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| JULY is . . . Hay Month, Anti-Boredom Month, Hitchhiking Month, National Baked Bean Month, National Hot Dog Month, National Ice Cream Month, National Blueberries Month, National Purposeful Parenting Month, National Recreation and Parks Month, National Tennis Month, Tahiti Awareness Month |
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| Manwatcher's Compliment Week Frontier Days (AZ) National Character Counts Week Be Kind To New Jersey Week Music For Life Week National Canned Luncheon Meat Week Pleasure Week Nude Recreation Week |
Special Recognition Week Mosquito Week National Therapeutic Recreation Week | 3rd Week | 4th Week | Backwards Masking Awareness Week Captive Nations Week Swan Upping (UK) National Avoid Boredom Week Space Week Lyme Disease Awareness Week |
Cheyenne Frontier Day (Wyoming) National Animal Agriculture Week |
| July Movable Daily Holidays | |
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| Day | Holiday |
| 1st Sunday | Fiesta de San Fermin begins (Running of the Bulls; Pamplona,
Spain) |
| 1st Monday | Carricom Day (aka Caribbean Day) Heroes Day (Zambia) |
| 1st Tuesday | Unity Day (Zambia) |
| 1st Thursday | Ommegang Pageant (Belgium) International Cherry Pit Spitting Contest |
| 2nd Sunday | Barn Day |
| 2nd Saturday | Bon Odori (Festival of the Lanterns) |
| Monday nearest 12th | Orangemen's Day (Canada) |
| Saturday before 3rd Monday | Kinderzeche (Children's Reckoning; Germany) |
| 3rd Weekend | International Brick and Rolling Pin Throwing Tournament (US, UK, Canada, Australia) |
| 3rd Sunday | Beer Festival (Luxembourg) Feast of the Redeemer (Italy) |
| 3rd or 4th Saturday | Hopi Niman Dance |
| 4th Monday | Hurricane Supplication Day (Virgin Islands) |
| Last Sunday | Pile of Bones (Canadian Picnic) Procession of the Pentinents (Belgium) Reek Sunday (Ireland) |
| Last Weekend | Pilgrimage of St. Anne d'Auray (France) |
| July Indeterminate Holidays The holidays in this table are either based on calendars other than the Gregorian Calendar or are keyed to natural events such as seasons or cosmological phenomena |
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| 3rd Day of bright 1/2 of Shravna, 5th Hindu month (@ July/Aug) | Teej |
| 5th Day of bright 1/2 of Shravna, 5th Hindu month (@ July/Aug) | Naga Panchami |
| 14th Day of dark 1/2 of Shravana, 5th Hindu month (@ July/Aug) | Ghantakaran (Nepal) |
| Night of 27th Day of Rajab, 7th Islamic month | Lailat al-Miraj |
| 9th Day of Av, 11th Jewish month (not including intercalary month) | Tisha be-Av |
| Early July | Pilgrimage of Saut d'Eau (Haiti) |
| Sometime in July | Tour de France (France) |
| Near the 24th | Pioneer Day (Utah) |
| Late July | Spinning Wheels Day (Warminster, Pennsylvania) |
| Last 2 Weeks in July | Straznice Folk Festival (Czechoslovakia) |
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| 1 July | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Olivia de Haviland Christoph Gluck Willie Dixon Gottfried Leibniz Willard Metcalf Ilya Bolotowsky Diana Spencer William Wyler Jean March Popeye (1929) Allan Pinkerton Charles Laughton Debbie Harry Pamela Anderson (Pb 2/90) Cecil Rhodes Dan Aykroyd George Sand James M. Cain Sydney Pollack Hans Werner Henze Leslie Caron Carl Lewis Estee Lauder Louis Bleriot Thomas Clemson Jean Marsh Ron Glass Walter White Jean-Vivtor Poncelet Karen Black Twyla Tharp Rini Templeton Thomas Dorsey Jamie Farr Genevieve Bujold Tony Bennett Roger Connor Constance Ford Farley Granger Sally Quinn Ron Silver David Wayne Evelyn "Champagne" King Lorna Patterson |
Canada Day (fka Dominion Day; Canada) Half-Year Day (Hong Kong) Feast of Cranks American Stamp Day Heroes Day (Zambia) Caribbean Day Early Bird Day Freedom Festival Mt. Fuji Day (Japan) Build A Scarecrow Day Unlucky Day (Astronomy) Rwanda Independence Day Devotion to Duty Day Creative Ice Ceam Flavor Day r Republic Day (Ghana) Burundi Independence Day La Fiesta de Burro (Donkeyfest) National Gingersnap Day St. Serf's Day (patron of Orkneys) Feast of the Most Precious Blood Banker's Day (Guatemala) Pilgrimage to Shrine of St. Oliver Plunkett (Ireland) Distressed Elves' Day (Fairy) Birthday of Wei T'o (China) Wild-Ass Hunters Associations Conference of I.G.'s St. Cosmas and Damian's Day (Eastern) Biggest All Night Gospel Singing in the World |
| July 1 Events | Coca-Cola debuted it distinctive bottle
(1916) Dominion of Canada founded (1867) 1st TV Commercial (for a Bulova clock; 1941) Battle of Gettysburg began (1863) Darwin presented his Theory of Evolution (1858) 1st Daily Newspaper published Battle of Somme began (1916) Medicare established 1st Juvenile Court opened Court TV debuted (1991) About Last Night premiered Explorer I launched (1958) Voting age lowered to 18 in US 1st Community Bomb Shelter built Bird Protection Agency established 1st Fuly Automated Bread Plant built US Postage stamps 1st authorized (1847) Ms. Magazine 1st published (1972) 1st School of Homeopathy opened (1843) Quakers 1st arrived in US (1656) 1st Income Tax Law signed (1862) Mary Reeser of St. Petersburg, Florida spontaneously combusted (1951) Rube Goldberg's Inventions of Professor Lucifer Gorgonzola Butts began (1914) New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Quebec and Saskatchewan joined to become the 1st Canadian Provinces (1867) 1st recorded kidnapping took place Nostradamus died (1566) 1st Adhesive Postage Stamps issued (1847) United Motors (Buick-Maxwell-Briscoe) formed (1908) Bureau of Entomology formed (1904) US entered Korean War (1950) Popeye comic strip 1st published (1929) Russian Ruble becmae convertible with world currencies (1992) 1st US Zoo opened (Philadelphia; 1874) Algerian War ended (1962) Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom became the 1st PG-13 rated film (1984) Royal College of Surgeons founded (Edinburgh, Scotland; 1505) 999 Emergency Phone Number activated in UK (1937) Charles officially became Prince of Wales (1969) Amish Experience F/X Theatre opened (Lancaster, Pennsylvania; 1995) Prince Edward Island became a Canadian Province (1873) Up Front comic strip featuring Willie and Joe ended (1945) 1st Transcontinental African Railroad opened (1931) Merrimack County, New Hampshire founded (home of Concord; 1823) Trial Run of money drop made (1995; in Quentin Tarantino film Jackie Brown 1997) Psycho walked into San Francisco law office at 101 California with semi-automatic weapons and opened fire, killing 8 and wounding 6; victims' families then sued the gun manufacturer (1993) |
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| 2 July | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Franz Kafka Herman Hesse Thurgood Marshall Christoph Gluck Thomas Cranmer Samuel Hahnemann Dave Thomas Rene Lacoste William Bragg Charles Tupper Mary Trainor Richard Petty Ahmad Jamal Patrice Lumumba Medgar Evers Brock Peters Kaye Stevens Jose Canseco Polly Holliday Dan Rowan Cheyl Ladd Dexter Manley Lee Allen Alex Douglas-Home Barry Gray Jimmy McNichol Dale Earnhardt Ron Silver Olav V Valentinian III Roy Bittan Luci Baines Johnson Turpin John Sununu Imelda Marcos |
National Literacy Day Visitation of the Virgin Mary Corso del Palio (Race for the Palio; Siena, Italy) National Anisette Day Kiribati Besse-en-Chandesse (Black Virgin Festival; France) Madonna di Provenzano Festival (Italy) Distressed Elves' Creditors' Day (Fairy) Royal International Agricultural Show (UK @) St. Processus and Martinian's Day (patron of prison guards; against demonic possession, perjury) |
| July 2 Events | Robert Henry Lee's resolution for independence
approved Declaration of Independence actually adopted (1776) 1st Mail order catalog appears Salvation Army established (1865) 1st Zeppelin flew (1900) Amelia Earhart disappeared in the South Pacific (1937) 1st Elevated Railway opened (1867) President Garfield assassinated (1881) US Distinguished Flying Cross authorized 1st Pontoon Bridge built Battle of Marston Moor (1644) Nostradamus predicted his death Lawrence Welk Show debuted (1955) Frank Sinatra's Strangers in the Night reached No. 1 (1966) Disney's Great Mouse Detective premiered (1986) 1 Millionth Chevrolet Corvette built (1992) Battle of Alford (1645) Men in Black premiered (1997) 1964 Civil Rights Act signed (1964) US National Statuary Hall established (1864) 500 Black Americans emmigrate "Back to Africa" (1914) Frigate Medusa wrecked off Senegal reef (1816) Vietnam reunified (1976) Ernest Hemingway killed himself (1961) Great Mill Valley fire burned many Coastal Redwood trees (1929) Lincoln signed the Morrill Act, providing land for Agricultural Colleges (1862) 100 Muslim pilgrims died of suffocation in access tunnel to Mecca (1990) Bill Conti's Gonna Fly Now reached No. 1 (1977) Elvis Presley recorded Don't Be Cruel and Hound Dog (1956) |
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| 3 July | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Tom Stoppard Leos Janacek Elan Carter (Pb 6/94) Pete Fountain Jan Smithers Robert Adam George Sanders Tom Cruise M.K. Fisher Lt. Sulu George M. Cohan Liz Stewart (Pb 7/84) John Singleton Copley Pia Reyes (Pb 11/88) Lisa DeLeeuw Ken Russell Charlotte Perkins Gilman Samuel de Champlain Fontella Bass Stavros Spyros Niarchos Robert Adam Julia Lyndon (Pb 8/77) Laura Branigan Richard B. Bennett Samuel Huntingdon Jean-Claude Duvalier Alfred Korzybski Betty Buckley Earl Butz Jack Schmitt Louis XI |
