July 1. Canada Day (Canada) Which is a logical enough place
to have such a day, however there is a
Canada themed day later this month that takes place elsewhere. / Build a
Scarecrow Day (U.S.) / it was on this day that the Unification Church had its
first public mass wedding. 2, 075 couples, most of whom were meeting each other
for the first time.
July 2. Visitation of the Virgin Mary Day (Catholic)
July 3. Dog Days of summer begin as the Dog Star Sirius rises from behind the Sun, perhaps it’s these hot days being one of the main reasons perhaps why there are so few holidays, or holidays with any meat on them, and so many revolutions in July. See the 4th, 14th (twice,) & 31st. / Green Corn Dance (Cherokee) given in thanksgiving for the
maize harvest; honoring maize Goddess Selu.
July 4. Independence Day (U.S.) / Filipino-American
Friendship Day / Tom Sawyer
Fence-Painting Day (from the novel) / Varmakeldustevna (Faroe Islands)
Norwegian boating festival..... I think. Anyway has something to do with them
just being glad its summer and they aren't frozen any longer. / Apache Girls'
Sunrise Ceremony (Apache Nation) Coming of age ceremony for Apache girls, it
can be held at any time, and traditionally goes for 4 day, however there are public ceremonies which outsiders
may attend, which involve several girls that occur on the Fort Apache
reservation and the Mescalero reservation in New Mexico and other places starting on the 4th.
July 5. Tynwald (Isle of Man) I found something about this,
but, while a hoot for them I'm sure, didn't do anything for me, so I'm leaving
the explanation out. / X Day (Church of the SubGenius)
July 6. Khao Phansa Day (Thailand) the so-called Buddhist
Lent. / Ludi Apollinares (Ancient Rome) starting in 208 B.C.E. games in honor
of Apollo start. / Happy birthday Delhi Lama also the birthday of George W. Bush jr.
can you say that? Ironic? Sure I knew you could.
July 7. Tanabata: Star Festival & Weaver's Festival (Japan)
Said to be a Chinese tradition with altered with beliefs peculiar to Japan.
Celebrates the meeting, once a year, of two lovers. Kengyu (the star Altair)
and Shakujo (Vega) who are separated by the Milky Way for the rest of the year.
/ Festival of the Giants. (Douai, France) / Fiesta de San Formin (Spain.) /
Rath Yatra (Puri, India. Hindu) Also known as the Chariot Festival, in
mid-summer Lord Jagannath with his elder brother Balabhadra and sister Subhadra
go on vacation traveling on grand chariots. This is also the etymological
origin of the English word "Juggernaut".
July 8. Annual Soapy Smith Wake in the Gold Rush Cemetery
(Alaska) for Jefferson Randolph
("Soapy") Smith II (1860 - July 8, 1898) a con artist, gangster the
number one "sure-thing" bunko man of the old west who had a major
hand in starting organized criminal operations from Colorado to Alaska from
1879 to 1898. There you go, name 3 other countries that have a festival for a
gangster. / Video Games Day (U.S.)
July 9. Caprotinia (Ancient Rome) feast for Juno Caprotina,
only women could assist in the
sacrifices offered at this feast. / Martyrdom of the Báb (Bahá'í.) / National
Sugar Cookie Day (U.S.)
July 10. Lady Godiva Day. (England) / Silence Day (followers
of Meher Baba) / Septinu Bralu Diena (Ancient Latvia.) / Gandalf is imprisoned
in Orthanc. (The Fellowship of the Ring.)
July 11. National Cheer Up the Lonely Day. (U.S.) ahh. /
World Population Day (UN) / National Dance Day (Zimbabwe) / Bonfire Night
(Northern Ireland)
July 12. National Pecan Pie Day (U.S.)
July 13 Feast of Kálimát (Bahá'í) - First day of the seventh
month of the Bahá'í calendar. / Obon, also known as Ullambana Festival or
Ancestor Day (Mahayana Buddhist) festival to honor the dead goes until the 16th / Festival of the 3 Cows
(Spain)
July 14 Bastille Day (France) / Revolution Day (Iraq) / It
was on this date in 1988 that the first
of the current crop of crop circles appeared, it had been happening for years,
just not in the news, later two Englishmen said they were doing them all. Any
explanation in a storm.
July 15 Ice Cream Day. Lincoln made Thanksgiving
official, Woodrow Wilson did the same
for Mother's Day, in 1984 Ronald Reagan made the 3rd Sunday in July officially
Ice Cream Day, or as was said then
"NOW, THEREFORE, I, Ronald Reagan, President of the
United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the
Constitution and laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim The 3rd Sunday
of each year Ice Cream Day, I call upon all the people of the United States to
observe this day with appropriate ceremonies and activities." I jive you
not, so far it hasn't made the splash the other two have. / Respect Canada Day
(U.S.) See told you. (July first) / St. Swithin's Day / International Men's Day.
