JULY JOHNSON

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JULY 1, 1876 – Susan Glaspell is born in Davenport, Iowa.

JULY 1, 1915 – Willie Dixon is born in Vicksburg, Mississippi.

JULY 1, 1945 – Debbie Harry is born in Miami, Florida.

JULY 1, 1966 – The first color television transmission in emanates from Toronto, Canada.

JULY 1, 1971 – Missy Elliott is born Melissa Arnette Elliott in Portsmouth, Virginia.

JULY 2, 1925 – Medgar Evers is born in Decatur, Mississippi.

JULY 2, 2002 – Steve Fossett becomes the first person to fly solo around the world nonstop in a balloon.

JULY 3, 1883 – Franz Kafka is born in Prague, Czechoslovakia.

JULY 3, 1935 – Cheo Feliciano is born José Luis Cheo" Feliciano in Ponce, Puerto Rico.

JULY 3, 1971 – Julian Assange is born in Townsville, Australia.

JULY 3, 1886 – The New York Tribune automates typesetting by hand.

JULY 4, 1804 – Nathaniel Hawthorne is born in Salem, Massachusetts.

JULY 4, 1826 – Stephen Foster is born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

JULY 4, 1865 – Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is published.

JULY 5, 1934 – Police open fire on striking longshoremen in San Francisco, California.

JULY 5, 1940 – Chuck Close is born in Monroe, Washington.

JULY 6, 1907 – Frida Kahlo is born Magdalena Carmen Frieda Kahlo y Calderón in Mexico City, Mexico.

JULY 6, 1609 – Bohemia is granted freedom of religion.

JULY 7, 1907 – Robert Heinlein is born in Butler, Missouri.

JULY 7, 1940 – Ringo Starr is born Richard Starkey in Liverpool, England.

JULY 7, 1947 – Aliens invade Roswell, New Mexico.

JULY 8, 1864 – Fred Holland Day is born in Norwood, Massachusetts.

JULY 8, 1908 – Louis Jordan is born in Brinkley, Arkansas.

JULY 8, 1917 – Faye Emerson is born in Elizabeth, Louisiana.

JULY 8, 2011 – Atlantis is launched in the final mission of the United States Space Shuttle program.

JULY 9, 1811 – Fanny Fern is born in Portland, Maine.

JULY 9, 1909 – Basil Wolverton is born in Central Point, Oregon.

JULY 9, 1945 – Root Boy Slim is born in Asheville, North Carolina.

JULY 9, 1946 – Bon Scott is born in Angus, Scotland.

JULY 9, 1964 – Courtney Love is born Courtney Michelle Harrison in San Francisco, Calfornia.

JULY 9, 1975 – Jack White is born John Anthony Gillis in Detroit, Michigan.

JULY 9, 1975 – Isaac Brock is born in Helena, Montana.

JULY 9, 1896 – William Jennings Bryan delivers his Cross of Gold speech in Chicago, Illinois.

JULY 10, 1907 – Blind Boy Fuller is born Fulton Allen in Wadesboro, North Carolina.

JULY 10, 1962 – Telstar, the world's first communications satellite, is launched into orbit.

JULY 11, 1922 – The Hollywood Bowl opens.

JULY 11, 1959 – Suzanne Vega is born in Santa Monica, California.

JULY 12, 1817 – Henry David Thoreau is born in Concord, Massachusetts.

JULY 12, 1876 – Max Jacob is born in Brittany, France.

JULY 12, 1895 – Buckminster Fuller is born in Milton, Massachusetts.

JULY 12, 1917 – The Bisbee Deportation occurs as hired vigilantes for the mining companies kidnap and deport nearly 1,300 striking miners and their families from Bisbee, Arizona.

JULY 12, 1943 – Christine McVie is born in Cumbria, England.

JULY 13, 1793 – Jean-Paul Marat is assassinated in his bathtub by Charlotte Corday.

JULY 13, 1907 – Kenneth Stubbs is born in Ochlocknee, Georgia.

JULY 13, 1942 – Roger McGuinn is born in Chicago, Illinois.

JULY 14, 1862 – Gustav Klimt is born in Vienna, Austria.

JULY 14, 1912 – Woody Guthrie is born Woodrow Wilson Guthrie in Okemah, Oklahoma.

JULY 14, 1926 – Harry Dean Stanton is born in West Irvine, Kentucky.

JULY 14, 2000 – Solar flares cause a geomagnetic storm on Earth.

JULY 15, 1915 – Neith Boyce's Constancy debuts.

