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, 1877
Day of Week 9th » The 1877 Wimbledon Championship known as inaugural The Championships, Wimbledon named Wimbledon Championships begins.
Day of Week 10th » The then-villa of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, formally receives its city charter from the Royal Crown of Spain.
Day of Week 14th » The Great Railroad Strike of 1877 begins in Martinsburg, West Virginia, US, when Baltimore and Ohio Railroad workers have their wages cut for the second time in a year.
Day of Week 21st » After rioting by Baltimore and Ohio Railroad workers and the Great Railroad Strike of 1877 deaths of nine rail workers at the hands of the Maryland militia, workers in Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania stage a Secondary action sympathy strike that is me
Famous Birthdays on July in 1877
2nd » Hermann Hesse, German-Swiss author and poet, Nobel Prize in Literature or Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1962)
19th » Arthur Fielder, English cricketer (d. 1949)
22nd » Gian Giorgio Trissino (equestrian) known as Gian Giorgio Trissino, Italian horse rider (d. 1963)
24th » Calogero Vizzini, Italian mobster (d. 1954)
27th » Ernő Dohnányi, Hungarian pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1960)