Historical Events
Light and Air For All – With No Charge!
Jul 24 The long hated Window Tax is abolished in the United Kingdom
Famous Birthdays
- Jul 7 Charles Tindley, American gospel music composer (I'll Overcome Someday), and Methodist minister, born in Berlin, Maryland (d. 1933)
- Jul 7 Lillien Jane Martin, American psychologist who founded the world's 1st gerontology clinic in San Francisco, born in Olean, New York (d. 1943)
- Jul 8 Arthur Evans, English archaeologist (discovered the Minoan palace of Knossos in Crete), born in Nash Mills, England (d. 1941)
- Jul 11 Millie & Christine McCoy, American siamese twins born slaves in Whiteville, North Carolina (d. 1912)
- Jul 15 Eduardo Gutiérrez, Argentinian author (d. 1889)
- Jul 19 Hendrik Jut, Dutch murderer (Head of Jut), born in The Hague, Netherlands (d. 1878)
- Jul 21 Sam Bass, American Old West train robber and outlaw, born in Mitchell, Indiana (d. 1878)
- Jul 23 Charles Bannerman, Australian cricket batsman (3 Tests; first centurion in Test history 165* 1877), born in Woolwich, Kent, England (d. 1930)
- Jul 24 Friedrich Schottky, German mathematician (Schottky's theorem), born in Breslau, Germany (d. 1935)
Famous Deaths
Louis-Jacques Daguerre (1787-1851)
Jul 10 French inventor and photographer (daguerreotype), dies at 63
- Jul 17 Béni Egressy, Hungarian composer, librettist, and actor, dies at 37
