Historical Events
The Day an Alligator Fell from the Sky
Jul 2 An alligator falls from sky during a thunderstorm in Charleston, South Carolina
- Jul 5 Committee of 9 appointed to establish civil government in Oregon Country
Event of Interest
Jul 12 Mormon leader Joseph Smith says God allows polygamy
SS Great Britain
Jul 19 The steamship SS Great Britain is launched, designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, is the first ocean-going craft with an iron hull or screw propeller and the largest vessel afloat in the world
Famous Birthdays
- Jul 5 Mandell Creighton, British historian and a bishop of the Church of England, born in Carlisle, Cumbria, England (d. 1901)
Camillo Golgi (1843-1926)
Jul 7 Italian physician and medical researcher (Nobel Prize in Medicine-1906), born in Corteno, Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia, Austrian Empire
Famous Deaths
- Jul 2 Samuel Hahnemann, German physician, originator of homeopathy, dies at 88
- Jul 9 Washington Allston, American painter (pioneer of America's Romantic movement of landscape painting) and author, dies at 63
- Jul 16 Hubert Matthijs Adriaan Jan van Asch van Wijck, Dutch lawyer and politician (Mayor of Utrecht,1827-1839), dies at 68
- Jul 25 Charles Macintosh, Scottish chemist and inventor (b. 1766)
