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1865 The Salvation Army was started by William Booth with a revival meeting in East London |
July 3 |
1938 LNER's steam locomotive The Mallard achieved a record speed of 126mph 1899 Captain Joshua Slocum completed the first solo circumnavigation of the world |
| July 4 |
1862 Lewis Carroll first recounted Alice's Adventures in Wonderland whilst on a picnic with Lorina, Alice, and Edith Liddell |
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| July 7 |
2002 Argentinean David Nalbandian became the first player in the Open era to reach the final of Wimbledon men's singles at the first attempt 1985 Boris Becker became the first German, the first unseeded and, at 17, the youngest ever player to win the men's singles at Wimbledon |
| July 8 |
1978 Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler made the first ascent of Everest without the use of oxygen 1942 Cary Grant married the Woolworth heiress Barbara Hutton 1889 The American John L Sullivan won the last bare knuckle heavyweight world boxing title |
| July 9 |
1900 Charlotte Cooper, representing Great Britain, became the first woman to win an Olympic gold medal when she won the tennis singles final |
| July 10 |
1962 Telstar I, the world's first television telecommunications satellite, was launched 1943 The ball-point pen, invented by Lazlo Biro, was patented |
| July 11 |
1302 Battle of the Golden Spurs |
| July 12 |
1910 Charles Stewart Rolls, co-founder of Rolls-Royce, became the first Briton to be killed in a plane crash |
| July 13 |
1793 Charlotte Corday assassinated Jean Paul Marat |
| July 14 |
1952 Television was first transmitted in Scotland 1891 The first submarine telephone line was laid across the English Channel |
| July 15 |
1869 Hippolytes Mege Mouries patented margarine in France |
| July 16 |
1927 The world's smallest public railway - the Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch - was opened |
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1925 The first volume of Hitler's Mein Kampf (My Struggle) was published 1918 Nelson Mandela was born 1872 The Ballot Act (making the ballot secret) was passed in the UK |
| July 19 |
1969 John Fairfax completed the first solo Atlantic crossing in a rowing boat 1962 The first telephone call was made via Telstar - from London to New York 1961 TWA became the first airline to introduce regular in-flight films with a screening on a scheduled flight from New York to Los Angeles of By Love Possessed starring Lana Turner 1821 Queen Caroline was forcibly prevented from appearing at the coronation of George IV |
| July 20 |
1969 Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the Moon 1947 Jean Robic won the first post-war Tour de France without ever wearing the yellow jersey |
| July 21 |
1989 The comedian Ken Dodd was cleared of eight charges of tax fraud and false accounting at Liverpool Crown Court 1896 The first Royal Command Film Performance took place at Marlborough House in London 1809 Daniel Lambert, who weighed 52.5 stones (735 lbs), died |
| July 22 |
1933 The aviator Wiley Post, in his aeroplane Winnie Mae, became the first person to fly solo around the world |
| July 23 |
1967 Tommy Simpson died on Mont Ventoux during the 13th stage of the Tour de France 1963 Stephen Ward was found guilty of living on the immoral earnings of Christine Keeler and others |
| July 24 |
1947 The ejector seat was first tried from an aircraft in flight 1851 Window tax was abolished in the UK 1701 Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac founded the city of Detroit |
| July 25 |
1984 Soviet astronaut Svetlana Savitskaya became the first woman to walk in space |
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2001 Tragedy! After 26 years Ray Kent, Framlingham's only remaining butcher, closed |
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| July 30 |
1980 The Anglo-French Pacific condominium of the New Hebrides became the independent republic Vanuatu 1935 The first Penguin paperback went on sale 1930 The host nation Uruguay won the first football World Cup |
| July 31 |
1954 An Italian expedition climbed Mount Godwin Austen (now known as K2) in the Himalayas |
1954
Food rationing ended in the UK
1922
Johnny Weismuller became the first person to swim 100
metres in less than a minute
1989
Maurice (Mo) Johnston became the first Roman Catholic
player to join Glasgow Rangers when he transferred from FC
Nantes for £1.5 million
1837
Buckingham Palace became a royal residence
1955
11 inches (280 mm) of rain fell on Martinstown, Dorset
1989
The comedian Harry Worth died 
1934
John Dillinger, American bank robber, was shot and killed by
law officers whilst leaving the Biograph Cinema, Chicago|
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