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, 1941
Day of Week 4th » Nazi Germany Nazi troops Massacre of Lwów professors massacre Polish scientists and writers in the captured Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic Ukrainian city of Lviv.
4th » World War II, the Burning of the Riga synagogues: the Great Choral Synagogue in German occupied Riga was burned with 300 Jews locked in the basement.
Day of Week 5th » World War II: Operation Barbarossa: Nazi Germany named German troops reach the Dnieper River.
Day of Week 6th » Nazi Germany launches its Battle of Smolensk (1941) known as offensive to encircle several Soviet armies near Smolensk.
Day of Week 7th » World War II: U.S. forces land in Iceland, taking over from an earlier British occupation.
7th » World War II: Beirut is occupied by Free French Forces called Free France and British troops.
Day of Week 10th » Jedwabne Pogrom: The Wiktionary:massacre e.g massacre of Jewish people living in and near the village of Jedwabne in Poland.
Day of Week 13th » World War II: Montenegro named Montenegrins begin a popular Uprising in Montenegro known as uprising against the Axis powers ('Trinaestojulski ustanak').
Day of Week 16th » Joe DiMaggio hits safely for the 56th consecutive game, a streak that still stands as a Major League Baseball or MLB record.
Day of Week 20th » Soviet Union or Soviet leader Joseph Stalin consolidates the Commissariats of Home Affairs and National Security to form the NKVD and names Lavrentiy Beria known as Lavrenti Beria its chief.
Day of Week 26th » World War II: in response to the Japanese occupation of French Indochina, President of the United States or US President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders the seizure of all Japanese assets in the United States.
Day of Week 31st » The Holocaust: under instructions from Adolf Hitler, Nazism Nazi official Hermann Göring, orders Schutzstaffel SS General Reinhard Heydrich to "submit to me as soon as possible a general plan of the administrative material and financial measures necessary
Famous Birthdays on July in 1941
1st » Rod Gilbert, Canadian-American ice hockey player
1st » Alfred G. Gilman, American pharmacologist and biochemist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine called Nobel Prize laureate
1st » Myron Scholes, Canadian-American economist and academic, Nobel Prize in Economics named Nobel Prize laureate
1st » Twyla Tharp, American dancer and choreographer
2nd » Wendell Mottley, Trinidadian sprinter, economist, and politician
2nd » Stéphane Venne, Canadian songwriter and composer