Historical Events in July, Month of July Events
Here is a list of some historical events in July. You can learn What major event happened in July?
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| July 24, 1866 | Reconstruction: Tennessee becomes the first U.S. state to be readmitted to Congress following the American Civil War. |
| July 4, 1954 | Rationing ends in the United Kingdom. |
| July 17, 1984 | The national drinking age in the United States was changed from 18 to 21. |
| July 1, 1980 | "O Canada" officially becomes the national anthem of Canada. |
| July 30, 762 | Baghdad is founded. |
| July 16, 1965 | South Vietnamese Colonel Phạm Ngọc Thảo, a formerly undetected communist spy and double agent, is hunted down and killed by unknown individuals after being sentenced to death in absentia for a February 1965 coup attempt against Nguyễn Khánh. |
| July 27, 1917 | World War I: The Allies reach the Yser Canal at the Battle of Passchendaele. |
| July 30, 1419 | First Defenestration of Prague: A crowd of radical Hussites kill seven members of the Prague city council. |
| July 8, 2011 | Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched in the final mission of the U.S. Space Shuttle program. |
| July 15, 1806 | Pike Expedition: United States Army Lieutenant Zebulon Pike begins an expedition from Fort Bellefontaine near St. Louis, Missouri, to explore the west. |
| July 2, 2005 | The Live 8 benefit concerts takes place in the G8 states and in South Africa. More than 1,000 musicians perform and are broadcast on 182 television networks and 2,000 radio networks. |
| July 29, 1980 | Iran adopts a new "holy" flag after the Islamic Revolution. |
| July 7, 1898 | US President William McKinley signs the Newlands Resolution annexing Hawaii as a territory of the United States. |
| July 27, 1775 | Founding of the U.S. Army Medical Department: The Second Continental Congress passes legislation establishing "an hospital for an army consisting of 20,000 men." |
| July 9, 1958 | A 7.8 Mw strike-slip earthquake in Alaska causes a landslide that produces a megatsunami. The runup from the waves reached 525 m (1,722 ft) on the rim of Lituya Bay; five people were killed. |
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