Historical Events
- Jul 3 American boxer Marvin Hart scores a 12th round KO of Jack Root in Reno, Nevada for the vacant world heavyweight title
- Jul 3 Kuyper government forms in Holland
Election of Interest
Jul 6 Alfred Deakin becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the second time
- Jul 7 127°F (53°C), Parker, Arizona (state record until 1994)
Event of Interest
Jul 7 Elihu Root joins the cabinet of President Theodore Roosevelt, serving as United States Secretary of State
- Jul 8 Part of Angel Island in San Francisco Bay allocated for Immigration Detention Center
- Jul 8 The soldiers of the Russian battleship "Potemkin" who mutinied, surrender to Romanian authorities, who turn ship over to Russian authorities soon after
Wimbledon Men's Tennis
Jul 8 Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Home town favourite Laurence Doherty wins his 4th consecutive Wimbledon singles title; beats Norman Brookes of Australia 8-6 6-2 6-4
- Jul 8 Wimbledon Women's Tennis: May Sutton becomes first American player to win the singles title at Wimbledon; beats Dorothea Chambers 6-3, 6-4
Event of Interest
Jul 10 Dutch Queen Wilhelmina opens Technical Hague court
Event of Interest
Jul 11 Black intellectuals and activists led by W.E.B. Du Bois organize the civil rights Niagara Movement
- Jul 12 The British and Japanese renew their alliance (of January 1902) for 10 years and agree to provide mutual support if attacked by other power
- Jul 19 Llamas war party attacks group of 60, fleeing French mission at Tzekou, (Chinese-Tibetan border) murdering most with Scottish botanist George Forrest escaping by hiding for nine days [1]
- Jul 22 Philadelphia Athletic's Weldon Henley no-hits St Louis Browns, 6-0
- Jul 24 International Lawn Tennis Challenge, Wimbledon: Laurence Doherty & Reggie Doherty beat Holcombe Ward & Beals Wright 8-10, 6-2, 6-2, 4-6, 8-6 to give British Isles an unassailable 3-0 lead over US (ends 5-0)
Björkö Treaty
Jul 24 Tsar Nicholas II (Russia) and Emperor Wilhelm II (Germany) sign the Björkö Treaty, whereby each country agrees to come to the other's defense if attacked by European powers
Taft-Katsura Agreement
Jul 29 US Secretary of War William Howard Taft makes secret agreement with Japanese Prime Minister Katsura agreeing to Japanese free rein in Korea in return for non-interference with the US in the Philippines
Famous Birthdays
Margaret McFarland (1905-1988)
Jul 3 American child psychologist (Mister Rogers' Neighborhood), born in Oakdale, Pennsylvania
- Jul 4 Dante Fiorillo, American composer, born in New York City (d. 1970)
- Jul 4 Irving Johnson, American sail training pioneer and adventurer, born in Hadley, Massachusetts (d. 1991)
- Jul 4 Lionel Trilling, American literary critic and author (1969 Poses Award, The Liberal Imagination), born in New York City (d. 1975)
- Jul 5 Isa Miranda [Ines Sampietro], Italian model and actress (La Ronde), born in Bergamo, Kingdom of Italy (d. 1982)
- Jul 5 Jock "Herbie" Cameron, South African cricket wicketkeeper and captain (26 Tests; 51 dismissals, 10 x 50; Eastern Province, Transvaal, Western Province), born in Port Elizabeth, South Africa (d. 1935)
- Jul 7 Marcel Rubin, Austrian composer, born in Vienna, Austria (d. 1995)
- Jul 8 Leonid Amalrik, Russian animator (d. 1997)
Clarence Campbell (1905-1984)
Jul 9 Canadian ice hockey executive (President NHL 1946-77), born in Fleming, Saskatchewan
- Jul 9 Myles Horton, American educator and Civil Rights Movement teacher, born in Savannah, Tennessee (d. 1990)
- Jul 10 Thomas Gomez, American actor (Force of Evil; Key Largo; Kim; Sellout), born in New York City (d. 1971)
- Jul 10 Wolfram Sievers, German Nazi physician (convicted of war crimes for atrocities while director of the SS), born in Hildesheim, Germany (d. 1948)
- Jul 12 Prince John of the United Kingdom, youngest son of English King George V, born in York Cottage, Sandringham (d. 1919)
- Jul 13 Alfredo M. Santos, First Four-star General of the Armed Forces of the Philippines, World War II hero (d. 1990)
- Jul 17 Bill Gargan, American actor (The Bells of St. Mary's; You Only Live Once), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1979)
- Jul 19 Boyd Neel, English conductor (Story of an Orchestra), born in Blackheath, London (d. 1981)
- Jul 19 Edgar Snow, American author and journalist (Red star over China), born in Kansas City, Missouri (d. 1972)
- Jul 19 Louis Kentner, Hungarian-British pianist and composer, born in Karviná, Austrian Silesia (d. 1987)
- Jul 20 Molly Keane, Irish writer, and playwright, born in Newbridge, Ireland (d. 1996)
- Jul 21 Diana Trilling, American critic and writer (d. 1996)
- Jul 22 Doc Cramer, American baseball player (d. 1990)
- Jul 23 Erich Itor Kahn, German composer of Jewish descent, born in Rimbach, Odenwald, German Empire (d. 1956)
- Jul 25 Denys Watkins-Pitchford, British writer and illustrator (The Little Grey Men), born in Lamport, Northamptonshire (d. 1990)
- Jul 25 Elias Canetti, Bulgarian-British author (Crowds and Power) and winner of the 1981 Nobel Prize for Literature, born in Ruse, Bulgaria (d. 1994)
- Jul 27 Robert L. May, American advertising copy writer and creator of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, born in Arverne, New York (d. 1976)
Clara Bow (1905-1965)
Jul 29 American silent screen actress (It, Saturday Night Kid), born in Brooklyn, New York
Dag Hammarskjöld (1905-1961)
Jul 29 Swedish public servant, 2nd Secretary-General of the United Nations (1953-61) and posthumous Nobel Peace Prize winner (1961), born in Jönköping, Sweden
Famous Deaths
- Jul 4 Élisée Reclus, French anarchist (b. 1830)
- Jul 5 Carel Victor Gerritsen, Dutch politician and free thinker (husband of suffragette Aletta Jacobs), dies at 55
- Jul 8 Walter Kittredge, American musician during American Civil War, dies at 70
- Jul 16 Bryan Morel Thomas, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies at 69
- Jul 23 Jean-Jacques Henner, French painter, dies at 76
- Jul 27 Robert Bullock, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies at 76
