| July
1 |
Stockholm
International Peace Research Institute
established, 1966
Medicare,
US health plan for senior citizens,
went into effect, 1968
National
Holiday of Canada, Burundi, Rwanda
David
Brower born in California,
1912
Lady
Diana Spencer, Princess of
Wales born in England, 1961
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| July
2 |
*International
Day of Cooperatives (*first
Saturday in July) (www.CoOpDay.com)
Thurgood
Marshall born in Maryland,
1908
First
Pugwash Conference of Scientists
to discuss social responsibility
and disarmament, Canada, 1957,
founded by Josef
Rotblatt
Civil
Rights Act of 1964 signed by President
Lyndon Johnson prohibiting discrimination
|
| July
3 |
National
Holiday of Belarus
|
| July
4 |
National
Holiday of United States
Peacekeeping
in Yemen unified country, 1963
|
| July
5 |
Myles
Horton born in Tennessee,
1905
National
Holiday of Cape Verde, Venezuela
|
| July
6 |
The
Dalai Lama born in Tibet,
1935
Inge
Genefke born in Denmark,
1938
National
Holiday of Comoros, Malawi
First
nation to ratify UN charter, Nicaragua
1945
|
| July
7 |
National
Holiday of Solomon Islands
Convention
on Political Rights of Women came
into force 1954 |
| July
8 |
Käthe
Kollwitz born in 1867
in Germany
Faye
Wattleton born in Missouri,
1943
The
International Court of Justice
(ICJ) advisory opinion that use
of nuclear weapons is illegal,
1996
|
| July
9 |
14th
Amendment ratified, prohibiting
any state from abridging the rights
of any citizen, 1868
World
Youth Assembly opened New York,
1970
June
Jordan born in New York,
1936
|
| July
10 |
Mary
McLeod Bethune born in
South Carolina, 1875
Toyohiko
Kagawa born in Japan, 1888
National
Holiday of Bahamas
|
| July
11 |
*World
Population Day (www.PopulationDay.com)
E.
B. White born in New York,
1899
National
Holiday of Mongolia
UN
Agreement on use and control of
the moon 1984
World
population reached 5 billion,
1987
|
| July
12 |
Henry
David Thoreau born in
Massachusetts, 1817
R.
Buckminster Fuller born
in Massachusetts, 1895
National
Holiday of Sao Tome and Principe,
Kiribati
|
| July
13 |
Harrison
Ford born in Illinois,
1942
Live
Aid benefit concert took place
in London, Philadelphia, Moscow
and Sydney.
|
| July
14 |
National
Holiday of France
Emmeline
Pankhusrt born in England,
1857
Woody
Guthrie born in Oklahoma,
1912
|
| July
15 |
Jimmy
Carter delivered "malaise" speech,
where he described the nation's
biggest threat was "this crisis
in the growing doubt about the
meaning of our own lives and in
the loss of a unity of purpose
for our nation," 1979
Third
World Conference on Women began
in Kenya, 1985
Arianna
Huffington born in Greece, 1950
|
| July
16 |
Ida
B. Wells born in Mississippi,
1862
Trygve
Lie born in Norway, 1896
Barbara
Lee born in Texas, 1946
|
| July
17 |
Justice
Day - www.JusticeDay.com
National
Holiday of Iraq
|
| July
18 |
Peace
Pilgrim born in New Jersey,
1908
Nelson
Mandela born in South
Africa, 1918
|
| July
19 |
George
McGovern born in South
Dakota, 1922
Women's
Rights Convention at Seneca Falls,
NY, 1848, starting US women's
rights movement
|
| July
20 |
National
Holiday of Colombia
Carlos
Santana born in Mexico,
1947
Geneva
Accords for cessation of fighting
between Vietnam and France, 1954
|
| July
21 |
National
Holiday of Belgium
Paul
Wellstone born in Virginia,
1944
National
Women's Hall Of Fame founded in
Seneca Falls, NY, 1979
|
| July
22 |
Danny
Glover was born in California,
1946 |
| July
23 |
Parents'
Day (*4th Sunday) www.ParentsDay.us
National
Holiday of Egypt
First
post-World War II summit on disarmament,
Geneva 1955
Barbara
Deming born in New York,
1917
|
| July
24 |
Bella
Abzug born in New York,
1920
William
Ruckelshaus born in Indiana,
1932
|
| July
25 |
UN
Convention on Refugees, 1951 |
| July
26 |
George
Bernard Shaw born in Ireland,
1856
Eberhard
Arnold born in East Prussia,
1883
Aldous
Huxley born in England,
1894
Americans
With Disabilities Act signed,
1990
National
Holiday of Liberia, Maldives
|
| July
27 |
UN
Peace accord between North and South
Korea signed at Panmunjom, 1953 |
| July
28 |
National
Holiday of Peru
USA
Senate approved UN Charter 1945 |
| July
29 |
Dag
Hammarskjöld born in Sweden,
1905
Clarence
Jordan born in Georgia, 1912
|
| July
30 |
Major
General Smedley Butler
born in Pennsylvania, 1881
National
Holiday of Vanuatu
Famous
letter this date from Einstein
to Freud probing human instincts
for war or peace. Potsdam 1932
|
| July
31 |
Whitney
Young born in Kentucky,
1921
Peter
Benenson born in England,
1921
Deadline
for President's Environmental
Youth Award National Competition
(www.epa.gov/enviroed)
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