Here’s the list of July themes, foods, scientific and historic anniversaries, and famous birthdays.  There’s some summer fun days, too! Whether you’re looking for something special to study, trivia, a day to celebrate, or a food to add to the menu, the July 2020 special days list gives you plenty to choose from!

Free resources for teaching throughout the month, including a PDF of Special Days in July, can be found at the end of this list.

July Awareness/Observance Days and Themes

• Air-Conditioning Appreciation
• Anti-Boredom
• Bereaved Parents Awareness
• Bison
• Bio-terrorism/Disaster Education and Awareness
• Black Family
• Blondie and Deborah Harry Month
• Cell Phone Courtesy
• Dog House Repair
• Family Reunion
• Freedom From Fear of Speaking
• Herbal Prescription Awareness
• Independent Retailers
• Irrigation
• Make a Difference to Children
• Parks and Recreation
• Read An Almanac
• Share a Sunset
• Tennis
• Tour de France
• Unlucky Month for Weddings
• Wheelchair Beautification
• Wild About Wildlife
• Women’s Motorcycle
• Zine

July’s Food Themes

• Baked Beans
• Berry
• Blueberry
• Culinary Arts
• Eggplant
• Garlic
• Grilling
• Horseradish
• Hot Dog
• Ice Cream
• Lettuce
• Ice Cream
• Mango
• Melon
• Nectarine
• Picnic

Special Days Without Set Dates
Be Nice to New Jersey Week begins *(1st full week)
Music For Life Week begins *(1st full week)
Special Recreation Week begins *(1st full week)
Build a Scarecrow Day * (1st Sun)
Cherry Pit Spitting Day (1st Sat.)
Hop-a-Park Day (1st Sat.)
Town Criers Day *(2nd Mon.)
Collector Car Appreciation Day *( 2nd Fri.)
Cow Appreciation Day *(2nd Fri.)
Carver Day *(2nd Sat.)
Grange Day *(2nd Sat.)
Captive Nations Week begins *(3rd full week)
Coral Reef Awareness Week * (3rd week)
Independent Retailers Week begins *(3rd full
week)
Parenting Gifted Children Week begins *(3rd full week)
Zoo Keeper Week begins *(3rd full week)
Ice Cream Day *(3rd Sun.)
Get Out of the Doghouse Day *(3rd Mon.)
Global Hug Your Kids Day *(3rd Mon.)
Swan Upping * (3rd Monday)
Get to Know Your Customers Day * (3rd Thurs.)
Celebration of the Horse Day *(3rd Fri.)
Aunt and Uncle Day *(4th Sun.)
Parent’s Day * (4th Sun.)
Refreshment Day * (4th Thurs.)
Day of the Cowboy *(4th Sat.)
Moth Week begins * (last full week)
Chili Dog Day * (last Thurs.)
Get Gnarly Day * (last Fri.)
Talk in An Elevator Day *(last Fri.)
Dance Day *(Last Sat.)

Special Days Varying Dates
Eid al-fitr
Everybody Deserves a Massage Week
Ventriloquism Week
World Lumberjack Championships
Shark Week

July’s Special Days With Set Dates

July 1

• Battle of Gettysburg 1863
• Burundi Independence Day 1962
• Canada  Independence Day 1867
• Creative Ice Cream Flavors Day
• Princess Diana born 1961
• International Joke Day
• Postage Stamp Day
• Roswell UFO Days
• Rwanda Independence Day 1962
• Second Half of the Year Day
• Somalia  Independence Day 1960
• Transistor Introduced 1948
• Unassisted Homebirth Week begins
• Zip Code Day
• 1st US Zoo (Philadelphia) 1874

July 2

• Civil Rights Act passed (US) 1964
• Thomas Cranmer, archbishop of Canterbury born 1489
• Fence Painting Days begin
• I Forgot Day
• International Day of Cooperatives
• Made in the USA Day
• Tom Sawyer Days begin
• World UFO Day
• 1st Zeppelin Flight 1900

July 3

• Air-Conditioning Appreciation Days begin
• Chocolate Wafer Day
• Compliment Your Mirror Day
• Disobedience Day
• Dog Days begin
• Eat Your Beans Day
• Farriers Week
• Idaho Statehood 1890
• Plastic Bag Free Day
• Stay Out of the Sun Day
• Superman Day

