Events in Sports History in July 1976

Wimbledon Women's Tennis

Jul 2 Wimbledon Women's Tennis: American Chris Evert beats Evonne Goolagong Cawley of Australia 6-3, 4-6, 8-6 for second of 3 Wimbledon singles titles

Wimbledon Men's Tennis

Jul 3 Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Sweden's Björn Borg beats Ilie Năstase of Romania 6-4, 6-2, 9-7 for the first of 5 straight Wimbledon titles

British Golf Open

Jul 10 British Open Men's Golf, Royal Birkdale GC: American Johnny Miller wins his only Open championship, 6 strokes clear of Seve Ballesteros and Jack Nicklaus; Miller's second and last major title

Golfer and Five-Time Major Winner Seve Ballesteros

Jul 11 1st US football club in Austria forms (FAAFC-1st Austrian American)

US Women's Golf Open

Jul 11 US Open Women's Golf, Rolling Green GC: JoAnne Carner wins in a playoff with Sandra Palmer

Jul 13 47th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 7-1 at Veterans Stadium, Philadelphia
Jul 13 All star MVP: George Foster (Cincinnati Reds)
Jul 13 Last day of Test Cricket for English all-rounder Brian Close, aged 45
Jul 17 21st modern Olympic games opens in Montreal: 25 African teams (later rising to 33 nations) boycott the games due to New Zealand playing rugby in apartheid South Africa

Sports History

Jul 17 Walter Alston becomes the fifth MLB manager to win 2,000 games as Los Angeles Dodgers defeat visiting Chicago Cubs, 5-2

Jul 18 63rd Tour de France won by Lucien Van Impe of Belgium

Olympic Games

Jul 18 Nadia Comăneci (14) becomes the first gymnast in Olympic Games history to score a perfect 10 score (doing so 7 times) at Montreal Games

Baseball Record

Jul 20 Hank Aaron hits 755th and last home run off Angels Dick Drago

Jul 23 42nd NFL Chicago All Star Game: Pittsburgh 24, All Stars 0 (52,895)

Baseball Record

Jul 23 Baltimore Oriole Reggie Jackson homers in 6th straight game

Jul 25 Annegret Richter runs 100m (11.01)
Jul 28 White Sox John Odom (5 inn) & Francisco Barrios (4 inn) no-hits A's

Olympic Gold

Jul 30 Future TV personality ('Keeping Up with the Kardashians') and transgender figure, Bruce Jenner (now Caitlin Jenner) sets WR 8,618 points to win decathlon gold at Montreal Olympics

Decathlete and Television Personality Caitlyn Jenner

Jul 30 Japanese beat Russian for Olympic gold in woman's volleyball
Jul 31 East German runner Waldemar Cierpinski beats American Frank Shorter by 50 seconds to win the Olympic Games marathon in 2:09:55 in Montreal