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• On July 5, 1937,  Spam, the luncheon meat, is introduced into the marked by the Hormel Foods Corp.
• On July 6, 1942,  Anne Frank and her family went into hiding in the "secret a nnexe" above her father's office in an Amsterdam warehouse.
• On July 7, 1946,  Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini becomes the first American to be cannonized.
• On July 8, 1776,  Col. John Nixon gave the first public reading of the Declaration of Independence, in Philadelphia.
• On July 12, 1962,  the Rolling Stones performed their first concert, at the Marquee Club in London.
• On July 13, 1966,  the United States Supreme Court rules in Miranda v. Arizona that the police must inform suspects of their rights before questioning them.
• On July 14, 1969,  the United States officially withdrew $500, $1,000, $5,000 and $10,000 bills from circulation.
• On July 15, 1971,  President Richard Nixon started the country by announcing he would visit the People's Republic of China.
• On July 18, 1969,  a car driven by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy plunged off a bridge on Chappaquiddick Island near Martha's Vineyard; his passenger, 28-year-old Mary Jo Kopechne, drowned.
• On July 19, 1964,  the Great Fire of Rome started and soon burned out of control.  According to a popular, but untrue legend, Nero fiddled as the city burned.
• On July 20, 1944,  Adolf Hilter survived an assassination attempt (known as the July 20th plot) led by German Army Col. Claus von Stauffenberg.
• On July 22, 1861,  the U.S. House of Representatives passed a resolution declaring the Civil War was being waged to preserve the Union rather than to end slavery, a stance that would shift as the conflict continued.  (The Senate passed a similar resolution three days later.)
• On July 21, 1983,  the world's lowest temperature was recorded at Vostok Station, Antarctiva at  -128.6 F.
• On July 25, 1961,  on the Berlin Crisis, President Kennedy bolstered the military in the face of Soviet demands that Western powers withdraw from city's western sector.
• On July 26, 1775,  Benjamin Franklin became America's first postmaster-general.
• On July 27, 1940,  Bugs Bunny made his "official" debut in the Warner Bros. animated cartoon "A Wild Hare."
• On July 28, 1981,  Britain's Prince Charles married Lady Diana Spencer at St. Paul's Cathedral in London.  The couple divorced in 1996.