<> Tomorrow's food holidays(s):
* 'National Milk Chocolate with Almonds Day'.
- From Wikipedia (Chocolate-covered almonds):
'In 1742, William Parks printed a copy of Eliza Smith's cookbook, The
Compleat Housewife. Chocolate almonds was the only chocolate recipe it
contained despite the popularity of chocolate among the wealthy at the
time.
Many places on the internet claim that July 8 is (American) National Milk
Chocolate with Almonds Day, while November 7 is National Bitter Chocolate
with Almonds Day'.
[The Hankster says] Mounds of chocolate on almonds. Sounds like an idea for a candy bar.
<> Other holidays / celebrations
* 'Collector Car Appreciation Day'.
Vy the SEMA Action Network (SAN) since 2009 July 8 2016 this year. .
- From Wikipedia:
'Collector Car Appreciation Day (CCAD) is an annual celebration to raise
awareness of the role automotive restoration and collection plays in
American society. The day was first recognized on July 9, 2010 due, in
part, to U.S. Senate resolution S. Res 513, sponsored by Senators Jon
Tester (D-MT) and Richard Burr (R-NC).
Hundreds of events were staged nationwide to celebrate the first CCAD.
Thousands attended events ranging from car cruises and shows to
small-business open houses and “drive your car to work” displays. The
effort was organized by the Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA)
and its Automotive Restoration Market Organization (ARMO) and Hot Rod
Industry Alliance (HRIA) Councils, acknowledged the importance of the
automobile in American culture as the inspiration for much music,
literature, photography, cinema, fashion and other artistic pursuits.
The SEMA Action Network (SAN), SEMA’s grassroots enthusiast network
maintains a list of scheduled events to commemorate Collector Car
Appreciation Day'.
[The Hankster says] I appreciated my car any time it decided to run.
* 'SCUD Day'.
Self improvement day, by Savor the Comic, Unplug the Drama.
[The Hankster says] No, it is not Duck and Cover Day. Drama? what is that. My life is so uneventful, that the hectic day of a dried stick is more eventful
* 'Math 2.0 Day'.
Since 2009. Have fun with math.
[The Hankster says] I can remember when it had just turned 1, but math and I have always been just casual acquaintances.
<> Awareness / Observances:None.
<> Historical events on July 8
* 'In 1776, The Liberty Bell tolls to announce the Declaration of
Independence, ringing out from the tower of Independence Hall in
Philadelphia. .
- From Wikipedia: The Liberty Bell is an iconic symbol of American
independence, located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Formerly placed in the
steeple of the Pennsylvania State House (now renamed Independence Hall),
the bell today is located in the Liberty Bell Center in Independence
National Historical Park. The bell was commissioned from the London firm of
Lester and Pack (today the Whitechapel Bell Foundry) in 1752, and was cast
with the lettering Proclaim LIBERTY throughout all the land unto all the
inhabitants thereof, a Biblical reference from the Book of Leviticus
(25:10). The bell first cracked when rung after its arrival in
Philadelphia, and was twice recast by local workmen John Pass and John
Stow, whose last names appear on the bell. In its early years, the Liberty
Bell was used to summon lawmakers to legislative sessions and to alert
citizens to public meetings and proclamations.
'No immediate announcement was made of the Second Continental Congress's
vote for independence, and thus the bell could not have rung on July 4,
1776, at least not for any reason related to that vote. Bells were rung to
mark th reading of the Declaration of Independence on July 8, 1776, and
while there is no contemporary account of the Liberty Bell ringing, most
historians believe it was one of the bells rung. After American
independence was secured, it fell into relative obscurity for some years.
In the 1830s, the bell was adopted as a symbol by abolitionist societies,
who dubbed it the Liberty Bell.
The bell acquired its distinctive large crack sometime in the early 19th
century—a widespread story claims it cracked while ringing after the death
of Chief Justice John Marshall in 1835. The bell became famous after an
1847 short story claimed that an aged bell-ringer rang it on July 4, 1776,
upon hearing of the Second Continental Congress's vote for independence.
Despite the fact that the bell did not ring for independence on that July
4, the tale was widely accepted as fact, even by some historians. Beginning
in 1885, the City of Philadelphia, which owns the bell, allowed it to go to
various expositions and patriotic gatherings. The bell attracted huge
crowds wherever it went, additional cracking occurred and pieces were
chipped away by souvenir hunters. The last such journey occurred in 1915,
after which the city refused further requests.
After World War II, the city allowed the National Park Service to take
custody of the bell, while retaining ownership. The bell was used as a
symbol of freedom during the Cold War and was a popular site for protests
in the 1960s. It was moved from its longtime home in Independence Hall to a
nearby glass pavilion on Independence Mall in 1976, and then to the larger
Liberty Bell Center adjacent to the pavilion in 2003. The bell has been
featured on coins and stamps, and its name and image have been widely used
by corporations'.
* 'In 1800, Dr Benjamin Waterhouse gives 1st cowpox vaccination in the US
to his son to prevent smallpox .
- From Wikipedia: Benjamin Waterhouse (March 4, 1754, Newport, Rhode Island
– October 2, 1846, Cambridge, Massachusetts) was a physician, co-founder
and professor of Harvard Medical School. He is most well known for being
the first doctor to test the smallpox vaccine in the United States, which
he carried out on his own family.
'After returning to the United States in 1782, Waterhouse joined the
faculty of the new medical school at Harvard as one of three professors,
including John Warren and Aaron Dexter, in the area of Theory and Practice
of Physic. He was also elected that same year as a Fellow at Rhode Island
College (now Brown University). He was elected a Fellow of the American
Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1795. In 1814, Waterhouse resigned his
Harvard professorship after opposing a plan to establish the Medical School
in Boston and attempting to found a rival medical school.