Festival of Wilderness Quiz Day Dog Days begin (until 15th @) Loki's Brand (Norse) Disobedience Day Compliment Your Mirror Day Stay Out of the Sun Day Feast of the Boy Bishops Garibaldi Day (Italy) St. Thomas the Apostle's Day (patron of architects, builders, carpenters, construction workers, Easty Indies, India, masons, Pakistan, surveyors; against blindness, doubt) St. Ignatius of Loyola's Day Algeria Independence Day National Chocolate Wafer Day Distressed Elves' Creditors' Pets' Day (Fairy) Sun Dance (Assinibone Tribe, Montana) Air Conditioning Appreciation Days begin St. Anatolius' Day |
| July 3 Events | Idaho became the 43rd state (1890) 1st US Bank opened (1819) Blondie debuted on radio City of Quebec founded (1608) George Washington assumed command of Continental Army (1775) Sergeant York premiered Battle of Fort Necessity (1754) 1st TV for sale (for $75; 1928) Rent Stike (Italy; 1969) 1st Hudson automobile built (1909) Pantomime Quiz debuted (1950) Battle of Santiago de Cuba (1898) US Mint in San Francisco approved (1852) Battle of Gettysburg ended (1863) Jim Morrison died in Paris (1971) Brian Jones found drowned in his swimming pool (1969) 1st solo around-the-world sailing trip completed (1898) 6,000 killed by Russian troops in Odessa during a strike (1905) Klaus Barbie convicted of Nazi war crimes (1987) Human League's Don't You Want Me? reached No. 1 (1982) Constantine I defeated Licinius near Adrianople (323 CE) 1st post-World War 2 automobile made in the US (1945) US Supreme Court reversed itself, saying death penalty OK (1976) Hero of Chernobyl, Anatoli Grishchenko, died of leukemia (1990) Algeria became independent (1962) USS Vincennes accidently shoots down an Iranian airliner killing 268 people, mistaking it for a bomber (Gulf War; 1988) |
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| 4 July | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Louis Armstrong George M. Cohan Neil Simon Benjamin Peret Nathaniel Hawthorne Calvin Coolidge Giuseppe Garibaldi Mary Stuart Henrietta Leavitt Mitch Miller Louis B. Mayer Gina Lollabridgida Stephen Foster Rube Goldberg Pam Shriver Abigail Van Buren Eva Marie Saint Bill Withers Tish Howard (Pb 7/66) James A. Bailey Tokyo Rose Brian Wilson Harvey & Horace Grant Jeremy Spencer George Ripley, believe it or not Thomas Barnado Meyer Lansky Jawann Oldhem Mickey Welch Alec Templeton Lionel Trilling Al Davis Emerson Boozer Virginia Graham George Steinbrenner Jean-Pierre-Francois Blanchard Stephen Mather Ann Landers Geraldo Rivera Leona Helmsley |
US Independence Day Hillbilly Day Firecracker Day Caricom Day (Barbados, Guyana, St. Vincent) F-Day (Alaska) American Redneck Day Barbeque Day National Huckleberry Festival Holy Firecracker Day (John Updike's Couples) St. Ulrich's Day (1st Saint; 953 CE; patron against difficult birth, dizziness, mice, moles) National Paralyzed Veteran's Day Jumping on the Matress Night (Fairy) Stone Skipping Tournament National Barbequed Spareribs Day Old Midsummer Eve Boom Box Parade (Willimantic, Connecticut) St. Elizabeth of Portugal's Day (patron of Portugal) Tom Sawyer Fence-Painting Day (Hannibal, Missouri) Sandblast (Ft. Lauderdale, Florida) Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod begins (Wales @) St. Andrew of Crete's Day (Eastern) National Country Music Day |
| July 4 Events | 1st Rodeo held Statue of Liberty arrived in NYC Thoreau moved to Walden Pond 1st Passenger railroad opened (B&O Railroad) Communist Manifesto published Battle of Vicksburg (1863) Eire Canal began construction Israeli Commando "Raid on Entebbe" Airport, Uganda (1976) Longest Tree Sit began (431 days; 1983) Battle of Constantinople (4th Crusade; 1203) 1st Bus built (1829) Historic Flag stamps issued by US Post Office Wyoming, Pennsylvania Massacre National Puzzlers League established English Colonists landed at Roanoke, Virginia (1585) Gandalf imprisoned by Saruman (Hobbit) North Carolina readmitted to the Union (1868) Poem "America the Beautiful" published (1895) Declaration of Independence ratified (1776) Liberty Bell rang (Philadelphia; 1776) Beach Boys' I Get Around reached No. 1 (1964) US Constitution burned by William Lloyd Garrison (1855) Soupy Sales Show debuted (1955) Pat Garrett shot Billy the Kid (1881) Communist Manifesto published (1848) Mars Pathfinder landed on Mars (1997) 9 Whites killed in slave uprising in New York (1712) Both Thomas Jefferson and John Adams died (1826) Statue of Liberty reopened after restoration (1986) 400 Millionth person visted Disneyland (1997) Treaty of Chaguarramas signed establishing Caribbean Community (1973) 99 out of 100 people refused to sign a petition made up entirely of quotations from the Declaration of Independence and Bill of Rights, many calling the petition subversive (Wisconsin; 1951) |
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| 5 July | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Phineas T. Barnum Katherine Helmond Jean Cocteau Cecil Rhodes Andrew Douglass Dwight F. Davis Wanda Landowska Davis G. Farragut George Rochberg Stamford Raffles Katherine Helmond Clara Zetkin George Pompidou Janos Starker Robbie Robertson Eliot Feld Sylvester Graham James Lofton Paul Ben-Haim Frankenburger Huey Lewis Doug Wilson Karla Conway (Pb 4/66) John Northrop Henry Cabot Lodge Luigi Musso Sarah Siddons Robbie Robertson Ashlyn Martin (Pb 4/64) Gary Matthews Richard "Goose" Gossage Adrienne Moreau (Pb 3/63) Brooke Hayward Andrei Gromyko Shirley Knight Wanda Landowska Julie Nixon Eisenhower King Taufa'ahau Tupou IV of Tonga |
Workaholics Day Anxiety Day Tynwald Day (Isle of Man) Peace & Unity Day (Rwanda) Fiesta do Tapuleiros begins (Portugal) Cape Verde Independence Day Family Day (Lesotho) St. Athanasius of Athos' Day Algeria Independence Day Festival of Cargo Cults Venezuela Independence Day St. Anthony Zaccaria's Day National Apple Turnover Day St. Rosalia's Day Fighter's Day (former Yugoslavia) Taholah Days begin (Taholah, Washington) |
| July 5 Events | 1st Bikini appeared (Paris; 1946) US Secret Service established 1st Speed Limits imposed (2 mph; 1865) Salvation Army established (1865) 1st Checks with perforated edges made Truth of Consequences debuted Seinfeld Chronicles pilot show debuted (1989) Thomas Cook arranged his 1st tour (1841) 1st US Soldier killed in Korean War (1950) Raffles died (1826) Gold Soverigns 1st issed (UK; 1817) French captured Algiers (1830) 1st British Ambassador to US appointed (1791) Venezuela declared independence from Spain (1811) Church of England voted to allow ordination of women priests (1988) American migrants met at Champoeg, Oregon to adopt constitution (1843) Lagunitas Brewing Co. bottled its 1st bottle of beer (1995) Cape Verde became independent (1975) Rolling Stones gave free concert in Hyde Park as memorial to Brian Jones (1969) Dutch Fort Hope seized by English-Connecticut colonists (1653) Oliver North fined only $150,000 for his part in the Iran-Contra affair (1989) 17th US Amendment passed (allowing direct election of senators; 1913) Arthur Ashe beat Jimmy Connors to become 1st black men's singles Wimbledon champion (1975) |
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| 6 July | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Beatrix Potter Vladimir Ashkenazy Frida Kahlo Bill Haley John Paul Jones Ned Beatty Janet Leigh Dalai Lama Maximillian Burt Ward Eino Leino Merv Griffin John Byrne Wojciech Jaruzelski Robert Whitney Adolf Anderson James Wyeth Candy Barr Arn Saba Burt Ward Verner Von Heidenstam Allyce Beasley Gene Chandler Sebastian Cabot Della Reese Grant Goodeve Willie Randolph Eino Leino Fred Dryer Todd Burns Robert M. White Axel Theorell Shelly Hack Rick Hunter Nicholas I Pat Paulsen Sylvester Stallone Nancy Reagan |
Old Albums Are Frisbees Day Festival of Buddha's Eyetooth begins (Ceylon) Nothing Day Comoros Independence Day Julian the Blessed's Day (restored Old Rome to Paganism) National Fried Chicken Day St. Maria Goretti's Day (patron of teenage girls) Colette Encarnado (Portugal) Malawi Independence Day St. Fermin's Day (patron of Pamploma) Turkey Rama begins (McMinnville, Oregon) Millennial Fairy Olympics begin (Fairy) St. Goar's Day (patron of potters; against whirlpools) National Pickle Festival Time of Music begins (Finland) St. Godeleva's Day (patron of Flanders; for/against rain) Rememberance Day (Luxembourg - in honor of their liberation from Germany by General George S. Patton in WW2) |
| July 6 Events | Richard the Lion-Hearted became King of England
(1189) 1st All-Star Baseball Game played (1933) Elvis Presley recorded his 1st record (1954) Captain Kidd captured (1699) 1st Picture Postcard made US Medal of Freedom authorized Jacksons Victory Tour began (1984) 1st All-Talking Movie shown (Lights of New York; 1928) Decimal Coinage proposed by Jefferson (1785) Shoe Manufacturing Machine patented John Lennon and Paul McCartney met (1957) 1st Rabies Shot given (1885) Republican Party named (1854) Jan Hus burned at the stake (1415) Green Goblin 1st appeared in Spiderman Thomas More executed (1535) 1st Dirigible crossed the Atlantic Ocean (1919) Hard Days' Night premiered in UK (1964) Automobile production resumed after WW2 (1945) Phil Collins' Sussudio reached No. 1 (1985) Sir Thomas More executed for treason (1535) Malawi became independent (1966) French defeated English and Spanish fleets off Algeciras (1801) NATO declared Warsaw Pact no longer a military threat (1990) Pope Pius VII arrested for excommunicating Napoleon (1809) US Steelworkers killed by Pinkerton men during strike at Carnegie plant (1892) Althea Gibson beat Darlene Hurd to become 1st black Wimbledon champion (1957) Operation Overcast began transporting German & Austrian scientists to US (WW 2; 1945) A 145 years overdue library book returned to the University of Cincinnati Library in 1968 (the fine was $22,646) |
