On this day:
Sunday, July 1: Canada Day (182)
* Impress your Canadian friends with the giraffe census for Canada:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=105010
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Monday, July 2:
* Deadline for Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) forms:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=777336
Tuesday, July 3:
* Heathkit introduces the H8 personal computer as a kit in 1977, using paper tape storage. More on this once-popular storage method:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=72469
Wednesday, July 4: Independence Day -- U.S. (185)
* Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence, served a novelty called 'French fries' at the White House and was criticized by John Adams for "putting on airs":
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=334236
Thursday, July 5:
* Birthday of Sylvester Graham (1794), Presbyterian minister and inventor of the Graham cracker:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=519929
Friday, July 6:
* 60th birthday of George W. Bush, the only U.S. president with an MBA (Harvard, 1975):
http://answers.google.com/answers/main?cmd=threadview&id=62925
Saturday, July 7:
* Today is 7/7/07. The many meanings of seven:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=405890
Sunday, July 8:
* Birthday of "Sunny" Joe Wolverton, the mentor of famed guitarist Les Paul:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=179044
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Monday, July 9:
* Diet Coke introduced in 1982 over the objection of some company managers. Becomes instant success:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=517610
Tuesday, July 10:
* First communications satellite is also first privately-sponsored space launch when Telstar placed in orbit in 1962. It also inspired this musical composition:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=195643
Wednesday, July 11:
* Babe Ruth's first game with the Boston Red Sox (1914). The sale of Ruth to the Yankees would later cause the 'Curse of the Bambino', lifted in October, 2004:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=184281
Thursday, July 12:
* Congress authorizes the Medal of Honor. The military award for valor has only been issued to one woman, Dr. Mary Edwards Walker:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=422738
Friday, July 13:
* National "Memorial Peace Cross" honoring World War I soldiers, is dedicated in Bladensburg, MD in 1925:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=372789
Saturday, July 14: Bastille Day -- France (195)
* A brief history of the French Revolution and conflicts for France since 1789:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=93693
Sunday, July 15:
* Birthday of Mother Cabrini (1850) or Maria Francesca Cabrini, later the first American citizen canonized by the Catholic Church. How nuns have dressed over time:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=315093
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Monday, July 16:
* Signing of the Residence Bill in 1790 creates the District of Columbia. The full story:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=293578
Tuesday, July 17:
* Disneyland opens less than a year after construction begins (see July 21) on this day in 1955:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=517610
Wednesday, July 18:
* Great Fire of Rome in 64 A.D. Nero watches while playing lyre at a safe distance. Then blames the Christians:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=443971
Thursday, July 19:
* Lady Jane Grey's reign as the "Nine Days Queen" ends in 1553 to be replaced by Queen Mary I (Tudor). An 'alternate history', had she remained:
http://www.answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=575232
Friday, July 20:
* Relying on decrypted messages from "Enigma," sometime during the last 10 days of July, 1940 Churchill learns of German plans to invade England:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=292971
Saturday, July 21:
* Construction of "Disneyland" begins on this day in 1954:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=517610
Sunday, July 22:
* Deng Xiaoping restored to power in 1977, leading to market-oriented economic development in China and a quadrupling of output by 2000:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=554396
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Monday, July 23:
* First ice cream cone sold in 1904 at the Louisiana Purchase Exhibition in St. Louis. Creates modern phenomenon known as "brain freeze":
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=362203
Tuesday, July 24:
* Lance Armstrong wins 7th consecutive Tour de France in 2005, then retires. Books on bicycle racing tactics:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=317848
Wednesday, July 25:
* David Bellasco, a legendary American theatrical producer and manager known as the "Bishop of Broadway", born in 1853:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=602407
Thursday, July 26:
* Birthday of Carl Jung, psychoanalyst, in 1875. His theories provided the foundation for modern Myers-Briggs tests, often used by human resources departments:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=608788
Friday, July 27:
* A royal charter is granted to the Bank of England in 1694. Today it functions as the central bank, just like the Federal Reserve in the U.S. and these other central banks:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=784664
Saturday, July 28:
* World War I begins in 1914 as Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia after the assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand on July 23. The changes that it would initiate:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=180675
Sunday, July 29:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=595242
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Monday, July 30:
* Henry Ford, born on this day in 1863, once told dealers "You can have them any color you want boys, as long as they're black." How to get more options:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=261274
Tuesday, July 31:
* Marquis de Lafayette, then 19, made a major-general in the American Continental Army in 1777. Reasons for French support of the American War of Independence:
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=385042
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