July is named in honor of the Greek statesman Julius Caesar. His birthday is in the month of July. What is the date?

1^st -1990, East and West Germany merges their economies. -1991, President Bush nominates Clarence Thomas (a conservative black judge) to Supreme Court.

2^nd-1991, Fighting breaks out in Yugoslavia

4^th-1826, President Thomas Jefferson and President John Adams dies. 1831, President James Monroe 1870, President Calvin Coolidge was born 1900, Louis Armstrong is born 1994, thirty-one die when Tropical Storm Alberto sweeps through Florida and Georgia

5^th-1810, P.T. Barnum was born 1882, First Labor Day observed in USA. 1992, Steffi Graf of Germany wins her fourth Wimbledon title.

6^th-1992, the seven most industrial nations known as Group of Seven in Munich Germany.

7^th-1940, Ringo Starr the drummer of the Beetles was born

8^th-1838, Ferdinand von Zeppelin the inventor of the Zeppelin Hydrogen Blimp. 1992, Amoco and Unocal Corporation announces plan to lay off 10,000 workers in '93-'94

9^th-1850, President Zachary Taylor is born. 1992, Bill Clinton chooses US Senator Al Gore as his running mate for President.

10^th-1991, Boris Yeltsin takes office as Russian President for the first time.

11^th-1767, President John Quincy Adam is born.

12^th-100?BC, Greek Statesman Julius Caesar was born.

13^th-1990, Congress passes civil right law against discrimination of disabled in the work place.

14^th-1789, France gets its independence. 1913, President Gerald Ford was born.

15^th-1991, Chemical Bank and Manufactures Hanover announces plan to merge making the biggest bank merger in US history.

16^th-1995, Saddam Hussein pardon and frees American William Barloon & David Daliberti.

17^th-1994, Brazil wins soccer World Cup chapionship.

18^th-1995, US Senate begins hearings into the Whitewater affair.

19^th-1990, former ball player, Pete Ross is sentenced to five months in prison.

20^th-1992, an airlift of food and medicine reaches the capital of Bosnia, Sarajevo.

21^st-1899, American author Earnest Hemingway is born.

22^nd-1990, Mongolia holds its first multparty election.

23^rd-1855, President & General Ulysses S. Grant is born.

24^th-1897, women pilot, Amelia Earhart is born.

25^th-1952, Puerto Rico's constitution.

26^th-1856, Irish-born playwright, George Bernard Shaw is born.

27^th-1953, End of Korean War.

28^th-1866, Beatrix Potter, writer of Peter Rabbit, is born.

29^th-1994, an abortion doctor is killed in front of his clinic in Pensacola, Florida.

30^th-1863, Henry Ford, founder of the Ford Motor Company is born.

31^st-1995, Disney buys ABC for 19 billion dollars.

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