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* July 15-The Scottish National Portrait Gallery opens in Edinburgh in premises designed by Rowand Anderson, the first in the world to be purpose-built as a portrait gallery.
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* January 15-The United Nations call direct elections in advance of July impractical, due to continuing disorder and other factors.
* July 15-The Royal Society receives its royal charter.
* July 15-The Post Office Tower in London ( now known as the BT Tower ), designed by Eric Bedford and G. R. Yeats is topped out.
* July 15-The Beef Tribunal ends after 226 days.
* July 15-The Chicago and North Western Transportation Company and the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad begin 90-minute service on their routes between Chicago, Illinois and Milwaukee, Wisconsin, a precursor to high-speed service to Minneapolis – Saint Paul.
July and Scottish
" No Longer Curiously Rare but Only Just within Bounds: Women in Scottish History ," Women's History Review, July 2011, Vol.
The firm of Jardine, Matheson and Co. began in Canton, China on 1 July 1832 by Scottish doctor William Jardine and Edinburgh University graduate James Matheson.
James Lind FRSE FRCPE ( 4 October 1716 in Edinburgh – 13 July 1794 in Gosport ) was a Scottish physician.
Robert I ( 11 July 1274 – 7 June 1329 ), popularly known as Robert the Bruce ( Medieval Gaelic: Roibert a Briuis ; modern Scottish Gaelic: Raibeart Bruis ; Norman French: Robert de Brus or Robert de Bruys ), was King of Scots from 25 March 1306, until his death in 1329.
In July 2006, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra conducted an online poll ( publicised by Reporting Scotland ) in which voters could choose a national anthem from one of five candidates.
* July 18 – Alex Salmond resigns as the leader of the Scottish National Party.
* July 5 – Sheila Walsh, Scottish Christian artist and former talk-show hostess
* July 23 – Sir William Ramsay, Scottish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1852 )
* July 14 – Scottish poet Alexander Montgomerie is declared an outlaw after the collapse of a Catholic plot.
* July 9 – Roddy McMillan, Scottish actor ( b. 1923 )
* July 21 – Robert Burns, Scottish poet ( b. 1759 )
* July 6 – Kenneth Grahame, Scottish author ( The Wind In The Willows ) ( b. 1859 )
* July 30 – Alexander Trocchi, Scottish writer ( d. 1984 )
* July 3 – James Crichton, Scottish scholar ( b. 1560 )
* July 7 – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Scottish writer ( Sherlock Holmes ) ( b. 1859 )
* July 17 – Adam Smith, Scottish economist and philosopher ( b. 1723 )
* July – Scottish missionary David Livingstone arrives at Kuruman in the Northern Cape, his first posting in Africa.
* July 12 – Robert Stevenson, Scottish lighthouse engineer ( b. 1772 )
* July 13 – The General Assembly's Institution, now the Scottish Church College, one of the pioneering institutions that ushered the Bengal Renaissance, is founded by Alexander Duff and Raja Ram Mohan Roy, in Calcutta, India.
* July 9 – Robert Maxwell, 5th Lord Maxwell, Scottish statesman ( b. c. 1493 )
* July 18 – Duncan Campbell, Scottish soldier
* July 20 – Scottish explorer Alexander Mackenzie's 1792 – 1793 Peace River expedition to the Pacific Ocean reaches its goal at Bella Coola, British Columbia, making him the first known person to complete a transcontinental crossing of northern North America.
* July 12 – David Douglas, Scottish botanist ( b. 1799 )
* July 6 – James Douglas, 2nd Duke of Queensberry, Scottish politician ( b. 1662 )
* July 23 – Thomas Brisbane, Scottish astronomer and Governor of New South Wales ( d. 1860 )
July and National
National Schools Tree Day is held on the last Friday of July for schools and National Tree Day the last Sunday in July throughout Australia.
National Tree Planting Day is on July 22.
National Tree Day is on the 2nd Thursday of July.
On 12 July of that year, the guards escorted the Bulgarian knyaz for the first time ; today, 12 July is the official holiday of the National Guard.
Bastille Day is the name given in English-speaking countries to the French National Day, which is celebrated on the 14th of July each year.
In France, it is formally called La Fête Nationale ( ; The National Celebration ) and commonly Le quatorze juillet ( ; the fourteenth of July ).
The assembly renamed itself the National Constituent Assembly on 9 July, and began to function as a legislature and to draft a constitution.
On July 10, 2007, after a lengthy investigation, the National Transportation Safety Board found that epoxy glue used to hold the roof in place during construction was not appropriate for long-term bonding.
The constitution established a National Assembly made up of 52 elected deputies, elected in July 1987.
The first Chilean National Anthem dates back to 1819, when the government called for, on the 19th of July, the creation of music and lyrics for this purpose.
In July 1957, former Conservative President Laureano Gómez ( 1950 – 1953 ) and former Liberal President Alberto Lleras ( 1945 – 1946, 1958 – 1962 ) issued the " Declaration of Sitges ," in which they proposed a " National Front ," whereby the Liberal and Conservative parties would govern jointly.
The bill changing the province's moving day from May 1 to July 1 was introduced by a federalist member of the Quebec National Assembly, Jérôme Choquette in 1973, in order not to affect children still in school in the month of May.
On July 5, 1991, the National League approved Denver and Miami, Florida, as the sites for two expansion teams to begin play in 1993.
According to the National Agricultural Statistics Service USDA report, " All sheep and lamb inventory in the United States on July 1, 2005, totaled 7. 80 million head, 2 % above July 1, 2004.
On June 5, 1926, Chiang became Commander-in-Chief of the National Revolutionary Army ( NRA ), and on July 27 he launched a military campaign known as the Northern Expedition in order to defeat the warlords controlling northern China and to unify the country under the KMT.
According to the National Weather Service, Chicago's highest official temperature reading of was recorded on June 1, 1934, and July 11, 1936, both at Midway Airport.
On July 19 1979, as Sandinista forces entered the capital, a U. S. plane disguised with Red Cross markings had evacuated remaining members of the National Guard to Miami.
* Japanese American National Museum to Open Exhibition July 14.
Next day the National Assembly of France issued a decree expressing their great sorrow on account of his death ; and the public funeral on 7 July was one of the most striking spectacles of its kind.
With the introduction of National Health Practitioner registration legislation on July 1, 2010, the title " doctor " is not restricted in any Australian state.
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