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July Content Calendar

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July Content Calendar

When it comes to what to post on social media, the answer can be almost anything.

Just be sure to follow the “TRIANGLE OF TRUST“.

July

July Monthly Celebrations

  • Cell Phone Courtesy Month
  • Dog Days of Summer – July 3 – August 11
  • National Blueberry Month
  • National Anti-Boredom Month
  • Unlucky Month for weddings
  • National Cell Phone Courtesy Month
  • National Grilling Month
  • National Hot Dog Month
  • National Ice Cream Month
  • National Park and Recreation Month
  • National Picnic Month
  • National Watermelon Month

July Weekly Events

July Holidays That Vary

July 1

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Holidays

This Day In History

  • 1867 The Dominion of Canada is formed, comprising the provinces of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Ontario & Quebec, with John A. Macdonald serving as the first Prime Minister
  • 1874 1st zoo in the United States opens in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  • 1896 Wilfrid Laurier sworn in as 1st French speaking Prime Minister of Canada
  • 1904 III Summer (Modern) Olympic Games open in St Louis, the first held in the United States
  • 1905 Albert Einstein introduces his theory of special relativity

July 2

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Holidays

This Day In History

  • 1843 An alligator falls from sky during a thunderstorm in Charleston, South Carolina
  • 1847 Envelope bearing 1st US 10 cent stamps used (still exists today)
  • 1881 US President James Garfield shot by Charles J. Guiteau a disappointed office-seeker; Garfield dies 79 days later
  • 1937 Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan disappear flying over the Pacific Ocean en route to Howland Island. Noonan is declared dead the following year, and Earhart is declared the year after (1939)
  • 1979 Susan B. Anthony dollar is issued, 1st US coin to honor a woman
  • 1991 Film “Boyz n the Hood” directed by John Singleton, starring Cuba Gooding Jr. and Ice Cube is released

July 3

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Holidays

This Day In History

  • 1819 1st savings bank in US (Bank of Savings in NYC) opens its doors
  • 1884 Dow Jones publishes its 1st stock index, the Dow Jones Transportation Average
  • 1886 In Germany, Karl Benz drives 1st automobile
  • 1985 “Back to the Future” directed by Robert Zemeckis and starring Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd is released
  • 1985 Tinker Bell’s first nightly flight at Walt Disney World Resort, Florida

July 4

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Holidays

This Day In History

  • 1776 According to popular legend the Liberty Bell rings for the Second Continental Congress
  • 1776 US Congress proclaims the Declaration of Independence and independence from Great Britain
  • 1796 1st Independence Day celebration is held
  • 1881 Booker T. Washington establishes Tuskegee Institute (Alabama)
  • 1884 Statue of Liberty presented to US in Paris
  • 1888 1st organized rodeo competition held, Prescott, Arizona

July 5

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Holidays

This Day In History

  • 1865 US Secret Service begins operating under the Treasury Department
  • 1954 Singer Elvis Presley‘s 1st professional recording session (with guitarist Scotty Moore & bass player Bill Black) takes place at Sam Phillips’ Memphis Recording Service in Memphis, Tennessee. The trio record four songs including their historic cover of Arthur “Big Boy” Crudup’s song “That’s All Right”. [1]
  • 1994 Amazon.com founded in Bellevue, Washington by Jeff Bezos

July 6

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Holidays

This Day In History

  • 1994 “Forrest Gump”, directed by Robert Zemeckis and starring Tom HanksRobin Wright, and Gary Sinise, is released (Academy Awards Best Picture 1995)
  • 2002 Wimbledon Women’s Tennis: Serena Williams beats older sister Venus 7-6, 6-3 for her first Wimbledon singles title

July 7

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Holidays

This Day In History

  • 1967 The Beatles release single “All You Need is Love”
  • 1972 1st women FBI members sworn in (Susan Lynn Roley & Joanne E Pierce)
  • 1981 Sandra Day O’Connor nominated for the Supreme Court, 1st female Supreme Court justice

     

July 8

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Holidays

This Day In History

  • 1776 Colonel John Nixon gives the 1st public reading of the Declaration of Independence to an assemblage of citizens in Philadelphia
  • 2010 “Inception”, directed by Christopher Nolan and starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Joseph Gordon-Levitt, premieres in London
  • 2022 Gymnast Simone Biles aged 25, becomes the youngest person to receive the US Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Joe Biden [1]