July 4

• Boom Box Parade Day
• President Calvin Coolidge born 1872
• Country Music Day
• Freedom Week begins
• Independence Day (US) 1776
• Indivisible Day
• Sidewalk Egg Frying Day

July 5

• Apple Turnover Day
• P.T. Barnum born 1810
• Bikini Day
• Graham Cracker Day
• Tynwald Day
• Venezuela  Independence Day 1811
• Work-a-holics Day

July 6

• President George W. Bush born 1946
• Children’s Art Day (UK)
• Fried Chicken Day
• Malawi  Independence Day 1964
• 16mm Movie Camera and Projector introduced 1923
• Take Your Webmaster to Lunch Day
• World Kiss Day

July 7

• Chocolate Day
• Father – Daughter Take a Walk Together Day
• Global Forgiveness Day
• Macaroni Day
• Pinocchio first printed 1883
• Strawberry Sundae Day
• Tell the Truth Day

July 8

• Blueberry Day
• Chocolate with Almonds Day
• Liberty Bell cracked 1835
• Math Day
• SCUD Day (Savor the Comic, Unplug the Drama)
• Video Games Day
• 1st Issue of The Wall Street Journal 1889

July 9

• Argentina  Independence Day 1816
• 1st Rock and Roll Song to reach #1 on Pop Music Charts , “Rock Around the Clock” 1955
• Sugar Cookie Day

July 10

• Bahamas  Independence Day 1973
• Clerihew Day
• Don’t Step on a Bee Day
• Author Candice Ransom born 1952
• Teddy Bear Picnic Day
• Nikola Tesla  born 1856
• Wyoming Statehood 1890

July 11

• President John Qunicy Adams born 1767
• St. Benedict Day
• Blueberry Muffin Day
• Cheer Up the Lonely Day
• Cherries Day
• Pet Photo Day
• Author Patricia Polacco born 1944
• Slurpie Day
• Author EB White born 1899
• World Population Day

July 12

• Barn Day
• Julius Caesar born 100 BC
• Different Colored Eyes Day
• Inventor George Eastman born 1854
• Eat Your Jello Day
• Etch a Sketch introduced 1960
• Orange Men’s Day
• Paper Bag Day
• Pecan Pie Day
• Sao Tome and Principe  Independence Day 1975
• Simplicity Day
• Naturalist, Henry Thoreau born 1817

July 13

• Barbershop Music Appreciation Day
• Beans ‘N’ Franks Day
• Buckingham Palace Becomes Residence of Britain’s Monarchy 1837
• Embrace Your Geekness Day
• Fool’s Paradise Day
• French Fry Day
• “Live Aid” organized 1985
• Puzzle Day

July 14

• Bastille Day / France  Independence Day 1789
• President Gerald Ford born 1913
• Author Laura Numeroff born 1953
• Pandemonium Day
• Shark Awareness Day
• Tape Measure Day
• Mac and Cheese Day
• Missionary Lilias Trotter born 1853

July 15

• Apollo 18 launched 1975
• Be a Dork Day
• 1st Boeing 707 1954
• Gummi Worm Day
• I Love Horses Day
• Artist Rembrandt Van Rijn born 1606
• St. Swithin’s Day
• Tapioca Pudding Day

July 16

• Atomic Bomb Successfully Tested 1945
• Explorer Roald Amundsen born 1872
• Apollo 11 Lift Off 1969
• Corn Fritters Day
• Fresh Spinach Day
• Hot Dog Night
• World Snake Day

July 17

• Festival of British Archeaology
• Disneyland Opened 1955
• Peach Ice Cream Day
• Hymn writer Isaac Watts born 1674
• World Emoji Day
• Wrong Way Corrigan Day
• Yellow Pig Day

July 18

• Author/Illustrator Felicia Bond born 1954
• Astronaut John Glenn born 1921
• Gymnast  Nadia Comaneci scored 1st perfect “10″ in Olympics 1976
• Nelson Mandela born 1918
• Sour Candy Day

July 19

• Physicist/Astronomer Edward Charles Pickering born 1846
• Raspberry Cake Day
• The Mary Rose sank 1545

