July:
Today in History, Holidays, and Fun Facts
| 1 | 1863 - Start of the Battle of Gettysburg 1898 - Spanish-American War's Battle of San Juan Hill Fought by Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt and the Rough Riders 1962 - Burundi Independent 1962 - Rwanda Independent 1997 - Great Britain Returned Hong Kong to China |
| 2 | 1890 - Sherman Antitrust Act Passed by
Congress 1964 - Civil Rights Act of 1964 Signed into Law by President Lyndon B. Johnson |
| 3 | 1608 - City of Quebec Founded by Samuel de
Champlain 1890 - Idaho Became a State 1962 - Algeria Became Independent |
| 4 | 1776 - American Colonies Declared Their
Independence from Great Britain 1939 - Lou Gehrig Gave His Famous Farewell Speech at Yankee Stadium INDEPENDENCE DAY - FOURTH OF JULY |
| 5 | 1811 - Venezuela Declared Its Independence
from Spain 1865 - Salvation Army Started by William Booth in London, England 1996 - Birth of Dolly, the First Cloned Speech |
| 6 | 1535 - Sir (Saint) Thomas More Beheaded |
| 7 | 1898 - Hawaii Annexed by the United States 2005 - Subway and Bus Terrorist Bombings in London |
| 8 | 1777 - Vermont Abolished Slavery |
| 9 | 1816 - Argentina Declared Its Independence
from Spain 1896 - "Cross of Gold" Speech Given by William Jennings Bryan at the Democratic National Convention |
| 10 | 1890 - Wyoming Became a State 1940 - Start of the Battle of Britain |
| 11 | 1533 - Henry VIII Excommunicated by Pope Clement VII |
| 12 | 1543 - Henry VIII Married Catherine Parr
(His Sixth and Final Wife, Who Survived Him) 1690 - Ireland's Battle of the Boyne, in Which Catholic James II Was Defeated by Protestant William of Orange |
| 13 | 1793 - Charlotte Corday Stabbed Jean-Paul
Marat to Death in His Bathtub 1863 - Start of the Draft Riots in New York City |
| 14 | 1789 - French Revolutionaries Stormed the
Bastille in Paris 1933 - Nazis Banned All Other Political Parties in Germany |
| 15 | 1918 - Start of the Second Battle of the Marne (World War I) |
| 16 | 1918 - Bolsheviks Executed Tsar Nicholas II and His Family |
| 17 | 1821 - Florida Ceded to the United States by
Spain 1898 - End of the Spanish-American War |
| 18 | 64 C.E. - Start of a Fire Which Would Burn the
Larger Part of Rome 1936 - Start of the Spanish Civil War |
| 19 | 1848 - Seneca Falls Convention 1870 - Start of the Franco-Prussian War 1993 - U.S. Military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" Policy Declared by President William "Bill" Clinton |
| 20 | 1810 - Colombia Declared Its Independence
from Spain 1969 - Neil Armstrong's Historic Moonwalk |
| 21 | 1970 - Egypt Opened the Aswan High Dam |
| 22 | 1934 - John Dillinger Killed outside the Biograph Theater in Chicago, Illinois |
| 23 | 1995 - Discovery of the Hale-Bopp Comet |
| 24 | 2005 - Seventh Win for Lance Armstrong in the Tour de France |
| 25 | 1952 - Puerto Rico Became a United States Commonwealth |
| 26 | 1847 - Liberia Became a Republic 1952 - Death of Eva "Evita" Peron in Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| 27 | 1953 - Armistice Ended the Korean War |
| 28 | 1540 - Execution of Thomas Cromwell 1540 - Henry VIII Married Catherine Howard (Fifth of His Six Wife, Later Beheaded) 1794 - Maximilien Robespierre Guillotined in Paris 1868 - Ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment |
| 29 | 1890 - Suicide of Vincent van Gogh 1981 - Wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer |
| 30 | 1965 - Medicare Signed into Law by Lyndon B.
Johnson 1975 - James "Jimmy" Hoffa Reported Missing |
| 31 | 1498 - Christopher Columbus Landed in Trinidad |
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