Historical Events
- Jul 9 Temperature hits 115°F in Fort Scott and 112°F in Topeka, Kansas
- Jul 19 1st railroad reaches Kansas
- Jul 24 Olympics beat St. George, 25-17 at St. Georges Cricket Grounds, Philadelphia in first baseball game played in enclosed field
- Jul 25 1st US intercollegiate billiard match (Harvard vs Yale)
Famous Birthdays
- Jul 3 Charlotte Perkins Gilman, American feminist, writer and lecturer for social reform, born in Hartford, Connecticut (d. 1935)
- Jul 3 William Wallace, Scottish composer, born in Greenock, Scotland (d. 1940)
- Jul 5 Robert Bacon, American politician (39th United States Secretary of State), born in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts (d. 1919)
Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)
Jul 7 Austrian composer (Symphony No. 2 - "Resurrection"), and conductor (New York Philharmonic, 1909-11), born in Kalischat, Bohemia (now Austria)
Lizzie Borden (1860-1927)
Jul 19 American woman acquitted of the murder of her parents (gave her mother forty whacks), born in Fall River, Massachusetts
- Jul 24 Alphonse Mucha, Czech Nouveau painter and artist, born in Ivančice, Margraviate of Moravia, Austrian Empire (now Czech Republic) (d. 1939)
- Jul 25 Princess Louise Margaret, Duchess of Connaught, born in Potsdam, Kingdom of Prussia (d. 1917)
- Jul 26 Philippe J Bunau-Varilla, French engineer (Colombia-Panama), born in Paris (d. 1940)
- Jul 28 Elias M. Ammons, governor of Colorado, born in Macon County, North Carolina (d. 1925)
- Jul 28 Grand Duchess Anastasia Mikhailovna of Russia, born in Peterhof Palace, Empire of Russia (d. 1922)
- Jul 31 Mary Vaux Walcott, American artist and naturalist, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1940)
Famous Deaths
Charles Goodyear (1800-1860)
Jul 1 American chemist and manufacturing engineer who invented the vulcanization process for rubber, dies at 59
