| July
1 | Walter
White born in Georgia, 1893 David
Brower born in California, 1912 Lady
Diana Spencer, Princess of Wales born in England, 1961 Stockholm
International Peace Research Institute established, 1966 Medicare,
US health plan for senior citizens, went into effect, 1968 National
Holiday of Canada, Burundi, Rwanda |
| July
2 | Hans
Bethe born in Alsace-Lorraine,
1906 Thurgood
Marshall born in Maryland, 1908 First
Pugwash Conference of Scientists to discuss social responsibility and disarmament,
Canada, 1957, founded by Josef
Rotblat Civil
Rights Act of 1964 signed by President Lyndon Johnson prohibiting discrimination
|
| July
3 | Inga
Thorsson born in Sweden, 1915 National
Holiday of Belarus |
| July
4 | Ron
Kovic born in Wisconsin, 1946 Birsel
Lemke born in Turkey, 1950 Peacekeeping
in Yemen unified country, 1963 National
Holiday of United States |
| July
5 | *
International Day of
Cooperatives (*first Saturday in July) 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
First
nation to ratify UN charter, Nicaragua 1945 National
Holiday of Comoros, Malawi |
| 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 Marianne
Wiliamson born in Texas, 1952 Kevin
Bacon born in Pennsylvania, 1958 The
International Court of Justice (ICJ) advisory opinion that use of nuclear weapons
is illegal, 1996 |
| July
9 | June
Jordan born in New York, 1936 14th
Amendment ratified, prohibiting any state from abridging the rights of any citizen,
1868 World
Youth Assembly opened New York, 1970 |
| July
10 | Mary
McLeod Bethune born in South Carolina, 1875 Toyohiko
Kagawa born in Japan, 1888 Eunice
Kennedy Shriver born in Massachusetts, 1921 Cindy
Sheehan born in California, 1957 National
Holiday of Bahamas |
| July
11 | *
World Population
Day
E.
B. White born in New York, 1899
UN
Agreement on use and control of the moon 1984
World
population reached 5 billion, 1987 National
Holiday of Mongolia |
| July
12 | Simplicity
Day
Henry
David Thoreau born in Massachusetts, 1817 R.
Buckminster Fuller born in Massachusetts, 1895 Bill
Cosby born in Pennsylvania, 1937 Cheyenne
Jackson born in Washington, 1975 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 | Emmeline
Pankhusrt born in England, 1857 Woody
Guthrie born in Oklahoma, 1912 Robert
Jensen born in 1958 National
Holiday of France |
| July
15 | Arianna
Huffington born in Greece, 1950 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 |
| July
16 | Clara
Shortridge Foltz born in Indiana, 1849 Ida
B. Wells born in Mississippi, 1862 Trygve
Lie born in Norway, 1896 Barbara
Lee born in Texas, 1946 |
| July
17 | Justice
Day
National
Holiday of Iraq |
| July
18 | Peace
Pilgrim born in New Jersey, 1908 Nelson
Mandela born in South Africa, 1918 Richard
Branson born in England, 1950 |
| 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 | Carlos
Santana born in Mexico, 1947
Geneva
Accords for cessation of fighting between Vietnam and France, 1954 National
Holiday of Colombia |
| July
21 | Paul
Wellstone born in Virginia, 1944 Yusuf
Islam/Cat Stevens born in England, 1948 Robin
Williams born in Illinois, 1951
National
Women's Hall Of Fame founded in Seneca Falls, NY, 1979 National
Holiday of Belgium |
| July
22 | Raul
Yzaguirre was born in Texas, 1939 Danny
Glover was born in California, 1946 Rufus
Wainwright was born in NewYork, 1973 |
| July
23 | Barbara
Deming born in New York, 1917
First
post-World War II summit on disarmament, Geneva 1955 National
Holiday of Egypt |
| 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 | Parents'
Day
(*4th Sunday) Martin
Ennals born in England, 1927 UN
Peace accord between North and South Korea signed at Panmunjom, 1953 |
| July
28 | Ballington
Booth born in England, 1857 Beatrix
Potter born in England, 1866 Bill
Bradley born in Missouri, 1943 Terry
Fox born in Canada, 1958
USA
Senate approved UN Charter 1945 National
Holiday of Peru |
| July
29 |
Dag
Hammarskjöld born in Sweden, 1905 Clarence
Jordan born in Georgia, 1912 |
| July
30 | Major
General Smedley Butler born in Pennsylvania, 1881 Jean
Dominique born in Haiti, 1930 Pat
Schroeder born in Oregon, 1940
Famous
letter this date from Einstein
to Freud probing human instincts for war or peace. Potsdam 1932 National
Holiday of Vanuatu |
| 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) |
