First:

- Canada Day

- Rwanda Independence Day

- Burundi Independence Day

- Ms. Magazine first published

Second:

- National Literacy Day

- Civil Rights Act signed (1964)

- Vietnam reunified (1976)

Third:

- Algeria Independence Day

Fourth:

- U.S. Independence Day

- Communist Manifest published (1848)

Fifth:

- Venezuela Independence Day

- Church of England voted to allow ordination of female priests (1988)

- 1st U.S. soldier killed in Korean War (1950)

Sixth:

- U.S. Steelworkers killed by Pinkerton men during strike at Carnegie Plant (1892)

Seventh:

- National Highway Act passed (1956)

Eighth:

- Olive Brance Petition Day

- First recorded Jew arrived in America (1654)

Ninth:

- 14th Amendment ratified guaranteeing the vote to everyone but women (1868)

Tenth:

- Greenpeace Rainbow Warrior blown up

Eleventh:

- World Population Day

- Feast of Theano (patron of vegetarianism)

Twelfth:

- First Minimum Wage Law enacted ($0.33/ hr - 1933)

- Orangemen's Day (Ireland)

- UK passed Combination Act prohibiting workers from improving working conditions (1799)

Thirteenth:

- Apple Computers founded

- Northwest Ordinance passed outlawing slavery in the NW (1787)

Fourteenth:

- Abortion legalized in England (1967)

- First nuclear warship launched (1959)

Eighteenth:

- Anti-Bigot Day

- Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf published (1925)

Nineteenth:

- Woman's Day

- National Liberation Day (Nicaragua)

- 1st Women's Rights Convention (1848)

- First woman nominated for Vice-President (1984)

Twentieth:

- Colombia Independence Day

- Sitting Bull surrendered (1881)

Twenty first :

- 1st Day of the World (Egypt)

- Liberation Day (Guam)

- Martial Law lifted in Poland (1983)

Twenty second:

- Independence Day (India)

- National Liberation Day (Poland)

- International Childbirth Education Awareness Day

Twenty fifth:

- Netherlands Independence Day

- Commonwealth Day

(Puerto Rico)

- Antarctica discovered

- Christianity banned in Japan (1587)

Twenty sixth:

- Liberia Independence Day

- Revolution Day (Cuba)

Twenty seventh:

- Korean War ended (1953)

Twenty eighth:

- Puerto Rico Independence Day

- Peru Independence Day (1824)

- Potatoes first brought to Europe (1586)

- LBJ sent 50,000 troops to Vietnam (1965)

Twenty ninth:

- Pope condemned all birth control (1968)

- U.S. Socialist Party established (1901)

Thirtieth:

- U.S. Navy WAVES established (1942)

Thirty first:

- Friendship Day

- Iraq Independence Day