- Jul 1 Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Arthur Gore beats defending 4-time champion R.F. Doherty 4-6, 7-5, 6-4, 6-4 for his 1st of 3 Wimbledon singles titles
Butch and Sundance Rob Train
Jul 2 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid rob train of $40,000 at Wagner, Montana
Wimbledon Women's Championship
Jul 3 Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Charlotte Cooper Sterry beats Blanche Bingley-Hillyard 6-2 6-2, her 4th of 5 Wimbledon singles titles
1st Governor-General of the Philippines
Jul 4 Former US Federal judge William Howard Taft is installed as the 1st Governor-General of the Philippines, declares an amnesty for all insurgents who take an oath of allegiance
- Jul 12 In Germany a group of 104 aristocrats present a deceleration against dueling, though the tradition will go on
- Jul 12 Striking Canadian salmon fishermen on the Pacific coast, resentful of the non-union Japanese who continue to fish, maroon and imprison 47
- Jul 15 NY Giant Christy Mathewson no-hits St Louis, 5-0
- Jul 16 The Fawcett Commission headed by Millicent Fawcett is established as a result of an outcry against the treatment of Afrikaners in concentration camps during the South African War
- Jul 20 Morocco signs an agreement with France fixing Morocco's frontier with Algeria, a French colony
- Jul 22 British House of Lords, in its role as court, rules trade unions can be sued for actions of its members - in Taff Vale Case
- Jul 22 Serbia reactivates diplomatic relations with Montenegro
O. Henry Released from Prison
Jul 24 Writer O. Henry is released from prison in Austin, Texas after serving three years for embezzlement from a bank
- Jul 25 Emily Hobhouse addresses public meetings in Britain on the concentration camps during the South African War
Dutch History
Jul 31 Abraham Kuyper becomes premier of Netherlands
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