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July 1st 1963
Zip Code Introduced in the United States.

July 2nd 1964
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is signed into law by President Johnson.

July 3rd  1998
Rolls Royce Sold To Volkswagen

July 4th 1946
The Philippines became a self-governing nation after 48 years of U.S. sovereignty

July 5th 1996
The first cloning of an animal by scientists was revealed by the Roslin Institute in Scotland when DOLLY THE SHEEP was cloned from tissue taken from a 6 year old ewe’s udder.

July 6th 1952
The last of the trams in London ends it’s journey ending nearly 100 years of trams in London

July 7th 2007
Seven Wonders of the Modern World Announced

July 8th 1889
The Wall Street Journal is first published.

July 9th 1984
A 760-year-old wing of York Minster, the largest medieval cathedral in Britain, was gutted by fire

July 10th 1985
The Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior is sunk when French agents plant a bomb on the hull of the boat.

July 11th 1985
The Coca Cola company makes one of worst decisions in marketing history when it decides to change it’s original formula and introduces “New Coke”

July 12th 2008
IndyMac Bank Collapse

July 13th 1985
The Live Aid Concert was held to raise funds for famine relief in Ethiopia around the world in cites including London, Philadelphia, Sydney and Moscow.

July 14th 1972
Jean Westwood is 1st woman chosen to head Democratic National Committee

July 15th 1997
Gianni Versace Murdered

July 16th 2004
Millennium Park, considered the first and most ambitious architectural project in the early 21st century for Chicago, is opened to the public by Mayor Richard M. Daley

July 17th 1955
Disneyland in Anaheim, California opens to invited guests only. More than 30,000 guests showed up to participate in one of the largest theme parks in the world at the time

July 18th 1976
The first perfect 10 ever recorded in Olympic gymnastics was achieved up by Romania’s 4-foot-11, 88-pound Nadia Comaneci on the women’s uneven parallel bars.



July 19th 1923
Insulin Introduced.

July 20th 1980
The Moscow Summer Olympics begins minus the United States and 64 other countries who were boycotting the games because of the Soviet military intervention in Afghanistan.

July 21st 2005
Terrorist Attack London Underground

July 22nd 2009
The longest total solar eclipse of the 21st century, ( when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partially obscuring Earth’s view of the Sun ) lasting up to 6 minutes and 38.8 seconds, occurs off the coast of Southeast Asia.

July 23rd 1952
Military Coup d’etat Egypt

July 24th 1990
Iraq Troops Mass on Border of Kuwait

July 25th 1952
Puerto Rico became a self-governing commonwealth of the United States.

July 26th 1956
0Suez Crisis Begins

July 27th 1974
The House of Representatives charges President Richard M. Nixon with the first of three articles of impeachment for obstruction of justice.

July 28th 1956
Elvis Presley scores his second No. 1 hit with “I Want You, I Need You, I Love You.”

July 29th 1981
Prince Charles marries Lady Diana at a royal ceremony at St. Paul’s Cathedral

July 30th 1966
England win the World Cup in extra time at Wembley Stadium 4 to 2

July 31st 1958
Anti-Chinese uprising in Tibet