July 1

July 1 is the 182nd day of the year (183rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 183 days remaining.

Events

• 1782 - American privateers attack Lunenberg Nova Scotia.
• 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
• 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 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.
• 1923 - Canadian Parliament suspends all Chinese immigration.
• 1935 - Regina Saskatchewan police and Royal Canadian Mounted Police ambush strikers participating in On-to-Ottawa-Trek.
• 1958 - Nationwide television broadcasts via microwave begin in Canada
• 1962 - Independence of Rwanda and Burundi.
• 1963 - Zip code introduced for United States mail
• 1966 - First colour television transmission in Canada, from Toronto.
• 1968 - Nuclear non-proliferation treaty signed by about sixty countries in Geneva Switzerland
• 1980 - O Canada officially becomes the national anthem of Canada.
• 1991 - The Warsaw Pact is officially dissolved.
• 1996 - Version 1.0 of PNG, an open source competitor to the GIF image format, is finalised.
• 1997 - British returns the sovereignty of Hong Kong to China
• 2003 - Five hundred thousand people march in Hong Kong to protest the rush into legislation of Hong Kong Basic Law Article 23, the anti-subversion law.

Births

• 1646 - Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, mathematician, philosopher (+ 1716)
• 1804 - George Sand (Amantine Aurore Lucile Dupin), writer (+ 1876)
• 1863 - William Stairs, Victorian explorer -(+ 1892)
• 1872 - Louis Blériot, first man to fly across the English channel (+ 1936)
• 1899 - Charles Laughton, Academy Award winning actor (+1962)
• 1899 - Thomas A. Dorsey, father of gospel music
• 1902 - William Wyler, three-time Academy Award winning director (+ 1981)
• 1903 - Amy Johnson, aviator (+ 1941)
• 1916 - Olivia deHaviland[?], actress
• 1917 - Rolf Rodenstock[?], industrialist (+ 1977)
• 1931 - Leslie Caron, actress
• 1934 - Jean Marsh[?], actress, originator of Upstairs Downstairs
• 1934 - Sydney Pollack[?], film director, producer, actor
• 1942 - Andraé Crouch[?], singer, conductor, actor
• 1942 - Geneviève Bujold, actor
• 1945 - Deborah Harry, musician, Blondie
• 1952 - Dan Aykroyd, actor
• 1961 - Diana, English princess (+ 1997)
• 1961 - Michelle Wright[?], singer/guitarist, songwriter, drummer
• 1967 - Pamela Anderson, actress
• 1977 - Liv Tyler[?], American film actress.

Deaths

• 1894 - Allan Pinkerton, founder Pinkerton Agency
• 1896 - Harriet Beecher Stowe, author
• 1925 - Erik Satie, French composer
• 1964 - Pierre Monteux, conductor
• 1983 - R. Buckminster Fuller, architect, philosopher
• 1991 - Michael Landon[?], actor, director, producer
• 1997 - Robert Mitchum, actor
• 1999 - Edward Dmytryk[?], director
• 2000 - Walter Matthau, 79, American actor

Holidays and observances

• Canada Day (formerly Dominion Day) - national holiday of Canada

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See Also:

June 30 - July 2 - June 1 - August 1 -- listing of all days

January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December

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Perhaps she'll convert you. UNDERSHAFT. I shall be delighted, my dear. JENNY [at the gate: excitedly] Major! Major! Here's that man back us. Bill Walker, with frost on his jacket, comes through the gate, shoulders, like a cleaned-out gambler. He halts between Barbara Jenny's jaw? BILL. NO he ain't. BARBARA. I thought your jacket looked a bit snowy. BILL. So it is snowy. You want to know where the snow come from, Kennintahn. It got rubbed off be my shoulders see? BARBARA. Pity you didn't rub some off with your knees, Bill! That at the time. E was kneelin on my ed, so e was. JENNY. Who was kneeling on your head? BILL. Todger was. E was prayin for me: prayin comfortable with me sez "O Lord break is stubborn spirit; but don't urt is dear art." thirteen stun four!--kneelin wiv all is weight on me. Funny, Served you right, Bill! You must have done something to him looks up at the sky and sez, "O that I should be fahnd worthy to Allelloolier!"; an then a called me Brother, an dahned me as if I just no show wiv im at all. Arf the street prayed; an the tother settisfawd nah? BARBARA [her eyes dancing] Wish I'd been.