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July 1
July 1 is the 182nd day of the year (183rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 183 days remaining.
Events
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1097 - Battle of Dorylaeum Crusaders under Bohemond of Taranto defeat a Turkish army under Qilich Arslan I.
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1690 - Battle of the Boyne as reckoned under Julian calendar.
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1782 - American privateers attack Lunenburg, Nova Scotia.
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1858 - The joint reading of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace's papers on evolution to the Linnean Society.
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1863 - Battle of Gettysburg in the American Civil War begins.
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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.
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1870 - The United States Department of Justice formally comes into existence.
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1873 - Prince Edward Island joins the Canadian Confederation.
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1878 - Canada joins Universal Postal Union.
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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.
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1885 - United States terminates reciprocity and fishery agreement with Canada.
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1890 - Canada and Bermuda linked by telegraph cable.
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1904 - Games of the III Olympiad open in Saint Louis, Missouri.
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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.
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1931 - Official opening of Milan Central Station.
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1923 - Canadian Parliament suspends all Chinese immigration.
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1935 - Regina, Saskatchewan police and Royal Canadian Mounted Police ambush strikers participating in On-to-Ottawa-Trek.
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1947 - The Australian real estate franchise L. J. Hooker lists on the Australian Stock Exchange
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1948 - Official opening of New York International Airport (now known as John F. Kennedy International Airport) at Idlewild.
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1957 - The International Geophysical Year begins (until December 31, 1958).
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1958 - The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation links television broadcasting across Canada via microwave.
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1958 - Flooding of the St. Lawrence Seaway begins.
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1960 - Independence of Somalia.
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1962 - Independence of Rwanda.
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1962 - Independence of Burundi.
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1963 - ZIP Code introduced for United States mail.
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1963 - The British Government admits that former diplomat Kim Philby had worked as a Soviet agent.
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1966 - First colour television transmission in Canada, from Toronto.
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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 .
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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.
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1969 - Rock group The Band release their influential debut Music From Big Pink.
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1972 - Andreas Baader, Jan-Carl Raspe and Holger Meins of the Red Army Faction are captured in Frankfurt after a shootout with the police.
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1979 - Sony introduces the Walkman.
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1980 - O Canada officially becomes the national anthem of Canada.
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1983 - A North Korean Ilyushin Il-62M jet en route to Conakry Airport in Guinea crashed into the Fouta Djall Mountains in Guinea-Bissau, killing all 23 people on board.
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1986 - In an interview with Playboy magazine, science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke comes out as a bisexual.
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1987 - Excavation begins on the Channel Tunnel.
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1988 - Bologna, Italy: Quartetto Cetra's last concert after over forty years' musical career.
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1990 - East Germany accepts the Deutsche Mark as its currency, thus uniting the economies of East and West Germany.
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1991 - The Warsaw Pact is officially dissolved.
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1997 - The United Kingdom hands sovereignty over Hong Kong to the People's Republic of China.
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1999 - First opening of the Scottish parliament in nearly three centuries.
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2000 - Vermont's civil unions law goes into effect.
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2002 - A Bashkirian Airlines Tupolev TU-154 and a DHL (German cargo) Boeing 757 collide in mid-air over southern Germany, killing 71.
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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.
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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.
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2004 - Saturn Orbit Insertion of Cassini-Huygens begins at 01:12 UT and ends at 02:48 UT.
Births
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1646 - Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, mathematician, philosopher (d. 1716)
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1782 - Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, British Whig politician and prime minister (b. 1730)
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1804 - George Sand (Amantine Aurore Lucile Dupin), writer (d. 1876)
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1863 - William Stairs, Victorian explorer (d. 1892)
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1879 - William Strunk Jr., grammarian (d. 1946)
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1872 - Louis Blériot, first man to fly across the English Channel (d. 1936)
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1899 - Charles Laughton, Academy Award winning actor (d. 1962)
- 1899 - Thomas A. Dorsey, father of gospel music (d. 1993)
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1902 - William Wyler, three-time Academy Award winning director (d. 1981)
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1903 - Amy Johnson, aviator (d. 1941)
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1906 - Estée Lauder, cosmetics pioneer (d. 2004)
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1908 - Peg Entwistle, Aspiring actress, (d. 1932)
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1909 - Bill Stern, sportscaster
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1912 - David R. Brower, founder of many environmentalist organizations (d. 2000)
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1916 - Olivia de Havilland, actress
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1917 - Rolf Rodenstock , industrialist (d. 1977)
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1930 - Bobby Day, singer (d. 1990)
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1931 - Leslie Caron, actress
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1934 - Jean Marsh, actress, originator of Upstairs, Downstairs
- 1934 - Sydney Pollack, film director, producer, actor
- 1934 - Jamie Farr, actor
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1941 - Twyla Tharp, choreographer
- 1941 - Alfred G. Gilman, scientist, 1994 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
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1942 - Andraé Crouch , singer, conductor, actor
- 1942 - Geneviève Bujold, actress
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1945 - Deborah Harry, musician, Blondie
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1946 - June Montiero, singer formerly of the group the Toys
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1951 - Fred Schneider, keyboardist, The B-52's
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1952 - Dan Aykroyd, actor
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1960 - Evelyn King , singer
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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
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1965 - Harald Zwart, Norwegian film director
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1967 - Pamela Anderson, actress
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1971 - Missy "Misdemeanor" Elliott, hip hop artist
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1972 - Claire Forlani, actress
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1976 - Patrick Kluivert, Dutch football player
- 1976 - Ruud van Nistelrooy, Dutch football player
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1977 - Jarome Iginla, NHL hockey player
- 1977 - Liv Tyler, actress
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1982 - Carmella DeCesare, American model who was Playboy's Playmate of the Year for 2004
Deaths
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868 - Ali al-Hadi, Shia Imam (b. 828)
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1277 - Baibars, Mameluk sultan of Egypt
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1566 - Nostradamus, astrologer
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1784 - Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, German composer (b. 1710)
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1819 - Jemima Wilkinson, preacher
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1894 - Allan Pinkerton, American private detective
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1896 - Harriet Beecher Stowe, American author
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1925 - Erik Satie, French composer
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1950 - Eliel Saarinen, Finnish architect, father of Eero Saarinen (b. 1873)
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1964 - Pierre Monteux, French conductor (b. 1875)
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1965 - Wally Hammond, English cricketer
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1974 - Juan Domingo Perón, President of Argentina (b. 1895)
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1983 - R. Buckminster Fuller, American architect and philosopher
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1984 - Moshe Feldenkrais, Ukrainian-born educator
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1991 - Michael Landon, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1936)
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1995 - Wolfman Jack, radio personality (b. 1939)
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1996 - William T. Cahill, Governor of New Jersey
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1997 - Robert Mitchum, American actor
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1999 - Edward Dmytryk, director
- 1999 - Forrest Mars Sr., American candy magnate
- 1999 - Sylvia Sidney, actress (b. 1910)
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2000 - Walter Matthau, American actor
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2003 - Herbie Mann, American jazz flutist
- 2003 - Wesley Mouzon, boxer
- 2003 - N!xau, Namibian bushman who appeared in The Gods Must Be Crazy
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2004 - Marlon Brando, American actor
Holidays and observances
External links
June 30 - July 2 - June 1 - August 1 -- listing of all days
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