Historical Events in July 1919

Jul 4 Jack Dempsey beats champion Jess Willard, retired in 3rd round in Toledo, Ohio for world heavyweight championship

Jul 6 British R-34 lands in NY, 1st airship to cross Atlantic (108 hr)
Jul 7 Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Suzanne Lenglen beats Dorothea Chambers 10-8, 4-6, 9-7 for the first of 6 Wimbledon singles titles
Jul 7 Philadelphia Phillies tie MLB record of 8 steals in an innings (9th) in a 10-5 loss vs NY Giants
Jul 7 Wimbledon Men's Tennis: In the first all-Australian final Gerald Patterson beats Norman Brookes 6-3, 7-5, 6-2

Jul 8 US President Woodrow Wilson returns to NYC from Versailles Peace Conference

Jul 10 Dutch 1st Chamber approves woman suffrage
Jul 10 US President Woodrow Wilson personally delivers Treaty of Versailles to Senate
Jul 11 Dutch 2nd chamber approves 8-hour day and no Sunday work
Jul 13 Race riots in Longview and Gregg counties, Texas
Jul 13 Chicago White Sox pitcher Carl Mays walks off mound blaming teammates for lack of support afield
Jul 17 Finland adopts constitution
Jul 17 Yanks 21 hits, Browns 17 hits Browns win 7-6 in 17, on squeeze play
Jul 19 Following Peace Day celebrations marking the end of World War I, ex-servicemen rioted and burnt down Luton Town Hall.
Jul 21 Anthony Fokker's establishes airplane factory at Hamburg and Amsterdam
Jul 21 Dirigible crashes through bank skylight killing 13 in Chicago, Illinois
Jul 22 De Falla & Massine's "Three-cornered Hat" premieres in London
Jul 24 Race Riot in Washington, D.C. (6 killed, 100 wounded)
Jul 27 Chicago race riot (15 whites & 23 blacks killed, 500 injured)
Jul 27 13th Tour de France won by Firmin Lambot of Belgium
Jul 28 Vrije Vakbewegings Internationale (VVI) forms in Amsterdam
Jul 31 The Weimar Constitution establishing the German Republic is adopted