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| 7 July | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Gustav Mahler Marc Chagall George Cukor Robert Heinlein Ringo Starr Satchell Paige Pierre Cardin Vittorio de Sica Tom Jones Shelley Duvall Doc Severinson Robert Heinlein Jessica Hahn Alec Waugh Jon Pertwee Vladimir Mayakovsky Giancarlo Menotti Jean Kerr William Kunstler Bill Oddie Warren Entner Joe Zawinul Mesina Miller (Pb 9/75) Shelley Duvall Wally Philips Matt Suhey Camillo Golgi Sandy Johnson (Pb 6/74) William Kuntsler Joseph-Marie Jacquard Ralph Lee Sampson Lillien Jane Martin Joe Spano Roz Ryan Jean & Joe LeClerc Mike Sharkey Vince Edwards Alan Dixon Billy Herman |
Consualia (Old Roman Harvest Festival) Feriae Ancillarum (Old Roman Maid's Day Out) Caprotina (Fig Tree Festival) Macaroni Day St. Thomas Hooker's Day Double Seven Day (China) Saba Saba Day (Peasant's Festival; Tanzania) Tanabata (Star Festival; Japan) Solomon Islands Independence Day St. Methodius' Day Celtic tree month of Duir ends Great Gatsby Festival St. Cyril's Day Bonza Bottler Day St. Palladius' Day National Strawberry Sundae Day St. Pantaennus' Day International Cherry Pit Spitting Contest |
| July 7 Events | 1st Old School Tie made (Eton) Jerusalem destroyed (548 B.C.) Punch #1 published (1841) 1st Solar-powered plane flew across the English Channel (1981) Morris the Cat died 1st DJ spun records Dragnet debuted on radio Keith Moon died Asbury Park riots left 46 dead (New Jersey; 1970) 1st Children's TV program debuted Sino-Japanese War began (1937) Albrecht Durer married Agnes Frey (1494) Black Death 1st appeared in England (1348) National Highway Act passed (1956) Three Tenors premiered in Rome (1990) Abbie an' Slats comic strip began (1937) Boris Becker at 17 became youngest to win men's singles at Wimbledon (1985) Industrial Workers of the World ("Wobblies") founded (1906) 4 convicted of conspiracy in Lincoln's assassination hanged (1865) Mary Surratt became 1st US woman executed (for owning the boarding house where John Wilkes Booth lived; 1865) Prince's When Doves Cry reached No. 1 (1984) Michael Fagin broke into Buckingham Palace and had a drunken with Queen Elizabeth while sitting on the end of her bed (1982) |
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| 8 July | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Julius Caesar Percy Grainger Kevin Bacon Stanton Macdonald-Wright John D. Rockefeller Count Von Zeppelin Janice Pennington (Pb 5/71) Louis Jordan Jacques Cousteau "Oyster Joe" Martina Percy Grainger Ernst Bloch Alyce Faye Wattleton Nate Wright Billy Eckstine Arthur John Evans Joseph Chamberlain Anjelica Huston Cynthia Gregory Philip Johnson Kim Darby George Wicken Romney Phil Gramm Jerry Vale Walter Kerr Jack Lambert George Antheil Kathe Kollwitz Barbara Ann Loden Mary Ellen Trainor Steve Lawrence Cathy Roth Vitali I. Sevastyanov Nelson A. Rockefeller Raffi Cavoukian |
Heritage Day Celtic tree month of Tinne (Holly) begins Vintner's Procession (London) Feast St. Sunniva (Norse Goddess of the Sun) Video Games Day Old Crafts Day Lindenfest (Rhineland, Germany) St. Kilian's Day (patron of Bavaria, Austria, whitewashers) Festa dos Tabuleiros (Portugal) Olive Branch Petition Day National Cherry Festival Bide-A-Wee Children's Pet Fair St. Aquila and Prisca's Day (Western) National Milk Chocolate with Almonds Day Don't Put All Your Eggs in One Omlett Day |
| July 8 Events | Cigarette Ads on TV & radio ceased Liberty Bell cracked (1835) Ziegfeld Follies premiered on Broadway (1907) Paris founded 1st Public drinking fountain built Commodore Perry 1st visited Japan (1853) 1st Passport issued (US) Battle of Ticonderoga (7 Years War; 1758) Olive Branch Petition sent to King George III (1775) Declaration of Independence 1st read in public (1776) Cary Grant & Barbara Hutton married (1942) Police Uniforms 1st worn We're No Angels premiered Rain of Snails (Cornwall, UK; 1886) Commodore Perry arrived in Japan (1853) Vasco de Gama left Portugal to find sea passage to India (1497) Last Bareknuckled championship boxing match fought (1889) Mount Everest 1st reached without using oxygen tanks (1978) Starting Gates 1st used in horse racing (UK; 1965) US/South Africa Nuclear Cooperation Treaty signed (1958) American May Sutton became 1st foreigner to win Wimbledon (1905) 1st recorded Jew arrived in America (1654) Elvis Presley's (Let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear reached No. 1 (1957) 1st TV broadcast garners 1 billion viewers (World Cup; 1990) |
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| 9 July | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Jan Van Eyck David Hockney Nikola Tesla Elias Howe Ottorino Respighi Tom Hanks Mark Leonard Edward Heath Ann Ward Radcliffe Richard Roundtree Fred Savage Brian Denehey Pamela Annette Saunders (Pb 11/85) Thomas Devnport Margaret Gillis Bon Scott Mathilde Krim Samuel Eliot Morison Leonard Pennario Franz Boaz Bridgett Rollins (Pb 5/75) Kelly McGillis Wally Post Barbara Cartland Ed Ames James Hampton Karin von Aroldingen Lee Hazelwood Red Kelly Donald Rumsfield Jimmy Smits Hassan II O.J. Simpson |
Festival of Grand Unified Theories Lobster Carnival (Nova Scotia, Canada) Fashion Day Call of the Horizon Day National POW/MIA Recognition Day Goat Mother Day Sempach Commemeration Day (Switzerland) Martyrdom of the Bab (Baha'i) St. Veronica Giuliani's Day Argentina Independence Day Special Recreation Day National Sugar Cookie Day |
| July 9 Events | Doughnut Cutter patented 1st Wimbeldon final (1877) Washington DC made US Capitol (1791) US Distinguished Service Cross authorized Sleeping Pill patented (1902) Disney's Fox & the Hound premiered Battle of Sempach (Swiss War of Independence; 1386) Dr. Doom 1st appeared in Spiderman Corn Cob Pipe patented Battle of Sicily (WW 2; 1943) American Florists Society established Diet Coke introduced (1982) 1st Model B Buick began its maiden voyage (1904) Louisiana readmitted to the Union (1868) Police's Every Breath You Take reached No. 1 (1983) Oonagh Keogh became 1st female member of a stock exchange (Ireland; 1925) 1st Successful closure of a heart wound (1893) Voyager 2 discovered 3 moons around Jupiter (1979) William Jennings Bryan delivered his "Cross of Gold" speech (1896) South Carolina readmitted to the Union (1868) Mark Leyner's Gondola ride from hell began (1996; in Esquire, April 1997) Pennsylvania State Troopers brought in to quell Carnegie steel worker's strike (1892) Dashiell Hammett jailed for contempt for refusing to testify beore House Un-American Activities Committee (1951) |
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| 10 July | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| James MacNeill Whistler Camille Pissarro Adolphos Busch Carl Orff Marcel Proust Saul Bellow Pierre-Joseph Redoute William Blackstone John Calvin Fred Gwynne H.J. Heinz David Brinkley Joe Shuster Arthur Ashe Edmund Clerihew Bentlley Mary McLeod Bethune Sanford Robinson Gifford Virginia Wade Arlo Gutherie Jerry Herman Roger Craig David Dinkens Jerry Herman George Mifflin Dallas Henryk Wieniawski Alice Munro Toyohiko Kagawa Mary McLeod Bob Larkin Jean Kerr Sandy Stewart Owen Chamberlain Finley Peter Dunne Ron Glass Andre Dawson Sue Lyon Del Insko Pyotr I. Klimuk Hal McRae Jake LaMotta |
New Robe for Athena Day (Ancient Greece) Feast of Holda/Hela/Skadi (Northern Eurpoe Goddesses of the Underworld) Bahamas Independence Day Knut the Reaper's Day (Scotland) National Pina Colada Day Windjammer Days Seven Brothers' Day Feast of the Virgin of Begona (Bilbao, Spain) Goddess Month of Rosea ends Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel National Pina Colada Day Clerihew Day Dia Del Bibliotecario (Day of the Librarian; Chile) Night of Sorrows (Aztec massacre of Spanish troops to avenge Spanish massacre; 1520) |
| July 10 Events | Lady Godiva rode naked through town A Hard Day's Night premiered London bridge fell down Wyoming became the 44th state (1890) Showtime cable network premiered Battle of Britain (WW 2; 1940) USS United States, a frigate, launched Indelible pencil patented Your Hit Parade debuted (1950) Coca-Cola Classic introduced (1985) Ben Franklin proposed his Albany Plan (1754) Emperor Hadrian died (138 CE) Paris Metro opened (1900) Disney's The Fox and the Hound premiered (1981) Cher files for divorce 10 days after marrying Greg Allman (1975) King Louis XVI of France declared war on England to support American Revolution (1778) America's 1st published Poet's house burned down (Andover, MAssachusetts; 1660) Rolling Stone's (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction reached No. 1 (1965) 2 Tons of toxic weedkiller accidently blanketed town of Seveso, Italy (1976) Nigerian junta attempted to smuggle kidnapped foreign minister out of London in diplomatic bag (1984) Greenpeace protest ship Rainbow Warrior blown up under mysterious circumstances (1985) Capt. Streeter's boat ran aground a sandbar off Lake Michigan, eventually creating marshland which he claimed as his own (1886) General Washington's Adjutant General, Horatio Gates, orders blacks excluded from serving in Continental Army (the order was reversed after the British offer freedom to blacks who sided with them; 1775) |
