Historical Events
- Jul 1 1st Zen winter session in Sydney Zen Center's Gorrick's Run Zendo
Canadian Women's Open
Jul 1 Canadian Open Women's Golf (du Maurier Classic), Westmount GC: Cathy Johnston wins by 2 strokes from Patty Sheehan for her only LPGA Tour win
- Jul 1 German Democratic Republic accepts Deutsche Mark as its currency
- Jul 1 In Victoria, Australia, helmetless bike riding becomes illegal
US Senior Golf Open
Jul 1 US Senior Open Men's Golf, Ridgewood CC: Lee Trevino wins by 2 strokes from Jack Nicklaus for his first Champions Tour major title
- Jul 2 1,426 pilgrims trampled to death after a panic in a tunnel in Mecca, Saudi Arabia
Event of Interest
Jul 2 Imelda Marcos and Adnan Khashoggi found not guilty of racketeering
- Jul 2 TV cooking competition show "MasterChef" presented by Loyd Grossman, and created by Franc Roddam, first airs in the UK
- Jul 3 Liberian President Samuel Kanyon Doe offers to resign in response to rebel incursions in his country; he is later kidnapped and executed
- Jul 3 Members of 2 Live Crew formally charged with obscenity in Florida
- Jul 4 2 Live Crew release "Banned in the USA" the lyrics quote Star Spangled Banner and Gettysburg Address
- Jul 4 400 New Kids on the Block fans treated for heat exhaustion in Minnesota
- Jul 4 France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll
Sports History
Jul 5 Steffi Graf's record run of 13 consecutive tennis Grand Slam singles finals ends, beaten in Wimbledon semi-finals 6-3, 3-6, 6-4 by American Zina Garrison
Jetsons the Movie
Jul 6 "Jetsons the Movie" by Hanna-Barbera with Tiffany Darwish, premieres
Music Concert
Jul 7 1st 'Three Tenors' concert featuring Plácido Domingo, José Carreras and Luciano Pavarotti at Baths of Caracalla in Rome; recording becomes world's best-selling classical record
- Jul 7 New Jersey Devils sign star Russian defensemen Viacheslav Fetisov & Sergei Starikov to NHL contracts despite criticism they are taking North American jobs
Wimbledon Women's Tennis
Jul 7 Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Martina Navratilova wins her record 9th Wimbledon singles title beating American Zina Garrison 6-4, 6-1
- Jul 8 12:34:56 on 7/8/90 (1234567890)
- Jul 8 Brewers beat Angels 20-7, including 13 in 5th inning
- Jul 8 FIFA World Cup Final, Stadio Olimpico, Rome, Italy: 85th minute penalty by Andreas Brehme gives West Germany, 1-0 win over Argentina
- Jul 8 Trailing 7-0, Brewers tie Angels & then score 13 in 5th to win 20-7
Wimbledon Men's Tennis
Jul 8 Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Stefan Edberg beats Boris Becker 6-2, 6-2, 3-6, 3-6, 6-4 for his 2nd Wimbledon singles crown
Cricket History
Jul 9 New Zealand cricket legend Richard Hadlee takes 5-53 in 3rd Test v England at Edgbaston to end Test career with 431 wickets
- Jul 10 61st All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 2-0 at Wrigley Field, Chicago
- Jul 10 All star MVP: Julio Franco (Texas Rangers)
Film & TV History
Jul 10 Andrew Dice Clay cries on Arsenio Hall Show
- Jul 10 Final day of Test Cricket for Richard Hadlee as New Zealand go down by 114 runs in 3rd Test v England at Edgbaston
- Jul 11 NYC police arrest "Dartman" (stabbed over 50 women with darts)
- Jul 11 Oka Crisis: First Nations land dispute in Quebec, Canada begins between Mohawk people and town of Oka
Event of Interest
Jul 12 Boris Yeltsin quits the Soviet Communist Party
- Jul 12 Chicago White Sox Melido Perez no-hits Yankees 8-0 in a rain shortened 6 inning game at Yankee Stadium (7th no-hitter of 1990)
- Jul 12 In Soweto, South Africa, Shanty town women strip to the waist and confront bulldozers sent by authorities to demolish their homes
- Jul 14 "Howard Stern's Summer Show" premieres on WWOR-TV (NYC)
- Jul 14 Sara Martin, of Illinois, crowned America's Junior Miss
US Women's Golf Open
Jul 15 US Open Women's Golf, Atlanta Athletic Club: Defending champion Betsy King wins consecutive titles, 1 stroke ahead of runner-up Patty Sheehan, the leader after each of first 3 rounds
