July

July: Disability Awareness Month

July 1: 

• Canada Day

• International Reggae Day

• National Postal Workers Day

July 2

• 1964 US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs Civil Rights Act

• 1809: Chief Tecumseh Called on Native American Nations to Unite 1809

• Made in the US day 

July 4: 

• Independence Day

July 5: 

• 1935 FDR signs US National Labor Relations Act

July 6:

• 2016: Philando Castile murdered

July 7: 

• 1930 Construction begins on Boulder (Hoover) Dam

• 1903: March of the Mill Children

• World chocolate day 

• Global forgiveness day 

July 8:

• 1898: Hawai’i Annexation

July 10: 

• 1934 1st sitting US President to visit South America, FDR in Colombia

• 1971 National Women's Political Caucus (NWPC) founded in US

July 11:

• 1905: The Niagara Movement was formed

• World population day 

July 12:

• 1917 The Bisbee Deportation was the illegal deportation of about 1,300 

striking mine workers (IWW-led strike), their supporters, and citizen bystanders by 2,000 vigilantes. 

July 13: 

• 2013: George Zimmerman Acquitted in Trayvon Martin Killing // Launch of #BlackLivesMatter

• 2015: Sandra Bland dies in police custody

July 14:

• Bastille Day 

• Shark awareness day

• International Non-Binary People's Day 

July 15:

• 1978: The Longest Walk ends in DC

• 2016: Failed Military Coup in Turkey

July 16:

• 1862: Ida B. Wells birthday

• Eid Al Adha (2024: 16-19)

July 17:

• 2014: Eric Garner murdered

• World day for international justice

July 18:

• Nelson Mandela Day

• 2012 Kim Jong-un is officially appointed Supreme Leader of North Korea

• World listening day 

July 19: 

July 20:

• 1951: Mattachine Society formally organized

• 2012: Aurora, Colorado shooting

July 21: 

• 2010: Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act

• 1969 Neil Armstrong becomes the first person to step on the Moon at 2:56:15 AM (GMT)

July 22:

• 1849: Poet Emma Lazarus’ birthday

July 23:

• 2015 Supreme Court rejects Bill Cosby's petition against a civil case of his alleged sexual of 15-year-old girl at the Playboy Mansion in 1974

July 24:

• Amelia Earhart Day

• International Self Care Day

• Washington Star broke the story of the unethical Tuskegee Syphilis Study

• National Parents Day

July 25:

• National Intern Day (2024 - Last Thursday of July)

July 26:

• 1990: Americans with Disabilities Act signed into law

• 2017 Trump announces policy to ban transgender people from the military

• 1947 President Truman signs National Security Act (1947), establishing Department of Defense, CIA, National Security Council and Joint Chiefs of Staff

• National Disability Independence Day

July 27:

• National Korean War Veterans Armistice Day

• 1965 - Federal Cigarette Labeling and Advertising Act signed

• Health Care Freedom Act aka “Skinny repeal” health care bill defeated

July 28:

• 1945 - U.S. Senate ratified UN Charter

• Buffalo Soldiers Day - first black Americans to serve for U.S. army

July 29:

• National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958 is signed, creating NASA

• Islamic New Year 

July 30: 

• 1932 -  Bill signed to create WAVES - Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service

• 2002 - "The Sarbanes Oxley Act" signed into law by President George W. Bush

• 2017 - Russian President Vladimir Putin announces American diplomats in Russia cut by 755 in response to American sanctions

• Support public education day 

• International day of friendship

• National Whistle-Blowers Day