Events in History
- Jul 1 1st x-ray photo of entire body, taken by Arthur Fuchs of Eastman-Kodak Company in Rochester, New York
- Jul 1 Brookfield Zoo opens in Chicago, Illinois
Historic Invention
Jul 4 Hungarian physicist Leo Szilard patents the chain-reaction design for the atomic bomb
- Jul 4 Jordanians revolt in Amsterdam after reduction in employment
- Jul 5 "Bloody Thursday" - Police open fire on striking longshoremen in San Francisco
Historic Event
Jul 9 SS-Reichsfuehrer Heinrich Himmler takes command of German Concentration Camps
- Jul 11 FDR became 1st US President to travel through Panama Canal
- Jul 12 US Disciplinary Barracks on Alcatraz Island abandoned
- Jul 14 116°F (47°C), Orogrande, New Mexico (state record, broken on June 27, 1994)
- Jul 15 Continental Airlines commences operations.
- Jul 20 118°F (48°C), Keokuk, Iowa (state record)
- Jul 21 113°F (45°C), near Gallipolis, Ohio (state record)
Historic Event
Jul 22 Outside Chicago's Biograph Theatre, "Public Enemy No. 1" John Dillinger is mortally wounded by FBI agents
Birthdays in History
Michael Graves (1934-2015)
Jul 9 American postmodernist architect and designer, born in Indianapolis, Indiana
- Jul 10 Jerry Nelson, American puppeteer, born in Tulsa, Oklahoma (d. 2012)
Giorgio Armani (88 years old)
Jul 11 Italian fashion designer (American Gigolo), born in Piacenza, Italy
- Jul 13 Aleksei Stanislavovich Yeliseyev, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 5, 8, 10)
Wole Soyinka (88 years old)
Jul 13 Nigerian playwright and poet (Road, Kongi's Harvest-Nobel 1986), born in Abeokuta, near Ibadan, Nigeria
- Jul 14 Leo Koury, American murderer (FBI Most Wanted List), born in Pittburgh, Pennsylvania (d. 1991)
- Jul 14 Trevor Fancutt, South African tennis player (Australian C'ships mixed doubles [Jan Lehane]), born in Kokstad, South Africa (d. 2022)
- Jul 15 Simon Gournlay, president (British National Farmer's Union)
- Jul 16 Donald Payne, New Jersey Congressman (1989-2012), born in Newark, New Jersey (d. 2012)
- Jul 17 Lucio Tan, Chinese Filipino businessman (Philippine Airlines), in Amoy China
- Jul 17 Rainer Kisch, German writer, born in Döbeln
- Jul 19 Francisco Sá Carneiro, 109th Prime Minister of Portugal, born in Porto, Portugal (d. 1980)
- Jul 20 Ralph C RInzler, folklorist (Greenbriar Boys)
- Jul 20 Uwe Johnson, German writer
- Jul 21 Edolphus Towns, American politician (Rep-D-New York, 1983-2013), born in Chadbourn, North Carolina
- Jul 23 Nicholas Barrington, British high commissioner (Pakistan) and author (A passage to Nuristan: exploring the mysterious Afghan hinterland)
- Jul 24 Sante Kimes, American convicted con artist and murderess
- Jul 24 Thomas Ambler, CEO (Texaco)
- Jul 27 John Pardoe, British businessman and CEO (Sight & Sound Education) and Liberal Party politician
- Jul 28 Norman D. Shumway, American politician (Rep-R-California, 1979-91), born in Phoenix, Arizona
Deaths in History
Marie Curie (1867-1934)
Jul 4 Polish-French scientist who discovered radium and the 1st woman to win a Nobel Prize (1903, 1911), dies at 66
Kate Sheppard (1847-1934)
Jul 13 New Zealand suffragette and the most prominent member of New Zealand's women's suffrage movement, dies at 87
John Dillinger (1903-1934)
Jul 22 Notorious American bank robber, shot dead at 31 by federal agents at the Biograph Theater in Chicago
- Jul 24 Hans Hahn, Austrian mathematician, dies at 54
- Jul 25 Engelbert Dollfuss, Austrian Fascist chancellor, assassinated by Nazis at 41
- Jul 25 François Coty, French perfume manufacturer, dies at 60
- Jul 25 Nestor Makhno, Ukrainian anarchist Insurrectionary leader, dies at 45
- Jul 26 Winsor McCay, American cartoonist (Little Nemo), dies at 63
- Jul 27 Louis HG Lyautey, French minister of Defense (1916-17), dies at 79