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JULY HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES
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Holiday posters index | June | July | August | search site |
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July Observances: |
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National Baked Beans Month |
food posters |
Michigan Dept of Agriculture |
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National Blueberry Month |
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North American Blueberry Council |
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National Hot Dog Month |
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Hot Dog Organization |
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National Ice Cream Month |
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International Dairy Foods Association |
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National Peach Month |
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Peach History & Recipes |
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First Week of July |
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Second Week of July |
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Cherry Festival Week (July 3-10, 2010), Traverse City, Michigan |
Nat'l Cherry Festival, website |
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Third Week of July |
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Fourth Week of July |
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July Holidays |
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July 1 - Canada Day (1867) |
Canadian Heritage |
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July 4- U. S. Independence Day - Declaration of Independence |
Charters of Freedom, National Archives |
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July Notable Dates |
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b. 7-1-1646 - Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz, mathematician & scientist |
Gottfred Leibniz Resource File |
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b. 7-1-1804 - George Sand, author |
George Sand Resource File |
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b. 7-1-1818 - Ignac Semmelweis, physician |
Ignac Semmelweis Resource File |
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b. 7-1-1844 - Verney Lovett Cameron, explorer |
Verney Lovett Cameron Resource File |
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b. 7-1-1872 - Louis Bleriot, aviator |
Louis Bleriot Resource File |
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b. 7-1-1931 - Leslie Caron, dancer |
Leslie Caron Resource File |
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b. 7-1-1931 - Stanislav Grof, clinical psychiatrist |
Stanilav Grof Resource File |
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b. 7-1-1941 - Twyla Tharp, dancer |
Twyla Tharp Resource File |
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b. 7-2-1489 - Thomas Cranmer, theologian |
Thomas Cranmer Resource File |
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b. 7-2-1714 - Christof Gluck, composer |
Christof Gluck Resource File |
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b. 7-2-1877 - Hermann Hesse, author |
Hermann Hesse Resource File |
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b. 7-2-1905 - Myles Horton, educator |
Myles Horton Resource File |
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b. 7-2-1908 - Thurgood Marshall, jurist |
Thurgood Marshall Links for Learning |
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b. 7-2-1923 - Wislawa Szymborska, poet & author |
Wislawa Szymborska Resource File |
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b. 7-2-1925 - Medgar Evers, civil rights activist |
Medgar Evers Resource File |
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b. 7-2-1971 - Kristi Yamaguchi, athlete |
Kristi Yamaguchi Resource File |
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b. 7-3-1728 - Robert Adam, architect |
Robert Adam Resource File |
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b. 7-3-1860 - Charlotte Perkins Stetson Gilman, author |
Charlotte Perkins Stetson Gilman Resource File |
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b. 7-3/4-1878 - George M. Cohan, composer, dancer |
George M. Cohan Resource File |
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b. 7-3-1883 - Franz Kafka, author |
Franz Kafka Resource File |
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b. 7-3-1937 - Tom Stoppard, author |
Tom Stoppard Resource File |
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d. 7-4-1541 - Pedro de Alvarado, explorer |
Pedro de Alvarado Resource File |
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b. 7-4-1804 - Nathaniel Hawthorne, author |
Hawthorne CP Links for Learning |
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b. 7-4-1826 - Stephen Foster, composer |
Stephen Foster Bio Timeline |
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d. 7-4-1826 - Thomas Jefferson US President |
Thomas Jefferson Bio |
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d. 7-4-1826 - John Adams, US President |
John Adams Bio |
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b. 7-4-1872 - Calvin Coolidge, US President |
Calvin Coolidge Bio |
