July 11, 1900 (Wednesday)
- Charlotte Cooper of Great Britain became the first woman to ever win an Olympic medal, when she defeated Helene Prevost in the tennis competition at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris. The first revived games, at Athens in 1896, had been for men only.
- In the first and only Olympic competition for croquet, French athletes were the sole participants in all events. Gaston Aumoitte and Chrétien Waydelich won medals in the one-ball and two-ball competitions
- The Buddhasasanangha Library was founded in Wat Benchamabophit, Siam (now Thailand. King Chulalongkorn intended to amassthe largest collection of Buddhist scriptures and books up to that time.
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Famous quotes containing the word july:
“...there was the annual Fourth of July picketing at Independence Hall in Philadelphia. ...I thought it was ridiculous to have to go there in a skirt. But I did it anyway because it was something that might possibly have an effect. I remember walking around in my little white blouse and skirt and tourists standing there eating their ice cream cones and watching us like the zoo had opened.”
—Martha Shelley, U.S. author and social activist. As quoted in Making History, part 3, by Eric Marcus (1992)