United States Historical Events is a daily guide to the important events that shaped America to what it is today. This is a compilation of significant events for the month of July including the birth and death of famous Americans as well as laws promulgated by authorities. The list is constantly updated to incorporate the most recent events.
United States Historical Events in July
| Day | Year | Event |
| 1 | 1971 | The Twenty-sixth Amendment (Amendment XXVI) to the United States Constitution which prohibits the states and the federal government from using age as a reason for denying the right to vote to citizens of the United States who are at least eighteen years old was ratified by three-fourths of the states. |
| 1 | 2020 | The United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement (USMCA) took effect replacing the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). |
| 2 | 1890 | Original publication of the Sherman Antitrust Act, a law which prescribes the rule of free competition among those engaged in commerce. It was named after Senator John Sherman, its principal author. |
| 3 | 1890 | Idaho became the 43th State to be admitted to the Union. |
| 4 | 1776 | The United States Declaration of Independence from Great Britain was approved by the Continental Congress. |
| 4 | 1826 | Death: John Adams, the 2nd US president, died in Quincy, Massachusetts at age 90. |
| 4 | 1826 | Death: Thomas Jefferson, the 3rd US president, died in Charlottesville, Virginia at age 86. |
| 4 | 1831 | Death: James Madison, the 5th US president, died in New York City at age 73. |
| 4 | 1836 | The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), an agency in the U.S. Department of Commerce that serves as the national patent office and trademark registration authority for the United States, was established. |
| 4 | 1872 | Birthday: Calvin Coolidge, the 30th US President, was born in Plymouth Notch, Vermont. |
| 4 | 1881 | Tuskegee University, formerly known as the Tuskegee Institute, was established in Tuskegee, Alabama. |
| 4 | 1934 | Birthday: Miriam Stevenson, the first Miss Universe from the US, was born in Winnsboro, South Carolina. |
| 5 | 1810 | Birthday: P.T. Barnum, an American showman, businessman, and politician, author, publisher, and philanthropist. |
| 6 | 1946 | Birthday: George Walker Bush, the 43rd US President, was born in Connecticut, United States. |
| 8 | 1839 | Birthday: John D. Rockefeller, founder of Standard Oil Company. He is widely considered as the richest American of all time. |
| 9 | 1850 | Death: Zachary Taylor, the 12th US president, died in Washington, DC, at age 65. |
| 10 | 1890 | Wyoming became the 44th State to be admitted to the Union. |
| 11 | 1767 | Birthday: John Quincy Adams, the 6th US president, was born in Quincy, Massachusetts. |
| 12 | 1804 | Alexander Hamilton, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, died of gunshot wounds from a duel with then Vice President Aaron Burr Jr. |
| 12 | 1854 | Birth: George Eastman, an American entrepreneur who founded the Eastman Kodak Company and helped to bring the photographic use of roll film into the mainstream. |
| 14 | 1913 | Birthday: Gerard Ford, the 38th US president, was born in Omaha, Nebraska. |
| 15 | 1916 | The Boeing Company was founded by William Boeing in Seattle, Washington. |
| 16 | 1790 | President George Washington signed the Residence Act into law which created Washington, D.C. as the capital of the United States. |
| 16 | 1945 | The first atomic bomb was successfully detonated during the Trinity test in New Mexico. |
| 21 | 1969 | American Neil Armstrong step out of the Apollo Lunar Module Eagle to become the first man to land on the moon. |
| 23 | 1885 | Death: Uysses Grant, the 18th US president, died in Wilton, New York at age 63. |
| 24 | 1862 | Death: Martin Van Buren, the 8th US president, died in Kinderhook, New York at age 79. |
| 26 | 1788 | New York was admitted to the Union. |
| 26 | 1908 | Establishment of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) as the US principal federal law enforcement agency. |
| 28 | 1915 | Start of the United States occupation of Haiti at the instigation of then National City Bank of New York to protect its interests. |
| 29 | 1958 | Establishment of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), an independent agency of the U.S. federal government responsible for the civil space program, aeronautics research, and space research |
| 30 | 1777 | Robert R. Livingston is sworn into office as the first Chancellor (highest judicial officer) of New York. |
| 30 | 1863 | Birthday: Henry Ford, an American industrialist, business magnate, founder of the Ford Motor Company, and chief developer of the assembly line technique of mass production. |
| 30 | 1965 | Enactment of the Social Security Amendments of 1965 which created Medicare and Medicaid. |
| 31 | 1875 | Death: Andrew Johnson, the 17th US president, died in Elizabethton, Tennessee at age 66. |
| 31 | 1790 | The first U.S. patent was issued to Samuel Hopkins for an improvement “in the making of Pot ash and Pearl ash by a new Apparatus and Process. |
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