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b. 7-5-1755 - Sarah Siddons, actress |
Sarah Siddons Resource File |
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b. 7-5-1794 - Sylvester Graham, dietary reformer |
Sylvester Graham Resource File |
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b. 7-5-1889 - Jean Cocteau, poet, artist, filmmaker, playwright |
Jean Cocteau Resource File |
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b. 7-5-1891 - John Howard Northrop, biologist |
John Howard Northrop Resource File |
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• 7-5-1971 - 26th Amendment, voting age to 18, U.S. Constitution print |
26th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution |
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d. 7-6-1415 - Jan Hus, theologian |
Jan Hus Resource File |
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b. 7-6-1747 - John Paul Jones, seaman |
John Paul Jones Resource File |
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d. 7-6-1802 - Daniel Morgan, Revolutionary War |
Daniel Morgan Resource File |
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b. 7-6-1865 - Émile Jaques-Dalcroze, composer & music educator |
Émile Jaques-Dalcroze Resource File |
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b. 7-6-1879 - Agrippina Vaganova, ballerina |
Agrippina Vaganova Resource File |
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b. 7-6-1903 - Axel Hugo Teodor Theorell, biologist |
Axel Hugo Teodor Theorell Resource File |
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b. 7-6-1907 - Frida Kahlo, artist |
CP Links for Learning, Kahlo |
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b. 7-6-1915 - Margaret Walker, author |
Margaret Walker Resource File |
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b. 7-6-1931 - Della Reese, entertainer |
Della Reese Resource File |
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b. 7-6-1935 - Tenzin Gyatso, the current Dalai Lama, Tibet |
CP Links for Learning - Dalai Lama |
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b. 7-6-1947 - George W. Bush, US President |
George W. Bush Bio |
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b. 7-7-1753 - Jean-Pierre Blanchard, aviator |
Jean-Pierre Blanchard Resource File |
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b. 7-7-1860 - Gustav Mahler, composer |
Gustav Mahler Resource File |
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b. 7-7-1873 - Sandor Ferenczi, psychoanalyst |
Sandor Ferenczi Resource File |
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b. 7-7-1907 - Robert A. Heinlein, author |
Robert A. Heinlein Resource File |
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b. 7-7-1933 - David McCullough, historian & author |
David McCullough Resource File |
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d. 7-8-1538 - Diego de Almagro, explorer |
Diego de Almagro Resource File |
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b. 7-8-1593 - Artemisia Gentileschi, artist |
Artemisia Gentileschi Resource File |
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b. 7-8-1766 - Dominique-Jean Larrey, physician |
Dominique Larry Resource File |
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b. 7-8-1838 - Ferdinand von Zeppelin, aviation pioneer |
Ferdinand von Zeppelin Resource File |
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b. 7-8-1854 - Eva C. E. Luckes, nurse |
Eva Luckes Resource File |
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b. 7-8-1867 - Kathe Kollwitz, artist |
Kathe Kollwitz Resource File |
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b. 7-8-1893 - Fritz Perls, Gestalt therapist |
Fritz Perls Resource File |
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b. 7-8-1906 - Philip Johnson, architect |
Philip Johnson Resource File |
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b. 7-8-1949 - Wolfgang Puck, chef |
Wolfgang Puck Resource File |
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b. 7-9-1811 - Fanny Fern, author & activist |
Fanny Fern Resource File |
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b. 7-9-1858 - Franz Boas, anthropologist |
Franz Boas Resource File |
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b. 7-9-1893 - Dorothy Thompson, author |
Dorothy Thompson Resource File |
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b. 7-10-1509 - John Calvin, theologian |
John Calvin Reosurce File |
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b. 7-10-1640 - Alphra Behn, author |
Alphra Behn Resource File |
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b. 7-10-1759 - Pierre-Joseph Redouté, artist |
Pierre-Joseph Redouté Resource File |
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b. 7-10-1856 - Nikola Tesla, scientist & inventor |
Nikola Tesla Resource File |
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b. 7-10-1868 - William H. Bradley, artist |
William H. Bradley Resource File |
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b. 7-10-1871 - Marcel Proust, author |
Marcel Proust Resource File |
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b. 7-10-1875 - Mary McLeod Bethune, educator |
Mary McLeod Bethune Bio |
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b. 7-10-1895 - Carl Orff, music educator |
Carl Orff Resource File |
