The Prince of Wales boarded the 91 gun warship H.M.S. Hero at Plymouth in preparation for his sailing on his tour of Canada and the United States.  The Hero, accompanied by H.M.S. Ariadne, sailed the following morning from Plymouth Sound and received the salute of the Royal Navy's Channel Fleet before turning for the open sea.  The Hero made landfall at St. John's in Newfoundland on July 23, 1860.  (By John Osborne) 

In Northern Ireland. at Derrymacash, a village near the town of Lurgan in County Down, twenty miles from Belfast, a gathering of the local Orange Order, a fiercely Protestant group, clashed with local Catholic farmworkers who had come to jeer their parade.  Heavy drinking on both sides led to stone throwing and then to the Orangemen opening fire with pistols killing two Catholics and wounding fifteen others. (By John Osborne)

At an art auction in London selling off parts of a well-known private collection, works attracting the most bidding were from the 17th century and included Bartolomé Esteban Murillo's Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception, which was offered at 5000 guineas and sold for 9000.  A family portrait by Peter Paul Rubens was offered at 100 guineas and sold for 7,500.  Murillo's famous work is now in the Prado in Madrid. (By John Osborne) 

Eduard Buchner was a German chemist famous for his work with cell-free fermentation that won him the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1907.  Born the son of a physician in Munich, he was educated at the university there and took up a post at the University of Kiel.  Though in his mid-fifties, he volunteered for service as a German Army doctor during the First World War and died of wounds at Foscani, Romania in August, 1917.  (By John Osborne)

Owen Wister, prolific American writer and author of The Virginian, was born a wealthy physician's son in Germantown.  He attended Harvard, studied music in Paris, but returned to Philadelphia to work in a law office.  Travelling to the West for his health, he began a career of writing western stories that contributed strongly to the American myth of the cowboy.  He lived his later life in Philadelphia and died there in July 1938. (By John Osborne) 

Will Keith Kellogg became one of the leading food manufacturers in the United States.  He was born in Battle Creek, Michigan the son of a broom maker and began experimentation with the flaking of grains with his older brother, Dr. John Harvey Kellogg.  He founded the Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Company in 1906.  This quickly became the famous W.K. Kellogg Company.  He died in Battle Creek in October 1951.  (By John Osborne) 

The New York City Board of Supervisors released figures for the Tax Commissioners for the totals of personal and real estate valuations in the city.  Total personal and real estate for the twenty-two wards of New York City was $577,230,656.97.  This was an increase of $25,207,934.97 over the previous year.  (By John Osborne)

A little after five in the afternoon, heavy winds severely damaged the new and unfinished Academy of Music on Montague Street, in Brooklyn.  The walls had been completed and the roof was being prepared when the wind storm struck.  At least six people were injured, some seriously.  The building and its 2,200 seat auditorium was later finished, however, and opened in 1861.  It burned to the ground in 1903 and has been replaced.  (By John Osborne) 

A storm with heavy winds and lightning struck Boston and surrounding areas.  In Brighton a man was killed by lightning and another in West Dedham.  The Great Elm on the Common, one of the most famous trees in the country and fully grown before Boston was settled, suffered heavy damage in the wind.  The tree survived, however, until finally destroyed in a storm in 1876.  (By John Osborne)