Historical Events
- Jul 1 1st US-China basketball game, US collegiates beats Shanghai 96-61
Jesus Christ Superstar
Jul 1 Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's rock opera "Jesus Christ Superstar", starring Jeff Fenholt and Ben Vereen closes at Mark Hellinger, NYC, after 711 performances
Sports History
Jul 1 Australian Bruce Crampton becomes the 5th golfer (but first non-American) to win more than $1m when 4th in the Western Open
- Jul 1 British Library established as the country's national library and legal depository, one of the largest libraries in the world with over 170 million items (previously part of the British Museum) [1]
Event of Interest
Jul 1 Tom Bradley becomes the 38th Mayor of Los Angeles, the first (and only) African-American to hold that position
You've Never Been This Far Before
Jul 2 "You've Never Been This Far Before" single released by Conway Twitty (Billboard Song of the Year, 1973)
- Jul 2 James R Schlesinger ends term as 9th director of CIA
- Jul 2 Nation Black Network begins operation on radio
- Jul 3 Brothers Gaylord (Hall of Fame) and Jim Perry (3-time All Star) face each other for only time in MLB, Tigers beat Indians 5-4, Gaylord charged with loss
- Jul 3 General Walters, serves as acting director of CIA
Film & TV History
Jul 4 Alan Ayckbourn's "Absurd Person Singular," premieres in London
- Jul 4 CARICOM - Caribbean Community & Common Market, forms
Coup d'état
Jul 5 General Juvénal Habyarimana becomes president of Rwanda in a military coup d'état
- Jul 5 Isle of Man begins issuing its own postage stamps
- Jul 5 Test cricket debut of English umpire Harold "Dickie" Bird v NZ at Leeds (66 Tests, 69 ODI)
- Jul 7 78 drown as flash flood sweeps a bus into a river (India)
- Jul 7 All women board of directors takes control of ABA's Kentucky Colonels
- Jul 7 Shoelace Park in the Bronx named
- Jul 7 Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Czech Jan Kodeš beats Alex Metreveli of Russia 6-1, 9-8, 6-3 for his 3rd Grand Slam singles success
Wimbledon Women's Tennis
Jul 7 Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Billie Jean King beats Chris Evert 6-0, 7-5 for her 10th career Grand Slam singles title
- Jul 8 NY Mets are 12½ games back in NL and go on to win pennant
- Jul 9 9th Maccabiah games opens in Tel Aviv, Israel
- Jul 10 Bahamas declares Independence from the United Kingdom and adopts constitution
- Jul 10 John Paul Getty III, grandson of oil tycoon J. Paul Getty, is kidnapped in Rome by Italian gangsters wanting a ransom
- Jul 11 Brazilian Boeing 707 crashes near Paris, 122 killed
- Jul 12 A fire destroys the entire 6th floor of the National Personnel Records Center of the United States
- Jul 13 Bobby Murcer's 3 homers accounted for all RBIs, beating KC 5-0
- Jul 13 Hector de Campora resigns as President of Argentina
- Jul 14 British Open Men's Golf, Royal Troon GC: American Tom Weiskopf wins wire-to-wire by 3 strokes from Johnny Miller and Neil Coles
Music History
Jul 14 Phil Everly storms off stage at Knott's Berry Farm in Buena Park, California and declares an end to "The Everly Brothers"; the show was planned as their last, his exit improvised
Sports History
Jul 15 California Angel Nolan Ryan's 2nd no-hitter beats Detroit Tigers, 6-0
Baseball Record
Jul 15 MLB San Francisco Giant Willie McCovey becomes 15th to hit 400 HRs, this one at Candlestick Park against Pittsburgh Pirate's Bob Moose
Music History
Jul 15 Ray Davies announces his retirement from The Kinks, then attempts suicide; neither effort successful
Baseball Hall of Fame
