- Jul 2 Horn & Hardart opens its 1st NYC "automat" (self-service restaurant)
Marquard Ties Win-streak Record
Jul 3 NY Giants pitcher Rube Marquard ties Tim Keefe's 1888 MLB record 19 game win-streak with 2-1 win v Brooklyn Dodgers; has 21 with 2 end-of-season in 1911
- Jul 4 Detroit Tiger George Mullen no-hits St Louis Browns, 7-0
Johnson vs Flynn
Jul 4 Jack Johnson beats "Fireman" Jim Flynn by disqualification in 9 in Las Vegas to retain world heavyweight boxing title
Wimbledon Women's Championship
Jul 5 Wimbledon Women's Tennis: English badminton champion Ethel Larcombe wins her first and only major tennis title beating Charlotte Cooper 6-3, 6-1
- Jul 6 Donald Lippincott runs world record 100m (10.6)
- Jul 6 V Summer (Modern) Olympic Games officially open Stockholm, Sweden; events conducted prior to the ceremony dating back to 5 May
Thorpe Wins Pentathlon
Jul 7 American athlete Jim Thorpe wins 4 of 5 events to win the Pentathlon gold medal at the Stockholm Olympics, medal stripped 1913 (played pro baseball), reinstated 1982
- Jul 8 G.E.V. Crutchley playing for Oxford scores 99 not out, retires with measles v Cambridge
Marquard Finally Loses
Jul 8 Giants Rube Marquard loses after winning 21 straight
Wimbledon Men's Championship
Jul 8 Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Anthony Wilding makes it 3 straight Wimbledon singles crowns beating Arthur Gore 6-4, 6-4, 4-6, 6-4
- Jul 10 Hannes Kolehmainen runs world record 5000m (14:36.6)
- Jul 11 There are 6 medallists in the Stockholm Olympic pole vault; American Harry Babcock takes gold (3.95m); countrymen Frank Nelson and Marc Wright dead-heat for silver; 3-man dead-heat for bronze
- Jul 12 1st foreign feature film exhibited in US - "Queen Elizabeth" in NYC
- Jul 14 Kenneth McArthur runs Olympic record marathon (2:36:54.8)
- Jul 15 American athlete Jim Thorpe is placed in top 4 in all 10 events, for an Olympic record 8,413 points to win the Decathlon gold medal at the Stockholm Olympics, medal stripped 1913 (played pro baseball), reinstated 1982
- Jul 15 British National Health Insurance Act goes into effect
- Jul 16 Naval torpedo launched from an airplane patents by B A Fiske
- Jul 17 IAF (Intl Amateur Athletic Federation) forms in Sweden
- Jul 18 Chicago Cubs get 21 hits but lose to Philadelphia Phillies in 11 innings
- Jul 19 A meteorite of estimated 190kg mass explodes over Holbrook in Navajo County, Arizona, causing approximately 16,000 pieces of debris to rain down on the town
- Jul 20 Phillies Sherry Magee steals home twice in 1 game
- Jul 22 In the face of ever-increasing German naval power, the British Admiralty decides to recall British warships from the Mediterranean and base them in the North Sea
- Jul 22 V Summer (Modern) Olympic Games close in Stockholm, Sweden
- Jul 25 Comoros proclaimed a French colonies
- Jul 28 10th Tour de France won by Odile Defraye of Belgium
- Jul 31 US government prohibits movies and photos of prize fights (censorship)
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