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| 11 July | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| E.B. White Deborah Foreman Robert the Bruce Thomas Mitchell Roger de La Fresnaye Giorgio de Chirico Chandler Ian Moore Theodore Maiman Robert Greene Val Kilmer Giorgio Armani John Wanamaker Yul Brynner John Quincy Adams Colin Purdie Kelly James Smith Debbie Harry George W. Norris Thomas Bowdler Tab Hunter Lu Pan Julie Woodson (Pb 4/73) Harold Bloom Bill Cosby Susan Hayes Eva Perssons Bonnie Pointer Yasonari Kawabata Leon Spinks Bob Allison Terry Garthwaite Rodney Saulsberry Gough Whitlam Ruth Pointer |
World Population Day Swimming Pool Day (USA) National Blueberry Muffin Day Bawming the Thorn Day (UK) Feast of Theano (patron of vegetarianism) National Cheer Up the Lonely Day Goddess Month of Kerea begins Buffalo Bill Day Mongolia Revolution Day St. Benedict II's Day (patron of Europe, architects, the dying, farm workers, monks, spelunkers, servants who break things; against gallstones, poison, witchcraft) The Old Dance (Tibet; buddhist demon festival) Bowdler's Day Anthony Wayne Day Bodmin Riding (Wales) Chesapeake Turtle Derby 5 Billionth person on the earth born (1987) St. Pius I's Day International Just for Laughs Festival begins (@) |
| July 11 Events | U.S. Marine Corps made permanent Spurs invented (@ 1300 CE) Newlywed Game debuted (1966) Aaron Burr killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel (1804) 1st Satellite transmission (1962) Savannah committed suicide (1994) Napalm 1st used (1945) McHale's Navy debuted Triborough Bridge opened (NYC) US Air Force Academy dedicated (1955) Babe Ruth played his 1st major league game (1914) Telstar Communications Satellite launched (1960) US Intelligence Agency created (later became the OSS; 1943) Automobile registration became mandatory in Texas (1907) Japan rejected Ford's plans to build cars in Japan (1936) Skylab space station fell out of orbit (1979) Mohawk Indians and Montreal Police exchange gunfire over land rights (1990) Lafayette presented Declaration of Rights of Man to National Assembly (France; 1789) 2,000 year old Chinese terracotta army disovered (1975) Pope condemned Christian tolerance of Confucianism (1742) Striking miners blew up Pinkerton barracks (Idaho; 1892) UK magazine |
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| 12 July | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| R. Buckminster Fuller Andrew Wyeth Henry David Thoreau Pablo Neruda Josiah Wedgewood George Eastman Amedeo Modigliani Jesse Owen Bill Cosby Milton Berle Van Cliburn Oscar Hammerstein Julius Caesar Kristi Yamaguchi Curly Joe Derita William Osler Cheryl Ladd Roger Smith Stefan George Mel Harris Gerald Gordon Denise Nichols William Osler Jose de San Martin Christine McVie Kirsten Flagstad Mark O. Hatfield Clark MacGregor Judi Evans Richard Simmons |
Orangeman's Day (Northern Ireland) Lobster Carnival (Nova Scotia) National Pecan Pie Day St. Veronica's Day (patron of laundresses) Visitation Day Steel Days Kiribati Independence Day St. John Gualbert's Day (patron of foresters, park keepers) Video Games Day Sao Tome and Principe National Day |
| July 12 Events | Rain of Frogs (Kansas City; 1873) US Congress authorizes income tax (1909) Doctor in the House premiered 1st Newspaper west of the Mississippi published (1808) Panama Canal construction began (1920) US Medal of Honor authorized (1862) 1st Foghorn blared RAF became 1st Air Force to use jet aircraft (1944) William of Orange defeated James II at Battle of Boyne (1690) 1st TV Serial debuted Paper Bag Manufacturing Machine patented Turkey ceded Cyprus to England (1878) 1st Ocean Pier finished New York Hospital chartered (1771) Largest Brook Trout caught (14 lbs, 8 oz) Jo Siffert won his 1st Grand Prix (1968) Falklands War officially ended (1982) Thor Heyerdahl reached Barbados in the Ra-2 (1970) Jesus Christ Superstar premiered on stage (Pittsburgh, PA; 1971) 1st Minimum Wage Law enacted ($0.33/hour; 1933) Fred Astaire married Phyllis Baker Potter (1933) James Monroe's administration dubbed "the era of good feeling" (1817) UK passed Combination Act prohibiting workers from improving working conditions (1799) Simply Red's Holding Back the Years reached No. 1 (1986) Garbage dump in Pennsylvania erupted in 1962, 25 square miles of which are still burning |
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| 13 July | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Harrison Ford Jean Kerr Patrick Stewart Erno Rubik George Gilbert Scott Jean-Luc Picard (2305) Kenneth Clark Charles Scribner Roger McGuinn Nathan Bedford Forrest Sarina Suzuki Erno Rubik Spud Webb Robert Forster John Clare Cheech Marin Jean Lafitte Sidney Webb Ernie Colon Stan Coveleski Wole Soyinka David Storey Lois Kibbee Mary Wooley Alexi S. Yeliseyev Dave Garroway Mickey Walker David Thompson Jack Kemp |
Fool's Paradise Day Go West Day Festival of Inner Worlds National French Fries Day Reed Dance Day (Swaziland) Festival of Lanterns (aka Obon; Japan) National Ice Cream Day Festival of the Miracles St. Henry the Emperor's Day (patron of Finland) La Retraite (aka Nightwatch; France) Festival of the Three Cows (border of France, Spain) St. Mildred's Day Runic half-month of Feoh ends St. Silas' Day Festival of Our Lady of Fatima |
| July 13 Events | Ancient Olympics 1st held (776 BCE) 1st World Cup match held (1930) Diamonds 1st discovered in South Africa 1st Building Society founded Apple Computers founded 1st World Cup soccer contest held (1930) New York City Blackout (1977) 1st Pensions paid Congress of Berlin ended (1878) 1st Full page 3-D advertisement appeared Source of the Mississippi River discovered (1832) Marshall Plan accepted by Europe (1947) 1st Live Aid Concert (1985) Boris Yeltsin resigned from Communist Party (1990) Jean Paul Marat stabbed to death (1793) Rioting broke out during US's 1st military draft (1863) Northwest Ordinance passed, outlawing slavery in NW (1787) Paul Anka's Lonely Boy reached No. 1 (1959) Alabama readmitted to the Union (1868) Kenneth O'Reilly's Nixon's Piano published Massachusetts Bay Colony took its 1st piece of Maine (1658) St. Anselm received his "ontological argument" for the existence of god in a vision after breakfast |
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| 14 July | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Gustav Klimt Dave Fleischer Ingmar Bergman Terry-Thomas Irving Stone Woody Guthrie Aja John Chancellor Tom Carvel Andrea Del Sarto Harry Dean Stanton Bebe Buell (Pb 11/74) Gerald Ford Arthur Laurents Florence Bascom Jules Mazarin Emmeline Pankhurst Steve Stone William Gray Espy Frances Lear Mark Murphy Jules Mazarin Douglas Edwards Jay Forrester Owen Wister Missy Gold Dale Robertson Isaac Singer Ossip Zadkine Rosey Grier Ken Burrough Polly Bergen Mrs. Olson |
Bastille Day (France) National Nude Day Pandemonium Day Runic half-month of Ur (primal strength) begins Comedy Celebration Day St. Deusdedit's Day Homesteading Days Sherwood Robin Hood Festival (Oregon @) National Grand Marnier Day St. Procopius' Day (patron of Czechoslovakia) Wrong Days (Wright, Minnesota) Festival of Fairy Millennial Olympics (Fairy) St. Camillus de Lellis' Day (patron of Camellians, nurses) Feast of St. Nicholas of the Holy Mountain |
| July 14 Events | Dynamite 1st Demonstrated (by Alfred Nobel;
1867) Perry landed in Japan Tape Measure patented Lt. Robinson Crusoe, USN premiered Abortion legalized in England (1967) Cork Board patented Liquid Rocket Fuel patented Honda Civic debuted (1972) 1st Nuclear Warship launched (1959) UK legalized abortion (1967) Billy the Kid killed by Sheriff Pat Garrett (1881) Matterhorn in Switzerland 1st climbed (1865) King Faisal of Iraq murdered (1958) Birmingham Riot of Joseph Priestley Civil War veterans given pensions (1892) Bridget Bardot married Gunther Sachs (1966) 1st Play shown on BBC (1930) St. Mark's Cathedral Bell Tower collapsed (Venice; 1902) 1st Governor-General of Australia appointed (1900) Siberian Miners went on strike (1989) Martial Law lifted in Taiwan (1987) Dr. Spock's Common Sense Book of Baby Care published (1946) Luddites broke machines at Sunnon-in-Ashuano (1811) Donna Summer's Bad Girls reached No. 1 (1979) Hunter S. Thompson excused as a potential juror for John Denver's drunk-driving trial (1997) |
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| 15 July | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Rembrandt van Rijn Thomas Bullfinch Linda Ronstadt General "Blackjack" Pershing Julian Bream Cathy Larmouth (Pb 6/81) Alex Karras Clement Moore Kim Alexis Errol Garner Francis Xavier Cabrini Inigo Jones Harrison Birtwistle Jan-Michael Vincent Richard Willard Armour Diane Heidkrueger William Robinson George Voinovich Phil Carey Ken Kercheval Iris Murdoch John Stallworth Nina Van Pallandt Patrick Wayne Jean Rey Willie Aames Kirt Manwaring |
St. Swithins's Day (patron for/against rain) National Tapioca Pudding Day Bathtub Races Confuflux (Discordian) Olympic New Year Feast of Rowana (patron of secret knowledge of the runes) Black Ship Festival (Japan) National Ice Cream Day St. Bonaventure's Day Feast of St. Vladimir of Kiev (patron of Russia) St. Swithun's Society Annual Celebration (Canada) Respect Canada Day St. Bonaventure's Day Dog Days end Petal-Hopping for Beginners Day (Fairy) St. Jacob of Nisibis' Day Teddy Bear's Picnic Sultan's Birthday (Brunei) |
