July 1
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July 1 is the 182nd day of the year (183rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 183 days remaining until the end of the year.
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Births [change]
- 1481 – King Christian II of Denmark, Sweden and Norway (d. 1559)
- 1506 – King Louis II of Hungary and Bohemia (d. 1526)
- 1534 – King Frederick II of Denmark (d. 1583)
- 1633 – Johann Heinrich Heidegger, Swiss theologian (d. 1698)
- 1646 – Gottfried Leibniz, German mathematician and philosopher (d. 1716)
- 1723 – Pedro Rodriguez, Conde de Campomanes, Spanish statesman (d. 1802)
- 1725 – Jean-Baptiste-Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau, French nobleman and soldier (d. 1807)
- 1804 – George Sand, French writer (d. 1876)
- 1812 – Abbas I of Egypt (d. 1854)
- 1818 – Ignaz Semmelweis, Hungarian physician (d. 1865)
- 1822 – Nguyen Dinh Chieu, Vietnamese poet (d. 1888)
- 1834 – Jadwiga Luszczewska, Polish poet (d. 1908)
- 1863 – William Grant Stairs, Canadian explorer (d. 1892)
- 1872 – Louis Bleriot, French aviator (d. 1936)
- 1879 – Leon Jouhaux, French labor figure (d. 1954)
- 1882 – B. C. Roy, Indian doctor and politician (d. 1962)
- 1889 – Vera Mukhina, Russian sculptor (d. 1962)
- 1893 – Walter White, Head of the NAACP (d. 1955)
- 1899 – Konstantinos Tsatsos, President of Greece (d. 1987)
- 1899 – Charles Laughton, British actor (d. 1962)
- 1899 – Thomas A. Dorsey, American composer (d. 1993)
- 1903 – Amy Johnson, British aviatrix (d. 1941)
- 1906 – Estee Lauder, American entrepreneur (d. 2004)
- 1911 – Sergey Leonidovich Sokolov, Soviet marshal (d. 2012)
- 1915 – Willie Dixon, American blues singer (d. 1992)
- 1916 – Olivia de Havilland, British-born actress
- 1921 – Seretse Khama, first President of Botswana (d. 1980)
- 1925 – Farley Granger, American actor (d. 2011)
- 1926 – Hans Werner Henze, German composer (d. 2012)
- 1926 – Robert Fogel, American economist
- 1927 – Chandra Shekhar, Prime Minister of India (d. 2007)
- 1929 – Gerald Edelman, American biologist
- 1931 – Leslie Caron, French actress and dancer
- 1934 – Jamie Farr, American actor
- 1934 – Sidney Pollack, American actor (d. 2008)
- 1934 – Claude Berri, French movie director and screenwriter (d. 2009)
- 1935 – David Prowse, British actor
- 1941 – Rod Gilbert, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1941 – Alfred G. Gilman, American pharmacologist
- 1941 – Myron Scholes, American economist
- 1942 – Geneviève Bujold, Canadian actress
- 1945 – Debbie Harry, American singer (Blondie)
- 1946 – Mireya Moscoso, former President of Panama
- 1951 – Trevor Eve, British actor
- 1952 – Dan Aykroyd, Canadian actor and entertainer
- 1953 – Jadranka Kosor, Prime Minister of Croatia
- 1953 – Lawrence Gonzi, Prime Minister of Malta
- 1961 – Kalpana Chawla, Indian astronaut (d. 2003)
- 1961 – Carl Lewis, American athlete, 9 Olympic gold medals
- 1961 – Diana, Princess of Wales, English wife of Charles, Prince of Wales (d. 1997)
- 1964 – Bernard Laporte, French rugby player and coach
- 1966 – Enrico Annoni, Italian footballer
- 1967 – Pamela Anderson, Canadian-American actress, novelist, activist and model
- 1971 – Missy Elliott, American singer and rapper
- 1972 – Claire Forlani, British actress
- 1976 – Ruud van Nistelrooy, Dutch footballer
- 1976 – Patrick Kluivert, Dutch footballer
- 1976 – Hannu Tihinen, Finnish footballer
- 1977 – Jarome Iginla, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1977 – Liv Tyler, American actress
- 1980 – Patrick Aufiero, American ice hockey player
- 1982 – Hilarie Burton, American actress
- 1982 – Joachim Johansson, Swedish tennis player
- 1983 – Marit Larsen, Norwegian singer
- 1989 – Mitch Hewer, English actor
- 1989 – Hannah Murray, English actress
- 1990 – Natsuki Sato, Japanese singer (AKB48)
- 1998 – Hollie Steel, English singer
Deaths [change]
- 1109 – Alfonso VI of Castile (b. 1040)
- 1736 – Ahmed III, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1673)
- 1782 – Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1730)
- 1784 – Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, German composer (b. 1710)
- 1824 – Lachlan Macquarie, Scottish Governor of New South Wales (b. 1762)
- 1839 – Mahmud II, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1785)
- 1860 – Charles Goodyear, American inventor (b. 1800)
- 1863 – John Fulton Reynolds, American Civil War general (b. 1820)
- 1876 – Mikhail Bakunin, Russian anarchist and social revolutionary (b. 1814)
- 1896 – Harriet Beecher Stowe, American writer (b. 1811)
- 1925 – Erik Satie, French composer (b. 1866)
- 1950 – Eliel Saarinen, Finnish architect (b. 1873)