Jul 19 NY Mets future Baseball Hall of Fame outfielder Willie Mays is named to NL All Star team for 24th time (ties Stan Musial)
- Jul 20 Chic's Wilbur Wood starts and loses both games of a doubleheader with NY Yankees, 12-2, & 7-0
Film & TV History
Jul 20 Jack Brisco beats Harley Race in Houston, to become NWA champ
- Jul 20 The US Senate passes the War Powers Act
Sports History
Jul 21 Braves Hank Aaron hits Philadelphia Phillies Ken Brett's fastball for his 700th HR, in Atlanta
- Jul 21 France performs nuclear Test at Mururoa Atoll in the Pacific
- Jul 21 USSR launches Mars 4 for fly-by (2600 km) of red planet
- Jul 22 60th Tour de France won by Luis Ocana of Spain
- Jul 22 US Open Women's Golf, CC of Rochester: Susie Maxwell Berning wins by 5 from Gloria Ehret & Shelley Hamlin for her third national title
- Jul 23 Ozark AL Flight 809 knocked out of air by lightning landing in St Louis, killing 38
Event of Interest
Jul 23 US President Richard Nixon refuses to release Watergate tapes of conversations in the White House relevant to the Watergate investigation
- Jul 23 USSR performs nuclear Test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
- Jul 24 44th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 7-1 at Royals Stadium, Kansas City
Sports History
Jul 24 All Star MVP: Bobby Bonds (SF Giants)
Music Concert
Jul 25 George Harrison pays £1,000,000 tax on his Bangladesh concert & album
- Jul 25 USSR launches Mars 5
Equus
Jul 26 Peter Shaffer's musical "Equus" premieres in London
- Jul 27 40th NFL Chicago All Star Game: Miami 14, All Stars 3 (54,103)
- Jul 27 Walter Blum becomes 6th jockey to ride 4,000 winners
- Jul 28 600,000 attend the "Summer Jam" rock festival featuring The Grateful Dead, The Band, and The Allman Brothers Band, at Watkins Glen, New York; at the time the largest ever audience at a pop festival
- Jul 28 France performs nuclear Test at Mururoa atoll, in the South Pacific
- Jul 28 NASA launches Skylab 3's astronauts (Alan Bean, Owen Garriott, and Jack Lousma) to the space station for a 59 day stay
- Jul 29 Greek plebiscite chooses republic over monarchy
- Jul 29 Led Zeppelin has more than $200,000 in cash stolen from a safety-deposit box at the New York Hilton hotel
- Jul 30 Texas Rangers Jim Bibby no-hits 1st-place Oakland, 6-0
- Jul 31 Delta Airlines DC-9 crashes in fog at Logan Airport, Boston, killing all but one of 89 aboard. Lone survivor dies 5 months later
- Jul 31 England cricket batsman Frank Hayes scores unbeaten 106 in Test debut in 1st Test v West Indies at The Oval, London; tourists win by 158 runs
Famous Birthdays
- Jul 2 Peter Kay, British comedian
- Jul 3 Patrick Wilson, American actor (Angels in America), born in Norfolk, Virginia
- Jul 4 Gackt [Gakuto Oshiro], Japanese rock singer-songwriter and actor, born in Okinawa, Japan
- Jul 4 Jan Magnussen, Danish racing driver, born in Roskilde, Denmark
- Jul 4 Justin Ring, CFL linebacker (Hamilton Tiger Cats), born in Kamloops, Canada
- Jul 4 Keiko Ihara, Japanese racing driver, born in Tokyo, Japan
- Jul 4 Michael Johnson, English-born Jamaican footballer, born in St. Louis, Missouri
- Jul 5 Bengt Lagerberg, Swedish musician (The Cardigans), born in Jönköping, Sweden
- Jul 5 Marcus Allbäck, Swedish soccer striker (74 caps; Örgryte IS, Heerenveen, Aston Villa, FC Copenhagen), born in Gothenburg, Sweden
- Jul 5 Róisín Murphy, Irish dance-pop singer, songwriter, and record producer (Moloko), born in Arklow, Wicklow, Ireland
- Jul 7 Kārlis Skrastiņš, Latvian ice hockey player, born in Riga, Latvia (d. 2011)
