In response to the dismissal of the French finance minister Jacques Necker, the radical journalist Camille Desmoulins gives a speech which results in the storming…
11 July 1804
A duel occurs in which the Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr mortally wounds former Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton.
9 July 1540
King Henry VIII of England annuls his marriage to his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves.
5 July 1934
“Bloody Thursday”: the police open fire on striking longshoremen in San Francisco.