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July
Zodiac:
Cancer June
21 - July
22 Flower:
Larkspur Birthstone:
Ruby
July,
originally
the
fifth
month
in the
calendar,
was
first
named
Quintiles,
which
means "fifth." However,
when
Julius
Caesar
altered
the
calendar,
he renamed
the
month,
his
birth
month,
after
himself.
Somewhat
ironically,
the
month
named
after
the
dictator
is the
month
in which
the
United
States,
France,
Canada,
The
Netherlands,
and
Belgium
celebrate
the
anniversary
of Independence.
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began
1863.
Battle
of San
Juan began 1893. FACTOID:
famous
charge up San Juan Hill occurred
on April 21st. |
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, first black to be nominated as U.S. by President Lyndon Johnson (6/13/1967), born 1909.
[d. 1993]
Act signed by President Johnson, 1964.
Robert Tools, 59, received the first self-contained artificial
. He died 5
months later after complications from pneumonia, 2001. |
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became
the 43rd state (settled in
1842), 1890. |
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, 30th president (1923), born 1872.
Russian
painter Marc ,
born 1887.
, American writer, born 1804.
FACTOID:
In 1776, the patriots in the original thirteen colonies signed the . FACTOID: Also
the anniversary death date of three presidents: , , .
,
a puppet created by Carl Lornzini, 1881.
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passed setting the voting age at 18 in the United States, 1971. |
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, 43rd President (2000), born 1946. |
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Commerates
the ringing out from Independence Hall for the first public reading of the Declaration of Independence.
FACTOID: The Pennsylvania Assembly ordered the Bell in 1751 to commemorate the 50-year anniversary of William Penn's 1701 Charter of Privileges. www.nps.gov/inde Visit
- Your Parks - Independence Hall Historic Park)
Entrepreneur extraordinaire J. D. , born 1839. |
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,
American player,
born
1943.
became
44th state (settled in 1834),
1890.
,
educator and
founder of the
National Council
for Negro Women,
born 1875.
Teacher, John Scopes, using
a state-approved textbook, taught
a lesson in evolution; he was
arrested two weeks later. In
1925, a law was passed that
made it unlawful for any teacher
to teach Darwin's theory that
man evolved from a lower order
of animals instead of teaching
the story of creation as told
in the Bible. Known as the , it spotlighted
the differences between secular
and religious political thoughts
in the U.S. |
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, 6th President (1825), born 1767.
, American statesman, was killed by
in a duel, 1804.
author and illustrator,
Patricia, born 1944.
E.B. White, most famous for his novel, , was also famous for writing The Elements of Style, a writer's style guide that is still used
today. He also wrote Stuart Little and The Trumpet of the Swan, born 1899. (d. 10/1/1985) |
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Josiah
Wedgewood,
English manufacturer,
born 1730.
, American writer of the book "Waldon Pond," born 1817.
, Roman Emperor, born 102 B.C. |
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passed by U.S. Congress, 1787. |
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Tape patented 1868.
, American folklore hero, killed 1881.
, 38th President (1974), born 1913.
French Revolution, 1789. FACTOID: The French recognize Bastille Day as the end of the monarchy and beginning of the modern republic. |
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Harmenzoon
Van Rijn, Dutch painter, born 1606.
, born 1779. FACTOID: Author of the poem "Twas the night before Christmas
and all through the house, not a creature was stirring--not even a mouse"--Dec. 24, 1822. |
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First exploded, 1945. FACTOID: Atomic bombs were dropped on the cities
of (August 6,
1945 and Nagasaki, Japan (August 9, 1945). |
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opened
in Anaheim, California in 1955 by . |
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, American , born
1921. FACTOID: John Glenn Day commemorates the flight
which launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida on February 20, 1962. Glenn circled the Earth 3 times in
his space capsule and then landed safely in the Atlantic. |
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forced
to surrender, 1881. FACTOID: Sitting Bull (Tatanka Iyotake), Chief of the , was later shot by federal troops following a dispute on December 15, 1890.
Edgar ,
French artist, born 1834.
"" introduced
at Convention,
1848.
Charles H. Mayo, American medical doctor and Founder of the prestigious , born 1865. |
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U.S. landed on Mars, 1976.
Neil Armstrong, first man to , 1969. FACTOID: He placed an American flag on
the moon. His famous quote, "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." |
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, American writer and Nobel Prize winner, born 1899. |
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Gregor
, often called the "father
of Genetics" for his study of the inheritance of traits in pea plants and that the inheritance traits also follows particular laws, which were named after him, born 1822. (d. 1/6/1884) |
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Putnam born 1898. FACTOID: The first woman to fly solo
across Atlantic on May 20, 1932; five years after Lindbergh and to fly solo across the Pacific,
begriming her 18 hour flight from Honolulu to Oakland in 1935. Amelia later vanished in
the Pacific Ocean, 1937. www.ameliaearhart.com
Alexander , French Writer, born 1802. |
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declared itself self-governing, 1952.
The first patented
1871. |
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, Irish dramatist & Nobel Prize winner, born 1856.
became the 11th state (settled in 1614), 1788. FACTOID: Governor Peter Minuit arrived at the future site of New York on May 4, 1626, with four shiploads of colonists and cattle. He bought the entire island of Manhattan from the natives for $24 worth of cloth and brass buttons. One of the original 13 colonies. |
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Veterans' Armistice Day FACTOID: Truce was signed to end the Korean war, 1953. It started June 25, 1950. |
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,
English
author,
born
1818
born,
1863. FACTOID: On
June 4, 1896, Henry wheeled
first Ford car out of
brick barn in Detroit,
Michigan. In 1913,
it took 12 1/2 hours to
put a car together. In
1980, complete assembly
of a car took 93 minutes! |
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attacked
by the English, 1588. FACTOID: 130
ships & about 30,000
men, launched to invade
England & seize the
throne for King Phillip
II of Spain. |
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