- Jul 7 Matt Mantei, American baseball player, born in Tampa, Florida
- Jul 7 Natsuki Takaya, Japanese manga-ka, born in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan
- Jul 7 Troy Garity, American actor, born in Los Angeles, California
- Jul 8 Kathleen Robertson, Canadian actress (Beverly Hills, 90210), born in Hamilton, Ontario
- Jul 8 Valerii Zaluzhnyi, Ukrainian general (Commander-in-Chief of Armed Forces of Ukraine during Russian invasion), born in Zviahel, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
- Jul 8 Vijay Shekhar Sharma, Indian founder and CEO of mobile payments company Paytm, born in Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh
- Jul 9 Enrique Murciano, American actor (Without a Trace), born in Miami, Florida
- Jul 9 Katasha Artis, WNBA forward (Charlotte Sting) ans collegiate coach, born in New York City
- Jul 9 Kelly Holcomb, American football quarterback (Indianapolis Colts, Cleveland Browns), born in Fayetteville, Tennessee
- Jul 11 Andrew Bird, American indie rock singer-songwriter and musician (Are You Serious), born in Lake Forest, Illinois
- Jul 11 Christine Monge, female pitcher (Colo Silver Bullets), born in San Francisco, California
- Jul 11 Konstantinos Kenteris, Greek athlete
- Jul 12 Christian Vieri, Italian soccer striker (49 caps; Inter Milan), born in Bologna, Italy
- Jul 13 Ariel Silvio Zárate, Argentine footballer
- Jul 14 Adam Quinn, American traditional and Celtic-fusion bagpiper, composer (Lucid Druid), and teacher, born in Clearwater, Florida
- Jul 14 Candela Peña, Spanish actress (Take My Eyes), born in Gavà, Spain
- Jul 14 Halil Mutlu, Bulgarian-Turkish weightlifter (5X World Champion; Olympics - gold, 1996, 2000 & 2004), born in Postnik, Bulgaria
- Jul 14 Kieren Perkins, Australian 1500m swimmer (Olympics - gold, 1992 & 1996), born in Brisbane, Australia
- Jul 15 Brian Austin Green, American actor (Beverly Hills 90210 - "David"), born in Van Nuys, California
- Jul 15 John Dolmayan, Armenian-American heavy metal drummer (System Of A Down, since 1997 - "Chop Suey!"; "Toxicity"), born in Beirut, Lebanon
- Jul 16 Graham Robertson, American filmmaker and author, born in Denver, Colorado
- Jul 16 Shaun Pollock, South African cricket all-rounder, captain (108 Tests, 3,781 runs @ 32.21, 421 wickets; 303 ODIs) and broadcaster (SuperSport), born in Port Elizabeth, RSA
- Jul 16 Stefano Garzelli, Italian cyclist, born in Varese, Italy
- Jul 16 Tim Ryan, American politician (Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Ohio), born in Niles, Ohio
- Jul 17 Horacio Llamas, Mexican NBA center (Phoenix Suns), born in Rosario, Mexico
- Jul 17 Liam Kyle Sullivan, American comedian and actor, born in Boston, Massachusetts
- Jul 17 Tony Dovolani, Albanian ballroom dancer, born in Prishtina, Kosovo
- Jul 19 Martin Powell, English musician (Cradle of Filth)
- Jul 19 Saïd Taghmaoui, French actor (La Haine), born in Villepinte, France
- Jul 20 Haakon Magnus, Crown Prince of Norway
- Jul 20 Mads Rieper, Danish footballer
- Jul 20 Peter Forsberg, Swedish NHL center (Colorado Avalanche), born in Ornskoldsvik, Sweden
Ali Landry (50 years old)
Jul 21 American actress and pageant winner (Miss USA 1996), born in Cecilia, Louisiana
- Jul 21 Stephen Clarke, Canadian swimmer (Olympic bronze 1992, 96), born in Sutton Coldfield, England
- Jul 22 Daniel Jones, Australian rock musician (Savage Garden - "Truly, Madly, Deeply"), born in Southend-on-Sea, Essex, England
- Jul 22 Mike Sweeney, American baseball first baseman, catcher, DH (MLB All-Star 2000, 01, 02, 03, 05; Kansas City Royals), born in Orange, California