Waterhouse first wrote to then-President John Adams, his former roommate,
hoping to spread the word about cowpox vaccinations preventing smallpox.
When he found President Adams unresponsive, he wrote a letter to Vice
President Thomas Jefferson entitled A prospect of exterminating the
smallpox.
Jefferson replied with a letter dated Christmas Day, 1800, and soon offered
his support. Once Jefferson became President the following year, Waterhouse
introduced Edward Jenner's method of cowpox vaccination in the United
States. He attempted to maintain a monopoly over the cowpox vaccine, for
both financial reasons and to protect the vaccine from incompetent or
fraudulent physicians. Waterhouse made the first vaccinations in the United
States on four of his children. He commissioned a controlled experiment at
the Boston Board of Health in which 19 vaccinated and 2 unvaccinated boys
were exposed to the smallpox virus. The vaccinated boys demonstrated
immunity and the 2 unvaccinated boys succumbed to the disease'.
* 'In 1889, The Wall Street Journal publishes its first issue. .
- From Wikipedia: 'The Wall Street Journal is a business-focused,
English-language international daily newspaper based in New York City. The
Journal is published six days a week by Dow Jones and Company, a division
of News Corp, along with its Asian and European editions. The newspaper is
published in the broadsheet format.
The Wall Street Journal is the largest newspaper in the United States by
circulation. According to the Alliance for Audited Media, the Journal had a
circulation of about 2.4 million copies (including nearly 900,000 digital
subscriptions) as of March 2013, compared with USA Today's 1.7 million.
The newspaper has won 39 Pulitzer Prizes through 2015 and derives its name
from Wall Street in the heart of the Financial District of Lower Manhattan.
The Journal has been printed continuously since its inception on July 8,
1889, by Charles Dow, Edward Jones, and Charles Bergstresser.
The first products of Dow Jones and Company, the publisher of the Journal,
were brief news bulletins hand-delivered throughout the day to traders at
the stock exchange in the early 1880s. They were later aggregated in a
printed daily summary called the Customers' Afternoon Letter. Reporters
Charles Dow, Edward Jones, and Charles Bergstresser converted this into The
Wall Street Journal, which was published for the first time on July 8,
1889, and began delivery of the Dow Jones News Service via telegraph. In
1896, The Dow Jones Industrial Average was officially launched. It was the
first of several indices of stock and bond prices on the New York Stock
Exchange. In 1899, the Journal's Review and Outlook column, which still
runs today, appeared for the first time, initially written by Charles Dow'.
* 'In 2011, Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched in the final mission of the
US Space Shuttle program. .
- From Wikipedia: 'The Space Shuttle Atlantis (Orbiter Vehicle Designation:
OV-104) is a Space Shuttle orbiter belonging to the National Aeronautics
and Space Administration (NASA), the spaceflight and space exploration
agency of the United States. Constructed by the Rockwell International
company in Southern California and delivered to the Kennedy Space Center in
Eastern Florida in April 1985, Atlantis is the fourth operational and the
second-to-last Space Shuttle built. Its maiden flight was STS-51-J from 3
to 7 October 1985.
Atlantis embarked on its 33rd and final mission, also the final mission of
a space shuttle, STS-135, on 8 July 2011. STS-134 by Endeavour was expected
to be the final flight before STS-135 was authorized in October 2010.
STS-135 took advantage of the processing for the STS-335 Launch On Need
mission that would have been necessary if STS-134's crew became stranded in
orbit. Atlantis landed for the final time at the Kennedy Space Center on 21
July 2011.
By the end of its final mission, Atlantis had orbited the Earth a total of
4,848 times, traveling nearly 126,000,000 mi (203,000,000 km) or more than
525 times the distance from the Earth to the Moon.
Atlantis is named after RV Atlantis, a two-masted sailing ship that
operated as the primary research vessel for the Woods Hole Oceanographic
Institution from 1930 to 1966'.
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Monthly holiday / awareness days in July
Food
National Blueberries Month
National Grilling Month
National Honey Month
National Ice Cream Month
National Horseradish Month
National Hot Dog Month
Wheat Month
Health
Alopecia Month for Women
Bereaved Parents Awareness Month
Eye Injury Prevention Month
Hemochromatosis Screening Awareness Month
International Group B Strep Awareness Month
International Women with Alopecia Month
International Zine Month
Juvenille Arthritis Awareness Month
National Black Family Month
National Cleft and Craniofacial Awareness and Prevention Month
National Cord Blood Awareness Month
National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month
Social Wellness Month
Animal / Pets
National 'Doghouse Repairs' Month
Other
Bioterrorism/Disaster Education and Awareness Month
Cell Phone Courtesy Month
Family Golf Month
Independent Retailer Month
National Child-Centered Divorce Month
National Make A Difference to Children Month
National Parks and Recreation Month
National Vacation Rental Month
Smart Irrigation Month
Tour de France Month
Women's Motorcycle Month
July is:
July origin (from Wikipedia): Named by the Roman Senate in honor of Julius Caesar.
"is the seventh month of the year (between June
and August) in the Julian and Gregorian Calendars and one of seven months
with the length of 31 days. It was named by the Roman Senate in honor of
the Roman general, Julius Caesar, it being the month of his birth. Prior
to that, it was called Quintilis. It is, on average, the warmest month in
most of the Northern hemisphere (where it is the second month of summer)
and the coldest month in much of the Southern hemisphere (where it
is the second month of winter). The second half of the year commences in
July. In the Southern hemisphere, July is the seasonal equivalent of
January in the Northern hemisphere."
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