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1 International Joke Day First U.S. Postage Stamp Issued (1847) Battle of Gettysburg (1863) First U.S. Zoo Opened in Philadelphia (1874)
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2 Canada Day U.S. Constitution Anniversary (1788) Amelia Earhart's Disappearance (1937)
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3 Newfoundland Memorial Day
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4 Independence Day Walt Whitman Published "Leaves of Grass" (1855)
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5 Phineas Barnum's Birthday (1810)
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6 Germany's Capital Returns to Berlin (1999)
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7 Father/Daughter Take-a-Walk-Together Day
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8 Jonathan Edwards starts The Great Awakening (1741) First Public Reading of The Declaration of Independence (1776)
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9 Fourteenth Amendment Ratified (1816)
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10 Don't-Step-on-a-Bee Day
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11 E.B. White's Birthday (1899) Skylab Spacecraft Fell to Earth (1979)
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12 Henry David Thoreau's Birthday (1817) Etch-a-Sketch Released (1960)
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13 Northwest Ordinance (1787)
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14 Bastille Day (France)
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15 Rembrandt's Birthday (1606) Tapioca Pudding Day
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16 Atomic Bomb Test (1945) Comet Crashes into Jupiter (1994)
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17 Korea Constitution Day (1948) Disneyland Opened (1955) US/USSR Apollo-Soyuz Space Linkup (1975)
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18 National Ice Cream Day
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19 John Newbery's Birthday (1713)
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20 POW-MIA Day Moon Day First Man on the Moon (1969)
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21 Liberation Day (Guam)
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22 Pied Piper of Hamelin Anniversary (1376)
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23 Arab Republic of Egypt Day (1952)
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24 Amelia Earhart's Birthday (1897) Pioneer Day (UT)
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25 Constitution Day (Puerto Rico)
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26 Fidel Castro's Revolutionary "26th of July Movement" in Cuba (1953)
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27 Parents' Day Korean War Ceasefire Signed (1953)
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28 Beatrix Potter's Birthday (1866) World War I Begins (1914)
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29 NASA Established (1958)
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30 Paperback Books First Marketed (1935)
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31 U.S. Patent Office Opens (1790)
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