1st time in British charts
- Jul 25 Bob Dylan is booed by sections of the crowd at the Newport Folk Festival for performing with an electric guitar, beginning of folk-rock
- Jul 26 Republic of Maldives gains independence from Britain (National Day)
- Jul 27 Pierre Harmel forms Belgium government
Cigarette Labeling and Advertising Act
Jul 27 President Lyndon B. Johnson signs a bill requiring cigarette makers to print health warnings on all cigarette packages about the effects of smoking
- Jul 28 LBJ sends 50,000 more soldiers to Vietnam (total of 125,000)
- Jul 29 Beatles movie "Help" has Royal World Premiere at the London Pavilion Theatre in the West End of London; of Princess Margaret and the Earl of Snowdon attend
- Jul 29 Gemini 5 returned after 12d 7h 11m 53s
- Jul 29 Major league record 26 strikeouts, Phillies (16), Pirates (10)
- Jul 29 USSR performs nuclear Test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
Music History
Jul 30 Charles Ives' "From the Steeples & the Mountains" premieres
Music History
Jul 30 Duke Ellington's "Golden Brown & the Green Apple" premieres
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