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b. 7-10-1943 - Arthur Ashe, athlete |
Arthur Ashe Resource File |
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b. 7-11-1274 - Robert the Bruce |
Robert the Bruce Resource File |
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d. 7-11-1593 - Giuseppe Arcimboldo, artist |
Guiseppe Arcimboldo Resource File |
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b. 7-11-1767 - John Quincy Adams, US President |
White House Bio - John Quincy Adams |
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• 7-11-1804 - Burr-Hamilton Duel |
Duel 2004 Weehawken History |
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b. 7-11-1857 - Alfred Binet, psychologist |
Alfred Binet Resource File |
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b. 7-11-1925 - Mattiwilda Dobbs, opera singer |
Mattiwilda Dobbs Resource File |
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b. 7-11-1925 - Nicolai Gedda, tenor opera singer |
Nicolai Gedda Resource File |
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b. 7-11-1929 - Hermann Prey, baritone opera singer |
Hermann Prey Resource File |
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b. 7-11-1943 - Howard Gardner, educator & psychologist |
Howard Gardner Resource File |
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b. 7-12-100 BC - Gaius Julius Caesar |
Julius Caesar Resource File |
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b. 7-12-1817 - Henry David Thoreau, author |
CP Links for Learning - HDT |
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b. 7-12-1817 - Eugène Boudin, artist |
Eugène Boudin Resource File |
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b. 7-12-1849 - William Osler, physician |
William Osler Resource File |
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b. 7-12-1854 - George Eastman, industrialist |
George Eastman Bio |
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b. 7-12-186? - George Washington Carver, botanist |
CP Links for Learning - GWC |
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b. 7-12-1895 - Kirsten Flagstad, opera singer |
Kirsten Flagstad Resource File |
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b. 7-12-1895 - R. Buckminster Fuller, architect |
R. Buckminster Fuller Resource File |
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b. 7-12-1934 - Van Cliburn, pianist |
Van Cliburn Resource File |
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b. 7-13-1793 - John Clare, poet |
John Clare Resource File |
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b. 7-13-1903 - Kenneth Clark, art historian & author |
Kenneth Clark Resource File |
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b. 7-13-1903 - Pablo Neruda, poet |
Pablo Neruda Resource File |
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b. 7-13-1934 - Wole Soyinka, author |
Wole Soyinka Resource File |
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b. 7-13-1940 - Paul Prudhomme, chef |
Paul Prudhomme Resource File |
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d. 7-14-1812 - Little Turtle, Miami War Chief |
Little Turtle Resource File |
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d. 7-14-1860 - Owen Wister, author |
Owen Wister Resource File |
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b. 7-14-1913 - Gerald R. Ford, US President |
Gerald R. Ford Bio |
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b. 7-14-1928 - Nancy Olson, actress |
Nancy Olson Resource File |
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b. 7-15-1573 - Inigo Jones, architect |
Inigo Jones Resource File |
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b. 7-15-1606/7 - Rembrandt van Rijn, artist |
Rembrandt Resource File |
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b. 7-15-1864 - Maggie Lena Walker, activist & entrepreneur |
Maggie Walker Resource File |
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b. 7-15-1943 - Jocelyn Bell Burnell, astrophysicist |
Jocelyn Bell Burnell Resource File |
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b. 7-16-1796 - Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, artist |
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot Resource File |
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b. 7-16-1862 - Ida B. Well, activist |
Ida B. Wells Resource File |
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b. 7-16-1872 - Roald Amundsen, explorer |
Roald Amundsen Resource File |
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b. 7-16-1880 - Kathleen Norris, author |
Kathleen Norris Resource File |
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b. 7-16-1907 - Barbara Stanwyck, actress |
Barbara Stanwyck Resource File |
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b. 7-17-1888 - Shmuel Yosef Agnon, author |
Shmuel Yosef Agnon Resource Filee |
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b. 7-17-1889 - Erle Stanley Gardner, author |
Erle Stanley Gardner Resource File |
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b. 7-17-1899 - James Cagney, dancer & actor |
James Cagney Resource File |
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b. 7-17-1905 - Edgar Snow, journalist |
Edgar Snow Resource File |
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b. 7-17-1926 - James Weinstein, historian & journalist |
James Weinstein Resource File |
