Events in History
- Jul 1 1st international telephone conversation, Calais, Maine to St Stephen, New Brunswick
- Jul 1 General Order 70, the culmination of the Cardwell-Childers reforms of the British Army's organisation, comes into effect
- Jul 1 US Assay Office in St Louis, Missouri opens
Event of Interest
Jul 2 US President James Garfield shot by Charles J. Guiteau a disappointed office-seeker; Garfield dies 79 days later
Event of Interest
Jul 4 Booker T. Washington establishes Tuskegee Institute (Alabama)
Victory in Battle
Jul 20 Sioux Indian Chief Sitting Bull, surrenders to US federal troops
- Jul 26 French marines occupy Tunisian harbor city Sfax
Birthdays in History
- Jul 1 Piet[er] L. Kramer, Influential Dutch architect (Amsterdam School), born in Amsterdam, Netherlands (d. 1961)
- Jul 2 Royal H. Weller, American politician (Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York), born in Manhattan, New York (d. 1929)
- Jul 4 Ulysses S. Grant III, American soldier and planner, born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1968)
- Jul 5 August Hlond, Polish cardinal of the Roman Catholic church, born in Brzęczkowice, German Empire (d. 1948)
- Jul 6 Josef Winckler, German dentist and writer (Quadriga, Pumpernickel), born in Bentlage, Rheine (d. 1966)
- Jul 12 Ludwig Rubiner, German poet and essayist, born in Berlin (d. 1920)
- Jul 19 Friedrich Dessauer, German physicist (radiologist), born in Aschaffenburg, Germany (d. 1963)
- Jul 20 Leon de Smet, Flemish painter
- Jul 26 Alexander J. Kropholler, Dutch architect and writer, born in Amsterdam (d. 1973)
Hans Fischer (1881-1945)
Jul 27 German organic chemist (Nobel Prize for Chemistry 1930), born in Hoechst, Germany
- Jul 30 Smedley Butler, American Marine general, born in West Chester, Pennsylvania (d. 1940)
Deaths in History
Billy the Kid (1859-1881)
Jul 14 American frontier outlaw and gunfighter of the Wild West, shot by sheriff Pat Garrett and dies of gunshot wounds at 21
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