July 20

• Cake Day
• Colombia Independence Day 1810
• Lollipop Day
• 1st Moon Landing/ Walk 1969
• Ugly Truck Day
• World Jump Day

July 21

• Belgium Independence Day 1831
• Author Ernest Hemingway born 1899
• Junk Food Day
• Monkey Day

July 22

• Artist Alexander Calder born 1898
• Hammock Day
• Penuche Fudge Day
• Pied Piper arrived in Hamelin 1284
• Rat Catchers Day
• Spoonerism Day

July 23

• Batman Day
• Egypt Independence Day 1952
• Gorgeous Grandma Day
• Hot Dog Day
• Hot Enough For Ya Day
• Ice Cream Cones 1st introduced 1904
• Mosquito Day
• Pneumatic Tires invented 1888
• Telegrapher patented 1829
• Vanilla Ice Cream Day

July 24

• Military Leader Simon Bolivar born 1783
• Cousins Day
• Drive-Thru Day
• Author Alexander Dumas born 1802
• Aviator Amelia Earhart born 1897
• King James VI of Scotland crowned 1567
• Learn Nothing Day
• Mormon Pioneer Day
• Tell an Old Joke Day
• Thermal engineer Day

July 25

• Carousel Day
• St. Christopher’s Day
• Culinarians Day
• Grotto Day / St. James’ Day
• Hot Fudge Sundae Day
• St. James the Great Day
• Thread the Needle Day

July 26

• All or Nothing Day
• Apollo 15 launched 1971
• Bagelfest Day
• Artist George Catlin born 1796
• Coffee Milkshake Day
• Dharma Day
• FBI Created 1908
• Liberia Independence Day 1847
• Maldive Islands Independence Day 1965
• New York Statehood 1788
• One Voice Day

July 27

• Bugs Bunny debut 1940
• Korean War Armistice Day (1953)
• Take Your Houseplant for a Walk Day
• Take Your Pants for a Walk Day
• Walk on Stilts Day

July 28

• Buffalo Soldiers Day
• Chocolate Milk Day
• Garlic Days
• Fingerprints First Used for Identification
• Hamburger Day
• Milk Chocolate Day
• Author/Illustrator Beatrix Potter born 1866
• Peru Independence Day 1821
• The Union Flag decreed to be the National Flag of Great Britain 1707

July 29

• Chicken Wing Day
• Author Sharon Creech born 1945
• Lasagna Day
• Lipstick Day
• NASA established 1958
• Rain Day
• Tiger Day

July 30

• Author Emily Bronte born 1818
• Cheesecake Day
• International Day of Friendship
• Father-in-Law Day
• Inventor Henry Ford born 1863
• Paperback Book Day
• Support Public Education Day

July 31

• Avocado Day
• MTV debut 1981
• Mutt’s Day
• Raspberry Cake Day
• Author J.K. Rowling born 1965
• Uncommon Instruments Awareness Day
• World Ranger Day

Free Printable –  SPECIAL DAYS IN JULY

For Specific Special Day Resources  for July  https://stilllearningsomethingnew.com/2017/06/30/july-resources/

Special Days Archive  – Direct links to the most recent Special Days and Resource Lists for every month.

My “Go-To” list of Resources when planning lessons for Special Days  for any month  –     https://stilllearningsomethingnew.com/2016/07/31/learning-resources-for-special-days/

How I use Special Days lists in our homeschool blog series :

Special Days and the Evolution of Morning Calendar Time

Special Days and Biographies

Special Days and Geography

Special Days and Science

I make my monthly special days calendars by using several sources including old calendars,  holiday books, newspapers, my old journal notes, and the web.  If you know of a special day that I do not have listed, please comment and let me know what it is so I can add it in.   Below are the links to my favorite online calendars.

http://food.unl.edu/fnh/july#quicklinks

http://www.se7en.org.za/se7ens-july

http://www.apples4theteacher.com/holidays/july.html

http://holidayinsights.com/moreholidays/july.htm

https://www.nationaldaycalendar.com/july-overview/

http://projectbritain.com/calendars/july.html

http://aglobalworld.com/international-independence-days/country-independence-day.php

Have a Happy  July!

betty jo