Educators' Calendar: United Kingdom

July 2020

28th June

28

29th June

29

30th June

30

1st July

1

2nd July

2

3rd July

3

4th July

4

28th June

29th June

30th June

1st July

SOS Became Standard Distress Call (1908)

Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty Signed by 61 Countries (1968)

Hong Kong Returned to China (1997)

2nd July

British Women Gain Right to Vote (1928)

Aviator Amelia Earhart Disappeared (1937)

3rd July

Last Pair of Great Auks Killed (1844)

Author Franz Kafka Born (1883)

4th July

U.S. Declared Independence from Great Britain (1776)

'Alice''s Adventure in Wonderland Published' (1865)

End of Rationing After WW2 (1954)

5th July

5

6th July

6

7th July

7

8th July

8

9th July

9

10th July

10

11th July

11

5th July

Salvation Army Founded (1865)

Algeria Declared Independence from France (1962)

6th July

Sir Thomas More Beheaded (1535)

7th July

Pinocchio First Printed (1883)

Boris Becker Youngest Player Ever to Win Wimbledon (1985)

London Terrorist Bombing Killed 52 (2005)

8th July

First Public Reading of Declaration of Independence (1776)

Fourth Harry Potter Book Breaks Publishing Records (2000)

9th July

Parliament Unifies Australian Colonies (1900)

Artist David Hockney Born (1937)

10th July

Theologian John Calvin Born (1509)

Battle of Britain Began (1940)

Telstar Launched (1962)

The Bahamas Gained Independence from Great Britain (1973)

11th July

World Population Day

King Henry VIII Excommunicated (1533)

12th July

12

13th July

13

14th July

14

15th July

15

16th July

16

17th July

17

18th July

18

12th July

King Henry VIII Married Sixth Wife (1543)

13th July

First World Cup Soccer Tournament (1930)

Ruth Ellis Hanged; Last Woman Executed in Britain (1955)

Live Aid Concert Performed (1985)

14th July

Bastille Day

Political Activist Emmeline Pankhurst Born (1858)

Nazis Became Sole Political Party in Germany (1933)

15th July

'St. Swithin''s Day'

Rosetta Stone Found in Egypt (1799)

Howard Hughes Set New Speed Record (1938)

First International Manned Spaceflight (1975)

16th July

Last Russian Czar Executed (1918)

Saddam Hussein Became President of Iraq (1979)

17th July

British Royal Family Adopted "Windsor" Name (1917)

Spanish Civil War Began (1936)

Potsdam Conference (1945)

Jul. 17-32
Festival of British Archaeology

18th July

Jews Expelled from England by Edward I (1290)

South African Leader Nelson Mandela Born (1918)

Mein Kampf Published (1925)

Gymnast Nadia Comaneci Scored First Perfect 10 (1976)

19th July

19

20th July

20

21st July

21

22nd July

22

23rd July

23

24th July

24

25th July

25

19th July

Franco-Prussian War Began (1870)

First East to West Rowing of the Atlantic (1969)

20th July

Mountaineer Sir Edmund Hillary Born (1919)

'Ceylon (Sri Lanka) Elected World''s First Female Head of State' (1960)

First Moon Landing (1969)

21st July

First London Railway Station Opened (1837)

Musician Cat Stevens Born (1948)

Aswan High Dam Opened in Egypt (1970)

22nd July

Pied Piper Arrived in Hamelin (1264)

Reverand William Spooner Born (1844)

First Solo Flight Around the World Completed (1933)

23rd July

Pneumatic Tires Invented (1888)

Hale-Bopp Comet Discovered (1995)

Slobodan Milosevic Sworn in as Yugoslavian President (1997)

Jul. 23-38
National Marine Week

24th July

24/7 Suicide Awareness Day

25th July

'St James''s Day '

Louis Blériot First to Cross Channel in an Aeroplane (1909)

First Test-Tube Baby Born (1978)

26th July

26

27th July

27

28th July

28

29th July

29

30th July

30

31st July

31

1st August

1

26th July

'Liberia Became Africa''s First Republic' (1847)

Playwright George Bernard Shaw Born (1856)

27th July

'Korean War Veterans'' Armistice Day'

Bugs Bunny Debuted (1940)

First Commercial Passenger Jet Plane Flight (1949)

Bombing at Olympic Games in Atlanta (1996)

2012 London Olympics Games Began (2012)

28th July

Statesman Thomas Cromwell Executed (1540)

Author Beatrix Potter Born (1866)

World War I Began (1914)

U.S.A. Creates NASA (1958)

29th July

Russian Peasant Rasputin Born (1871)

Van Gogh Committed Suicide (1890)

Prince Charles Married Lady Diana Spencer (1981)

30th July

Eid-al-Adha (Muslim)

Author Emily Brontë Born (1818)

Inventor Henry Ford Born (1863)

England Won Football World Cup for the First Time (1966)

Vanuatu Gained Independence from France and Britain (1980)

31st July

National Road Victim Month

Columbus Arrived in Trinidad (1498)

Author J.K. Rowling Born (1965)

1st August