MisesWiki:Anniversaries/July

July Anniversaries

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July 1 (add):

• 2011 – Cory Maye, convicted of murder ten years earlier for defending himself against a police raid, made a plea agreement resulting in his release.

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July 2 (add):

• 1776 – The Second Continental Congress passed the Lee Resolution, declaring independence from Great Britain. Two days later it formally announced the Declaration of Independence.
• 1890 – The Sherman Antitrust Act went into effect, giving the federal government broad powers to investigate monopolies and cartels.
• 1964 – The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was enacted, outlawing racial and sexual discrimination in privately owned businesses that serve the public.

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July 4 (add):

• 1776 – American Revolution: The United States Declaration of Independence was adopted by the Second Continental Congress.
• 1886 – The people of France offered the Statue of Liberty to the people of the United States.
• 1966 – President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Freedom of Information Act into United States law. The act went into effect the next year.

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July 5 (add):

• 1687 – Isaac Newton's masterpiece, Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, was first published.

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July 6 (add):

• 1938 - Ludwig von Mises married Margit Sereny in Geneva.

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July 8 (add):

• 1932 – The Dow Jones closed at 41.22, its lowest value in over twenty years and nearly 90% lower than its 1929 high of 381.17.

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July 9 (add):

• 1778 – Delegates from eight of the thirteen colonies signed the Articles of Confederation: New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and South Carolina.

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July 10 (add):

• 1832 – US President Andrew Jackson vetoed a bill that would have re-chartered the Second Bank of the United States.

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July 12 (add):

• 1804 – Alexander Hamilton died of wounds sustained in his July 11 duel with Aaron Burr.

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July 13 (add):

• 1863 – The New York Draft Riots began as thousands in New York City violently protested against new conscription laws during the American Civil War.

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July 14 (add):

• 1798 – President John Adams signed the Sedition Act, making it a federal crime to criticize certain members of the federal government.
• 1890 – The Sherman Silver Purchase Act was enacted, requiring purchase and coinage of silver by the U. S. government, thereby increasing the money supply ahead of the Panic of 1893.

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July 15 (add):

• 1848 – Vilfredo Pareto, an Italian economist and sociologist, was born.

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July 16 (add):

• 1832 – President Andrew Jackson vetoed the bill that would have renewed the charter of the Second Bank of the United States.

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July 20 (add):

• 1754 – Economist and political theorist Destutt de Tracy was born.
• 1900 – Economist Gottfried von Haberler was born.

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July 21 (add):

• 1954 – Vietnam was partitioned into two states by the Geneva Convention, and the subsequent conflict led to the Vietnam War.

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July 22 (add):

• 1926 – Austrian economist Friedrich von Wieser died.

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July 26 (add):

• 1581 – The Dutch Low Countries, in the Act of Abjuration, declared independence from Philip II of Spain.
• 1990 – President George H. W. Bush signed the American Disabilities Act, prohibiting discrimination against qualifying disabled persons.

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July 28 (add):

• 1932 – General MacArthur and Major Patton led an attack on an encampment of protesting veterans in Washington DC, injuring hundreds and killing several.

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July 29 (add):

• 1805 – Alexis de Tocqueville, French chronicler of American life, was born.

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July 30 (add):

• 2001 – Democracy: The God that Failed, by Hans-Hermann Hoppe, was published.

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July 31 (add):

• 1912 – Economist Milton Friedman was born.

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