| July 15 Events | 1st No-hitter pitched Margarine patented 1st Duck-billed Platypus in the US Corn laws established Mohammed's Flight Boeing 707 1st flew (1954) Franco-Prussian War began (1870) Richard Nixon accepted Chinese invitation to visit China (1971) La Mareilleaise adopted as French National Anthem (1795) Apollo 18 and Soyuz 19 docked together in space (1975) Howard Hughes set record for around-the-world flight (19 hrs, 17 min; 1938) Simply Red's If You Don't Know Me Now reached No. 1 (1989) James Scott, Duke of Monmouth beheaded (1685) Manitoba became a Canadian Province (1870) Georgia readmitted to the Union (1870) Annette Benning announced she was carryiong Warren Beatty's child (1991) Royal Society of London chartered (1662) UK Government ordered 100 Spitfire fighter planes (1930) Tamil Tigers massacred 168 muslims (Sri Lanka; 1990) Gianni Versace murdered by serial killer (1997) 200 British men, women and children are chopped up and thrown down a well during Indian mutiny (1857) Crusaders take Jerusalem briefly, killing mostly other christians in the process (1099) US Secret Service discovered briefcase revealing German spy network in US (1915) Poland and Lithuania defeated Teutonic Order at Tannenbery (aka Grunwald; 1410) |
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| 16 July | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Phoebe Cates Ginger Rogers Alexander the Great Stewart Copeland Orville Redenbacher Pinchas Zuckerman Roald Amundsen "Shoeless" Joe Jackson John Curran Barbara Stanwyck Joshua Reynolds Charles Sheeler John-Baptiste-Camille Corot Bess Myerson Gloria Walker (Pb 6/56) Ruben Blades John Kay Margaret Court Cal Tjader Josiah Spode Bernard Hughes Mary Baker Eddy Richard Bryan Ida B. Wells Richard Thornburgh Giuseppe Piazzi Trygve Lie Frits Zernike Milly Vitale Corey Feldman Barry Sanders |
International Juggling Day Atomic Bomb Day La Paz Day (Bolivia) St. Eustathius' Day National Corn Fritters Day St. Helier's Day (patron of Jersey) Festival of Convivial Tools National Blueberry Festival St. Carmine's Day (patron of Naples) National Ice Cream Day Petal-Hopping for Non-Starters Day (Fairy) Feast of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel |
| July 16 Events | 1st Atomic bomb exploded (1945) Ready-mixed Paint patented District of Columbia established (1790) Kissing banned (England; 1439) Pride of the Yankees premiered Apollo 11 lifted off (1969) San Diego founded Columbia University opened (1754) 1st Parking meters installed (1935) US gained possession of Florida (1821) Czar Nicholas and family murdered by Bolsheviks (1918) Gentlemen Prefer Blondes premiered Reinforced Concrete 1st used (1867) San Francisco Maritime Union strike began (1934) Mount Blanc tunnel opened (1965) J.D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye published (1951) Biafran War began (1967) Rabies vaccine discovered (1885) 1st US Military Hospital established (1775) Department of Public Health established Anne of Cleves died (1557) Expidition to find lost city of Ubar began (1990) Louis XVI suspended until he agreed to ratify French Constitution (1791) Shoemaker-Levy Comet crashed into Jupiter (1994) Mormon Battalion established (Mexican War; 1846) Junipero Serra founded San Diego de Alcala (1769) Natalie Wood remarried Robert Wagner (1972) Tommy James & the Shondell's Hanky Panky reached No. 1 (1966) Southern Democrats broke to form States Rights Party (aka Dixiecrats), nominating Strom Thurmond for US President (1948) |
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| 17 July | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| James Cagney Donald Sutherland Peter Schickle (P.D.Q. Bach) Art Linkletter Earle Stanley Gardner Nelson Mandela Pierre Maupertuis Diahann Carroll Brandy Alexandre Karen Elaine Price (Pb 1/81) Lionel Feininger Bernice Abbott Elbridge Gerry Tim Brooke-Taylor Isaac Watts David Hasselhoff Phoebe Snow Cliff Edwards Luis Munoz Rivera Robert Thigpen Shmuel Agnon Lou Boudreau John Jacob Astor Darryl Lamonica Nancy Jo Hooper (Pb 2/64) Lionel Feininger Pat McCormick Maksim Litvinov Wayne Sleep Eleanor Steber William Gargan Ron Middleton Phyllis Diller Gerry Elbridge |
Feast of the Clockless Nowever Avocado Festival Farlop Fair (Epping Forest, UK) Crank Call Day Lady Day POW-MIA Recognition Day National Peach Ice Cream Day Gion Matsuri (Japan) St. Marcellina's Day Norway Independence Day St. Alexius Day Peaceful Revolution Day (Iraq) St. Ennodius' Day Dodge City Day St. Margaret's Day (Eastern) Constitution Day (South Korea) Mawlidul Nabi (Prophet's Birthdau) St. Leo IV's Day Wrong Way Day Petal-Hopping for Hopeless Cases (Fairy) St. Alexis' Day (patron of beggars) Munoz-Rivera Day (Puerto Rico) Scillitan Martyrs' Day |
| July 17 Events | Swiss Family Robinson shipwrecked (1805) California Gold Rush began Disneyland opened (1955) Punch humor magazine 1st published (1841) 1st U.S. paper money issued Wrong Way Corrigan's Flight began in NYC (1938) US and USSR spacecraft linked-up (1975) Key Largo premiered Potsdam Conference started (1945) 100 Years War ended (1453) Yellow Submarine premiered (1968) 1st Smoking Railroad Car established (1858) Sewing Machine patented (1790) 1st photo taken of a star (Vega) Easy Rider premiered 1st Newport Jazz Festival held (1954) Billie Holiday died (1959) Great Railroad Strike began (1877) Oh! Calcutta premiered on Broadway (1969) 1st American patriotic song, The Liberty Song, published (1768) Dictator Anastasio Somoza fled Nicaragua (179) US Navy blockaded Tripoli (1801) Commune of Paris suppressed (1794) Abbey Theatre founded (Dublin, Ireland; 1951) House of Windsor adopted as name of UK's ruling family Spain defeated Caliph Mahommed al-Nasr near Toledo (1212) Brenda Lee's I'm Sorry reached No. 1 (1960) Pennsylvania Railroad began Philadelphia to Pittsburgh service (1858) Charlotte Corday guillotined for killing Paul Marat (1793) Kansas City Hyatt Regency's aerial walkway collapsed, killing 114 (1981) Wings' Listen to What the Man Said reached No. 1 (1975) Macon, Georgia Telegraph newspaper referendum saves Doonesbury comic strip from being canceled (1971) |
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| 18 July | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Elizabeth McGovern John Glenn William Makepeace Thackery Hunter S. Thompson Nelson Mandela Gilbert White John Dee Robert Hooke Giacomo Balla Yevgeny Alelesandrovich Yevtushenko Hume Cronyn William Gilbert Grace Red Skelton Harriet Nelson Lu Pan S.I. Hayakawa Horatio Alger Laurence Housman Martha Reeves Dion Irwin Hasen Brian Auger Martha Reeves Clifford Odetts Jessamyn West Hendrik Antoon Lorentz James Brolin Calvin Peete Ricky Skaggs Joe Torre Audrey Landers Lonnie Mack Bernard Williams Marcia Jones Smoke Richard Branson Dick Button Lonnie Young Steve Forbes Vidkun Quisling |
Chrysanthemum Day (USA) National Caviar Day St. Theneva's Day (patron of Glasgow) Anti-Bigot Day Railroad Day Hog Calling Contest St. Arnulf of Metz's Day (patron of millers, music, finding things lost) Lunch of the Forward Goblins (fairies only; Fairy) Grand Teton Music Festival (@) St. Philastrius' Day |
| July 18 Events | Rome burned, while Nero fiddled (63 CE) Ted Kennedy and his secretary, Mary Jo Kopechne, drove into Chappaquipdick (1969) Fireworks 1st banned Catholic popes declared infallible (1870) McDonald's massacre (California; 1984) Aliens premiered Helicopter 1st flew (1940) 1st Indian Satellite sent up (1980) Human Voice 1st recorded (1877) Grand Trunk Railroad Line completed (1853) Sharp County, Arkansas founded (home of Evening Shade; 1868) Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf published (1925) General Franco and Spanish Army began revolt (1936) I.R.S. Records folded (1996) Zonker wins Jack Ford Medal for excellance in tan (Doonesbury) Four Seasons' Rag Doll reached No. 1 (1964) George of the Jungle film premiered (1997) Wrong-Way Corrigan arrived in Ireland after taking off from New York for California (1938) Vanderbilt's christened their Chinese Tea Room at Marble House in Newport Beach (1914) |
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| 19 July | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Edgar Degas Mary Stuart Masterson Max Fleischer Lizzie Borden A.J. Cronin Ille Nastase Samuel Colt Dr. Charles Mayo Vikki Carr Brian May Natalya Bessmertnova Suzi Schott (Pb 8/84) William Scranton LeRoy Butler Elmer Bischoff George McGovern Helen Gallagher Rosalyn Yalow Indigo Jones Philip Agee Bernie Leadon Larry Boxx Dennis Cole Herbert Marcuse Vladimir Mayakovsky Mary Ann Ball Bickerdyke Charles Edward Pickering Pat Hingle George Hamilton IV |
Woman's Day Feast of Cranks Ancient Egyptian New Year Festival of the Puzzlebox National Daiquiri Day Adonia (Celebration of Greek God Apollo) St. Symmachus' Day Festival of Sirius St. Marcrina's Day Old Feast Day (St. Vincent De Paul) Back-to-Front Yad (Fairy) National LIberation Day (Nicaragua) Prince Lot Hula Festival (Honolulu, Hawaii) St. Justina and Rufina's Day (patron of potters, Seville) Flitch Day (Bacon given to any married couple who could prove they had lived in harmony and fidelity for 1 year; very few took home the bacon) |