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b. 7-18-1635 - Robert Hooke, scientist |
Robert Hooke Resource File |
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b. 7-18-1811 - William Makepeace Thackeray, author |
William Makepeace Thackeray Resource File |
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b. 7-18-1918 - Nelson Mandela, South Africa |
Nelson Mandela Bio |
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b. 7-18-1922 - Thomas Kuhn, physicist & historian |
Thomas Kuhn Resource File |
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b. 7-19-1817 - Mary Ann “Mother” Bickerdyke, Civil War nurse |
Mary Ann Bickerdyke Resource File |
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b. 7-19-1830 - Alfred Waterhouse, architect |
Alfred Waterhouse Resource File |
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b. 7-19-1834 - Edgar Degas, artist |
Edgar Degas Resource File |
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• 7-19-1848 - 1st Women's Rights Conference |
Seneca Falls Convention |
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b. 7-19-1865 - Charles H. Mayo, physician |
Mayo Clinic Resource File |
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d. 7-20-1160 - Peter Lombard, theologian |
Peter Lombard Resource File |
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b. 7-20-1304 - Petrarch, author |
Petrarch Resource File |
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b. 7-20-1822 - Gregor Johann Mendel, botanist |
Gregor Johann Mendel Resource File |
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b. 7-20-1864 - Erik Axel Karlfeldt, 1931 Nobel Prize for Literature |
Erik Axel Karlfeldt Resource File |
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• 7-20-1969 - 1st Man on the Moon |
NASA |
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b. 7-21-1885 - Francis Parkinson Keyes, author |
Francis Parkinson Keyes Resource File |
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b. 7-21-1899 - Hart Crane, author |
Hart Crane Keyes Resource File |
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b. 7-21-1899 - Ernest Hemingway, author |
CP Links for Learning - Hemingway |
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b. 7-22-1878 - Janusz Korczak, pediatrician & pedagogue |
Janusz Korczak Resource File |
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b. 7-22-1882 - Edward Hopper, artist |
Edward Hopper Resource File |
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b. 7-22-1898 - Stephen Vincent Benét, author |
Stephen Vincent Benét Resource File |
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b. 7-22-1948 - S. E. Hinton, author |
S. E. Hinton Resource File |
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b. 7-23-1721 - Anna Dorothea Lisiewska-Therbusch, artist |
Anna Dorothea Therbusch Resource File |
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b. 7-23-1777 - Philipp Otto Runge, artist & color theorist |
Philipp Otto Runge Resource File |
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b. 7-23-1876 - Aino Ackte, opera singer |
Aino Ackte Resource File |
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b. 7-23-1888 - Raymond Chandler, author |
Raymond Chandler Resource File |
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b. 7-24-1783 - Simón Bolivar, Venezuela |
Simón Bolivar: Father of Five Nations |
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b. 7-24-1802 - Alexandre Dumas, père, author |
Alexandre Dumas Resource File |
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b. 7-24-1807 - Ira Frederick Aldridge actor |
Ira Frederick Aldridge Resource File |
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b. 7-24-1857 - Henrik Pontoppidan, author |
Henrik Pontoppidan Resource File |
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b. 7-24-1860 - Alphonse Mucha, artist |
Alphonse Mucha Resource File |
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b. 7-24-1895 - Robert Graves, historian & author |
Robert Graves Resource File |
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b. 7-24-1898 - Amelia Earhart, aviator |
CP Links for Learning - Amelia Earhart |
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b. 7-24-1900 - Zelda Fitzgerald, author |
Zelda Fitzgerald Resource File |
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b. 7-24-1920 - Bella Abzug, politician |
Bella Abzug Resource File |
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• 7-24-1974 - The United States Supreme Court unanimously rule that President Richard Nixon did not have the authority to withhold subpoenaed White House tapes and they order him to surrender the tapes to the Watergate special prosecutor. Landmark Supreme Court Decisions posters |
Background on U.S. v Nixon
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d. 7-25-1368 - Guy de Chauliac, physician & surgeon |
Guy de Chauliac Resource File |
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b. 7-25-1750 - Henry Knox, Revolutionary War |
Henry Knox Resource File |
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b. 7-25-1870 - Maxfield Parrish, artist |
Maxfield Parrish Resource File |
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b. 7-20-1925 - Frantz Fanon, author and psychiatrist |
Frantz Fanon Resource File |
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• 7-26-1788 - New York State Ratifies, 11th State |
