My research yesterday on the age of things brought up a website of famous things that happened in July. I couldn’t use the information then, but I thought it was interesting, so I wanted to share some of these historic dates. Things happen every month, but July seems to be super busy. Here are a few fun events.
- 1540 – An aging Henry VIII married young Catherine Howard, the fifth of his six wives
- 1799 – A French soldier found the Rosetta Stone during Napoleon’s invasion of Egypt
- 1885 – French microbiologist Louis Pasteur gave the first anti-rabies vaccination to a nine-year-old boy who had been bitten by a rabid dog
- 1946 – The bikini swimsuit was first modeled in Paris, France. It was named after the Bikini Atoll used in U.S. nuclear testing.
- 1969 – Humans walked on the moon for the first time