“Baby" closes at Barrymore Theater NYC after 241 performances

      Amy Alcott wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open

      Royals pitcher Paul Splittorff, retires

      The PG-13 rating is introduced by the MPA 

July 3

       Derek Underwood's maiden FC century after 22 yrs of trying -(if anyone can help explain this or correct ....email me)  All I can find is the FC stands for Future Century and Derek Underwood was  famous British Cricketeer. 

At another Cricket event, Greenidge scores brilliant 214 off 241 balls to win Lord's Test

Dolphin rocket launched off San Clemente Island.  Starstruck (formerly ARC Technology, a predecessor to AMROC) developed the hybrid fueled (polybutadiene and liquid oxygen) Dolphin. It was launched from a floating launch cannister at sea. Dolphin was to serve as a low-cost commercial sounding rocket.

Only one suborbital flight was conducted. The rocket, which was to reach 2400 m failed due to a thrust vectoring problem at a height of only 700 m.

The project ran out of money, as it was backed entirely with private funds, which did not suffice for further development.

       Supreme Court rules Jaycees may be forced to admit women as members

4^th of July

       Funeral for S Nakagawa & burial half his ashes next to N Senzaki. 

Sōen Nakagawa (中川 宋淵^?, Nakagawa Sōen, born Motoi Nakagawa; March 19, 1907 – 1984) was a Taiwanese-born Japanese rōshi and Zen Buddhist master in the Rinzai tradition. An enigmatic figure, Nakagawa had a major impact on Zen as it was practiced in the 20th century, both in Japan and abroad.        Photo By Adam Genkaku Fisher - http://www.blackmoonzendo.com/2.shtml, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3693391

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       Kallicharran gets 206 & 6-32 in a NatWest Trophy cricket game

       NY Yankee Phil Niekro is 9th to strikeout 3,000

       Yuri Sedykh of USSR throws hammer a record 86.33 m

July 5

       Supreme Court weakens 70-year-old "exclusionary rule"-evidence seized with defective court warrants can now be used in criminal trials

July 7

    5 die in a train crash in Williston, Vermont

    91st Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Martina Navratilova beats Chris Evert (76 62)

July 7-August 10   Billboad’s #1 is “When the Doves Cry” by Prince

see music video on the Top Ten for July page 

July 8

       98th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: John McEnroe beats Jimmy Connors (6-1 6-1 6-2)

       Lauri Peterson wins LPGA Jamie Farr Toledo Golf Classic

July 9

       12th Century York Minster damaged in lightning storm

       Yvonne Ryding of Sweden crowned 33rd Miss Universe

July 11

       55th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 3-1 at Candlestick Park, SF

       All star MVP: Gary Carter (Mont Expos) awarded for 2nd time

       Britain's MusicBox TV begins satellite transmission to Europe

       Lucas Mangope re-elected president of Bophuthatswana

Government orders air bags or seat belts would be required in cars by 1989  

July 12

       Geraldine Ferraro, NY becomes 1st woman major-party VP candidate

       A car bomb set off by the military wing of the ANC, explodes in Durban South Africa killing 5 and injuring 27 people.  Unforunately, over the decades, there have been too many of this type of events and photos are not dated. Very sad

July 13

       Jeff Beck quits Rod Stewart's tour after 7 shows

       Eddie Van Halen joins in, in a Jacksons concert 

       The last sitting of an all-white Parliament in South Africa

             Sergei Bubka of USSR pole vaults a record 5.89 m 

July 14

       USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR

July 15

       39th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Hollis Stacy

       John Lennon's "I'm Stepping Out" released posthumously. 'I'm Stepping Out' written and performed by John Lennon from the album 'Milk And Honey' 1984.
Although it was the first song to be recorded during the Double Fantasy sessions in 1980,I’m Stepping Out wasn’t released until 1984.John wrote the song in Bermuda in June 1980. 

July 17

       Pierre Mauroy resigns as premier of France

       Soyuz T-12 carries 3 cosmonauts to space station Salyut 7

       US passes National Minimum Drinking Age Act, prohibiting under 21's from buying or possessing alcohol as a condition of receiving State highway funds

July 18

       Walter F Mondale wins Democratic presidential nomination in SF

       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

July 19

       Lynn Rippelmeyer is the first female to captain a 747 across Atlantic

       1984 Llŷn Peninsula earthquake. The largest instrumentally recorded inland earthquake ever to take place in The British Isles is felt in Ireland and each of the four British nations.

July 20

       Uwe Hohn of East Germany throws javelin a record 104.8 m

       Vanessa Williams is asked to resign as Miss America

July 21

       Marita Koch of E Germany sets world women's mark for 200m, 21.71s.   Note this video clip is for Aug 1984 but show how fast Marita Koch is.     

       USSR performs more underground nuclear Tests. 

July 22

       113th British Golf Open: Seve Ballesteros shoots a 276 at St Andrew

       22nd Tennis Fed Cup: Czech beats Australia in Sao Paulo Brazil (2-1)

       Kathy Whitworth wins Rochester Golf International (her 85th win)

       71st Tour de France won by Laurent Fignon of France

July 23

       KC Royals Dan Quisenberry gets his 200th career save

       Suzette Charles (NJ), 21, replaces Williams as 57th Miss America 1984. Vanessa Williams, 1st African American Miss America, resigns due to posing nude

July 25

       Cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya becomes 1st woman to walk in space

July 26 & 27

      Expos on July 26  Pete Rose ties Ty Cobb with his 3,052nd single

      The next day on July 27 Reds' Pete Rose collects record 3,053rd career single (vs Philadelphia)

July 28 – August 12

      23rd modern Olympic games opens in Los Angeles

There is a very good Olympic Opening Ceremony Highligh clip on Youtube. Unforunately I'm not allow to repost it directly.  I recommend checking it out!       (You will have to copy and paste to see it) 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcWF96wSjGM

July 30

      Alvenus tanker at Cameron, Louisiana, spills 2.8 million gallons of oil

      Holly Roffey aged 11 days is the youngest ever to receive a heart transplant

      Soap Opera "Santa Barbara" premieres on NBC TV

July 31

      Leeza Gibbon's 1st appearance on Entertainment Tonight

      US men's gymnastics team won team gold medal at LA Summer Olympics

            Paul Le Flem, composer, dies at 103