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The Learning Calendar is a free resource brought to you by the Homeschool Learning Network. Each month, we will highlight historical birthdays, anniversaries, and holidays, and provide teaching resources to help you learn about each topic.
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| July 01-31 | National Ice Cream Month | | | This month is set aside to celebrate one of the world's favorite deserts - Ice Cream! |
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| July 01, 1961 | Princess Diana's Birthday | | | |
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| July 01, 1863 | Battle of Gettysburg | | | |
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| July 02, 1964 | Civil Rights Act of 1964 | | | |
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| July 04, 1971 | Koko the Gorilla is Born | | | |
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| July 05 | Venezuela - Independence Day | | | This date commemorates the Proclamation of Independence from Spain in 1811. Independence was finally achieved in 1821. |
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| July 06, 1885 | First Anti-Rabies Inoculation | | | On this day in 1885, Louis Pasteur gave the first successful anti-rabies inoculation to a boy who has been bitten by an infected animal. |
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| July 06, 1946 | George W. Bush's Birthday | | | |
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| July 07 | Japan - Tanabata (Star Festival) | | | On this holiday, Japanese children tie poems to bamboo that is covered with colorful paper. They then set up the bamboo as an offering to the stars. |
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| July 10, 1943 | Aurthor Ashe's Birthday | | | |
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| July 11, 1767 | John Quincy Adams' Birthday | | | |
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| July 11 | United Nations - World Population Day | | | |
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| July 11, 1899 | E.B. White's Birthday | | | |
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| July 12, 1817 | Henry David Thoreau's Birthday | | | |
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| July 13, 1787 | Northwest Ordinance Anniversary | | | After first providing for the survey of the land west of the Appalachian mountains, the so-called Northwest Territory, Congress enacted the Northwest Ordinance of 1787. The Ordinance provided the means by which new states would be created out of the western lands and then admitted into the Union. |
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| July 14, 1789 | France - Bastille Day | | | Bastille Day, on the Fourteenth of July, is the French symbol of the end of the Monarchy and the beginning of the First Republic. The national holiday is a time when all citizens can feel themselves to be members of a republican nation. It is because this national holiday is rooted in the history of the birth of the Republic that it has great significance. |
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| July 14, 1913 | Gerald Ford's Birthday | | | |
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| July 14, 1913 | Woody Guthrie's Birthday | | | |
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| July 15, 1606 | Rembrandt's Birthday | | | |
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| July 16, 1872 | Roald Amundsen's Birthday | | | |
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| July 18, 1921 | John Glenn's Birthday | | | On February 20, 1962, Glenn piloted the Mercury-Atlas 6 "Friendship 7" spacecraft on the first manned orbital mission of the United States. |
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| July 19 | Edgar Degas' Birthday | | | Degas was an important artist in France during the Impressionist movement. He is famous for both paintings and sculptures - especially of ballerinas. |
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| July 21 | Alexander Calder's Birthday | | | |
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| July 22, 1870 | U.S. Dept of Justice Anniversary | | | |
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| July 24, 1897 | Amelia Earhart's Birthday | | | |
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| July 25, 1824 | Costa Rica - Guanacaste Day | | | " This day is set aside in Costa Rica to mark the annexation of Guanacaste from Nicaragua
in 1824." |
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| July 26, 1947 | Department of Defense Created | | | President Truman signed legislation that combined the War Department (Army) and the Navy - this was called the Department of Defense |
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| July 27, 1789 | Department of the State Founded | | | The Department of State, once called the Department of Foreign Affairs, was established by Congress. This consists of the presidents "Cabinet" |
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| July 28, 1866 | Beatrix Potter's Birthday | | | |
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| July 28, 1914 | World War 1 Begins | | | |
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| July 31 | Harry Potter's Birthday | | | |
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| July 31, 1790 | U.S. Patent Office Opens | | | |
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