- Jul 22 Ronald Ray Howard, American murderer (d. 2005)
- Jul 22 Rufus Wainwright, Canadian-American singer, born in Rhinebeck, New York
- Jul 23 Darvin Ham, American NBA forward (Wash Wizards) and coach, born in Saginaw, Michigan
- Jul 23 Fran Healy, Scottish rock musician (Travis), born in Stafford, England
- Jul 23 Himesh Reshammiya, Indian Bollywood composer, singer and actor (Aashiq Banaya Aapne), born in Gujarat, India
Monica Lewinsky (50 years old)
Jul 23 American White House intern (improper relationship with Bill Clinton), born in San Francisco, California
- Jul 23 Nomar Garciaparra, American MLB shortstop (6-time All Star), born in Whittier, California
- Jul 23 Omar Epps, American actor (House) and rapper, born in Brooklyn, New York
- Jul 25 Dani Filth [Daniel Davey], British lyricist, and heavy metal singer (Cradle of Filth), born in Hertford, Hertfordshire, England
- Jul 25 David Denman, American actor (The Office), born in Newport Beach, California
- Jul 25 Kevin Phillips, English soccer striker (8 caps; EPL top scorer [30 goals] 1999–2000 Sunderland), born in Hitchin, Hertfordshire, England
- Jul 25 Mur Lafferty, American podcaster and writer, born in Durham, North Carolina
- Jul 26 Kate Beckinsale, British actress (Underworld series), born in London
- Jul 26 Lenka Kotková [Šarounová], Czech astronomer and discoverer of minor planets, born in Dobřichovice, Czechoslovakia
- Jul 26 Peter Heijstek, Dutch soccer player (DFC/Dordrecht '90)
- Jul 27 Abe Cunningham, American musician (Deftones), born in Long Beach, California
- Jul 27 Gorden Tallis, Australian rugby league footballer, born in Townsville, Queensland, Australia
- Jul 28 Nixon A. McNamara McClean, West Indies cricket fast bowler (ODI 1996)
- Jul 28 Scott Bloom, American actor (Keys; Stuff), born in Manhasset, New York
- Jul 29 James Otto, American country singer (MuzikMafia), born in Fort Lewis, Washington
- Jul 29 Stephen Dorff, American actor (I Know My Name is Steven), born in Atlanta, Georgia
- Jul 29 Wanyá Morris, American R&B singer (Boyz II Men - "I'll Make Love to You"; "End Of The Road"), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Jul 30 Andrea Gaudenzi, Italian tennis player (1990 French Open junior), born in Faenza, Italy
- Jul 30 Markus Naslund, Swedish NHL right wing (Vancouver Canucks), born in Örnsköldsvik, Sweden
- Jul 30 Sonu Nigam, Indian playback singer, born in Haryana, India
- Jul 31 Andy MacDonald, American skateboarder (8-time X Games Vert & Vert Doubles champion), born in Melrose, Massachusetts
- Jul 31 Chandra North, American model, born in Dallas, Texas
- Jul 31 Jerry Rivera, Puerto Rican singer (Abriendo Puertas), born in Humacao, Puerto Rico
Famous Weddings
Farrah Fawcett
Jul 28 "Charlie's Angels" actress Farrah Fawcett (26) weds "The Six Million Dollar Man" actor Lee Majors (34) at the Hotel Bel-Air in Los Angeles, California; divorce in 1982
Famous Deaths
- Jul 1 Laurens Hammond, American engineer and musical instrument inventor (Hammond organ), dies at 78
- Jul 1 Mario Labroca, Italian composer, dies at 76
Betty Grable (1916-1973)
Jul 2 American singer, dancer, pin-up girl and actress (I Wake Up Screaming, How to Marry a Millionaire, Gay Divorcee), dies of lung cancer at 56
- Jul 2 Chick Hafey, American Baseball HOF outfielder (World Series 1926, 31 St. Louis Cardinals; NL batting champion 1931; MLB All Star 1933), dies at 70
- Jul 2 Ferdinand Schörner, German field marshal, dies at 81
