- Jul 1 Laurel Canyon California murders (4 die, 1 wounded)
- Jul 1 Nell Dunn's "Steaming" premieres in London
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Jul 1 Prince Willem Alexander opens Willems Bridge in Rotterdam
- Jul 1 Radio Shack 3rd release of Model III TRSDOS 1.3
- Jul 3 NYC transit fare rises from 60 cents to 75 cents, new brass Y-cut-out token
Wimbledon Women's Tennis
Jul 3 Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Chris Evert beats Hana Mandlíková 6-2, 6-2 for her third and final Wimbledon singles title
Wimbledon Men's Tennis
Jul 4 Wimbledon Men's Tennis: John McEnroe ends Björn Borg's streak of 5 straight Wimbledon titles with a famous 4-6, 7-6, 7-6, 6-4 victory
Canadian Women's Open
Jul 5 Canadian Open Women's Golf (Peter Jackson Classic), Summerlea GC: Jan Stephenson of Australia wins by 1 shot from Pat Bradley & Nancy Lopez
- Jul 5 Premier Begin's Likud party wins Israeli elections
- Jul 5 Rajan Mahadevan recites 31,811 digits of π (Pi) from memory
- Jul 5 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
Cricket History
Jul 7 England cricket captain Ian Botham resigned after no wins in 12 matches under his reign and a pair in the 2nd Test v Australia at Lord's
Event of Interest
Jul 7 Sandra Day O'Connor nominated for the US Supreme Court, 1st female Supreme Court justice by President Ronald Reagan
Film & TV History
Jul 9 Nintendo release arcade game "Donkey Kong" created by Shigeru Miyamoto in Japan (July 31 in the US)
Escape from New York
Jul 10 "Escape from New York" directed by John Carpenter and starring Kurt Russell and Donald Pleasence, premieres in the US
- Jul 10 CERN achieves 1st proton-antiproton beam collision (570 GeV)
- Jul 10 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- Jul 10 Walt Disney's "Fox & The Hound" released
- Jul 11 France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll
- Jul 11 Neva Rockefeller is 1st woman ordered to pay her husband alimony
Sports History
Jul 11 Sebastian Coe of UK sets record for 1K (2:12.18)
US Senior Golf Open
Jul 12 US Senior Open Men's Golf, Oakland Hills CC: Arnold Palmer comfortably wins 18-hole playoff against Billy Casper and Bob Stone
- Jul 14 Kevin Wade's "Key Exchange," premieres in London
- Jul 16 India performs nuclear Test
- Jul 16 Shukuni Sasaki spins 72 plates simultaneously
- Jul 17 "This is Burlesque" closes at Princess Theater NYC after 28 performances
- Jul 17 Fulton County (Atlanta) grand jury indicts Wayne B William 23-year-old photographers, for murder of 2 of 28 blacks killed in Atlanta
- Jul 17 Glasdrumman ambush: the Provisional Irish Republican Army attack a British Army post in South Armagh, killing 1 soldier and injuring another
- Jul 17 Humber Estuary Bridge in UK opens, world's longest span (1.4 km)
- Jul 17 Israeli bombers destroy PLO/al-Fatah headquarters in Beirut
- Jul 17 Lobby walkways at Kansas City's Hyatt Regency hotel collapse killing 114 and injuring over 200
- Jul 17 USSR performs nuclear Test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
- Jul 18 Polish communist party selects ex-party leader Edward Gierek
Tour de France
Jul 19 68th Tour de France won by Bernard Hinault of France
British Golf Open
Jul 19 British Open Men's Golf, Royal St George's GC: American Bill Rogers wins his only major title, 4 strokes ahead of runner-up Bernhard Langer of Germany
- Jul 19 South African Springbok rugby team arrives in New Zealand beginning 56 days of 'near civil war' in the country between anti-apartheid protesters and tour supporters [1]
- Jul 20 England set for innings loss v Aust, Botham hits 100 in 87 balls
- Jul 20 Irene Sáez, of Venezuela, crowned 30th Miss Universe
- Jul 21 Australia set 130 to win, all out 111 at Headingley Willis 8-43
Event of Interest
Jul 22 Turkish terrorist Mehmet Ali Agca sentenced to life imprisonment in a court in Rome, Italy
- Jul 23 14th San Diego Comic-Con International opens at El Cortez Hotel
- Jul 24 Mohammed Ali Rajai elected president of Iran
- Jul 25 Anti-apartheid protesters in Hamilton, New Zealand, force the cancellation of a rugby match between the provincial team Waikato and South Africa’s Springboks by invading the pitch during the game [1]
- Jul 26 2 climbers fall 550 m down cliff near Angel Falls, Venezuela
- Jul 26 US Open Women's Golf, La Grange CC: Pat Bradley shoots final round 66 (−6) to finish 1 stroke ahead of runner-up Beth Daniel; second of Bradley's 6 major titles
- Jul 29 Anti-apartheid protesters against the Springbok rugby tour are confronted by police who use batons to stop them marching to South Africa’s Consul in New Zealand
- Jul 29 Cleveland Metroparks Zoo Amphitheater is dedicated (Cleveland, Ohio)
- Jul 29 Deposed Iranian president Abolhassan Banisadr flees to France
- Jul 29 Former Iranian president Bani Sadr flees to Paris
- Jul 30 Belgian Senate accept laws against racism
- Jul 30 Simon Gray's play "Quartermaine's Terms" premieres in London
- Jul 30 UN Nations Human Rights Commission rules Canada violated International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights in case of Wolastoqiyik woman Sandra Lovelace who lost her status through marriage [1]
- Jul 31 Arnette Hubbard installed as 1st woman president of National Bar Association
- Jul 31 Mid-season strike by MLB players ends after 42 days causing cancellation of 713 games; players and owners come to an agreement on free agent compensation
- Jul 31 Poland's Deputy Prime Minister Mieczyslaw Jagielski is fired
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