Portal:Oregon/Selected anniversaries/July

July 2, 1935, Ashland hosts the first Oregon Shakespeare Festival, featuring Twelfth Night.
July 3, 1905, U.S. Senator John H. Mitchell is convicted in the Oregon land fraud scandal.
July 5, 1843, the first Organic Laws of Oregon are passed creating a framework for the Provisional Government.
July 9, 1940, former Oregon Attorney General and longtime President of the University of Oregon, David B. Frohnmayer is born in Medford.
July 12, 2002, the Biscuit Fire starts in Southern Oregon and is not contained until the end of the year.
July 15, 1896, the battleship USS Oregon is commissioned under the command of Captain H. L. Howison.
July 16, 2006, a Hawker Hunter jet crashes after leaving the Oregon International Airshow in Hillsboro.
July 20, 2001, the Portland Streetcar system, the first modern-streetcar system to open in the U.S. since the 1940s, begins operating.
July 28, 1878, former two-time acting governor of the Oregon Territory, George Law Curry dies in Portland.
July 28, 1978, National Lampoon’s Animal House, starring John Belushi, and filmed in Eugene, Cottage Grove and Pleasant Hill, premiers.