Historical Events
- Jul 1 1st US kidnapping for ransom, 4-year-old Charles Ross, $20,000
- Jul 1 1st zoo in the United States opens in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Jul 1 Dutch 1st Chamber accepts law governing child labor in factories
- Jul 4 Social Democratic Workmen's Party of North America formed
- Jul 7 27th Postmaster General: James W Marshall of NJ takes office
- Jul 8 The Mounties (North West Mounted Police) begin their March West from Fort Dufferin
- Jul 12 Ontario Agricultural College founded
- Jul 23 Aires de Ornelas e Vasconcelos is appointed the Archbishop of the Portuguese colonial enclave of Goa
- Jul 29 Major Walter Copton Wingfield patents a portable tennis court
- Jul 30 1st baseball teams to play outside US, Boston-Philadelphia in British Isles
- Jul 31 Patrick Francis Healy, SJ, inaugurated as President of Georgetown University
Famous Birthdays
Eugen Fischer (1874-1967)
Jul 5 Nazi physician (Kaiser Wilhelm Institute), born in Karlsruhe, Grand Duchy of Baden, Germany
- Jul 5 Gerhard von Keussler, German composer, born in Gulbene, Latvia (d. 1949)
- Jul 7 Erwin Bumke, German jurist (d. 1945)
- Jul 10 Sergey Konenkov, Russian sculptor, born in Verkhniye Karakovichi, Russia (d. 1971)
- Jul 14 Abbas Hilmi II, last khedive (Ottoman viceroy) of Egypt (1892-1914), born in Alexandria, Egypt (d. 1944)
- Jul 14 Andre-Louis Debierne, French chemist and physicist (discoverer of actinium element, worked with Marie Curie), born in Paris, France (d. 1949)
- Jul 24 Oswald Chambers, Scottish Baptist and Holiness Movement minister and writer (My Utmost for His Highest), born in Aberdeen, Scotland (d. 1917)
- Jul 25 Sergey Vasilyevich Lebedev, Russian Chemist who invented the first commercially viable and mass-produced synthetic rubber, born in Lublin, Poland (d. 1934)
- Jul 26 Serge Koussevitzky, Russian-American conductor (Boston Symphony, 1924-49), born in Vyshny Volochyok, Russia (d. 1951)
- Jul 28 Ernst Cassirer, German philosopher and educator (Essay on Man), born in Silesia, Prussia (d. 1945)
- Jul 29 August Stramm, German poet and playwright, born in Cathedrals (d. 1915)
- Jul 29 James Shaver Woodsworth, Canadian politician (d. 1942)
- Jul 31 Clarence Kolb, American actor and performer, born in Cleveland, Ohio (d. 1964)
