July

July is the seventh month of the year having 31 days. Name comes from the Latin (mensis) Julius, the month of Julius Caesar. July's birthstone is ruby and its flower is larkspur.

1

Battle of Gettysburg begins, 1863
Dominion Day in Canada
Freedom Day in Suriname
Independence Day in Burundi
National Day in Rwamda
Republic Day in Ghana
Union of the Somalia Republic in Somalia

2

National Day in Kiribati
Felix Pappalardi and Leslie West form Mountain, 1969

3

"Dog days" of summer begin
Jim Morrison dies in Paris, 1971

4

Battles of Vicksburg and Gettysburg won by Union forces, 1863
Cloudy, 76 degrees in Philadelphia, 1776
New York abstains on Declaration of Independence vote, 1776
Henry David Thoreau enters woods, 1845
Caribbean Day in Guyana
Constitution Day in Cayman Islands
Family Day in Lesotho
Heroes' Day in Zambia
Kadooment Day in Barbados
Philippine-American Friendship Day in the Philippines
Warriors' Day (2 days) in Yugoslavia

5

Day of Peace and Unity in Rwanda
Independence Day in Algeria, Venezuela

6

First "talkie" (talking motion picture) premiere in New York, 1928
Lawrence of Arabia captures Aqaba, 1917
Jefferson Airplane formed in San Francisco, 1965

7

First radio broadcast of "Dragnet," 1949
National Day in Malawi
Saba Saba Day in Tanzania
Anniversary of the P.U.N. in Equatorial Guinea
Ringo Starr (Richard Starkey) born in Liverpool, England, 1940

8

Bell Telephone Co. formed (predecessor of AT&T), 1877
CDC incorporated, 1957
First public reading of the Declaration of Independence, 1776
Liberty Bell cracks while being rung at funeral of John Marshall, 1835

9

10-hour working day set by law, New Hampshire, 1847
Independence Day in Argentina

10

134 degrees F in Death Valley, 1913
Independence Day in Bahamas

11

National Holiday in the Mongolian People's Republic

12

Minimum wages established: 40 cents / hour, 1933
Battle of Boyne celebrated in Northern Ireland
The Twelfth in Northern Ireland
Chicago disc jockey Steve Dahl holds "Disco Demolition" at Kamisky Park, 1979

13

Buddhist Lent in Thailand
Women first compete in Olympic games, 1908

14

Bastille Day
National Holiday in Monaco
Anniversary of the Revolution in Iraq
Woodie Guthrie born, 1912

15

St. Swithin's Day

16

Detonation of the first atomic bomb at Alamagordo, New Mexico, 1945
Presidents Day in Botswana
Cream forms in the U.K., 1966
Harry Chapin dies on Long Island Expressway, 1981

17

Disneyland opens, 1955
Constitution Day in South Korea
Public Holiday in Botswana
July Revolution in Iraq
Munoz Rivera's Birthday (celebrated in Puerto Rico)
"Yellow Submarine" premieres at the London Pavilion, 1968

18

Ty Cobb gets 4000th base hit, 1927
Constitution Day in Uruguay
Liberation Day in Nicaragua

19

Five Massachusetts women executed for witchcraft, 1692
Martyrs' Day in Burma

20

Independence Day in Colombia
Carlos Santana is born in Autlan, Mexico, 1947
Armstrong and Aldrin land on moon, 1969

21

First Train Robbery, Jesse James gets $3000 near Adair, Iowa, 1873
Vietnam divided at 17th parallel, 1954
National Holiday in Belgium

22

National Day in Poland
King's Birthday in Swaziland

23

Ice cream cone introduced, St. Louis MO, 1904
Egyptian National Day in Syrian Arab Republic
Remembrance Day in Papua, New Guinea
Anniversary of the Revolution in Egypt

24

Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Pioneer Day in Utah
Simon Bolivar's Day in Ecuador, Venezuela

25

Constitution Day in Puerto Rico
National Rebellion Day (3 days) in Cuba
Republic Day in Tunisia
St. James, Patron Saint in Spain
Bob Dylan goes electric at the Newport Folk Festival, 1965
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young debut at the Fillmore East, 1969

26

Independence Day in Liberia
National Day in Maldives
Mick Jagger is born in Kent, England, 1943

27

Barbosa's Birthday (celebrated in Puerto Rico)

28

Independence Days (2 days) in Peru
Bach dies, 1750
The Watkins Glen "Summer Jam" opens, 1973

29

Rain Day in Waynesburg, PA
Olsok Eve in Norway to commemorate Norway's Viking King St. Olav

30

"In God We Trust" made U.S. motto, 1956

31

Truman dedicates N.Y. Int'l. Airport, Idlewild Field, 1948, later renamed JFK
Revolution Day in Congo

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