Events in History
- Jul 2 Horn & Hardart opens its 1st NYC "automat" (self-service restaurant)
- Jul 4 Detroit Tiger George Mullen no-hits St Louis Browns, 7-0
- Jul 8 G.E.V. Crutchley playing for Oxford scores 99 not out, retires with measles v Cambridge
- Jul 10 Hannes Kolehmainen runs world record 5000m (14:36.6)
- Jul 12 1st foreign feature film exhibited in US - "Queen Elizabeth" in NYC
- Jul 15 British National Health Insurance Act goes into effect
- Jul 16 Naval torpedo launched from an airplane patents by B A Fiske
- Jul 17 IAF (Intl Amateur Athletic Federation) forms in Sweden
- Jul 19 A meteorite of estimated 190kg mass explodes over Holbrook in Navajo County, Arizona, causing approximately 16,000 pieces of debris to rain down on the town
- Jul 22 In the face of ever-increasing German naval power, the British Admiralty decides to recall British warships from the Mediterranean and base them in the North Sea
- Jul 25 Comoros proclaimed a French colonies
Birthdays in History
- Jul 1 Ahmad Hassan al-Bakr, Iraqi fieldmarshal and President of Iraq (1968-79), born in Tikrit, Ottoman Empire (d. 1982)
- Jul 1 David Brower, American environmentalist and president (Sierra Club), born in Berkeley, California (d. 2000)
- Jul 1 Sally Kirkland, American fashion editor (Vogue magazine) and manager (Lord & Taylor), born in El Reno, Canadian County, Oklahoma (d. 1989)
- Jul 3 Edward Jones, Northern Irish lord justice of appeals (d. 1993)
- Jul 6 Heinrich Harrer, Austrian mountaineer and author (Seven Years in Tibet), born in Hüttenberg, Austria-Hungary (d. 2006)
- Jul 10 Francis Showering, English brewer, born in Shepton Mallet, Somerset, England (d. 1995)
- Jul 12 Brodrick Haldane, Scottish photographer, born in Edinburgh (d. 1996)
- Jul 14 Northrop Frye, Canadian literary critic (d. 1991)
- Jul 18 Harry Levin, American literary scholar, born in Minneapolis, Minnesota (d. 1994)
- Jul 18 Henry Louis Miller, American Rear Admiral (WW II-Pacific), born in Fairbanks, Alaska (d. 1993)
- Jul 19 Norman Carr, British conservationist working in Central and Southern Africa, born in Chinde, Portuguese East Africa (d. 1997)
- Jul 20 George Johnston, Australian journalist and novelist (d. 1970)
- Jul 20 John Vivian Dacie, English haematologist (discovered haemophilia B), born in London, England (d. 2005)
- Jul 27 Hilde Domin [Hilde Palm], German writer and poet, born in Cologne (d. 2006)
Milton Friedman (1912-2006)
Jul 31 American economist (Nobel Prize Economics 1976), born in Brooklyn, New York
Deaths in History
Harriet Quimby (1875-1912)
Jul 1 American pioneering aviator, 1st woman in the US to receive a pilot certificate and to cross the English Channel, dies in a plane crash at 37 after her biplane unexpectedly pitched forward and threw her and her passenger to their deaths [1]
- Jul 3 Robert Hoke, American Major General (Confederate Army), dies at 75
- Jul 17 Henri Poincaré, French mathematician (Poincaré conjecture), dies at 58
- Jul 20 Andrew Lang, Scottish poet, novelist, literary critic, and anthropologist (Andrew Lang's Fairy Books), dies at 68
- Jul 30 Emperor Meiji [Mutsuhito], 122nd emperor of Japan (1867-1912), dies at 60
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