July            National Recreation and Parks Month
                  National July Belongs to Blueberries Month
                  National Baked Beans Month

                  National Hot Dog Month                                                                                                   

• July 1      First Postage Stamp with Adhesive Issued (1847)
• July 1      First US Zoo (Philadelphia, 1874)
• July 1      Regular TV broadcasts begin (1941)
• July  2         Civil Rights Act of 1964: Anniversary
• July 2-6   National Tom Sawyer Days (w/ fence painting contest)
• July 3      Stay Out of the Sun Day
• July 4      Independence Day
• July  4          "America the Beautiful" Published (1895)
• July 4      Stephen Foster: birth Anniversary (1826)
• July  5         Phineas Taylor Barnum: Birth Anniversary (1810)
• July  6         George W. Bush: Birth Anniversary (1946)
• July  6         First Anti-Rabies Inoculation (1885)
• July  7         Father-Daughter Take a Walk Together Day
• July  8         Declaration of Independence First Public Reading (1776)
• July 9          Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution Ratified (1868)
• July 10     Arthur Ashe: Birth Anniversary (1943)
• July 10     Space Milestone: Telstar (US, 1962)
• July 10     National D.A.R.E. Day
• July 11     John Quincy Adams: Birth Anniversary (1767)
• July 11     United Nations: World Population Day
• July 11     E.B.White: Birth Anniversary
• July 12     Henry David Thoreau: Birth Anniversary (1743)
• July 13     World Cup Soccer Inaugurated (1930)
• July 14       France: Bastille Day (1789)
• July  14        Woody Guthrie  Birth Anniversary (1912)
• July 15     Clement Clarke Moore ("Twas the Night Before    Christmas"): Birth Anniversary (1779)
• July 15     Rembrandt: Birth Anniversary (1606)          
• July 16     Atomic Bomb Tested (1945)
• July 16     District of Columbia selected as capital (1790)
• July 16     Space Milestone: Apollo 11 (US): Man Sent to the Moon (1969)
• July 17     Disneyland Opened (1955)
• July 19     Edgar Degas: Birth Anniversary
• July 19    John Newbery: Birth Anniversary (1897)
• July 20    First Special Olympics (1968)
• July 20    National Ice Cream Day (3rd Sunday--Sundae Sunday)
• July 24    Amelia Earhart: Birth Anniversary (1866)
• July 27    Parents' Day
• July 28    Jacqueline Kennedy: Birth Anniversary (1929)
• July 28    Beatrix Potter: Birth Anniversary (1866)
• July 29    NASA Established (1958)
• July 31    Harry Potter: Birthday