July 9

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Holidays

This Day In History

  • 1981 Nintendo release arcade game “Donkey Kong” created by Shigeru Miyamoto in Japan (July 31 in the US)
  • 1996 “Blue” debut album by LeAnn Rimes is released (Billboard Album of the Year, 1997)
  • 2001 “The Office” mockumentary created by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, starring Ricky Gervais and Martin Freeman premieres on BBC Two in the UK

July 10

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Holidays

This Day In History

  • 1981 Walt Disney’s “Fox & The Hound” released
  • 2018 Drake surpasses The Beatles record of most singles in Billboard Hot One 100 with seven against their five from his album “Scorpion”
  • 2018 Original sketch of Winnie-the-Pooh’s Hundred Acre Wood by EH Shepard sells for £430,000 in London, record price for a book illustration
  • 2019 Taylor Swift named the world’s highest paid entertainer by Forbes earning $185 million in 2018

     

July 11

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Holidays

This Day In History

  • 1804 Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr mortally wounds former Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton in a pistol duel
  • 1889 Tijuana in Mexico becomes a city
  • 1892 US Patent Office says Joseph Swan rather than Thomas Edison, invented the electric light carbon for the incandescent lamp
  • 1960 “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee is first published by J. B. Lippincott & Co.
  • 1985 Astros’ Nolan Ryan, 1st to strike out 4000 (Mets’ Danny Heep)
  • 1995 Shaggy releases his third studio album “Bombastic” (Grammy Award Best Reggae Album)
  • 2013 “Orange Is the New Black” premieres on Netflix starring Taylor Schilling, first series to be nominated for comedy and drama Emmy awards

July 12

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Holidays

This Day In History

  • 1804 Former United States Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton dies after being shot in a pistol duel the previous day by Vice President Aaron Burr
  • 1862 US Congress authorizes Medal of Honor
  • 1928 1st televised tennis match
  • 1976 1st “Family Feud” game show debuts on ABC hosted by Richard Dawson

July 13

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Holidays

This Day In History

  • 1923 The Hollywood Sign is officially dedicated in the hills above Hollywood, Los Angeles. It originally reads “Hollywoodland” but the four last letters are dropped after renovation in 1949
  • 1939 Frank Sinatra makes his recording debut, with The Harry James Orchestra, singing “From the Bottom of My Heart” and “Melancholy Mood”

July 14

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Holidays

This Day In History

  • 1798 1st direct US federal tax on states enacted to finance military build-up; dwellings, land, and slaves are subject to tariff
  • 1983 Mario Bros. is first released by Nintendo in Japan as an arcade game about an Italian-American plumber
  • 2008 “The Dark Knight” directed by Christopher Nolan, starring Christian Bale and Heath Ledger, premieres in New York

July 15

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Holidays

This Day In History

  • 1916 Boeing Company (Pacific Aero) formed by William Boeing in Seattle, Washington
  • 1922 1st duck-billed platypus publicly exhibited in US, at Bronx Zoological Park, New York City
  • 1929 1st airport hotel opens at Oakland, California
  • 1988 “Die Hard” directed by John McTiernan and starring Bruce Willis and Alan Rickman is released in the US (Yes, it is a Christmas movie)
  • 2012 Korean pop singer Psy releases single “Gangnam Style”; it becomes a worldwide hit, topping the charts in over 36 countries

July 16

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Holidays

This Day In History

  • 1945 1st test detonation of an atomic bomb, Trinity Site, Alamogordo, New Mexico as part of the US Manhattan Project
  • 1969 Apollo 11 launched, carrying 1st men to land on Moon

July 17

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Holidays

This Day In History

  • 1850 Harvard Observatory takes 1st photograph of a star (Vega)
  • 1861 US Congress authorizes paper money
  • 1990 NY Yankee Deion Sanders hits an inside park homer

July 18

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Holidays

National Caviar Day– something’s fishy here

Women’s Dive Day

This Day In History

  • 1743 1st half-page newspaper ad is published (NY Weekly Journal)
  • 1968 The Intel Corporation is founded in Santa Clara, California
  • 1994 “Kiss From a Rose” released by Seal (Grammy Record of the Year and Song of the Year)