- 1962 – B. C. Roy, Indian doctor and politician (b. 1882)
- 1965 – Wally Hammond, English cricketer (b. 1903)
- 1971 – William Lawrence Bragg, American physicist (b. 1890)
- 1974 – Juan Domingo Perón, President of Argentina (b. 1895)
- 1976 – Anneliese Michel, German exorcism victim (b. 1952)
- 1981 – Rushton Moreve, American musician (b. 1948)
- 1983 – Buckminster Fuller, American architect (b. 1895)
- 1987 – Snakefinger, British musician (b. 1949)
- 1991 – Joachim Kroll, German serial killer (b. 1933)
- 1991 – Michael Landon, American actor (b. 1936)
- 1992 – Francisco Mendes, Guinea-Bissau politician (b. 1933)
- 1996 – Margaux Hemingway, granddaughter of Ernest Hemingway (b. 1954)
- 1997 – Robert Mitchum, American actor (b. 1917)
- 1999 – Joshua Nkomo, Zimbabwean politician (b. 1919)
- 2000 – Walter Matthau, American actor (b. 1920)
- 2001 – Nikolay Basov, Russian physicist (b. 1922)
- 2003 – N!xau, Namibian actor (b. 1944)
- 2003 – Herbie Mann, American jazz flutist (b. 1930)
- 2004 – Marlon Brando, American actor (b. 1924)
- 2005 – Luther Vandross, American singer (b. 1951)
- 2006 – Ryutaro Hashimoto, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1937)
- 2009 – Alexis Arguello, Nicaraguan boxer and politician (b. 1952)
- 2009 – Karl Malden, American actor (b. 1912)
- 2009 – Molly Sugden, British actress (b. 1922)
- 2012 – Alan G. Poindexter, American astronaut (b. 1961)
Events [change]
- 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.
- 1862 – Russian State Library is founded
- 1863 – American Civil War: the Battle of Gettysburg 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 the Universal Postal Union.
- 1881 – World's first international telephone call, between St. Stephen, New Brunswick, Canada, and Calais, Maine, United States.
- 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.
- 1908 - SOS is first adopted as a distress signal.
- 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.
- 1921 – The Communist Party of China is founded.
- 1923 – Canadian Parliament suspends all Chinese immigration.
- 1931 - Official opening of Milan Central Station.
- 1937 - The first 999 emergency telephone number goes into effect in the UK.
- 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.
- 1959 - Heinrich Luebke becomes President of Germany.
- 1960 – Independence of Somalia.
- 1960 – Ghana becomes a Republic.
- 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.
- 1963 – U.S President John F. Kennedy arrives in Rome
- 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 – The CIA's Phoenix Program is officially established.
- 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 - Gustav Heinemann becomes President of Germany.
- 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 am Main after a shootout with the police.
- 1974 - Karl Carstens becomes President of Germany.
- 1976 – Portugal gives autonomy to Madeira.
- 1978 – Australia's Northern Territory is given self-government.
- 1979 – Sony introduces the Walkman.
- 1980 – O Canada officially becomes the national anthem of Canada.
- 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.
- 1984 - Friedrich von Weizsaecker becomes President of Germany.
- 1986 – In an interview with Playboy magazine, 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.
- 1994 - Roman Herzog becomes President of Germany.
- 1997 – The United Kingdom hands sovereignty over Hong Kong to the People's Republic of China.
- 1999 – At the first meeting of the Scottish Parliament in nearly three centuries, Winnie Ewing opened with the famous words, "The Scottish Parliament, adjourned on the 25th day of March in the year 1707, is hereby reconvened."
- 1999 - Johannes Rau becomes President of Germany.
- 2000 - The Oresund Bridge between Denmark and Sweden is opened.
- 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.
- 2004 - Horst Koehler becomes President of Germany.
- 2005 – Microsoft plans to end official support of Windows 2000
- 2005 – Make Poverty History's White Band Day.
- 2005 – United Kingdom takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union.
- 2005 – Revaluation of the Romanian Leu
- 2007 – On the same day as each other, England and Australia ban smoking in public places.
- 2009 – Ivo Sanader resigns as Prime Minister of Croatia. Jadranka Kosor succeeds him.
- 2012 - The Spain national football team wins UEFA Euro 2012, defeating the Italy national football team 4-0 in the final in Kiev, Ukraine.
Holidays [change]
- Canada Day
- Memorial Day (Newfoundland and Labrador)
- Moving Day (Quebec)
- Keti Koti (Emancipation Day) (Suriname)
- Doctors' Day in India
- Republic Day in Ghana
- Independence Day in Somalia, Burundi and Rwanda
- Madeira Day
