July 15 is
Gummi Worm Day
Pet Fire Safety Day
Tapioca Pudding Day
Cow Appreciation Day
Give Something Away Day
INTERNATIONAL HOLIDAYS & FESTIVALS
Brunei – His Majesty the Sultan’s Birthday
Canada – Montreal Just for Laughs Festival
Germany – Dinkelsbühl Kinderzeche Festival (1st day)
Italy – Feast of St Rosalia, Palermo
Kiribati – Unimwane Day
On This Day in HISTORY
1099 – The First Crusade: Christian soldiers take Jerusalem
1606 – Rembrandt Van Rijn, Dutch master of the art of painting, is born
There’s More! The Spanish Inquisition, the Duck-Billed Platypus and Mars close up…
1834 – The Spanish Inquisition officially disbanded after 356 years
1858 – Emmeline Pankhurst, British Woman’s Suffrage leader, is born
1870 – Georgia is the last Confederate state to be readmitted to the Union
1901 – Over 74,000 Pittsburgh steel workers go on strike
1904 – First Buddhist temple in the U.S. established in Los Angeles
1922 – First duck-billed platypus seen in America exhibited at Bronx Zoo NYC
1933 – Julian Bream, classical guitarist and lutenist, is born in London
1942 – Glenn Miller and the Moderaires recorded “Jukebox Saturday Night”
1965 – Mariner IV spacecraft sends back first close-up photos of planet Mars
1987 – Taiwan ends 37 years of martial law
2009 – The movie Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince opens in U.S. theaters
VISUALS
- Gummy Worms
- International Flags
- Self Portrait, Rembrandt-1660s
- NASA Mariner IV flyby photo of Mars surface