9 July 1877 Posted on July 8, 2012 by Staff The first Wimbledon Championships starts. Famous Words of Inspiration...""It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more." Sir Winston Churchill — Click here for more from Sir Winston Churchill Related posts: 4 July 1569 21 July 1977 19 July 64 9 July 1986