Baseball Record
Jul 2 Boston Red Sox pitcher Roger Clemens (14-0) suffers his 1st loss (4-2 v Toronto), one win short of AL record for consecutive wins to start season
- Jul 4 England cricket captain Mike Gatting smashes 183 not out in the drawn 3rd Test vs India at Birmingham
Wimbledon Women's Tennis
Jul 5 Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Martina Navratilova beats Hana MandlĂková 7-6, 6-3 for her 7th Wimbledon singles title
Wimbledon Men's Tennis
Jul 6 100th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Germany's Boris Becker successfully defends his title beating Ivan Lendl 6-4, 6-3, 7-5
- Jul 6 Atlanta infielder Bob Horner becomes 11th player to hit 4 home runs in a MLB game during Braves 11-8 loss v Montreal
Sports History
Jul 7 American athlete Jackie Joyner-Kersee sets world heptathlon record of 7,148 points in the inaugural Goodwill Games at Moscow
Sports History
Jul 9 Atlanta's Dale Murphy doesn't play ending consecutive streak at 740
- Jul 9 Padres trade pitcher Tim Stoddard to Yankees for pitcher Ed Whitson
World Record
Jul 11 Ingrid Kristiansen of Norway runs 10,000m in world record 30:13.74
US Women's Golf Open
Jul 14 US Open Women's Golf, NCR CC: Jane Geddes wins by 2 strokes in an 18-hole Monday playoff with South African born Sally Little
- Jul 15 57th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 3-2 at Astrodome, Houston, Texas
- Jul 15 All star MVP: Roger Clemens (Boston Red Sox)
- Jul 18 MLB Kansas City Royals announce that manager Dick Howser, 50, has a brain tumor
Boxing Title Fight
Jul 19 Tim Witherspoon KOs Frank Bruno in 11 for heavyweight boxing title
British Golf Open
Jul 20 British Open Men's Golf, Turnberry: Australian Greg Norman wins his first major championship at even-par, 5 strokes clear of runner-up Gordon J. Brand
- Jul 27 24th Tennis Fed Cup: USA beats Czechoslovakia in Prague Czech (3-0)
Tour de France
Jul 27 73rd Tour de France won by Greg LeMond of USA
Canadian Women's Open
Jul 27 Canadian Open Women's Golf (du Maurier Classic), Board of Trade CC: Pat Bradley wins in a playoff with Ayako Okamoto of Japan
- Jul 29 NY jury rules NFL violated antitrust laws, awards USFL $1 in damages