July is:

· National Ice Cream Month;

· American Beer Month;

· National Hot Dog Month;

· Cell Phone Courtesy Month;

· Blueberries Month;

· National Baked Bean Month;

· National Grilling Month; and

· Anti-Boredom Month.

July is also the month of the Tour de France. (See our article in the Just For Fun section on the Tour de Lance, we mean France.)

Special dates in July:

7/1 ZIP Codes are introduced for United States mail (1963)

7/2 The first Walmart store opens for business in Rogers, Arkansas (1962)

The Civil Rights Act is signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson (1964)

7/4 Independence Day (1776)

7/5 The bikini bathing suit made its debut in Paris, France (1946)

7/6 Louis Pasteur successfully tests an anti-rabies vaccine on a boy bitten by an infected dog (1885)

The first All-Star baseball game is played in Chicago (1933)

7/10 The Beatles album, A Hard Day’s Night, was released (1964)

7/17 Disneyland opens (1955)

7/20 Apollo 11 lands on the Moon (1969)

7/30 Jimmy Hoffa disappears in suburban Detroit (1975)

For more information on the International Ice Cream Association, go to http://www.idfa.org/facts/icmonth/page1.cfm.

For more information about American-made beer, go to http://www.americanbeermonth.com/.

For more information in honor of National Hot Dog Month, go to http://www.factmonster.com/spot/hotdog1.html.

For tips on cell phone etiquette, go to http://www2.sprint.com/mr/news_dtl.do?id=1700.

Looking for blueberry recipies and information? Go to http://www.classbrain.com/artholiday/publish/article_348.shtml.

For more information about baked beans, got to http://www.classbrain.com/artholiday/publish/article_355.shtml.

In honor of National Grilling Month, go to http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/grilling/.

For anti-boredom strategies, go to http://www.wikihow.com/Beat-Boredom-over-the-Summer.

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