July 19

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Holidays

This Day In History

  • 1553 15-year-old Lady Jane Grey deposed as England’s Queen after 9 days
  • 2011 “Captain America: The First Avenger”, directed by Joe Johnston, starring Chris Evans and Hayley Atwell, premieres in Los Angeles

July 20

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Holidays

This Day In History

  • 1969 Apollo 11 lunar module carrying Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin lands on the surface of the Moon; Aldrin and Armstrong walk on the moon seven hours later; Michael Collins remains in orbit in the lunar module

July 21

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Holidays

This Day In History

  • 1853 Central Park in New York created when New York State Legislature puts aside more than 750 acres of land on Manhattan Island
  • 1969 Apollo 11: Neil Armstrong becomes the first person to step on the Moon at 2:56:15 AM (GMT)
  • 1987 Guns & Roses debut album “Appetite for Destruction” is released, and becomes the best-selling debut album of all time with more than 30 million copies sold

July 22

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Holidays

This Day In History

  • 2013 Mike Babcock is again named head coach of Team Canada, this time for the 2014 Winter Olympics (they would repeat as gold medalists)
  • 2017 South African golfer Branden Grace records lowest round for a men’s major championship – 62 in 3rd round at British Open, Royal Birkdale, England
  • 2019 Marvel superhero film “Avengers: Endgame” becomes the world’s highest-grossing film overtaking “Avatar” earning $2.9 billion

July 23

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Holidays

This Day In History

  • 1829 William Austin Burt patents America’s first “typographer” (typewriter)
  • 2010 One Direction is formed during the X Factor show as Niall Horan, Harry Styles, Liam Payne, Zayn Malik and Louis Tomlinson join together

July 24

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Holidays

This Day In History

  • 1969 Apollo 11 returns to Earth
  • 1998 “Saving Private Ryan”, directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Tom Hanks, Edward Burns and Matt Damon, is released (Academy Awards Best Director 1999)
  • 2019 19-year-old Hungarian swimmer Kristóf Milák breaks Michael Phelps‘ 10 year old 200m butterfly world record at the World Championships in Gwangju, South Korea; swims 1:50.73, 0.78s faster than Phelps

July 25

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Holidays

This Day In History

July 26

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Holidays

This Day In History

  • 1948 1st black host of a network show-CBS’ Bob Howard Show
  • 1990 US President George H. W. Bush signs Americans With Disabilities Act
  • 1992 Nolan Ryan strikes out his 100th batter for the 23rd consecutive season

July 27

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Holidays

This Day In History

July 28

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Holidays

This Day In History

  • 1951 Walt Disney releases animated musical film “Alice In Wonderland”, featuring Kathryn Beaumont, J. Pat O’Malley, Ed Wynn, and Sterling Holloway and songs by Sammy Fain and Bob Hilliard
  • 1991 Dennis Martínez pitches the 13th perfect game in baseball history

July 29

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Holidays

This Day In History

  • 1954 Publication of “Fellowship of the Ring” 1st volume of “Lord of the Rings” by J. R. R. Tolkien by George Allen and Unwin in London
  • 2019 Record for longest run at the top of US singles chart made by country rap single “Old Town Road” by Lil Nas X remixed with Billy Ray Cyrus, No. 1 for 17 weeks

July 30

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Holidays

This Day In History

  • 1928 George Eastman shows first amateur color motion pictures to guests at his New York house including Thomas Edison
  • 1991 Heavy metal band Metallica release their single “Enter Sandman”
  • 2003 The last ‘old style’ Volkswagen Beetle rolls off the assembly line in Mexico

July 31

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Holidays

This Day In History

  • 1922 18-year-old Ralph Samuelson rides world’s 1st water skis (Minnesota)
  • 1997 A’s first baseman Mark McGwire becomes MLB’s top home run hitter to be traded in the middle of a season when he moves from Oakland to St. Louis Cardinals (34 home runs and 81 RBI)
  • 2012 Michael Phelps becomes the greatest medal winner in Olympic history as part of the winning American 4 x 200m freestyle relay team in London; Phelps’ 19th career Olympic medal and 15th overall gold

NOTE: Information within the Content Calendar was curated from Holidayinsights.com, & OnThisDay.com.

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