| July 19 Events | Adonis and Aphrodite married Franz Liszt's farewell concert 1st Women's Rights Convention (1848) Clueless premiered Bloomers 1st appeared 1st Lawn Tennis Tournament held Rosetta stone discovered (1799) Birdman of Alcatrazz premiered 1st Ad for Hershey's chocolate Silk Stockings premiered 2nd Johnston Flood (1974) 1st Boeing 707 flew (1954) Nazi's Degenerate Art Exhibition opened (1937) Henry VIII's battleship Mary Rose sank (1545) 1st Woman nominated for vice-president (1984) Napoleon III declared war on Prussia (1870) Hail destroyed Papal Palace ceiling (Rome; 1500) 1st In-Flight Movie shown (TWA; 1961) UFOs buzzed Washington, DC (1952) Frank Sinatra & Mia Farrow married (1966) La Toya Jackson filed bankruptcy (1995) Schoolteacher Christina McAuliffe selected to join NASA space shuttle (1985) Billy Joel's It's Still Rock & Roll to Me reached No. 1 (1980) Deadly Mist begins rolling across the lake (in Stephen King's The Mist) |
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| 20 July | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Edmund Hillary Natalie Wood Diana Rigg Petrarch Carlos Santana Sally Ann Howes Francesco Petrarch Stone Gossard Max Liebermann Donna Dixon Lola Albright Giorgio Morandi Lazlo Moholy-Nagy Nelson Doubleday Frantz Fanon Jill De Vries (Pb 10/75) Mima Jausovec T.J. Shephard Chuck Daly Erik Karlfeldt Vladimir A. Lyakhov Judy Chicago Eliot Richardson Judy Cohen Larry Craig Mike Ilitch Theda Bara JoAnn Campbell Barbara Ann Mikulski Heinie Manush Tony Olivia Nam June Paik John Reith Ian Beckles Kim Carnes Mahmud II |
Chess Day Binding of the Wreaths National POW-MIA Recognition Day Ugly Truck Contest Day St. Aurelius' Day Moon Day St. Uncumber's Day (patron against men's lust) Colombia Indepedence Day Thgir-yaw-Dnuor Day (Fairy) St. Elias' Day (patron against drought, earthquakes) National Lollipop Day St. Elijah's Day Bregenz Festival (Austria) St. Margaret's Day (Western; patron of childbirth) |
| July 20 Events | Jacques Cartier discovered Canada (1534) Man 1st walked on the moon (1969) Dorothy melted the wicked witch 1st Cheese factory opened Billboard singles chart debuts 1st photos of Mars taken (1940) Anchors Aweigh premiered British Columbia became a Canadian Province (1871) Champlain reached Cape Cod (1605) Admission 1st charged for a baseball game 1st National Shuffleboard tournament held Viking I landed on Mars (1975) US Legion of Merit authorized Riot Act took effect (UK; 1715) Sitting Bull surrendered (1881) England seized Quebec from France (1629) 1st Baby born on Alcatraz Island (1970) Geneva Accords signed, ending French conflict in Vietnam (1954) Baseball declared a "non-essential occupation" (WW1; 1918) Jan & Dean's Surf City reached No. 1 (1963) Shostavovich's 7th Symphony premiered (1942) Barney Google met Spark Plug (1921) Jane Asher announced engagement to Paul McCartney was off (1968) UN International Finance Corporation established (1956) King Abdullah of Jordan assassinated (1951) Sandinistas took over Nicaragua (1979) Bruce Lee died from allergic reaction to aspirin (1973) NFL banned signing of any player still eligible to play college football (1947) |
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| 21 July | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Ernest Hemingway Robin Williams Hart Crane Cat Stevens Francis Parkinson Keyes Isaac Stern Salvator Rosa Marshall McLuhan Jon Lovitz Norman Jewison Raquel Darrian Paul Julius von Reuter Karel Reisz Jonathan Miller Paul Reuter Louise Blanchard Bethune Janet Reno Don Knotts Paul Wellstone Henry Ellard Victor Schoelcher Kay Starr Hannah Hull John Gardner Frances Folsolm Cleveland Dave Henderson |
1st Day of the World (Egypt) Cap Breton (Canada, Scotland) National Junk Food Day Feast of Damo (keeper of secrets of philosophy; daughter of Greek sage, Pythagoras) Schoelcher (Martinique) Belgium Independence Day St. Victor's Day (patron of cabinetmakers; against foot trouble) North American Tug of War Tournament Americana Festival St. Lawrence of Brindisi's Day World Congress of Esperanto Twin-O-Rama Schoelcher Day (French West Indies) Liberation Day (Guam) Touch Hammer's Birthday Bargain Day (Fairy) St. Praxedes' Day National Creme Brulee Day |
| July 21 Events | Joannie made her last batch of fries
(Doonesbury) Scopes Monkey trial ends 1st U.S. train robbery (Jesse James; 1873) Battle of Bull Run (aka Manassas; 1861) Tate Gallery opened (London; 1897) Veterans Administration established Electromagnet discovered Martial law lifted in Poland (1983) 1st Woman Prime Minister took office (Sri Lanka; 1960) Women's Hall of Fame dedicated (1979) Rain of Ants (Nancy, France; 1887) John Smith discovered Chesapeake Bay 1st Canadian Railroad opened Leopold I, 1st King of Belgium coronated (1831) 1st Robot killed a human (1984) Arshile Gorky commited suicide (1948) Robert Burns died (1796) Iran-Iraq War ended by UN (1988) Trans-Siberian Railroad completed (1904) Captain Alfred Dreyfus pardoned after 11 years in prison (1906) Napoleon defeated Mamelukes at Battle of the Pyramids (1798) Elvis Presley's Hard Headed Woman reached No. 1 (1958) George Carlin arrested in Milwaukee for using "bad" language in his act Sir Henry "Harry Hotspur" Percy killed in battle attempting to overthrow Henry IV (1403) Nassar turned down by US, UK, & World Bank for aid in building Aswan Dam (1954) US Judge ruled Lady Chatterly's Lover may be sent through the mail (1959) Pink Floyd performed The Wall in Berlin while symbolic Berlin Wall built & knocked down (1990) Louisiana passed law requiring creationism to be taught alongside evolution in public schools (1981) |
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| 22 July | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Edward Hopper Stephen Vincent Benet Giovanni Gabrielli Amy Vanderbilt Jason Robards Rev. William Spooner Danny Glover Alex Trebek Emma Lazarus Henriette Allais (Pb 3/80) Albert Brooks Gregor Mendel Sondra Elizabeth Greenberg (Pb 6/87) Alexander Calder Oscar de la Renta Walter Ufer Don Henley Terence Stamp Selman Abraham Waksman Willem Dafoe Orson Bean Kay Bailey Hutchison Jim Edgar Bobby Sherman Margaret Whiting Johnny Evers Sparky Lyle Joanna Going Bryan Forbes Lucia Albanese Gustav Hertz Lasse Viren Mary & Madeleine Collinson (Pb 10/70) Sobhuza II, the Ngwenyama, King of Swaziland Rose Kennedy Willam V. Roth Robert Dole Philip I "the Handsome" |
Spooner's Day Preparedness Day St. Mary Magdalene's Day (patron of glovers, hairdressers, fallen women, perfumers) India Independance Day Festival of Boredom and Reveries National Liberation Day (Poland) Ratcatcher's Day Dornach Commemeration Day (Switzerland) Lotus Festival Cancer zodiac sign ends National Penuche Day International Childbirth Education Awareness Day |
| July 22 Events | Elvis Costello's 1st album, My Aim is True,
released (1977) 1st Miniature gold course opened (Chatanooga, TN) Palermo taken by General Patton (WW 2; 1943) Baliff of Paris murdered (1789) 1st Public Enemy No. 1, John Dillinger killed by the FBI (1934) Battle of Atlanta (1864) Introducing the Beatles released on VeeJay Records Battle of Dornach (Switzerland) Apollo 11 left the Moon (1969) Rats (& then the children) led away by the Pied Piper of Hamelin (1376) Paul McCartney announced the formation of Wings (1971) Wiley Post completed the 1st solo around-the-world flight (1933) Shell Oil and British Petroleum (BP) withdrew from Israel under Arab pressure (1957) French clergy removed from Rome's control and property nationalized (France; 1790) Walter Raleigh's Roanoke colony discovered to have disappeared (1587) |
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| 23 July | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Raymond Chandler Arthur Treacher Woody Harrelson Arthur Kennedy Don Drysdale Pee Wee Reese Juliet Anderson (Aunt Peg) Stephanie Seymour Arata Isozaki Gary Payton Nicholas Gage Belinda Montgomery Gloria De Haven Vincent Sardi Charlotte Cushman Dono Dinelli Mark Jackson William H. Gillette Gluyas Williams James Cardinal Gibbons Nate Dingle Richard Rogers Gary Stiles Michael Wilding Coral Browne Frank "Dingle" Croucher Karl Menninger Haile Selassie Elizabeth Purley Hortense Cumberbatch (1968) |
Mayhem New Year St. Bridget's Day (patron of scholars, Sweden) Neptunalia and Salcia (Sea God & Goddess of wide open sea) Leo zodiac sign begins Fiesta De Santiago (Guatemala) National Vanilla Ice Cream Day St. Liborius' Day (patron against gallstones) Feast of Sulis (Goddess of Mineral Springs) Soma No Umadi (Wild Horse Chasing; Japan) Revolution Anniversary Day (Egypt) St. Apollinaris' Feast |
| July 23 Events | Ice Cream Cone invented 1st Public swimming pool opened (Boston; 1827) Music banned in Iran (1979) 1st Electric Power Plant lit up Good Neighbor Sam premiered Blood, Sweat & Tears' Spinning Wheel went gold Dornach Battle ended (Switzerland; 1499) 1st Motor Ambulance in service Betty Boop 1st lept out of the inkwell (1931) Gene Autry Show debuted (1950) Peter Sellers died (1980) Jews 1st allowed to sit in UK Parliament (1858) Local Defence Volunteers name changed to "Home Guard" (1940) Phillips Memorial Art Gallery founded (Washington, DC; 1920) They're Coming to Take Me Away Ha Ha released Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson married (1986) Ayatollah Khomeini banned rock & roll in Iran (1979) Mark Twain visited Florence, Italy (1867) Barry Manilow's Looks Like We Made It reached No. 1 (1977) King Charles I lost control of Massachusetts in court battle (1637) Austro-Hungary issued ultimatum to Serbia after murder of Archduke Ferdinand (19140 Carl Jung resigned as President of International Psychoanalytic Association, taking Adler and Stekel with him, leaving only Freudian theory (1914) Penthouse published nude pictures of then-Miss America Vanessa Williams and she stepped down (1984) Sioux tribes agreed to give up Iowa and Minnesota and are confined to strip of land along upper Minnesota River (1851) Henry David Thoreau arrested for refusing to pay poll tax in protest of Mexican War, provding inspiration for his essay Civil Disobedience (1846) |
