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July 2021
July is “National Picnic Month”
July is “National Picnic Month”
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Thu. Jul. 1
Canada Day (Canada)
Last Quarter Moon
9:11 PM GMT
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Fri. Jul. 2
Ancestry Day, Haiti
Halfway Point of the Year
Vermont became the first colony to abolish slavery, 1777
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Mon. Jul. 5
National Day of Venezuela
Aphelion Day
10:27 PM GMT
The Earth is at its farthest distance from the Sun. Label an orbital diagram.
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Tue. Jul. 6
National Day of Malawi
George W. Bush born, 1946
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Wed. Jul. 7
Hawaiian Island Kingdom annexed by the US, 1898
Camillo Golgi (biologist) born, 1843
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Fri. Jul. 9
Britain proclaimed that the Australian colonies would be united (as of January 1, 1901) as the Commonwealth of Australia, 1900
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Sat. Jul. 10
Boris Yeltsin sworn in as Russia's first elected President, 1991
Wyoming became a state, 1890
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Sun. Jul. 11
Skylab, USA's 1st space station, fell to Earth; pieces scattered from the SE Indian Ocean to Western Australia, 1979
James Abbott McNeil Whistler (artist) born, 1834
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Tue. Jul. 13
Queen Victoria became the first monarch to live in Buckingham Palace, 1837
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Thu. Jul. 15
Rembrandt Van Rijn (artist) born, 1606
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Fri. Jul. 16
Roald Amundsen (explorer) born, 1872
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Sat. Jul. 17
Constitution Day, South Korea
The first U.S. dental school (at Harvard Univ.) was established, 1867
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Sun. Jul. 18
John Glenn (astronaut) born, 1921
Rolihlahla (Nelson) Mandela (activist, President of South Africa) born, 1918
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Tue. Jul. 20
First Moon Landing (Apollo 11), 1969
Read about the moon, then take a quiz.
Unmanned US Viking 1 landed on Mars and took the first photographs from the Martian surface, 1976
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Wed. Jul. 21
Independence Day, Belgium
New Hampshire became a state, 1788
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Thu. Jul. 22
Alexander Calder (artist) born, 1898
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Fri. Jul. 23
The International Whaling Commission voted for a total ban on commercial whaling, 1982 (which took effect in 1985)
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Sat. Jul. 24
Simon Bolivar born, 1783
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Sun. Jul. 25
Svetlana Savitskaya was the first woman to walk in space, 1984
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Mon. Jul. 26
Liberia's Flag Adopted, 1847
Carl Jung (psychoanalyst) born, 1875
New York became a state, 1788
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Tue. Jul. 27
Completion of Atlantic telegraph cable, 1866
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Wed. Jul. 28
Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia, starting World War I, 1914
First solar eclipse was photographed, 1851
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Thu. Jul. 29
NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) was authorized by Congress, 1958
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Sat. Jul. 31
U.S. Patent Office issues its first patent, 1790
J.K. Rowling (author) born, 1965