Historical Events in July 1984

Publish date: 2024-10-16

Jul 1 US Senior Open Men's Golf, Oak Hill CC: Miller Barber wins by 2 strokes from Arnold Palmer for his second Senior Open title

Jul 3 After 22 years, England Test cricket spinner Derek Underwood hits a maiden 1st class century (111) for Kent v Sussex at Hastings
Jul 3 Dolphin rocket launched off San Clemente Island
Jul 3 Supreme Court rules Jaycees may be forced to admit women as members
Jul 3 West Indies cricket opener Gordon Greenidge scores brilliant 214 off 242 balls in 9-wicket Lord's Test win v England
Jul 4 Funeral for S Nakagawa and burial of half his ashes next to N Senzaki

Baseball Record

Jul 4 New York Yankees pitcher Phil Niekro strikes out Larry Parish (Texas Rangers) to become the 9th player to reach the 3,000 MLB strikeout milestone

Jul 5 Supreme Court weakens 70-year-old "exclusionary rule"-evidence seized with defective court warrants can now be used in criminal trials
Jul 6 New Zealand sisters Liz and Rose Signal become the first twins to play in the same cricket Test match, v England at Headingley
Jul 7 5 die in a train crash in Williston, Vermont

Jul 9 12th Century York Minster damaged in lightning storm
Jul 9 Yvonne Ryding of Sweden crowned 33rd Miss Universe
Jul 10 Prolific studio drummer Jim Gordon convicted of murdering his mother and sentenced 16 years to life in prison. Diagnosed with schizophrenia after the killing, he is serving time in a medical / psychiatric prison, and has been denied parole 10 times as of 2018. [1]
Jul 11 55th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 3-1 at Candlestick Park, San Francisco

Jul 11 Britain's MusicBox begins satellite transmission to Europe
Jul 11 Government orders air bags or seat belts would be required in cars by 1989
Jul 11 Lucas Mangope re-elected president of Bophuthatswana
Jul 12 A car bomb set off by the military wing of the ANC, explodes in Durban South Africa killing 5 and injuring 27 people

Appointment of Interest

Jul 12 Geraldine Ferraro becomes the 1st US female major-party vice-presidential candidate, after Walter Mondale selects her as his Democratic Party running mate

Music History

Jul 13 British guitarist Jeff Beck quits singer Rod Stewart's tour after 7 shows

Music Concert

Jul 13 Eddie Van Halen makes a guest appearance, performing "Beat It", in a Jacksons concert, in Dallas, Texas

Jul 13 Sergei Bubka of USSR pole vaults a record 5.89 m
Jul 13 The last sitting of an all-white Parliament in South Africa

Jul 14 STS 41-D vehicle moves to Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center (Florida) for remanifest of payloads
Jul 14 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan

I'm Stepping Out

Jul 15 John Lennon's single "I'm Stepping Out" released posthumously

Jul 15 US Open Women's Golf, Salem CC: Hollis Stacy wins her 3rd US title by 1 stroke from Rosie Jones
Jul 17 Pierre Mauroy resigns as Prime Minister of France
Jul 17 Soyuz T-12 carries 3 cosmonauts to space station Salyut 7
Jul 17 US passes National Minimum Drinking Age Act, prohibiting under 21's from buying or possessing alcohol as a condition of receiving federal highway funds
Jul 18 21 people are killed and 19 are injured in a massacre in a McDonalds restaurant in San Ysidro, California; it ends with the shooting of its perpetrator, James Oliver Huberty

Walter Mondale

Jul 18 Walter Mondale wins the Democratic Party presidential nomination in San Francisco

Jul 19 1st female to captain a 747 across Atlantic (Lynn Rippelmeyer)
Jul 19 Geraldine Ferraro (US Representative, New York), becomes the 1st US female major-party vice-presidential nominee, officially joining Walter Mondale's Democratic Party ticket
Jul 20 Uwe Hohn of East Germany throws javelin a record 104.8 m

Vanessa Williams Resigns Title

Jul 20 Vanessa Williams is asked to resign as Miss America due to publication of nude photos of her

Jul 21 Marita Koch of East Germany sets world women's mark for 200m, 21.71s
Jul 21 USSR performs underground nuclear Test

Jul 22 22nd Federation Cup Women's Tennis, São Paulo, Brazil: Czech pair Hana Mandlíková & Helena Suková beat Australians Elizabeth Sayers & Wendy Turnbull 6-2, 6-2 for a 2-1 victory

Jul 22 71st Tour de France won by Laurent Fignon of France

Jul 23 Suzette Charles (NJ), 21, replaces Williams as 57th Miss America 1984
Jul 23 Vanessa Williams, 1st African American Miss America, resigns after Penthouse publishes unauthorized nude photos of her

Careless Whisper

Jul 24 "Careless Whisper" single released by George Michael (credited in US to Wham!) (Billboard Song of the Year 1985)

Jul 25 Cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya becomes 1st woman to walk in space

Jul 27 Montreal Expos 1st baseman Pete Rose collects record 3,503rd career single, passing Ty Cobb, with a hit off former Phillies teammate Steve Carlton at Veteran's Stadium in Philadelphia
Jul 27 West Indies cricket opening batsman Gordon Greenidge smashes 223 in innings & 64 run win over England in 4th Test at Manchester; Windies lead series, 4-0
Jul 28 23rd modern Olympic Games open in Los Angeles
Jul 29 American cyclists Alexi Grewal and Connie Carpenter take out the road race double around the streets of Mission Viejo at the LA Olympics
Jul 29 Canadian Open Women's Golf (du Maurier Classic), St. George's CC: Juli Inkster wins by 1 from Ayako Okamoto of Japan
Jul 30 Alvenus tanker at Cameron Louisiana, spills 2.8 million gallons of oil
Jul 30 Hollie Roffey aged 10 days is the youngest person to ever receive a heart transplant, will survive 28 days
Jul 30 Soap Opera "Santa Barbara" premieres on NBC TV
Jul 31 Leeza Gibbons' first appearance on "Entertainment Tonight"
Jul 31 US men's gymnastics team score emotional upset win over world champion Chinese team in the combined event to take the gold medal at the Los Angeles Olympics
Jul 31 Venezuelan commandos storm a hijacked DC-9 aircraft in Curaçao, retake the plane, kill both hijackers, and rescue all 79 passengers and crew

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