New York Facts |
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b. 7-26-1796 - George Catlin, artist |
George Catlin Resource File |
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b. 7-26-1856 - George Bernard Shaw, author |
George Bernard Shaw Resource File |
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b. 7-26-1875 - Carl Gustav Jung, psychology |
CP Links for Learning - C G Jung |
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b. 7-26-1894 - Aldous Huxley, author |
Aldous Huxley Resource File |
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b. 7-27-1667 - Johann Bernoulli, mathematician |
Johan Bernoulli Resource File |
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b. 7-27-1824 - Theodore Dreiser, author |
Theodore Dreiser Resource File |
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b. 7-27-1835 - Giosue Carducci, poet & teacher |
Giosue Carducci Resource File |
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b. 7-27-1848 - Vladimir von Pachmann, pianist |
Vladimir von Pachmann Resource File |
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b. 7-27-1871 - Alexandre Dumas, fils, author |
Alexandre Dumas Resource File |
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b. 7-28-1609 - Judith Leyster, artist |
Judith Leyster Resource File |
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b. 7-28-1844 - Gerard Manley Hopkins, poet |
Gerard Manley Hopkins Resource File |
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b. 7-28-1866 - Beatrix Potter, author & artist |
CP Links for Learning - Beatrix Potter |
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b. 7-28-1883 - Benito Mussolini, dictator |
Benito Mussolini Resource File |
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b. 7-28-1929 - Jacqueline Kennedy, 1st Lady |
Jacqueline Kennedy Resource File |
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b. 7-28-1934 - Jacques d'Amboise, ballet dancer & teacher |
Jacques d'Amboise Resource File |
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b. 7-28-1951 - Santiago Calatrava, architect |
Santiago Calatrava Resource File |
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b. 7-29-1805 - Alexis de Tocqueville, author |
Alexis de Tocqueville Resource File |
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b. 7-29-1869 - Booth Tarkington, author |
Booth Tarkington Resource File |
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b. 7-29-1905 - Dag Hammarskjöld, diplomat |
Dag Hammarskjöld Resource File |
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b. 7-29-1905 - Clara Bow, actress |
Clara Bow Resource File |
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b. 7-30-1511 - Giorgio Vasari, artist & historian |
Giorgio Vasari Resource File |
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b. 7-30-1818 - Emily Brontë, author |
Bronte Links for Learning |
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b. 7-30-1863 - Henry Ford, Dearborn, MI |
Henry Ford Links for Learning |
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b. 7-30-1962 - Alton Brown, celebrity chef |
Alton Brown Resource File |
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b. 7-31-1831 - Madame Blavatsky, author |
Madame Blavatsky Resource File |
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b. 7-31-1921 - Whitney Young, civil rights |
Whitney Young Resource File |
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b. 7-31-1965 - J. K. Rowling, author |
J. K. Rowling Resource File |
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July Facts & Tidbits |
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July, named for Julius Caesar, is the seventh month of the year. July was originally named Quintillis (Latin = five) as the fifth month in the ancient Roman calendar, before January and February became the first and second months of the calendar year during the time of the decemvirs (a commission of ten men to write up a code of law defining the principles of Roman administration), about 450 BC.
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Astrological Signs |
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Astrology |
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• Cancer: June 21 - July 22 |
• Cancer poster
• Cancer, the Crab Ecard |
cardinal, water, personal; "I feel," sensitive, tenacious, family and home oriented, helpful, nurturing, moody, stomach/breasts; protective, clinging. |
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• Leo: July 23 - August 22 |
• Leo poster
• Leo, the Lion Ecard |
fixed, fire, social; "I am," passionate, dramatic, independent, noble, creative, leader, egotistical, heart/back ; generous, proud, theatrical. |
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Birthstones |
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• Ruby - zeal, passion
• Carnelian - protection |

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• Birthstone (U of Washington)
• Ruby Resource File
• Carnelian Resource File
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Flowers |
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• Larkspurs / Delphinium - lightness, levity, ardent attachment
• Water Lily: purity of heart |
• flower posters |
• Larkspur /Delphinium Resource File
• Water Lily Resource File
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