14. At Belfast, Wales beat Ireland at Rugby football by eleven points to three.
15-16. Heavy gales and rains; five men were drowned through the foundering of a tug off Greenhithe. The Swedish barque Trifolium was wrecked in Sennen Cove, Cornwall; five drowned.
16. At Cardiff, England beat Wales at Association football by two goals to none.
16. The Times appeared for the first time at the price of 1d.
—At Paris, M. Gaston Calmette, editor of the Figaro, was fatally shot by Mme. Caillaux, wife of the Finance Minister. (See post, July 28.)
17. At Wellesley College (for women), Wellesley, Mass., the College Hall was burnt down; no lives lost.
18. Birth of a son and heir to the Duke of Brunswick, whose wife was the daughter of the German Emperor. This was the first Guelph Prince born in Germany for nearly a century.
—The World's Tennis Championship was won in Philadelphia by Mr. Jay Gould, who defeated G. F. Covey by seven sets to one.
19. The King and Queen visited the National Institute for the Blind in Great Portland Street and opened the new buildings.