JULY 15, 1946 – Linda Ronstadt is born in Tucson, Arizona.

JULY 15, 1951 – Jessie Ventura is born in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

JULY 15, 2006 – Twitter is launched

JULY 16, 1873 – Agnes Weinrich is born in Des Moines County, Iowa.

JULY 16, 1941 – Desmond Dekker is born in St. Andrew, Jamaica.

JULY 16, 1999 – John F. Kennedy, Jr., dies in a plane crash off the coast of Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts.

JULY 17, 1898 – Berenice Abbott is born in Springfield, Ohio.

JULY 17, 1918 – Tsar Nicholas II of Russia is murdered by the Bolsheviks.

JULY 17, 1935 – Peter Schickele is born in Ames, Iowa.

JULY 17, 1972 – Elizabeth Cook is born in Wildwood, Florida.

JULY 18, 1937 – Hunter S. Thompson is born in Louisville, Kentucky.

JULY 18, 1968 – Intel is founded in Mountain View, California.

JULY 19, 1937 – Karen Dalton is born in Enid, Oklahoma.

JULY 19, 64 AD – Nero fiddles as Rome, Italy burns.

JULY 20, 1976 – Andrew Stockdale is born in Queensland, Australia.

JULY 20, 1977 – The United States Central Intelligence Agency releases documents under the Freedom of Information Act revealing it had engaged in mind control experiments.

JULY 21, 1899 – Ernest Hemingway is born in Oak Park, Illinois.

JULY 21, 1899 – Hart Crane is born in Garrettsville, Ohio.

JULY 21, 1939 – Kim Fowley is born in Los Angeles, California.

JULY 21, 1918 – U-156 shells Nauset Beach in Orleans, Massachusetts.

JULY 22, 1882 – Edward Hopper is born in Upper Nyack, New York.

JULY 22, 1941 – George Clinton is born in Kannapolis, North Carolina.

JULY 22, 1951 – Dezik and Tsygan become the first dogs in space.

JULY 23, 1943 – Tony Joe White is born in Oak Grove, Louisiana.

JULY 23, 1982 – The International Whaling Commission votes to end commercial whaling by 1985-86.

JULY 24, 1487 – Citizens of Leeuwarden, Netherlands strike against a ban on foreign beer.

JULY 24, 1860 – Alphonse Mucha is born in Ivancice, Czech Republic.

JULY 24, 1897 – Amelia Earhart is born in Atchinson, Kansas.

JULY 24, 1900 – Zelda Fitzgerald is born Zelda Sayre in Montgomery, Alabama.

JULY 24, 1919 – William Copley is born in New York City, New York.

JULY 24, 1952 – Gus Van Sant is born in Louisville, Kentucky.

JULY 25, 1958 – Thurston Moore is born in Coral Gables, Florida.

JULY 25, 1965 – Bob Dylan goes electric at the Newport Folk Festival in Newport, Rhode Island.

JULY 26, 1887 - Unua Libro is published birthing the Esperanto movement .

JULY 26, 1943 – Mick Jagger is born in Kent, England.

JULY 26, 1943 – Susan George is born in London, England.

JULY 26, 1970 – Joan Wasser is born in Biddeford, Maine.

JULY 26, 1974 – Iron & Wine is born Samuel Ervin Beamin in Chapin, South Carolina.

JULY 27, 1944 – Bobbie Gentry is born Roberta Lee Streeter in Chickasaw, Mississippi.

JULY 28, 1887 – Marcel Duchamp is born in Blainville-Crevon, France.

JULY 28, 1901 – Rudy Vallée is born in Island Pond, Vermont.

JULY 28, 1924 – Anne Braden is born in Louisville, Kentucky.

JULY 28, 1973 – 600,000 people attend the rock festival at New York's Watkins Glen International Raceway.

JULY 29, 1905 – Clara Bow is born in Brooklyn, New York.

JULY 29, 1905 – Stanley Kunitz is born in Worcester, Massachusetts.

JULY 29, 1906 – Thelma Todd is born in Lawrence, Massachusetts.

JULY 29, 1914 – The Cape Cod Canal opens.

JULY 30, 1956 – Jesco White is born in Bandytown, West Virginia.

JULY 30, 1960 – Richard Linklater is born in Houston, Texas.

JULY 30, 2006 – The 42-year-run of the BBC's music show, Top of the Pops, grinds to a halt.

JULY 31, 1944 – Geraldine Chaplin is born in Santa Monica, California.

JULY 31, 1930 – The radio mystery program The Shadow graces the airwaves for the first time.