Historical Events
- Jul 1 1st edition of "Amsterdammer" published
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Jul 9 First ever Wimbledon tennis championship begins - first official lawn tennis tournament - men's singles only
- Jul 10 The then villa of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, formally receives its city charter from the Royal Crown of Spain
- Jul 11 Kate Edger becomes New Zealand’s first woman graduate and first woman in the British Empire to earn a Bachelor of Arts
- Jul 14 General strike brings US railroad to a standstill
- Jul 19 1st Wimbledon Men's Tennis: 27-year-old English rackets player Spencer Gore wins inaugural event; beats William Marshall 6-1, 6-2, 6-4
- Jul 19 Russo-Turkish War: First Russian assault on Plevna, Ottoman Empire (now Pleven, Bulgaria) fails; 3,000 Russian and 2,000 Turk casualties
- Jul 20 Great Railroad Strike: Labor issues turn violent as state militia confronts much larger crowd of rail workers and supporters - rocks met with bullets in Baltimore, Maryland; 10 killed and federal troops called in to restore order [1]
- Jul 21 -27] US army breaks railroad strike
- Jul 23 1st telephone and telegraph line in Hawaii completed
- Jul 23 1st US municipal railroad, Cincinnati Southern, begins operations
- Jul 24 1st time federal troops are used to combat strikers
- Jul 31 Russo-Turkish War: Second Russian assault on Plevna, Ottoman Empire (now Pleven, Bulgaria) fails; 7,300 Russian and over 2,000 Turk casualties
Famous Birthdays
Hermann Hesse (1877-1962)
Jul 2 German-Swiss novelist and poet (Steppenwolf, Nobel Prize for Literature 1946), born in Calw, Württemberg, Germany
- Jul 6 David Stanley Smith, American composer (Merrymount), born in Toledo, Ohio (d. 1949)
- Jul 6 Niceto Alcalá-Zamora, 1st Prime Minister of the Second Spanish Republic and President of Spain (1931-36), born in Priego de Cordoba, Spain (d. 1949)
- Jul 8 Elin Pelin [Dimitar Ivanov Stoyanov], Bulgarian writer (The Gerak Family; Earth), born in Bailovo, Ottoman Empire (d. 1949)
- Jul 11 Edwin A. Fleisher, American music patron (founder of the Symphony Club), musicologist (The Fleisher Collection), and philanthropist, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1959) [1]
- Jul 13 Karl Erb, German opera and oratorio tenor, born in Ravensburg, Kingdom of Württemberg (now Germany) (d. 1958)
- Jul 15 Harold Austin, Barbadian cricketer and captain of 1923 West Indies team to England, born in Enmore, St Michael, Barbados (d. 1943)
- Jul 15 Nina Salaman (née Pauline Davis), British Jewish poet, author, translator and suffragette, born in Derby, England (d. 1925)
- Jul 16 Béla Schick, Hungarian-American paediatrician (Schick test), born in Balatonboglár, Hungary (d. 1967)
- Jul 19 Arthur Fielder, English cricket fast bowler (6 Tests 1903-08), born in Plaxtol, Tonbridge, Kent (d. 1949)
- Jul 20 Percy Dean, British naval lieutenant and politician who received the Victoria Cross for saving men during the raid of Zeebrugge, born in Blackburn, Lancashire, England (d. 1939)
- Jul 24 Calogero Vizzini, Sicilian Mafia boss, born in Villalba, Sicily, Italy (d. 1954)
- Jul 27 Ernst von Dohnányi [Dohnányi Ernő], Hungarian composer and conductor, born in Pozsony, Kingdom of Hungary, Austria-Hungary (d. 1960)
- Jul 30 Charles Radoux-Rogier, Belgian composer, born in Liège, Belgium (d. 1952)
Famous Weddings
Alexander Graham Bell
Jul 11 Scientist and inventor Alexander Graham Bell (30) weds Mabel Hubbard (19) at the Hubbard estate in Cambridge, Massachusetts
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Jul 18 Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (37) weds Antonina Miliukova (29) at the Church of Saint George in Moscow, Russia; separate six weeks later, but ever divorce
