July 1
July 1 is the 182nd day of the year (183rd in
leap years) in the
Gregorian Calendar, with 183 days remaining.
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Events
\n*1097 - Battle of Dorylaeum Crusaders under Bohemond of Taranto defeat a Turkish army under Qilich Arslan I. \n*1690 - Battle of the Boyne as reckoned under Julian calendar.\n*1782 - American privateers attack Lunenburg Nova Scotia.\n*1858 - The joint reading of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace's papers on evolution to the Linnean Society.\n*1863 - Battle of Gettysburg in the American Civil War begins.\n*1867 - The British North America Act takes effect as the constitution of Canada, creating the Canadian Confederation; John A. Macdonald sworn as first Prime Minister.\n*1870 - The United States Department of Justice formally comes into existence.\n*1873 - Prince Edward Island joins the Canadian Confederation.\n*1878 - Canada joins Universal Postal Union.\n*1881 - World's first international telephone call, between St. Stephen, New Brunswick and Calais, Maine.\n*1885 - United States terminates reciprocity and fishery agreement with Canada.\n*1890 - Canada and Bermuda linked by telegraph cable.\n*1904 - Games of the III Olympiad open in Saint Louis, Missouri.\n*1916 - First day of the First Battle of the Somme. On this first day, 20,000 soldiers of the British Army are killed, and 40,000 wounded. Lasts until November; about one million casualties.\n*1931 - Official opening of Milan Central Station.\n*1923 - Canadian Parliament suspends all Chinese immigration.\n*1935 - Regina, Saskatchewan police and Royal Canadian Mounted Police ambush strikers participating in On-to-Ottawa-Trek.\n*1947 - The Australian real estate franchise L. J. Hooker lists on the Australian Stock Exchange\n*1948 - Official opening of New York International Airport (now known as John F. Kennedy International Airport) at Idlewild.\n*1957 - The International Geophysical Year begins (until December 31, 1958).\n*1958 - The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation links television broadcasting across Canada via microwave.\n*1962 - Independence of Rwanda.\n*1962 - Independence of Burundi.\n*1963 - Zip code introduced for United States mail.\n*1963 - The British Government admits that former diplomat Kim Philby had worked as a Soviet agent.\n*1966 - First colour television transmission in Canada, from Toronto.\n*1967 - The European Community is formally created out of a merger with the Common Market, the European Coal and Steel Community, and the European Atomic Energy Commission.\n*1968 - Nuclear non-proliferation treaty signed by about sixty countries in Geneva, Switzerland.\n*1968 - Formal separation of the United Auto Workers with the AFL-CIO.\n*1972 - Andreas Baader, Jan-Carl Raspe and Holger Meins of the Red Army Faction are captured in Frankfurt after a shootout with the police.\n*1979 - Sony introduces the Walkman.\n*1980 - O Canada officially becomes the national anthem of Canada.\n*1986 - In an interview with Playboy magazine, science fiction writer Arthur Clarke comes out as a bisexual.\n*1987 - Excavation begins on the Channel Tunnel.\n*1990 - East Germany accepts the deutsche mark as its currency, thus uniting the economies of East and West Germany.\n*1991 - The Warsaw Pact is officially dissolved.\n*1997 - The United Kingdom hands sovereignty over Hong Kong to the People's Republic of China.\n*1999 - First opening of the Scottish parliament in nearly three centuries.\n*2000 - Vermont's civil unions law goes into effect.\n*2002 - A Bashkirian Airlines Tupolev TU-154 and a DHL (German cargo) Boeing 757 collide in mid-air over southern Germany, killing 71.\n*2003 - 500,000 people take part in a march in Hong Kong to protest, amongst other things, the government's handling of the plans to implement a new anti-subversion law required under Article 23 of Hong Kong's Basic Law.\n*2004 - Saturn Orbit Insertion of Cassini-Huygens begins at 01:12 UT and ends at 02:48 UT.
Births
\n*1646 - Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, mathematician, philosopher (d. 1716)\n*1804 - George Sand (Amantine Aurore Lucile Dupin), writer (d. 1876)\n*1863 - William Stairs, Victorian explorer (d. 1892)\n*1872 - Louis Blériot, first man to fly across the English Channel (d. 1936)\n*1899 - Charles Laughton, Academy Award winning actor (d. 1962)\n*1899 - Thomas A. Dorsey, father of gospel music (d. 1993)\n*1902 - William Wyler, three-time Academy Award winning director (d. 1981)\n*1903 - Amy Johnson, aviator (d. 1941)\n*1906 - Estée Lauder, cosmetics pioneer (d. 2004)\n*1909 - Bill Stern, sportscaster\n*1912 - David R. Brower, founder of many environmentalist organizations (d. 2000)\n*1916 - Olivia de Havilland, actress\n*1917 - Rolf Rodenstock, industrialist (d. 1977)\n*1930 - Bobby Day, singer (d. 1990)\n*1931 - Leslie Caron, actress\n*1934 - Jean Marsh, actress, originator of Upstairs, Downstairs\n*1934 - Sydney Pollack, film director, producer, actor\n*1934 - Jamie Farr, actor\n*1941 - Twyla Tharpe, choreographer\n*1942 - Andraé Crouch, singer, conductor, actor\n*1942 - Geneviève Bujold, actor \n*1945 - Deborah Harry, musician, Blondie\n*1946 - June Montiero, singer formerly of the group the Toys\n*1951 - Fred Schneider, keyboardist, The B-52s\n*1952 - Dan Aykroyd, actor\n*1960 - Evelyn King, singer\n*1961 - Diana, Princess of Wales, (d. 1997)\n* 1961 - Carl Lewis, American athletics legend, nine-time Olympic gold medalist\n* 1961 - Michelle Wright, singer/guitarist, songwriter, drummer\n*1967 - Pamela Anderson, actress\n*1971 - Missy "Misdemeanor" Elliott, hip hop artist\n*1972 - Claire Forlani, actress\n*1976 - Patrick Kluivert, Dutch football player\n* 1976 - Ruud van Nistelrooy, Dutch football player\n*1977 - Jarome Iginla, NHL hockey player\n* 1977 - Liv Tyler, actress\n*1982 - Greg Winscott
Deaths
\n*868 - Ali al-Hadi, Shia Imam\n*1277 - Baibars, Mameluk sultan of Egypt\n*1566 - Nostradamus\n*1894 - Allan Pinkerton, founder Pinkerton Agency\n*1896 - Harriet Beecher Stowe, author\n*1925 - Erik Satie, French composer\n*1950 - Eliel Saarinen, architect, father of Eero Saarinen (b. 1873)\n*1964 - Pierre Monteux, conductor\n*1965 - Wally Hammond, cricketer\n*1974 - Juan Domingo Perón, President of Argentina (b. 1895)\n*1983 - R. Buckminster Fuller, architect, philosopher\n*1984 - Moshe Feldenkrais, founder of the Feldenkrais Method\n*1991 - Michael Landon, actor, director, producer (b. 1936)\n*1995 - Wolfman Jack, radio personality (b. 1939)\n*1997 - Robert Mitchum, actor\n*1999 - Edward Dmytryk, director\n* 1999 - Forrest Mars Sr, founder of the Mars company\n*2000 - Walter Matthau, Americann actor\n*2003 - Herbie Mann, jazz flautist\n* 2003 - N!xau, Namibian bushman who appeared in The Gods Must Be Crazy (b. 1944?)\n*2004 - Marlon Brando, actor
Holidays and observances
\n*Canada Day (formerly Dominion Day) - national holiday of Canada\n*Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Establishment Day\n*Intact Day\n*World Architecture Day
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