- Jul 1 British Home Secretary Reginald Maudling visits N. Ireland and is reported as saying: "For God's sake bring me a large Scotch. What a bloody awful country!"
- Jul 1 Dutch soccer club FC Utrecht is established (KNVB Cup 1985, 2003-04)
- Jul 2 1st Boeing 747 to land in Amsterdam & Brussels
- Jul 2 Neil Blaney is found not guilty of illegal arms importation to the Irish Republican Army by a Dublin jury
- Jul 2 The Prevention of Incitement to Hatred Act (Northern Ireland) is introduced; it proves difficult to secure convictions under its provisions, seldom enforced
Music History
Jul 3 Atlanta International Pop Festival opens, 200,000 attend over 3 days; performers include Allman Brothers; Grand Funk Railroad, Jimi Hendrix Experience; Richie Havens; Cat Mother & the All-Night Newsboys; B.B. King; Mott the Hoople; and John Sebastian
- Jul 3 British aircraft crashes at Barcelona, 112 killed
- Jul 3 California Angels pitcher Clyde Wright no-hits Oakland A's, 4-0
- Jul 3 The British Army impose curfew on Falls Road area of Belfast as they search for weapons; coming under attack from the Official IRA (OIRA) and republican rioters
Wimbledon Women's Tennis
Jul 3 Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Margaret Court beats Billie Jean King 14-12, 11-9 for her third and final Wimbledon singles title, and 3rd leg of her successful Grand Slam
- Jul 4 100 injured in race rioting in Asbury Park, NJ
Radio Premiere
Jul 4 Casey Kasem's "American Top 40" debuts on LA radio
- Jul 4 Chartered Dan-Air Comet crashes into mountains north of Barcelona, Spain killing 112 vacationing Britons
- Jul 4 The Falls Road curfew in North Ireland, imposed by the British Army while searching for IRA weapons, continues throughout the day; a man is killed by the British Army
Wimbledon Men's Tennis
Jul 4 Wimbledon Men's Tennis: In an all-Australian thriller, John Newcombe beats Ken Rosewall 5,7 6-3, 6-2, 3-6, 6-1
- Jul 5 20th Berlin International Film Festival cancelled due to controversy surrounding the participation of Michael Verhoeven's anti-war film "o.k."
- Jul 5 Air Canada DC-8 crashes 7 miles from Toronto's airport killing 109
US Women's Golf Open
Jul 5 US Open Women's Golf, Muskogee CC: Donna Caponi successfully defends her title by 1 from Sandra Haynie and Sandra Spuzich
- Jul 6 California passes the first no-fault divorce law in the United States
- Jul 6 Irish Minister for External Affairs Partick Hillery pays an unofficial visit to the Falls Road area of Belfast, an areas only just subject to a curfew by British Army
- Jul 8 SF Giant Jim Ray Hart is 8th to get 6 RBIs in an inning (5th)
- Jul 9 In Atlanta, Chief-No-ka-homa is joined by cousin Chief Round-the-Horn
British Golf Open
Jul 12 British Open Men's Golf, St Andrews: Jack Nicklaus beats Doug Sanders by 1 stroke in event's first 18-hole playoff to win the 2nd of his 3 Open Championships
- Jul 12 Tanzania signs contract with China for building Tanzam-railway
Event of Interest
Jul 12 Thor Heyerdahl crosses the Atlantic ocean on the raft Ra II, arrives in Barbados from Morocco after 57 days
- Jul 13 Building begins of Amsterdam metro
- Jul 13 The annual 'Twelfth' parades passes off without serious incident in Northern Ireland
Sports History
Jul 14 41st MLB All Star Game, Riverfront Stadium, Cincinnati, OH: NL beats AL, 5-4; MVP: Carl Yastrzemski, Boston Red Sox, LF
- Jul 15 Denmark beats Italy 2-0 in 1st world female soccer championship
- Jul 16 9th British Commonwealth Games open in Edinburgh, Scotland
- Jul 16 Iraq's constitution goes into effect
- Jul 16 Reds spoil Pirates debut in Pittsburgh's Three Rivers Stadium, 3-2
- Jul 17 30,000 attend Randall's Island Rock Festival, NYC
- Jul 18 Arthur Brown arrested for stripping on stage in Palemo Sicily
- Jul 18 Revival of Sandy Wilson's musical "The Boy Friend", starring Judy Carne and Sandy Duncan, closes at Ambassador Theater, NYC, after 111 performances
- Jul 18 Ron Hunt gets hit by a pitch for a record 119th time
Baseball Record
Jul 18 San Francisco Giants outfielder Willie Mays becomes 10th baseball player to get 3,000 hits
- Jul 18 WJCL TV channel 22 in Savannah, GA (ABC) begins broadcasting
Tour de France
Jul 19 57th Tour de France: Defending champion Eddy Merckx of Belgium wins general, mountains and combination categories
- Jul 20 Dodgers Bill Singer no-hits the Phillies 5-0, giving up no walks
- Jul 21 Aswan High Dam opens in Egypt, enables human control of the flooding of the Nile
- Jul 21 Clay Kirby has a no-hitter going for 8 inn, but is lifted for a pinch hitter, Reliever Jack Baldschun gives up 3 hits & Padres lose, 3-0
- Jul 21 Libya orders confiscation of all Jewish property
- Jul 21 USSR performs nuclear Test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
- Jul 23 A ban on parades and public processions until January 1971 is announced by the Stormont government (North Ireland Parliament)
- Jul 23 Qaboos bin Said al Said becomes Sultan of Oman after overthrowing his father, Sa'id ibn Taimur
- Jul 24 International Lawn Tennis Association institutes 9 point tie break rule
- Jul 24 USSR performs nuclear Test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
#1 in the Charts
Jul 25 Burt Bacharach and Hal David's song "(They Long to Be) Close to You" as sung by the Carpenters reaches #1
Baseball Record
Jul 26 Reds catcher Johnny Bench, playing for the day in the outfield, goes 4 for 5 with 7 RBIs including 3 consecutive HRs off St. Louis Cardinals Steve Carlton in 12-5 win at Riverfront Stadium, Cincinnati
- Jul 27 Expos beat White Sox 10-6 in the annual Hall of Fame game
- Jul 27 France performs nuclear Test at Mururoa atoll
- Jul 27 Lou Boudreau, Earle Combs, Ford Frick, and Jesse Haines are inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York
- Jul 29 6 days of race rioting in Hartford, Connecicut
- Jul 30 -Aug 5] Hurricane Celia, kills 31 in Cuba, Florida and Texas
- Jul 30 30,000 arrive to attend Powder Ridge Rock Festival, Middlefield, Connecticut, despite it having been cancelled due to local residents opposition
- Jul 30 Riots hit Belfast, North Ireland
- Jul 31 37th NFL Chicago All Star Game: Kansas City 24, All Stars 3 (69,940)
Final Black Tot Day
Jul 31 Black Tot Day: the last day of the officially sanctioned rum ration in the Royal Navy (started 1740)
- Jul 31 Chet Huntley retires from NBC, ends "Huntley-Brinkley Report"
- Jul 31 Daniel O'Hagan (19), a Catholic civilian, is shot dead by the British Army during a serious riot in the New Lodge Road area of Belfast, Northern Ireland
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