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July 1, 1863 - The Battle of Gettysburg
began. It was a major and pivotal battle of the Civil War. It
was at the site of the battle that President Abraham Lincoln gave his famous
"Gettysburg Address”.
July 1, 1916 - The Coca Cola Company introduced its iconic
rounded bottle.
July 1, 1948 - Idlewild Airport, now
JFK Airport, opened.
July 1, 1963 - The ZIP code was introduced. It
stands for Zone Improvement Plan Code.
July 2, 1964 - President Lyndon B. Johnson
signed the Civil Rights
Act into law.
July 3, 1962 - Jackie Robinson was
named to the Baseball Hall of Fame. Robinson broke the color barrier in
baseball.
July 4, 1776 - The
Continental Congress, meeting in what came to be called Independence Hall,
adopted the Declaration of Independence.
July 4, 1826 - On the 50th
anniversary of the Declaration
of Independence, former Presidents John Adams and
Thomas Jefferson died. They had
both contributed to the writing of the Declaration.
July 4, 1900 - Jazz legend Louis Armstrong,
nicked-name "Satchmo," was born.
July 4, 1903 - The first TransPacific cable
was completed. It reached from San Francisco to Manila. President
Theodore Roosevelt sent the first message.
July 6, 1775 - Congress
issued the "Declaration
of the Causes and Necessity of Taking up Arms" against the British.
July 6, 1854 - The newly
formed Republican Party
gathered in opposition to slavery. The first candidate for President was John Charles Fremont. He lost to
James Buchanan. Fremont and his wife, Jessie,
were outspoken against slavery. The second nominee, Abraham Lincoln, won in 1860 and
again four years later.
July 6, 1957 - Althea Gibson won the
women's singles at Wimbledon, the first African-American to do so.
July 6, 1976 - The United States Naval Academy admitted
women for the first time. Eighty-one women were inducted.
July 8, 1776 - The first
public reading of the Declaration
of Independence was given at the State House in Philadelphia.
The Liberty Bell was rung for the first time.
July 9, 1776 - The Declaration of Independence
was read aloud in
Manhattan on Bowling Green. Afterwards, some of the colonists
tore down the statue of King George III.
Parts of it were sent to a foundry in Connecticut to be made into
bullets.
July 9, 1778 - Congress
approved the Articles of
Confederation, five years before the Peace Treaty with England.
July 10, 1870 - Mary McLeod Bethune was
born. A child of enslaved parents, she became an educator and civil rights
activist. She founded a school for African-Americans, now called the
Bethune-Cookman University. It is in South Carolina.
July 11, 1804 - Vice
President Aaron Burr mortally wounded former Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton in a
duel, with pistols, in Weehawken, NJ as dueling was illegal in New York. They
had battled politically for years. Hamilton died the next day.
His widow, Elizabeth, was one of
the founders of the Orphan Asylum Society now named Graham Windham. The
OAS was founded in 1806. She served the OAS for almost 50 years. She lived
to be 97 and was a remarkable woman.
July 11, 1905 - The Niagara
Movement, the forerunner to the NAACP,
was organized.
July 13, 1960 - Then Senator John F. Kennedy
was nominated for President by the Democratic Party. He was elected the
following November.
July 13, 1965 - Thurgood Marshall, the
future Supreme Court Justice, became the first
African-American appointed to be Solicitor General of the United
States
July 15, 1775 - Olive Branch Petition
was sent to King George III to end
the armed tension in the American Colonies.
July 18, 1921 - Future
astronaut and Senator, John
Glenn, was born.
July 19, 1848 - A Women's Rights Convention
was held in Seneca Falls, New York. Women did not get the right to vote until
1920. This was the beginning of the Women's Rights movement. The Anti-slavery movement
was assisted by the Convention.
July 20, 1969 - At 9:56pm
(earth time!) astronaut Neil
Armstrong became the first person to step on the moon's
surface, having traveled there on Apollo 11.
July 21, 1775 - New York patriots observed a day of
"Fasting & Devotion".
July 24, 1897 - Aviator Amelia Earhart was born.
She set numerous aviation records. She disappeared in a flight over the Pacific
Ocean in 1937. Some believe she was on a spying mission for the government.
Others believe she survived and lived on an island in the Pacific Ocean and
died a few years later.
July 26, 1788 - New York State ratified the United
States Constitution.
July 26, 1948 - President Harry S. Truman signed
an Executive Order stating that there should be "equality of treatment and opportunity
without regard to race,
color, religion or national origin" in the United States
Armed Forces.
July 28, 1868 - The 14th Amendment to the
United States Constitution went into effect. It granted African-Americans full citizenship
rights.
July 30, 1941 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt
signed the law which established the WAVES:
Women Accepted for
Volunteer Emergency Service during World War II.
July 31, 1777 - The Marquis de Lafayette
was appointed a Major General in the Continental Army. He served under George
Washington and alongside Alexander Hamilton, the future Secretary of the
Treasury. When he was later imprisoned during the French Revolution, his son
came here and lived with the Hamilton family. Hamilton translated as he spoke
French, although not very well according to other French soldiers!
July 31, 1921 - Former Urban
League President, Whitney
Young, Jr. was born.
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Historically,
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Corporate
Culture & Heritage Marketing assists
companies with leveraging the history
and heritage of a company, brand or
not-for-profit as a marketing or fundraising tool.
It
specializes in STORY
TELLING & PROVIDING CONTENT and leveraging
anniversary
celebrations as a marketing or fundraising tool.
Services: Story
telling and content; Consulting; Research; Editing;
Writing: Curating; Creating Knowledge
Banks; Conducting Oral History interviews; Assisting
companies with corporate culture clash after
a merger; Cause-related marketing;
Researching
funding sources;
Writing
grant proposals.