Historical Events
Henry Ossian Flipper Enters West Point
Jul 1 Henry Ossian Flipper of Georgia enters West Point Military Academy - later the first African American to graduate
- Jul 1 Prince Edward Island becomes 7th Canadian province
- Jul 4 Aquarium opens in Woodward Gardens, San Francisco
Event of Interest
Jul 10 French poet Paul Verlaine (29) in a drunken, jealous rage, wounds protégé Arthur Rimbaud (18) with pistol, and gets sentenced to 2 years in jail
Event of Interest
Jul 21 Jesse James and James Younger gang's 1st train robbery at Adair, Iowa
Famous Birthdays
- Jul 1 Alice Guy-Blaché, French film director who was the first woman to direct a film (The Fairy of the Cabbages), born in Paris (d. 1968)
- Jul 19 Louis Zimmermann, Dutch violinist (1st concert master of Amsterdam Symphony), composer, and educator, born in Groningen, Netherlands (d. 1954)
- Jul 20 Alberto Santos-Dumont, Brazilian balloonist, airship builder, and aviator (1st plane flight in Europe), born in Palmira, Empire of Brazil (d. 1932)
- Jul 20 Witold Maliszewski, Polish composer (founder and first director of Odessa Conservatory), born in Mohyliv-Podilskyi, Russian Empire (now Ukraine) (d. 1939)
- Jul 22 Ettore Pozzoli, Italian composer and pianist, born in Seregno, Kingdom of Italy (d. 1957)
Famous Deaths
- Jul 3 Josef Michal Poniatowski, Polish composer, dies at 57
- Jul 4 Józef Michał Poniatowski [Giuseppe Michele Luci], Poilsh-Italian-French nobleman, diplomat, operatic tenor, and composer, dies at 58
- Jul 5 John Robertson, American politician, dies at 87
- Jul 14 Ferdinand David, German violinist and composer (Hohe Schule des Violinspiels), dies at 63
- Jul 19 Samuel Wilberforce, English bishop and one of the greatest public speakers of his day (remembered for his opposition to Darwin's theory of evolution), dies at 67
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