- Jul 1 Britain and Argentina sign accord about Falkland Islands
- Jul 1 Debt raised to build San Franisco's Golden Gate Bridge paid off
- Jul 1 North Carolina becomes 38th state to approve of lower voting age to 18, ratifying 26th amendment
- Jul 1 State of Washington becomes 1st state to ban sex discrimination
- Jul 1 Twenty-sixth Amendment, which lowers the voting age from 21 to 18, is ratified and becomes part of the United States Constitution
- Jul 2 USSR performs underground nuclear test
- Jul 2 Wimbledon Women's Tennis: In an all-Australian final Evonne Goolagong beats Margaret Court 6-4, 6-1 for the first of 2 Wimbledon singles titles
Wimbledon Men's Tennis
Jul 3 Wimbledon Men's Tennis: John Newcombe of Australia beats American Stan Smith 6-3, 5-7, 2-6, 6-4, 6-4 for his third and final Wimbledon singles title
- Jul 4 France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll
- Jul 5 26th amendment to the US constitution certified (reduces voting age to 18)
- Jul 5 Simon Gray's "Butley" premieres in London
- Jul 6 A member of the Official Irish Republican Army (OIRA) is killed in a premature explosion in County Tipperary, Republic of Ireland
- Jul 6 Barend Biesheuvel government forms in Netherlands
- Jul 6 Dr Hastings Kamuzu Banda sworn in as President for Life of Malawi
- Jul 6 White House Plumbers unit formed to plug news leaks
Baseball Hall of Fame
Jul 7 MLB Commissioner Bowie Kuhn announces that Negro League players elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame to be given full membership in the Museum
- Jul 8 During street disturbances, British soldiers shoot dead two Catholic civilians in Free Derry; riots erupt, the Social Democratic and Labour Party withdraw from Stormont in protest
- Jul 8 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
Event of Interest
Jul 9 Henry Kissinger visits the People's Republic of China to negotiate a detente between the US and China
British Golf Open
Jul 10 100th British Open Men's Golf, Royal Birkdale: Lee Trevino wins the first of his consecutive Open Championships, a stroke ahead of Lu Liang-Huan of Taiwan
Event of Interest
Jul 10 National Women's Political Caucus (NWPC) founded in US by women including Bella Abzug, Betty Friedan, Shirley Chisholm, Myrlie Evers-Williams and Gloria Steinem
Sports History
Jul 13 42nd MLB All Star Game, Tiger Stadium, Detroit, MI: AL beats NL, 6-4; MVP: Frank Robinson, Baltimore Orioles, OF
Event of Interest
Jul 15 US President Richard Nixon announces he will visit the People's Republic of China
Event of Interest
Jul 16 Franco appoints prince Juan Carlos as deputy in Spain
- Jul 16 The Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) withdraw from Stormont (North Ireland Parliament) after no inquiry is announced into the shooting dead of Seamus Cusack and Desmond Beattie
Tour de France
Jul 18 58th Tour de France: Eddy Merckx of Belgium wins third straight Tour general classification as well as points and combination categories
- Jul 19 Sudan military coup under maj Hashem al-Atta, Numeiry flees
Event of Interest
Jul 21 Sam Giancana returns to the United States after spending seven years of exile in Mexico
- Jul 21 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- Jul 22 Sudanese military counter-coup under premier Numeiry
- Jul 23 The British Army carry out early morning raids across Northern Ireland and arrest 48 people
- Jul 24 WUHQ TV channel 41 in Battle Creek, Michigan (ABC) begins broadcasting
- Jul 26 Apollo 15 launched (Scott and Irwin) to 4th manned landing on Moon
- Jul 28 16 time gold glover Brook Robinson commits 3 errors in 6th inning
- Jul 28 Dutch ends censorship of "Blue Movie"
- Jul 30 38th NFL Chicago All Star Game: Baltimore 24, All Stars 17 (52,289)
- Jul 30 All Nippon Airways Flight 58 collides with a Japan Air Self-Defense Force F-86F near Shizukuishi, Japan, killing all 162 aboard the Boing 727
Bangladesh
Jul 30 George Harrison releases single "Bangladesh"
- Jul 30 US Apollo 15 (Scott & Irwin) lands on Mare Imbrium on the Moon
- Jul 31 4-time Eredivisie soccer champions Go Ahead from Dutch city of Deventer add 'Eagles' to famous name
- Jul 31 Apollo 15 astronauts take 6½ hour electric car ride on Moon
- Jul 31 Venezuela's Hydrocarbons Reversion Law mandates gradual transfer to government ownership of all "unexploited concession areas" by 1974 and "all their residual assets" by 1983
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