July is such a dramatic month🏖🎇🧨
Am I the only one who thinks this way?
If you think about it, July has historically been such a theatrical, temperamental month where so many significant, showy things happened:
For one, July is on average the hottest month of the year in the Northern Hemisphere.
The U.S. gained independence on July 4, 1776 (and now the whole month of July has become synonymous with large, booming explosions of color and firework displays)
Thomas Jefferson and John Adams died on that same day fifty years later.
Canada did so July 1, 1867 (happy Canadian Independence Day!)
The French Revolution started July 1789 (the Bastille was raided July 14)
Alexander Hamilton was shot dead July 1804
My dear Percy Shelley died July 8, 1822
The Battle of Gettysburg was fought in early July 1863, and turned out to be the bloodiest and most important battle in the American Civil War
The Romanov family was brutally murdered on July 17, 1918
The world's first nuclear detonation happened July 16, 1945 (Trinity Test)
Evita Perón passed away on July 26, 1952
The first moon landing with Apollo 11 happened July 20, 1969
In the song "Young and Beautiful," Lana del Rey specifically mentions how fun and wild "mid July" was
The whole month was named after Julius Caesar (already a highly dramatized figure, who was also born in that month in 100 BCE)
Even the Disney film Frozen is specifically set in July (not winter) with Elsa dramatically freezing everything
On a more personal note, July exactly one decade ago was the first time I had moved away that I remember. Also, July a few years ago was when I got my first official job
Honestly, December is so overrated. They call it "March Madness" but the real chaos has far more often unfolded four months later.
Idc if the summer heat made people crazy or what (probably, coming from someone currently suffocating in Midwestern heat), but July definitely deserves special attention!🎆
Even the tragic deaths feel like dramatic opera scenes rather than flat out "depressing" (hence why Anastasia, Evita, and Hamilton became musicals) :)
