- Jul 1 1st edition of "Amsterdammer" published
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Jul 9 First ever Wimbledon tennis championship begins - first official lawn tennis tournament - men's singles only
- Jul 10 The then villa of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, formally receives its city charter from the Royal Crown of Spain
- Jul 11 Kate Edger becomes New Zealand’s first woman graduate and first woman in the British Empire to earn a Bachelor of Arts
- Jul 14 General strike brings US railroad to a standstill
- Jul 19 1st Wimbledon Men's Tennis: 27-year-old English rackets player Spencer Gore wins inaugural event; beats William Marshall 6-1, 6-2, 6-4
- Jul 19 Russo-Turkish War: First Russian assault on Plevna, Ottoman Empire (now Pleven, Bulgaria) fails; 3,000 Russian and 2,000 Turk casualties
- Jul 20 Great Railroad Strike: Labor issues turn violent as state militia confronts much larger crowd of rail workers and supporters - rocks met with bullets in Baltimore, Maryland; 10 killed and federal troops called in to restore order [1]
- Jul 21 -27] US army breaks railroad strike
- Jul 23 1st telephone and telegraph line in Hawaii completed
- Jul 23 1st US municipal railroad, Cincinnati Southern, begins operations
- Jul 24 1st time federal troops are used to combat strikers
- Jul 31 Russo-Turkish War: Second Russian assault on Plevna, Ottoman Empire (now Pleven, Bulgaria) fails; 7,300 Russian and over 2,000 Turk casualties
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