What Happened in July 1886

Historical Events

Jul 3 1st NY Tribune printing using 1st commercial linotype machine

Event of Interest

Jul 3 In Germany, Karl Benz drives 1st automobile

Automobile Engineer and Inventor Karl Benz

Jul 4 1st scheduled transcontinental passenger train reaches Port Moody, British Columbia
Jul 6 Horlick's of Wisconsin offers 1st malted milk to public
Jul 10 George Goldie gets charter for Royal Niger Company
Jul 13 Wimbledon Men's Tennis: William Renshaw beats Herbert Lawford for the 3rd straight year 6-0, 5-7, 6-3, 6-4 for his 6th consecutive Wimbledon championship

Wimbledon Women's Tennis

Jul 17 Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Blanche Bingley defeats 2-time defending champion Maud Watson 6–3, 6-3

Jul 23 American civilian Steve Brodie allegedly survives plunge from Brooklyn Bridge (135-feet)
Jul 24 China takes British protectorate of Burma

Event of Interest

Jul 28 British government led by Lord Salisbury forms

British Prime Minister Robert Gascoyne-Cecil

Events in 1886

Famous Birthdays

Jul 3 Raymond A Spruance, U.S. Navy admiral (Battle of Midway), born in Baltimore, Maryland (d. 1969)
Jul 4 Heinrich Kaminski, German composer, born in Tiengen, Schwarzwald, Germany (d. 1946)
Jul 5 Felix Timmermans, Flemish painter and illustrator (Pallieter), born in Lier, Belgium (d. 1947)

Nathaniel Niles (1886-1932)

Jul 5 American tennis player (US Open mixed doubles 1908; US Open men's singles 1917 runner-up) and figure skater (US C'ship gold singles 1918, 25, 27), born in Boston, Massachusetts

Jul 5 Willem Drees, Dutch statesman of the Labour Party (PvdA) and Prime Minister of the Netherlands, born in Amsterdam (d. 1988)
Jul 7 Carlo Perrier, Italian mineralogist and chemist who co-discovered the element technetium, born in Turin, Kingdom of Italy (d. 1948)
Jul 10 John Vereker, British-Irish aristocrat (6th Viscount Gort), decorated military officer (WWI, WW2), and administrator (Governor of Malta, 1942-44; High Commissioner of British Mandate of Palestine, 1944-45), born in London, England (d. 1946)
Jul 11 Boris Grigoriev, Russian painter (d. 1939)
Jul 12 Jean Hersholt, Danish actor (Heidi, Greed, Men in White, Aryan), born in Copenhagen, Denmark (d. 1956)
Jul 15 Harry Green, English athlete (WR marathon 2:38:16.2 1913), born in Islington, Greater London, England (d. 1934)
Jul 18 Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr, American lieutenant general of the 10th Army who was killed in action during the Battle of Okinawa, born in Munfordville, Kentucky (d. 1945)
Jul 23 Arthur Whitten Brown, British aviator (first nonstop airplane crossing of the Atlantic with John W. Alcock), born in Glasgow, Scotland (d. 1948)
Jul 23 Jan Poortenaar, Dutch painter, etcher and cartoonist, born in Amsterdam (d. 1958)
Jul 23 Salvador de Madariaga y Rojo, Spanish writer (Englishmen, Frenchmen, Spaniards) and diplomat, born in La Coruña, Spain (d. 1978)
Jul 23 Walter H. Schottky, German physicist (Thermodynamik), born in Zürich, Switzerland (d. 1976)
Jul 24 Junichiro Tanizaki, Japanese writer (Snow Dusting), born in Nihonbashi, Tokyo (d. 1965)
Jul 26 Lars Hanson, Swedish actor (Flesh & Devil), born in Gothenburg, Sweden (d. 1965)
Jul 27 Ernst May, German architect and city planner (New Frankfurt), born in Frankfurt am Main (d. 1970)
Jul 30 Algot Haquinius, Swedish pianist, and composer, born in Sveg, Sweden (d. 1966)
Jul 31 Constant Permeke, Flemish painter and statues artist (Sow), born in Antwerp, Belgium (d. 1952)
Jul 31 Fred Quimby, American film producer (Tom and Jerry), born in Minneapolis, Minnesota (d. 1965)
Jul 31 Larry Doyle, American baseball second baseman (NL MVP 1912, NL batting champion 1915; NY Giants), born in Caseyville, Illinois (d. 1974)
Jul 31 Salvatore Maranzano, Sicilian-born American organized crime figure, born in Sicily, Italy (d. 1931)

Born in 1886

Famous Deaths

Jul 4 Pitikwahanapiwiyin [Poundmaker], Plains Cree chief (wrongly imprisoned for treason), dies at about 44 [1]
Jul 5 Hendrik Gerhard, Dutch tailor, workers' rights activist (founder - Dutch Chapter of International Workingmen's Association), and "father of socialism in the Netherland " (Chairman of Dutch Social-Democratic (SDB) political party), dies at 57
Jul 5 Henry Gerhard, founder (Social-Democratic Union), dies at 57
Jul 12 Ferdinand Berthier, French deaf educator (founder of the Société Centrale des Sourds-muets), dies at 82
Jul 16 Ned Buntline [Edward Zane Carroll Judson], author, dies
Jul 29 Adolf Muller Sr., Austrian composer of operettas, dies at 84
Jul 29 Solomon Gazfried, Ukrainian rabbi and author (Kitzur Shulchan Aruch), dies (b. 1804)