- Jul 16 400 die in a (7.7) earthquake in the Philippines
- Jul 16 Bridgette LeAnn Wilson, 17, of Oregon, 8th crowned Miss Teen USA
- Jul 16 Civil trial by parents of Suicide victims against Judas Priest begins
- Jul 16 NYC's Empire State Building catches fire-no fatalities
- Jul 16 Rick Dee's "Into the Night" premieres on ABC-TV
ANC Report Police Violence
Jul 16 The ANC send a report on police violence to President F. W. de Klerk and demand an end to "the shocking inhumanity" of police action in rural areas of South Africa
- Jul 16 Ukraine declares independence
- Jul 17 Hussein's Revolutionary Day speech claims Kuwait stole oil from Iraq
- Jul 17 Minnesota Twins become 1st team to turn 2 triple plays in a game but lose to Boston Red Sox 1-0
Baseball Record
Jul 17 NY Yankee Deion Sanders hits an inside park homer
- Jul 19 BASF plant in Cincinnati explodes in flames, 1 dies
Sports History
Jul 19 Dave Righetti pitches in his 499th game as a NY Yankee, passing Whitey Ford in most appearances as a NY Yankee
Music Concert
Jul 21 Pink Floyd's "The Wall" is performed where the Berlin Wall once stood; charity concert led by Roger Waters, with guests Cyndi Lauper, Joni Mitchell, The Scorpions,; Sinéad O'Connor, Bryan Adams, The Band, Van Morrison, The Hooters, and others
Tour de France
Jul 22 77th Tour de France won by Greg LeMond of USA
- Jul 22 90th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Phil Mickelson
British Golf Open
Jul 22 British Open Men's Golf, St Andrews: Englishman Nick Faldo wins the 2nd of his 3 Open Championships by 5 strokes from runners-up Mark McNulty & Payne Stewart
- Jul 23 Rosie Jones (St Louis), 26, crowned 22nd Miss Black America
- Jul 23 South Africa workers' union leader Billy Nair arrested
- Jul 24 Ms. Magazine hits newsstands again after an 8 month hiatus
- Jul 24 US warships in Persian Gulf placed on alert after Iraq masses nearly 30,000 troops near its border with Kuwait
Sports History
Jul 25 KC Royal George Brett hits for the cycle
- Jul 25 Nadezhda Ryashkina of USSR sets 10K walk woman's record (41:56.23)
Sports History
Jul 25 Roseanne Barr sings the National Anthem at Cincinnati Reds-San Diego Padres MLB game
- Jul 25 US Ambassador tells Iraq, US won't take sides in Iraq-Kuwait dispute
- Jul 25 US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
- Jul 26 General Hospital records its 7,000th episode
- Jul 26 US beats Soviet Union 17-0 in baseball at Goodwill Games
Event of Interest
Jul 26 US President George H. W. Bush signs Americans With Disabilities Act
Sports History
Jul 27 Graham Gooch scores 333 v India at Lord's
- Jul 27 Tom Moody scores 100 in 26 mins in county cricket, world record
- Jul 27 White-Russia declares independence
Film & TV History
Jul 27 Zsa Zsa Gabor begins a 3 day jail sentence for slapping a police officer in Beverly Hills
Event of Interest
Jul 28 Alberto Fujimori installed as President of Peru
- Jul 28 Blackout hits Chicago
- Jul 29 26th Curtis Cup: US wins 14-4
- Jul 29 28th Tennis Fed Cup: USA beats USSR in Atlanta Georgia (2-1)
- Jul 29 Boston Red Sox set major league record with 12 doubles in a game
- Jul 29 Federation Cup Women's Tennis, Norcross, Georgia: US retains title with 2-1 victory over Soviet Union; Gigi Fernández & Zina Garrison-Jackson clinch final with 6-4, 6-3 win against Larisa Neiland & Natasha Zvereva
LPGA Championship
Jul 29 LPGA Championship Women's Golf, Bethesda CC: Beth Daniel wins her only major title by 1 stroke from fellow American Rosie Jones
- Jul 29 South Africa Communist Party begins 1st legal conference
- Jul 30 Five Bank of Credit & Commerce members found guilty of money laundering
Sports History
Jul 30 George Steinbrenner is forced by Commissioner of Baseball Fay Vincent to resign as principal partner of NY Yankees
- Jul 30 Graham Gooch scores 123 v India to follow up 1st innings 333
- Jul 30 Soldiers opens fire on worshippers in Monrovian church, 200-600 die
- Jul 30 The first Saturn automobile rolls off the assembly line.
