July 1
July 1 is the 182nd day of the year (183rd in leap years ) in the Gregorian Calendar , with 183 days remaining.
Events
1097 - Battle of Dorylaeum Crusaders under Bohemond of Taranto defeat a Turkish army under Qilich Arslan I.
1690 - Battle of the Boyne as reckoned under Julian calendar .
1782 - American privateers attack Lunenburg , Nova Scotia .
1858 - The joint reading of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace 's papers on evolution to the Linnean Society .
1863 - Battle of Gettysburg in the American Civil War begins.
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.
1870 - The United States Department of Justice formally comes into existence.
1873 - Prince Edward Island joins the Canadian Confederation .
1878 - Canada joins Universal Postal Union .
1881 - World's first international telephone call, between St. Stephen, New Brunswick and Calais, Maine .
1881 - General Order 70 , the culmination of the Cardwell-Childers reforms of the British Army 's organisation, came into effect.
1885 - United States terminates reciprocity and fishery agreement with Canada .
1890 - Canada and Bermuda linked by telegraph cable.
1904 - Games of the III Olympiad open in Saint Louis, Missouri .
1916 - First day on the Somme : On the first day of the Battle of the Somme 20,000 soldiers of the British Army are killed, and 40,000 wounded.
1931 - Official opening of Milan Central Station .
1923 - Canadian Parliament suspends all Chinese immigration.
1935 - Regina, Saskatchewan police and Royal Canadian Mounted Police ambush strikers participating in On-to-Ottawa-Trek .
1947 - The Australian real estate franchise L. J. Hooker lists on the Australian Stock Exchange
1948 - Official opening of New York International Airport (now known as John F. Kennedy International Airport ) at Idlewild.
1957 - The International Geophysical Year begins (until December 31 , 1958 ).
1958 - The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation links television broadcasting across Canada via microwave.
1958 - Flooding of the St. Lawrence Seaway begins.
1960 - Independence of Somalia .
1962 - Independence of Rwanda .
1962 - Independence of Burundi .
1963 - ZIP Code introduced for United States mail.
1963 - The British Government admits that former diplomat Kim Philby had worked as a Soviet agent.
1966 - First colour television transmission in Canada, from Toronto .
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 .
1968 - Nuclear non-proliferation treaty signed by about sixty countries in Geneva , Switzerland .
1968 - Formal separation of the United Auto Workers with the AFL-CIO .
1969 - Rock group The Band release their influential debut Music From Big Pink .1972 - Andreas Baader , Jan-Carl Raspe and Holger Meins of the Red Army Faction are captured in Frankfurt after a shootout with the police .
1979 - Sony introduces the Walkman .
1980 - O Canada national anthem of Canada .
1983 - A North Korean Ilyushin Il-62 M jet en route to Conakry Airport in Guinea crashed into the Fouta Djall Mountains in Guinea-Bissau , killing all 23 people on board.
1986 - In an interview with Playboy science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke comes out as a bisexual.
1987 - Excavation begins on the Channel Tunnel .
1988 - Bologna , Italy : Quartetto Cetra 's last concert after over forty years' musical career.
1990 - East Germany accepts the Deutsche Mark as its currency, thus uniting the economies of East and West Germany .
1991 - The Warsaw Pact is officially dissolved.
1997 - The United Kingdom hands sovereignty over Hong Kong to the People's Republic of China .
1999 - First opening of the Scottish parliament in nearly three centuries.
2000 - Vermont 's civil unions law goes into effect.
2002 - A Bashkirian Airlines Tupolev TU-154 and a DHL (German cargo) Boeing 757 collide in mid-air over southern Germany, killing 71.
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 .
2004 - 530,000 people take part in a march in Hong Kong to urge for faster pace of democratisation and universal suffrage , according to Article 45 and Article 68 of Hong Kong's Basic Law .
2004 - Saturn Orbit Insertion of Cassini-Huygens begins at 01:12 UT and ends at 02:48 UT .
