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July 2008

 

Schedule of Events

  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
 

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Patricia H. Caldwell, Executive Director
Newberry County First Steps
PO Box 25
The Learning Center, 3321 Main St, Rm 6
Newberry  SC   29108

Telephone:  803/321-1073
FAX:  803/321-1069
E-mail:
pcaldwell@newberry.k12.sc.us