The Prompt Writer

July 2008

The July Birthstone is the Ruby and the flower for the month is the Water Lily. The astrological signs for the month are Cancer (June 21-July 22) and Leo (July 23-August 22).

July is:

Firework Safety Month
Read An Almanac Month

The Third Week of July is:
National Hug Week

Tuesday, July 1^st:
Canada Day
Independence Day (Burundi)
International Joke Day
Happy Birthday Pamela Lee Anderson (1967)
Happy Birthday Princess Diana (1961)
R.I.P Luther Vandross (1951-2005)

Wednesday, July 2^nd:
Flag Day (Curacao)
Happy Birthday Thurgood Marshall (1908)
R.I.P. President James Garfield (1931-1881)

Thursday, July 3^rd:
Independence Day (Belarus)
Happy Birthday George M. Cohan (1878)

Friday, July 4^th:
Independence Day (United States)
King’s Day (Tonga)
Happy Birthday President Calvin Coolidge (1872)
Happy Birthday Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804)
Happy Birthday Neil Simon (1927)
Happy Birthday Dear Abby and Ann Lander (1918)
R.I.P President John Adams (1735-1826)
R.I.P. Barry White (1944-2003)

Saturday, July 5^th:
Independence Day (Venezuela)
Tynwald Day (Isle of Man)
Happy Birthday P. T. Barnum

Sunday, July 6^th:
Republic Day (Malawi)
Happy Birthday President George W. Bush (1946)
Happy Birthday John Paul Jones (1747)
R.I.P. Roy Rogers (1911-1998)

Monday, July 7^th:
Running of the Bulls (Spain)
Independence Day (Solomon Islands)
Happy Birthday Ringo Starr (1940)

Tuesday, July 8^th:
Gay Pride Day (Netherlands)

Wednesday, July 9^th:
Independence Day (Argentina)
Youth Day (Morocco)
Happy Birthday Dean Koontz (1945)

Thursday, July 10^th:
Independence Day (Bahamas)
Happy Birthday Jean Kerr (1923)
Happy Birthday David Brinkley (1920)

Friday, July 11^th:
St. Rosalia Day (Italy)
Happy Birthday President John Quincy Adams (1767)
R.I.P. George Gershwin (1898-1937)

Saturday, July 12:
Orangemen’s Day (U.K. and Canada)
Independence Day (Kiribati)
Happy Birthday Bill Cosby (1937)
Happy Birthday Henry David Thoreau (1817)

Sunday, July 13^th:
Festival of Souls (Japan)
Happy Birthday Harrison Ford (1946)

Monday, July 14^th:
Bastille Day (France)
National Day (Martinique)
Happy Birthday President Gerald Ford (1913)

Tuesday, July 15^th:
St. Swithin’s Day (U.K.)
Happy Birthday Rembrandt (1606)

Wednesday, July 16^th:
World Snake Day
Happy Birthday Orville Redenbacher (1907)
R.I.P. John F. Kennedy Jr. (1960-1999) and Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy (1966-1999)

Thursday, July 17^th:
Disneyland opens (1955)
Happy Birthday Art Linkletter (1912)
Happy Birthday James Cagney (1899)
R.I.P. Billie Holiday (1915-1959)

Friday, July 18^th:
Constitution Day (Uruguay)
Happy Birthday Nelson Mandela (1918)
Happy Birthday Red Skelton (1910)

Saturday, July 19^th:
Liberation Day (Nicaragua)
Martyr’s Day (Myanmar)

Sunday, July 20^th:
Anniversary of the Moon Landing (1969)
Independence Day (Columbia)
St. Elijah’s Day (Bulgaria)
Happy Birthday Carlos Santana (1947)

Monday, July 21^st:
Independence Day (Belgium)
Liberation Day (Guam)
Happy Birthday Ernest Hemingway (1899)
Happy Birthday Robin Williams (1952)

Tuesday, July 22^nd:
Liberation Day (Poland)
National Tree Planting Day (Central African Republic)
Happy Birthday Oscar DeLaRenta (1932)
Happy Birthday Danny Glover (1947)

Wednesday, July 23^rd:
Martyr’s Day (Armenia)
Revolution Day (Egypt)
National Children’s Day (Indonesia)

Thursday, July 24^th:
Simon Bolivar Day (Ecuador and Venezuela)
Happy Birthday Amelia Earhart (1898)
R.I.P. Peter Sellers (1925-1980)

Friday, July 25^th:
Constitution Day (Puerto Rico)
St. James’ Day (Spain)
Guanacaste Day (Costa Rica)
R.I.P. Geoffrey Chaucer (1343-1400)

Saturday, July 26^th:
Independence Day (Liberia)
Independence Day (Maldives)
Happy Birthday Stanley Kubrick (1928)
Happy Birthday George Bernard Shaw (1856)
Happy Birthday Mick Jagger (1943)

Sunday, July 27^th:
Parent’s Day (United States)
Lu Pan Day (Hong Kong)
Happy Birthday Norman Lear (1922)
R.I.P. Bob Hope (1903-2003)

Monday, July 28^th:
Independence Day (Peru)
Happy Birthday Beatrix Potter (1866)
Happy Birthday Jackie Kennedy Onassis (1929)

Tuesday, July 29^th:
Father’s Day (Dominican Republic)
St. Olav’s Day (Norway)
Happy Birthday Henry Ford (1863)
Happy Birthday Peter Jennings (1938)

Wednesday, July 30^th:
Father-In-Law Day (United States)
Festival of St. Anne (Canada)
Independence Day (Vanuatu)
Happy Birthday Arnold Schwartzenegger (1947)

Thursday, July 31^st:
Hawaiian Flag Day (United States)

Tags: Countries Celebrating Independence Day, Holidays For July, July Holidays, Observences For July

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