July 15 is

Gummi Worm Day

Pet Fire Safety Day

Tapioca Pudding Day

Cow Appreciation Day

Give Something Away Day

INTERNATIONAL HOLIDAYS & FESTIVALS

Britain – St. Swithun’s Day

Brunei – His Majesty the Sultan’s Birthday

Canada – Montreal Just for Laughs Festival

Germany – Dinkelsbühl Kinderzeche Festival (1^st 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