(Brazil) / National Tapioca Pudding Day (U.S.) And yet still no tapioca ice cream!
July 16 Feast day for Saint Elvira (Catholic) as well as 22
other saints, translations and the like, I only bring up St. Elvira because I
use to watch her show with the old horror movies when it was on TV.
July 17 Constitution Day (Korea) Commemorates the adoption
of the Republic of Korea Constitution
in 1948. / Rivera Day (Puerto Rico) / Cow
Appreciation Day ( U.S.) / Yama-boko Junk (Kyoto, Japan) day of the big
parade that caps off the almost month long Gion Matsuri festival.
July 18. Ramadan starts / On this day in, 64 A.D., a fire breaks out in Rome,
spreading rapidly throughout the market area in the center of the city. When
the flames finally died out more than a week later, nearly two-thirds of Rome
had been destroyed.
July 19. Flitch Day. Long ago on this day bacon was given to
any married couple that could prove they had lived in harmony and fidelity for
one full year, very few were able to "take home the bacon." I wonder
how the 2,075 couples from the 1st did in 83?
July 20. Binding of the Wreaths (Lithuania) / Moon Day.
anniversary of the voyage of Apollo-11 landing the first men on the moon. /
International chess day / De del Amigo (Argentina & Brazil) Friendship Day,
except in Brazil they call it by the Portuguese words for Friendship Day. / Umi
No Hi "Ocean Day" (Japan) A recently introduced national holiday to
celebrate the ocean. The day marks the return of Emperor Meiji from a boat trip
to Hokkaido in 187. / Peace and Freedom Day (Northern Cyprus)
July 21 Racial Harmony Day (Singapore) Started because of
race riots between Chinese and Malay citizens in 1965. / Founding Day
(Scientology) For the incorporation in 1955 of the Founding Church of Scientology
in Washington DC, and the opening of the first Academy of Scientology.
July 22. Parents Day
(U.S.) A little known legal holiday set on the forth Sunday in July, white it sounds innocuous enough,
the holiday was championed and pushed through congress by the
"friends" of the Rev. Sun Myung Moon who insisted the day was only
intended to honor hard-working parents, Moon's long-range goal however is that
all religions are to merge under a theocratic state headed by Moon himself and
his wife, the "True Parents. " or if barring them due to death his
last son still in his good graces. / Panathenaea
(Ancient Greek) Festival of Goddess Athena as daughter of Wisdom (Goddess
Metis) and font of reason, it goes until the 28th. / Rat Catcher’s Day (Medieval England) A once
noble profession that I would not care to have. / Mary Magdalene's Day.
July 23. Sun Festival (Mayan) Honoring Sun God Ahau Kin;
celebrated with devotional offerings of food, song, prayer, and a ritual
procession that symbolically travels to the four quarters of the universe. /
Neptunalia (Ancient Rome) held in honor of Neptune. / Ancient Egyptian New Year’s
/ Celebration of the birthday of Emperor Haile Selassie (Rastafari movement.)
Whom I understand is making resurgence in his home nation after years of
suppression.
July 24. Pioneer Day (Mormon) / Amelia Earhart Day (U.S.) / Simon
Bolivar’s Day (Ecuador) / National Tequila Day (U.S.)
July 25. Inca festival in honor of the thunder god Ilyap'a /
Furinalia (Ancient Rome) have I mentioned before that the Romans were festival throwing
sons of guns? / Eve of Revolution Day (Cuba)
July 26 Day of the National Rebellion (Cuba) or Revolution Day
too I guess, because it would be kind of a cheat to have Revolution Day Eve and
then NOT have a Revolution day, goes till the 27th / Vijay Divas (India) for
the end of the Kargil War.
July 27. Sleepyhead Day (Finland) Traditionally on this day,
the last person in the house to wake up is woken up using water, either by
being thrown into a lake or the sea, or by having water thrown on them/ Iglesia
Ni Cristo Foundation Day (Philippines) / Memorial Day for War Martyrs.
(Vietnam) / José Celso Barbosa Day. (Puerto Rico) / Septinu Guletaju Diena
(Ancient Latvia) Does modern Latvia have any festivals?
July 28. Hurricane Supplication Day (Virgin Islands)
July 29. Pardon of the Birds (France) / Olsok Day (Norway) /
In 1588 the invincible Spanish Armada is defeated by the British Naval force
under the command of Lord Charles Howard & Sir Francis Drake with the aid
of a whelping big storm, which according to legend Drake helped rise with the
aid of a coven of Witches the night before the battle.
July 30. Metageitnion Noumenia (Ancient Greek) Festival
honoring all the Gods and Goddesses.
July 31. Hari Pahlawan (Malaysia) Warrior's day. / La Hae
Hawai'i (Hawaii) State Flag Day, while I'm sure the other 49 states also have
state flag days, Hawaii is the only one to give it a funky name so they get
noted. / Upswing of the Revolution. (Republic of the Congo.) / Happy Birthday
Harry Potter.
