The Ladies' Confederate Memorial is erected in the Lexington Cemetery. It is unusual among Confederate memorials in that it depicts grief, not patriotism.
The Central Kentucky Lunatic Asylum, later known as Central State Hospital, is established in Louisville.
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Blue jeans are invented.
The samurai class is abolished as the feudal era ends in Japan.
July 21 - Jesse James and the James-Younger gang complete their first successful train robbery in the West.