Portal:Oregon/Selected anniversaries/July
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- 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 15, 1896 the battleship USS Oregon is commissioned under the command of Captain H.L. Howison.
- July 28, 1878 former two-time acting governor of the Oregon Territory, George Law Curry dies in Portland.