- Jul 2 George Macready, American actor (Martin Peyton-Peyton Place), dies at 73
- Jul 2 George McBride, American baseball shortstop (AL fielding leader 1912-15 Washington Senators) and manager (Washington Senators 1921), dies at 92
- Jul 2 Swede Savage, dies of injuries at Indianapolis 500
- Jul 3 Karel Ančerl, Czechoslovak conductor (Czech Philharmonic, 1950-68; Toronto Symphony, 1968-73), composer, and Auschwitz survivor, dies at 65
- Jul 4 Leonid Stein, Russian chess player, dies at about 39
- Jul 6 Joe E. Brown, American comedian (Buck Circus Hour), dies after long illness at 80
- Jul 6 Otto Klemperer, German-American conductor (Los Angeles Philharmonic, 1933-39), and composer (Das Ziel), dies at 88
- Jul 6 Patrick McVey, actor (Manhunt, Big Town), dies at 63
Max Horkheimer (1895-1973)
Jul 7 German philosopher and sociologist (Dialectic of Enlightenment, Eclipse of Reason), dies at 78
- Jul 7 Veronica Lake [Constance Ockleman], American actress (Sullivan's Travels, I Married a Witch), dies from hepatitis and acute kidney injury at 50
- Jul 8 Harry F. V. Edward, British 100m/200m runner (Olympic bronze 1920), dies at 75
- Jul 8 Wilfred Rhodes, English cricketer (4187 1st-class wickets, most ever), dies at 95
- Jul 10 Wallace "Bud" Smith, American boxer (World lightweight title 1955-56), dies of gunshot wounds at 49
- Jul 11 Alexander Vasilyevich Mosolov, Russian composer (Zavod), dies at 72
- Jul 11 Isabel Randolph, American actress (Fuller Brush Girl; Our Miss Brooks - "Mrs. Nestor"), dies at 83
- Jul 11 Robert Ryan, American actor (Billy Budd, The Dirty Dozen, The Longest Day), dies from lung cancer at 63
- Jul 12 Lon Chaney Jr, American actor (Larry Talbot-The Wolf Man, Lennie Small-Of Mice and Men), dies of heart failure at 67
- Jul 13 Marțian Negrea, Romanian conductor, composer (The Glacier from Scărișoara), and teacher, dies at 80
- Jul 13 Willy Fritsch, German actor (Spies, Women in the Moon), dies from a heart attack at 72
- Jul 15 Clarence White, American session and country-rock guitarist (The Byrds, 1968-73 - "Ballad of Easy Rider"), struck and killed by a drunk driver at 29
- Jul 16 Nine van de Schaaf, Dutch author (Fries dorpsleven), dies at 91
- Jul 18 Jack Hawkins, British actor (Lawrence of Arabia, Ben-Hur Just Men, Zulu, Malta Story), dies of post-operative complications at 62
- Jul 19 Vasily Dmitriyevich Shcheglov, Russian cosmonaut, dies at 33
Bruce Lee (1940-1973)
Jul 20 Hong Kong-American martial artist and actor (Enter the Dragon), dies of a cerebral edema at 32
- Jul 20 Robert Smithson, American land artist (b. 1938)
- Jul 21 Russell Hardie, American actor (Sequoia, In Old Kentucky), dies after long illness at 69
- Jul 23 Eddie Rickenbacker, American aviator "Ace of Aces" (WWI), dies at 82
- Jul 23 Marius-François Gaillard, French pianist (DeBussy), conductor and composer (La passion noire), dies at 72
Louis St. Laurent (1882-1973)
Jul 25 12th Prime Minister of Canada (Liberal: 1948-57), dies of natural causes at 91
- Jul 28 Mary Ellen Chase, American educator and author (Windswept, 1959 Sarah Hale Award), dies at 86
- Jul 28 Royal Butler [Edwin Richey], American actor (Zenobia), dies at 80
- Jul 29 Eileen Percy, Irish silent film actress (Wicked, Backstage), dies at 72
- Jul 29 Norm Smith, Australian rules footballer and coach (b. 1915)
- Jul 29 Roger Williamson, English racing driver (b. 1948)
- Jul 30 Erich Katz, German-born American composer and musicologist, dies at 72
- Jul 30 Guy Middleton, British actor (Oh! What a Lovely War, Laughter in Paradise), dies following a heart attack at 66
