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“Then came hot July, boiling like to fire, that all his garments he had cast away.”
~Edmund Spenser~

Knowledge House Guide to
HOLIDAYS & SPECIAL DAYS

July is...

National Baked Bean Month
National Hot Dog Month
National Ice Cream Month
National Ice Cream Day*
a.k.a. "Sundae Sunday"
(third Sunday in July)

JULY CALENDAR
1 International Joke Day First U.S. Postage Stamp Issued (1847) Battle of Gettysburg (1863) First U.S. Zoo Opened in Philadelphia (1874)
2 Canada Day U.S. Constitution Anniversary (1788) Amelia Earhart's Disappearance (1937)
3 Newfoundland Memorial Day
4 Independence Day Walt Whitman Published "Leaves of Grass" (1855)
5 Phineas Barnum's Birthday (1810)
6 Germany's Capital Returns to Berlin (1999)
7 Father/Daughter Take-a-Walk-Together Day
8 Jonathan Edwards starts The Great Awakening (1741) First Public Reading of The Declaration of Independence (1776)
9 Fourteenth Amendment Ratified (1868)
10 Don't-Step-on-a-Bee Day
11 E.B. White's Birthday (1899) Skylab Spacecraft Fell to Earth (1979)
12 Henry David Thoreau's Birthday (1817) Etch-a-Sketch Released (1960)
13 Northwest Ordinance (1787)
14 Bastille Day (France)
15 Rembrandt's Birthday (1606) Tapioca Pudding Day
16 First Atomic Bomb Test (1945) Comet Crashes into Jupiter (1994)
17 Korea Constitution Day (1948) Disneyland Opened (1955) US/USSR Apollo-Soyuz Space Linkup (1975)
18 National Ice Cream Day
19 John Newbery's Birthday (1713)
20 Moon Day First Man on the Moon (1969)
21 Liberation Day (Guam)
22 Pied Piper of Hamelin Anniversary (1376) (based upon the date of the Pied Piper incident as reported in the poem by Robert Browning) Ratcatcher's Day Pi Approximation Day (22/7)
23 Arab Republic of Egypt Day (1952)
24 Amelia Earhart's Birthday (1897) Pioneer Day (UT)
25 Constitution Day (Puerto Rico)
26 Fidel Castro's Revolutionary "26th of July Movement" in Cuba (1953)
27 Parents' Day Korean War Ceasefire Signed (1953)
28 Beatrix Potter's Birthday (1866) World War I Begins (1914)
29 NASA Established (1958)
30 Paperback Books First Marketed (1935)
31 U.S. Patent Office Opens (1790)
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*These dates change from year to year; check current calendar.
(National Days are American holidays unless stated otherwise.)

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