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| 24 July | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Alexandre Dumas (1802) Ernest Bloch Amelia Earhart Simon Bolivar Ambrose Bierce Pat Oliphant Stephanie Adams (Pb 11/92) Robert Hays Dorothy Mays (Pb 7/79) Peter Yates Alphonse Mucha Julie Krone Michael Richards Fred Law Olmstead Jr. John D. MacDonald Chris Sarandon John Clayton Lynda Carter Karl Malone Billy Taylor Joe Barry Campbell Peter Serkin Willie Davis Frank Wedekind Henrik Pontoppidan John Aniston Bella Abzug Kevin Butler Bob Lilly John Middleton Clayton Alexander Jackson Davis Dany Savlia Ruth Buzzi Marc Racicot Carroll A. Campbell Jr. Barry Bonds |
Pioneer Day (Utah) Festival of St. Eloi (French Basque) National Tequila Day Feast of the Trickster of Liberty St. Boris' Day (patron of Moscow, Russia) Valencia Fair begins (Spain) Bolivar Day (Ecuador, Venezuela) Pop a Wheelie Day Jilwalla Jinks' Jamboree (Fairy) St. Christina the Astonishing's Day (patron of pyschiatrists) |
| July 24 Events | John T. Scopes found guilty of teaching evolution 1st Duplicating machine made Bilbo found the ring (Hobbit) James I crowned King of England Patton took Palermo (WW II) Detroit founded (1701) 1st plane crossed the English Channel Mary Queen of Scots abdicated (1567) Battle of Flowers 1st Public Opinion Poll taken (Delaware; 1824) John Smith discovered Susquehana River Capture of Gibralter by British from Spain (1704) Peter Sellers died (1980) 1st Successful Insulin treatment given (1925) Rotary-type printing press patented Eskimo Chicken 1st hatched in captivity Potsdam Conference ended (1945) Jigme Singye Wangchuk became King of Bhutan (1973) Spanish Falangist government set up by General Mola (1936) Treaty of Lausanne signed by Turkey and Greece (1923) Raiders' Indian Reservation reached No. 1 (1971) Absolutely Fabulous debuted in US (1994) Utah settled by Brigham Young at Salt Lake City (1847) Tennessee readmitted to the Union (1866) Survivor's Eye of the Tiger reached No. 1 (1982) Disney's The Black Cauldron premiered (1985) Jeffrey Archer won libel suit against The Star (UK; 1987) Marvin the Martian debuted in Warner Bros. cartoon (1948) DC-3 Airliner over Montgomery, Alabama saw a UFO (1948) Full Page Ad published in London Times advocating legalization of marijuana, signed by many famous people, including all 4 Beatles (1967) |
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| 25 July | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Maxfield Parrish Frank Church Thomas Eakins Walter Brennan Elke Jeinsen (Pb 5/93) Johnny "Rabbit" Hodges Davidson Black Angela Meline (Pb 6/92) Christoph Scheiner Jack Gilford Gail Force Arthur Earl Balfour Flora Adams Darling Nate Thurmond Davidson Black Steve Goodman Ray Billingsley Walter Payton Midge Dector Douglas Drabek Eric Hoffer Barbara Harris John Pennel Paul J. Weitz Anna Symmes Harrison Janet Margolin Elias Canetti Louise Brown Estelle Getty Stanley Dancer Louise Joy Brown |
Netherlands Independence Day Commonwealth Day (aka Constitution Day; Puerto Rico) Furrinalia (Old Roman Goddess of Springs) St. James' Day (patron of furriers, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Spain, veterinarians; against arthritis) Festival of Picaresque Animality Threading the Needle Holiday (China) Act Like a Caveman Day Khao Pansa (Buddhist Lent) Procession of Penitence/Pleasure Fair (Belgium) Tunisia Republic Day Guanacaste Day (Costa Rica) National Hot Fudge Sundae Day Loiza Aldea Fiesta (Puerto Rico) Cave Man Never Days begin Festival of the Knee-Knockers (Fairy) St. Anne and Joachim's Day (Eastern) World Footbag Championships begin (@) St. Christopher's Day (patron of travel, motorists, bachelors, bus drivers, ferryboat men, polic, soldiers, skiers, truck drivers; against nightmares, tempests) |
| July 25 Events | Bass Ale's Red Triangle certified as world's 1st
trademark 1st Test tube baby, Louise Brown, born (UK; 1979) Steam engine patented (1814) Antarctica discovered 1st Home movies shown Wyoming Territory created (1868) Carousel patented High Noon premiered Paper Collar patented Touch Typing 1st demonstrated Constantinople retaken by the Greeks (1261) 1st Electric Light Bulb lit (guess how many people it took?) Perforated Wrapping Paper patented 1st Flight across English Channel (1909) Christianity banned in Japan (1587) Monarchy abolished in Tunisia (1959) Oxford Botanical Garden opened (1621) Bloody Mary, Queen of England, and Philip II of Spain married (1554) Mata Hari found guilty of spying, despite no direct evidence (1917) Karl Marx's Das Kapital 1st published in Germany (1867) Air Supply's The One That You Love reached No. 1 (1981) Federal Judge rules the Vietnam war is illegal (1973) Rosanne sang the National Anthem (1990) 1st Woman sailed solo across the Pacific Ocean (1969) Andrea Doria collided with the Stockholm in the North Atlantic (1956) Puerto Rico adopted constitution, making itself autonomous but voluntarily linked to US (1952) Carpenters' (They Long To Be) Close To You reached No. 1 (1970) 80-year old British Army Surgeon Major-General James Barry revealed on her deathbed that she was a woman (1865) |
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| 26 July | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Carl Jung George Bernard Shaw Stanley Kubrick Robert Graves Jean Shepard Constantino Brumidi Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot George Catlin Blake Edwards George Grosz Vivian Vance Carl Michael Bellman Vitas Geralitus George Louis Beer Mick Jagger Isaac Babbitt George Clinton Jason Robards Aldous Huxley Gracie Allen Serge Koussevitzky Andre Maurois George Grosz Paul Gallico Hoyt Wilhelm Bob Waterfield Salvador Allende Gossens Mary Jo Kopechne Auguste Beernaert Donald Voorhees Bob Lilly Dorothy Hamill Marjorie Lord Linda Harrison Micki King Susan George Bert (Sesame Street) |
All or Nothing Day Somers Day (Bermuda) Wonderful Drinks Day (Fairy) Slepnir (Celtic Horse Festival) Curacaco Day Bagelfest St. Anne's Day (patron of Canada, grandmothers, housewives, miners; against infertility) Liberia Independence Day Curacao Day (Curacao) Maldives Independence Day Revolution Day (Cuba) St. Joachim's Day National Coffee Milkshake Day Central Maine Egg Festival begins (Pittsfield, Maine @) Black-Eyed Peas Jamboree begins (Athens, Texas @) |
| July 26 Events | Mayan calendar started New York became the 11th state (1788) 1st Ballet tutu appeared King Farouk of Egypt abdicated (1952) Ben Franklin appointed 1st Postmaster General (1775) Charles named Prince of Wales F.B.I. and C.I.A. established 1st Test Tube Baby born (1978) Andrea Doria collided with the Stockholm 1st Book published in Esperanto (1887) National Security Council created (1947) Argentina cried for Evita (1952) 1st Ocean Cruise taken President Nassar nationalized Suez Canal (1956) Charles V of Spain sanctioned expidition of Pizarro (1529) Truman banned racial segregation in military (1948) 1st Flight across the English Channel (1910) U.S. Department of Defense created Winton automobile crossed US (1903) Mark Twain began his stagecoach trip to the far West (1861) Pee-Wee Herman watched Nurse Nancy in Florida movie theatre (1991) Fidel Castro led unsuccessful rebellion and was imprisoned by Cuban dictator Batista (1953) Menachem Begin ignored plea from US President Carter and ordered more settlements built on West Bank (1977) Peter Gabriel's Sledgehammer reached No. 1 (1986) |
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| 27 July | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Confucius Keenan Wynn Ernst Von Donnanti Alexandre Dumas (1824) Pina Bausch Enrique Granados Norman Lear George Biddle Airy Ernie Chan Peggy Fleming Jerry Van Dyke Maureen McGovern Christopher Dean Jose Celso Barbossa Leo Durocher Bobbie Gentry Hilaire Belloc Anton Dolin Josh Grier Charlotte Corday Skitch Henderson Betty Thomas Irv Cross Harl McDonald Jo Durie Anton Dolan Joe Tinker Leonard Rose Mike Hartenstine Barbara Ferris Vincent Canby Shirley Ann Field |
Take Your Plants For A Walk Day Festival of the 7 Sleepers National Blunt Object Day Caravan of Pilgrims begins (Cairo) National Scotch Day Garlic Festival Procession of the Witches (Beselare, Belgium) St. Pantaleon's Day (patron of physicians, trousers, Venice) International Lumberjack Tournament Cross-Atlantic Communication Day UFO Days begin (Elmwood, Wisconsin) Seven Sleepers' Day (patron against insomnia) Over-the-Moon Night (Cows and Spoons; Fairy) |
| July 27 Events | Korean War ended (1953) Money Order system established Sir Walter Raleigh brought tobacco to England Transatlantic cable finished (1867) 1st Ring bayonet appeared John Denver's Annie's Song reached No. 1 (1974) US Department of State, 1st Cabinet, established (1789) Tony Banks married Gertrude Stein died (1946) Insulin 1st isolated (1921) Japan invaded Indochina (1941) Shah of Iran died (1980) Tina Turner filed for divorce from Ike (1976) Bugs Bunny debuted in Warner Bros. cartoon (A Wild Hare; 1940) Greg LeMond became 1st non-European to win Tour de France (1986) Thomas Jefferson made head of US Department of Foreign Affairs (1789) Convention of Paris voted to arrest Robespierre (1794) Navigation Act confirmed by Parliament to stimulate shipbuilding in US (1661) Spinoza excommunicated by Jewish religious authority for challenging interpretation of scripture (1656) Paul Young's Everytime You Go Away reached No. 1 (1985) |