- Jul 31 Bosnia-Hercegovina declares independence
Baseball History
Jul 31 Texas Rangers pitcher Nolan Ryan records his 300th career victory, an 11-3 win over the Milwaukee Brewers; 20th MLB pitcher to reach the milestone
Famous Birthdays
- Jul 1 Lukas Geniušas, Russian-Lithuanian concert pianist, born in Moscow, Russia
Margot Robbie (33 years old)
Jul 2 Australian actress and producer (The Wolf of Wall Street, Focus), born in Dalby, Queensland
- Jul 9 Fábio and Rafael da Silva, Brazilian footballers
Caroline Wozniacki (33 years old)
Jul 11 Danish tennis player (Australian Open 2018), born in Odense, Denmark
- Jul 11 Connor Paolo, American actor (Gossip Girl), born in New York City
Rachel Brosnahan (33 years old)
Jul 12 American actress (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel), born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
- Jul 15 Damian Lillard, American basketball player (Portland Trail Blazers), born in Oakland, California
- Jul 15 Olly Alexander [Oliver Thornton], British actor, singer-songwriter (Years & Years), and LGBT activist, born in Harrogate, England
- Jul 16 Wizkid [Ayodeji Ibrahim Balogun], Nigerian singer-songwriter (Made in Lagos), born in Lagos, Nigeria
Canelo Álvarez (33 years old)
Jul 18 Mexican boxer (multiple weight division world champion), born in Guadalajara, Mexico
- Jul 19 Steven Anthony Lawrence, American actor (Even Stevens), born in Fresco, California
- Jul 20 Wendie Renard, French football player (Lyon, France), born in Schœlcher, Martinique
- Jul 24 Daveigh Chase, American model, actress (Donnie Darko), and singer, born in Las Vegas, Nevada
- Jul 24 Evan James Springsteen, American rocker and Bruce Springsteen's son, born in Los Angeles, California
- Jul 26 Zach Serleth, American jazz, bluegrass, and klezmer bassist and banjo player, born in Baltimore, Maryland
- Jul 27 Cheyenne Kimball, American musician (Gloriana), born in Wilmington, North Carolina
- Jul 27 Indiana Evans, Australian actress (Home and Away), born in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Jul 27 Nick Hogan, American reality TV star, born in Los Angeles, California
- Jul 28 Shana Swash, English actress (EastEnders), born in London Borough of Camden, London
Soulja Boy (33 years old)
Jul 28 American rapper (Crank That (Soulja Boy)), born in Chicago, Illinois
Famous Weddings
Hank Williams Jr
Jul 1 Country singer-songwriter Hank Williams Jr (41) weds model Mary Jane Thomas at a Congregational church near his ranch in Missoula, Montana
Berry Gordy
Jul 17 American Motown Records founder Berry Gordy (60) weds Grace Easton; divorce in 1993
Yasser Arafat
Jul 17 Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat (56) weds Suha Tawil (27)
- Jul 17 PLO-leader Jasser Arrafat marries Soha Tawil in Tunis
Patrick Ewing
Jul 27 NBA star Patrick Ewing (27) weds Rita Williams
Famous Deaths
- Jul 1 Anna Palk, actress (Play it Cool, Frozen Dead), dies of cancer at 48
- Jul 1 Jurriaan Schrofer, graphic designer, dies
- Jul 2 Muntu Myeza, South African anti-apartheid activist and General Secretary of SASO, dies in automobile accident at 39
- Jul 2 Snooky Lanson [Roy Landman], American singer (Your Hit Parade; 5 Star Jubilee), dies at 76
- Jul 3 Maurice Girodias, French publisher and founder (Olympia Press), dies at 71
- Jul 4 Ludi Claire, American actress, dies at 70
- Jul 5 Mitch Snyder, homeless advocate, commits suicide by hanging at 46
- Jul 6 Jim Samuels, comedian, dies of spinal meningitis at 41
- Jul 6 Nathaniel Wyeth, American chemist and inventor (created PET plastic beverage bottle), dies at 78
- Jul 6 Paul Wynne, American reporter who chronicled their battle with Aids, dies of AIDS at 46
- Jul 7 Bill Cullen, American game show host (Price is Right), dies at 70 of cancer
- Jul 7 Cazuza, Brazilian poet, singer and composer, dies at 32
- Jul 7 Hugo Enomiya-Lassalle, German Jesuit priest and Buddhism Zen teacher, dies at 92
- Jul 8 Howard Duff, American actor (Flamingo Road, Knots Landing), dies of a heart attack at 76
- Jul 8 Malcolm Hilton, English cricket slow left-arm (4 Tests), dies at 61
- Jul 9 Brigitte D'Ortschy, German author, trnslator and Zen teacher Sanbo Kyodan line, dies in Japan at 69
