July 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.
July symbols: The birthstone of July is the ruby, which symbolizes contentment. Its birth flowers are the Larkspur or the Water Lily. The zodiac signs for the month of July are Cancer (until July 22) and Leo (July 23 onwards).
Historical Events for July, 1934
Day of Week 2nd » The Night of the Long Knives ends with the death of Ernst Röhm.
Day of Week 4th » Leo Szilard patented the chain-reaction design for the atomic bomb.
Day of Week 5th » "1934 West Coast waterfront strike e.g Bloody Thursday" Police open fire on striking longshoremen in San Francisco.
Day of Week 11th » Engelbert Zaschka of Germany flies his large human-powered aircraft, the 'Zaschka Human-Power Aircraft', about 20 meters at Berlin Tempelhof Airport without assisted take off.
Day of Week 20th » Labor unrest in the U.S.: Police in Minneapolis fire upon striking Trucker known as truck drivers, during the Minneapolis Teamsters Strike of 1934, killing two and wounding sixty-seven.
20th » 1934 West Coast waterfront strike: In Seattle Seattle, Washington, police fire tear gas on and club 2,000 striking stevedore longshoremen. The governor of Oregon calls out the National Guard to break a strike on the Portland, Oregon Portland docks.
Day of Week 25th » The Nazi Germany e.g Nazis assassinate Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss in a failed coup attempt.
Famous Birthdays on July in 1934
1st » Claude Berri, French actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 2009)
1st » Jamie Farr, American actor and screenwriter
1st » Jean Marsh, English actress and screenwriter
1st » Sydney Pollack, American actor, director, and producer (d. 2008)
2nd » Tom Springfield, English singer-songwriter and producer (The Springfields)
4th » Yvonne B. Miller, American politician (d. 2012)
4th » Colin Welland, English actor and screenwriter