July 2017 Curriculum Calendar - Lesson Plan Ideas by Date

Enhance your current curriculum with this fun reference calendar. Whether you want to highlight historic events, honor birthdays of significant people, or celebrate holidays, this is a valuable tool for every teacher. Click on any event to find a breadth of related teaching resources that will spark new ideas to spice up your daily lessons. There's something worth celebrating every day!

Curriculum Calendar

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Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thur	Fri	Sat
25 Battle of Little Bighorn fought (1876) Also try: Custer's Last Stand Eric Carle born (1929) Also try: The Very Hungry Caterpillar First color television broadcast (1951) Also try: 1950s, mass communication	26 50 nations sign United Nations Charter in San Francisco (1945) Also try: international relations Bicycle patented (1819) Also try: bicycle safety	27 Helen Keller born (1880) Also try: famous women, women's suffrage "Happy Birthday" song written (1859) Also try: birthday traditions	28 Paul Bunyan Day Also try: tall tales, folktales	29 The Globe Theatre burns to the ground (1613) Also try: Shakespeare, London First iPhone released (2007) Also try: technology, cell phones	30 Gone with the Wind published (1936) Also try: Civil War, Reconstruction Meteor Day Also try: astronomy	1 National Ice Cream Month Begins Also try: making ice cream Canada Day Also try: North America Battle of Gettysburg (1863) Also try: Civil War, Gettysburg Address
2 Civil Rights Act passed after 83-day filibuster (1964) Also try: filibuster First steam engine patented (1698) Also try: Thomas Savery	3 John Singleton Copley born (1738) Also try: portrait artist, colonial New England Dow Jones and Company publishes first stock average (1884) Also try: stock market	4 United States Independence Day Also try: Fourth of July, Declaration of Independence Supernova detected within the constellation Taurus (1054) Also try: constellations	5 Successful cloning of Dolly the sheep (1996) Also try: cloning, DNA The Law of Return is passed allowing Jewish people to return to Israel (1950) Also try: Israel-Palestine Conflict Algeria wins independence from France (1962) Also try: colonialism in Africa Isaac Newton's Principia published (1687) Also try: Issac Newton	6 President George W. Bush born (1946) Also try: US Presidents Republican Party formed (1854) Also try: political parties	7 Sliced bread sold for the first time (1928) Also try: baking bread, grains	8 Stock market falls to lowest point during Great Depression (1932) Also try: Great Depression Liberty Bell cracks (1835) Also try: Independence Hall
9 Sugar Cookie Day Also try: cookie recipes, cookie decorating Millard Fillmore becomes President when President Taylor dies (1850) Also try: US Presidents, Whig Party	10 Boris Yeltsin becomes Russia's first President (1991) Also try: Russia Don't Step on a Bee Day Also try: insects, honey	11 E.B. White born (1899) Also try: Charlotte's Web, Stuart Little John Quincy Adams born (1767) Also try: US Presidents	12 Henry David Thoreau born (1817) Also try: philosophy, poetry, Walden Pond Henry VIII weds his last wife, Catherine Parr (1543) Also try: Catherine Parr	13 Julius Caesar born (100 B.C.) Also try: Ancient Rome Bomb blasts rock Mumbai, 130 injured and 26 killed (2011) Also try: terrorism	14 Bastille Day Also try: French Revolution Shark Awareness Day Also try: fish, ocean animals	15 Rembrandt born (1606) Also try: Baroque style The Rosetta Stone found (1799) Also try: Egyptian hieroglyphs
16 The Manhattan Project ushers in the Atomic Age (1945) Also try: Atomic Age The Catcher in the Rye published (1951) Also try: J.D. Salinger	17 Disneyland opens (1955) Also try: Walk Disney, theme parks Charles VII crowned King of France (1429) Also try: Joan of Arc	18 John Glenn born (1921) Also try: astronaut, space exploration Mein Kampf published (1925) Also try: Adolf Hiter	19 First women's rights convention at Seneca Falls (1848) Also try: women's suffrage, Elizabeth Cady Stanton The Qing Dynasty defeats the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom (1864) Also try: Taiping Heavenly Kingdom	20 Apollo II makes first moon landing (1969) Also try: moon landing, space exploration First Special Olympics (1968) Also try: disabilities, paralympics	21 Ernest Hemingway born (1899) Also try: The Old Man and the Sea, Lost Generation	22 Systematic deportation of Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto begins the Holocaust (1942) Also try: Jewish deportation
23 Ford Motor Company sells first car (1903) Also try: Henry Ford, Model T, automobiles	24 Ruins of Macchu Picchu discovered (1911) Also try: Peru, Inca Brigham Young leads 148 Mormon pioneers into Salt Lake Valley (1847) Also try: Mormonism, Utah	25 Puerto Rico becomes a US commonwealth (1952) Also try: United States commonwealth	26 Carl Jung born (1875) Also try: extroversion, introversion, psychology Jan Berenstain born (1923) Also try: The Berenstain Bears	27 National Korean War Armistice Day Also try: Korean Demilitarized Zone World War II: Allied forces successfully halt final Axis advance into Egypt (1942) Also try: Allied Forces	28 Beatrix Potter born (1866) Also try: The Tale of Peter Rabbit WWI begins (1914) Also try: The Great War	29 NASA established (1958) Also try: space exploration, aeronautics, aerospace
30 Henry Ford born (1863) Also try: assembly line, Ford Motor Company Emily Bronte born (1818) Also try: Wuthering Heights	31 J.K. Rowling born (1965) Also try: Harry Potter Uncommon Instrument Awareness Day Also try: music, explore instruments	1 Herman Melville born (1819) Also try: Moby Dick National Water Quality Month Begins Also try: water pollution, water sources Justinian I becomes sole ruler of the Byzantine Empire (527) Also try: Byzantine Empire	2 Trial run of San Francisco cable car on Clay St. (1873) Also try: transportation The Lincoln Penny issued (1909) Also try: currency, Abraham Lincoln	3 Christopher Columbus sets sail on his first voyage (1492) Also try: Age of Discovery	4 Louis Armstrong born (1901) Also try: jazz, Harlem Renaissance Anne Frank and family arrested (1944) Also try: Holocaust Barack Obama born (1961) Also try: US Presidents	5 Neil Armstrong born (1930) Also try: astronaut, space exploration

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