Births
1646 - Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz , mathematician, philosopher (d. 1716 )
1782 - Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham , British Whig politician and prime minister (b. 1730)
1804 - George Sand (Amantine Aurore Lucile Dupin), writer (d. 1876 )
1863 - William Stairs , Victorian explorer (d. 1892 )
1879 - William Strunk Jr. , grammarian (d. 1946 )
1872 - Louis Blériot , first man to fly across the English Channel (d. 1936 )
1899 - Charles Laughton , Academy Award winning actor (d. 1962 )
1899 - Thomas A. Dorsey , father of gospel music (d. 1993 )
1902 - William Wyler , three-time Academy Award winning director (d. 1981 )
1903 - Amy Johnson , aviator (d. 1941 )
1906 - Estée Lauder , cosmetics pioneer (d. 2004 )
1908 - Peg Entwistle , Aspiring actress, (d. 1932 )
1909 - Bill Stern , sportscaster
1912 - David R. Brower , founder of many environmentalist organizations (d. 2000 )
1916 - Olivia de Havilland , actress
1917 - Rolf Rodenstock , industrialist (d. 1977 )
1930 - Bobby Day , singer (d. 1990 )
1931 - Leslie Caron , actress
1934 - Jean Marsh , actress, originator of Upstairs, Downstairs 1934 - Sydney Pollack , film director, producer, actor
1934 - Jamie Farr , actor
1941 - Twyla Tharp , choreographer
1941 - Alfred G. Gilman , scientist, 1994 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
1942 - Andraé Crouch , singer, conductor, actor
1942 - Geneviève Bujold , actress
1945 - Deborah Harry , musician, Blondie
1946 - June Montiero , singer formerly of the group the Toys
1951 - Fred Schneider , keyboardist, The B-52's
1952 - Dan Aykroyd , actor
1960 - Evelyn King , singer
1961 - Diana, Princess of Wales , (d. 1997 )
1961 - Carl Lewis , American athletics legend, nine-time Olympic gold medalist
1961 - Michelle Wright , singer/guitarist, songwriter, drummer
1965 - Harald Zwart , Norwegian film director
1967 - Pamela Anderson , actress
1971 - Missy "Misdemeanor" Elliott , hip hop artist
1972 - Claire Forlani , actress
1976 - Patrick Kluivert , Dutch football player
1976 - Ruud van Nistelrooy , Dutch football player
1977 - Jarome Iginla , NHL hockey player
1977 - Liv Tyler , actress
1982 - Carmella DeCesare , American model who was Playboy 's Playmate of the Year for 2004
Deaths
868 - Ali al-Hadi , Shia Imam (b. 828 )
1277 - Baibars , Mameluk sultan of Egypt
1566 - Nostradamus , astrologer
1784 - Wilhelm Friedemann Bach , German composer (b. 1710 )
1819 - Jemima Wilkinson , preacher
1894 - Allan Pinkerton , American private detective
1896 - Harriet Beecher Stowe , American author
1925 - Erik Satie , French composer
1950 - Eliel Saarinen , Finnish architect, father of Eero Saarinen (b. 1873 )
1964 - Pierre Monteux , French conductor (b. 1875 )
1965 - Wally Hammond , English cricketer
1974 - Juan Domingo Perón , President of Argentina (b. 1895 )
1983 - R. Buckminster Fuller , American architect and philosopher
1984 - Moshe Feldenkrais , Ukrainian-born educator
1991 - Michael Landon , American actor, director, and producer (b. 1936 )
1995 - Wolfman Jack , radio personality (b. 1939 )
1996 - William T. Cahill , Governor of New Jersey
1997 - Robert Mitchum , American actor
1999 - Edward Dmytryk , director
1999 - Forrest Mars Sr. , American candy magnate
1999 - Sylvia Sidney , actress (b. 1910 )
2000 - Walter Matthau , American actor
2003 - Herbie Mann , American jazz flutist
2003 - Wesley Mouzon , boxer
2003 - N!xau , Namibian bushman who appeared in The Gods Must Be Crazy 2004 - Marlon Brando , American actor
Holidays and observances
External links
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