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| 28 July | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Captain James T. Kirk Jacqueline Kennedy Onasis Rachel Sweet Jake Johansen Beatrix Potter Riccardo Muti Mike Bloomfield Rick Wright Charles Townes Jacques Piccard Marchel Duchamp Thomas Heyward Gerard Manley Hopkins Vida Blue Bill Bradley Lori Loughlin Michael West Earl S. Tupper Ibn al-'Arabi Leon Spilliaert Terry Fox Lu Pan Garfield Sobers Sally Struthers Thomas Heyward Jr. Ernst Cassirer Anne Hutchinson Peter Duchin Georgia Engel Rudy Vallee Malcolm Lowry Ballington Booth Linda Kelsey David Alexander Jim Davis |
Accountant's Day Kermesse (Brussels, Belgium) Festival of Hungry Ghosts (China) Domhnach Chrom Dubh (Grain Festival; Ireland) National Milk Chocolate Day Puerto Rico Independence Day St. Samson of Dol's Day Runic half-month of Ur ends Terry Fox Day Peru Independence Day St. Innocent I's Day Imp-Handling Conference (Fairy) Celebration of Our Lady of the Snows begins St. Victor I's Day |
| July 28 Events | Potoatoes 1st brought to Europe (1586) Minimum Wage Act established Hamburger created (1900) Metrics 1st used in US B-52 Bomber accidently hit the Empire State Building (1945) 1st Fingerprint taken Battle of Monmouth Animal House premiered (1978) Cyrano de Bergerac died (1655) Iron Lung 1st used Miami city incorporated (1896) Boeing's B-17 Flying Fortress bomber 1st flew (1935) 1st Singing telegram sent (1933) LBJ sent 50,000 troops to Vietnam (1965) Iran-Contra Hearings began (1987) Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia (1914) Disney's Alice in Wonderland premiered (1951) Israelis abducted Shia Muslim Sheikh Abduk Obeid in Lebanon (1989) Johann Sebastian Bach died (1750) Maximilien Robespierre guillotined (1794) Treaty allowing unrestricted Chinese immigration to US signed (1868) Harry Nilsson's Son of Schmilsson released Coke 1st sold at the Olympics (1928) 14th Amendment ratified guaranteeing the vote to everyone but women (1868) Noah opened the window of the ark (2348 BCE) 1st Treaty signed between US and China (1868) Paper Airplane indoor record set (196 ft., 2 in.; 1987) |
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| 29 July | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Dave Stevens William Powell Alexis de Tocqueville Dag Hammarskjold Rasputin Ken Burns Sigurd Romberg Don Marquis Peter Bogdanovich Don Carter Vladimir Zworkin Booth Tarkington Maria Checa (Pb 8/94) Peter Jennings Clara Bow Eastman Johnson Robert Reid Charles Beebe Melvin Belli Paul Taylor David Warner Tim Mara Michael Spinks Patty Scialfa Greg Minton Eyvind Johnson I.I. Rabi Nancy Landon Kassebaum Tim Mara Jim Wahler William Gass Paul Taylor Getty Lee Alexandra Paul Leslie Easterbrook Robert Fuller Thelma Todd Jeanetta Arnette Wil Wheaton Elizabeth Dole Benito Mussolini |
Festival of the Polymorphously Perverse Dragon Day National Lasagna Day Cherry Feast (Germany) Oslok (aka St. Olaf's Feast; Norway) First Assembly Day Cheese Sacrifice Purchase Day Thor's Day (Norse) St. Martha's Day (patron of innkeepers, cook, housekeepers, laundresses, waitresses) Runic half-month of Thorn (defense) begins Somers Day (Bermuda) Mutomboko Ceremony Day (Zambia) St. Olaf's Day (patron of Norway) Pardon of the Birds (Quimperle, Brittany) National Roller Skating Tournament St. Lupus' Day (patron against stomachaches) Rain Day (Waynesburg, Pennsylvania) St. Olave's Day |
| July 29 Events | 1st Almanc published NASA established (1958) 1st Asphalt road built Help! premiered Prince Charles and Lady Diana married (1981) 1st International Boxing Match fought Brownsea Island Camp, 1st Boy Scout camp, opened Spanish Armada dispersed (1588) International Atomic Agency established (1957) Jack Paar Show debuted (1957) Iron Lung invented (1928) Pope condemned all birth control (1968) Japan granted US trade privileges (1858) US Socialist Party established (1901) Doors' Light My Fire reached No. 1 (1967) Paris seized by French Liberals opposed to Charles X's new restrictions (1830) Mary Queen of Scots married her cousin, Henry Stewart (1565) Record for Hammock Swinging began (240 hours; 1986) Homestead Steel Mill strike began (Pennsylvania; 1892) UN International Atomic Energy Agency came into force (1957) Nathaniel Bacon led rebellion against Royal Governor in Jamestown (1676) Gilbert O'sullivan's Alone Again (Naturally) reached No. 1 (1972) New Trade Agreement between US and Japan allowed Americans to live anywhere in Japan, the 1st time this is allowed of outsiders (1858) |
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| 30 July | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Vladimir Zworykin Georgio Vasari Henry Ford Emily Bronte James Edward Kelly Pete Townsend Arnold Schwarzenegger Chris Mullin James Blish Anita Hill Henry Moore Kate Bush Thorstein Veblen Peter Bogdanovich Dave Sanborn Casey Stengel Paul Anka Robert McCormick Ken Olin Thornstein Veblen Edd "Kookie" Byrnes Bill Carwright Eleanor Smeal C. Northcote Parkinson Reggie Roby Irene Kristen Chris McGuire James Edward Kelly Ben Piazza Daley Thomas Patricia Schroeder Eleanor Smeal Delta Burke |
Crater Day (Virginia) National Cheesecake Day St. Abdon's Day (patron of barrel makers) Marseillaise Day (France) Vanuatu Independence Day Copperhead Day St. Silas' Day (Greek) Mutomboko Ceremony (Zambia) Dog Day Herbal Ballooning (Fairy) St. Peter Chrysologus' Day World Vegetable Congress |
| July 30 Events | 1st World Cup final held (Uruguay won;
1904) Marseillaise 1st sung (1792) US Navy WAVES established (1942) 1st Color Movie demonstrated England won World Cup (1966) Last Playboy Club closed (Lansing, Michigan; 1988) 1st Ad for an automobile Kon Tiki reached Polynesia Lake Victoria named (1858) Jimmy Hoffa seen in public for the last time (1975) 1st Masonic Lodge established (1733) Insulin discovered Medicare created (1965) Rain of Frogs (London 1838) Apollo 15 landed on the Moon (1971) Captain Easy comic strip began (1933) John Updike's Murder Makes the Magazine 1st oublished at amazon.com (1997) Glass Factory 1st made windows in "common sizes" (1740) Saudi Arabia police open fire on Iranian zealots during annual pilgrimage to Mecca (1987) Families of Thalidomide babies awarded $11 million in damages in class action suit (1973) General A. Pinochet came to power in Chile after a coup d'etat (1973) Steve Winwood's Roll With It reached No. 1 (1988) Hitler presented highest non-citizen award to Henry Ford in Berlin (1938) |
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| 31 July | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Antoine Saint-Exupery Bill Berry S.S. Kresge Kyle MacLachlin Geraldine Chaplin Don Murray James Kent Kym Malin (Pb 5/82) Lynne Reid Banks Jean Dubuffet Curt Gowdy Tylyn John (Pb 3/92) Raven Victoria E. Cooke (Pb 8/80) Wesley Snipes Primo Levi Milton Friedman Stanley Jaffe Evonne Goolagong Irv Kupcinet William F. Weld Don Murray Lynn Karrol (Pb 12/61) John Ericsson Hank Bauer Bob Welch Sherry Lansin Dennis Harrison Erich Heckel Susan Flannery Lane Davies Gary Lewis France Nuyen Ahmet Ertegun Whitney Young Jr. |
Always Live Better Than Yester Day Friendship Day St. Ignatius of Loyola's Day (founded Jesuits; patron of the military, religious retreats; against scruples) Teej (Iraq) Iraq Independence Day St. Joseph of Arimathea's Day (Eastern) Lammas Eve National Raspberry Cake Day St. Germanus' Day Red Friday Loki and Sigyn's Day (Norse) Parents' Day (Zaire) St. Giovanni Colombini's Day |
| July 31 Events | Saxophone invented 1st US patent issued (1790) US Mint opened (1792) 1st Railroad track used Society of Jesus (Jesuits) founded Breech Loading Cannon patented Columbus discovered Trinidad Jimmy Hoffa disappeared (1975) Half Penny abolished (UK) Anglo-Dutch War ended (1667) Weimar Republic established in Germany (1919) Idlewild Airport opened (NYC; 1948) Cigarette Commercials banned on UK TV (1965) Rain of Frogs (Sterling, Connecticut; 1921) 1st US Government building cornerstone laid Army dropout Ulysses S. Grant appointed General of Volunteers (1861) GM became 1st auto stock listed on New York Stock Exchange (1911) New York's International Airport (aka Idlewild) dedicated (now JFK; 1948) Windor McKay's Little Sammy Sneeze comic strip began (1904) Irish pop group "Miami Showband" murdered by protestatnt gunmen in Northern Ireland (1975) Antoine de Saint-Exupery disappeared flying over southern France (1944) Film Censorship Law 1st imposes its values on everyone else Shi'ite Muslims, from Organization for the Oppressed of the Earth, hanged US Marine William Higgins (1989) Nigeria seized UK oil installations to persuade Margaret Thatcher to be tougher on apartheid (1979) Patrick Francis Healy became President of Georgetown, becoming 1st black to head predominately white university (1861) James Taylor's You've Got a Friend reached No. 1 (1971) NFL Player's strike began over pension plans (1970) Smuggler's Union went on strike because lax customs officials made it too easy Virginia House of Burgess proposed that wives be given shares of land in Jamestown (1619) |
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