- Jul 10 Hans Faverey, Dutch poet, dies at 55
- Jul 10 Irene Champlin, dies after long illness at 59
- Jul 11 Onno Molenkamp, Dutch actor (Lifespan, Broken Mirrors, The Lift), dies at 67
- Jul 12 João Saldanha, Brazilian journalist and football manager (Brazil 1969-70), dies at 73
- Jul 12 Richard R Briggs, dies after short illness at 71
- Jul 13 Lois Moran Young, American actress (Stella Dallas) dies of cancer at 81
- Jul 14 Dallas Alinder, American actor, dies at 58
- Jul 14 Philip Leacock, English director and producer, dies of collapsed lungs at 73
- Jul 15 Alison Leggatt, British character actress (Day of Triffids, Cows), dies at 86
- Jul 15 Margaret Lockwood, British actress (Cast a Dark Shadow, The Lady Vanishes), dies of cirrhosis of the liver at 73
- Jul 15 Troy Dixon, American rapper (Trouble T-Roy of Heavy D), dies at 22 of a fall
- Jul 16 Robert Blackburn, Irish educationist (International Baccalaureate Organisation), dies at 62
- Jul 16 Sidney Torch, English composer, conductor and theater organist, dies from an intentional medication overdose at 82
- Jul 17 Bernard Cowan, TV announcer, dies of kidney disease at 68
- Jul 17 Tony Pugsley, British rear-admiral during World War II (Walcheren attack 1944, Battle of the Scheldt), dies at 88
- Jul 18 Georges Dargaud, French publisher (Astérix, Tintin), dies at 79
- Jul 18 Gerry Boulet, French Canadian rock singer (Offenbach; Rendez-vous doux), dies of colon cancer at 44
- Jul 18 Karl Menninger, American psychiatrist (Menninger Clinic), dies at 96 of cancer
- Jul 18 Yoon Boseon, President of South Korea (b. 1897)
- Jul 19 Eddie Quillan, American actor (Mutiny on the Bounty, Julia, Hell Town), dies of cancer at 83
- Jul 19 Herbert Nelson, actor (Guilding Light), dies of a stroke at 76
- Jul 19 Johnny Wayne, comedian (Wayne & Shuster), dies of cancer at 72
- Jul 20 Herbert Jenkins, Atlanta's longest serving police chief (b. 1907)
- Jul 20 Sara Heyblom, Dutch actress (Obsessions, Pygmalion), dies
- Jul 21 Manuel Puig, Argentine writer (Buenos Aires Affair), dies at 57
- Jul 21 Rich Vogler, American auto racer (most combined wins in USAC history [171]), dies in a race crash at 39
- Jul 21 Sacha Piteoff, Swiss-French actor and stage director, dies of heart failure at 70
- Jul 21 Stanley Shapiro, American screenwriter (Doris Day films), dies of leukemia at 65
- Jul 22 Otmar Nussio, Swiss conductor and composer (Boccaccio Suite), dies at 87
- Jul 22 Preben Neergaard, Danish actor (Mordskab), dies of cancer at 70
- Jul 23 Georges Flamant, actor (La Chienne), dies in Paris at 86
- Jul 23 Joe Turner, American jazz pianist, dies of cardiac arrest at 82
- Jul 23 Kenjiro Takayanagi, Japanese development of television (b. 1899)
- Jul 23 Robert Sommer, singer, dies of liver failure at 42
- Jul 24 Alan Clarke, English director (Elephant, Road, Scum, Firm), dies at 54
- Jul 26 Brent Mydland, American rock keyboardist and vocalist (Grateful Dead - "Hell In A Bucket"; "I Will Take You Home"), dies of a cocaine and morphine "speedball" overdose at 38
- Jul 27 Bobby Day [Robert Byrd], American rock musician (Rockin' Robin), dies of cancer at 58
- Jul 27 Elizabeth Allan, English actress (Tale of 2 Cities, Camille, Java Head), dies at 80
- Jul 27 Kim Thomas-Friedland, American news anchor (FNN), murdered at 32
- Jul 27 Nick Pippins, American actor (Simon), dies of AIDS at 35
- Jul 27 Salim Ali, Indian Ornithologist (Birdman of India), dies at 90
- Jul 28 Armando Frid, Argentinian horse tamer and centenarian, dies reportedly at 124
- Jul 28 Bruno Kreisky, Austrian politician (Chancellor, 1970-83; Foreign Minister, 1959-66), dies at 79
- Jul 28 Jill Esmond, English actress (13 Women, My Pal Wolfe, FP 1), dies at 82
- Jul 28 Maurice Braddell, English actor (Things to Come), dies at 89
- Jul 29 Bruno Kreisky, union chancellor Austria, dies
- Jul 30 Ian Gow, British Conservative parliament leader, murdered
- Jul 30 Karl Weber, dies of heart failure at 74
- Jul 31 Albert Leduc, Canadian ice hockey defenseman (Stanley Cup 1930, 31 Montreal Canadiens), dies at 87
- Jul 31 Fernando Sancho, dies after operation for malignant tumor at 72
