What happened on July 1? There are more than 312 events that were made this day in history. Here are the important historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
Interesting Facts & Myths About July 1
July 1 is the 183rd day of the year 2024. There are 183 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday. This day falls under the 27th week of the year 2024.
On this day in Hermon, New York 13652 sunrise will occur at 05:18 AM and sunset will occur at 08:50 PM (local time).
The zodiac sign of a person born on this day is Cancer. The modern birthstone for this month is Ruby while the mystical birthstone is Ruby.
According to the Chinese calendar, there are 212 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year (January 29, 2025).
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July 1: A Day In History
The end of this day marks the halfway point of a leap year. It also falls on the same day of the week as New Year’s Day in a leap year.
Historical Events For July 1
- 69Tiberius Julius Alexander orders his Roman legions in Alexandria to swear allegiance to Vespasian as Emperor.
- 1097Battle of Dorylaeum: Crusaders led by Prince Bohemond of Taranto defeat a Seljuk army led by Sultan Kilij Arslan I.
- 1569Union of Lublin: the Kingdom of Poland and the Great Duchy of Lithuania confirm a real union; the united country is called the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth or the Republic of Both Nations.
- 1690Glorious Revolution: Battle of the Boyne (as reckoned under the Julian calendar).
- 1770Lexell’s Comet passed closer to the Earth than any other comet in recorded history, approaching to a distance of 0.0146 a.u.
- 1782American privateers attack Lunenburg, Nova Scotia.
- 1837A system of the civil registration of births, marriages and deaths is established in England and Wales.
- 1855Signing of the Quinault Treaty: the Quinault and the Quileute cede their land to the United States.
- 1858Joint reading of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace’s papers on evolution to the Linnean Society.
- 1862American Civil War: the Battle of Malvern Hill takes place. It is the final battle in the Seven Days Campaign, part of George B. McClellan’s Peninsula Campaign.
- 1862The Russian State Library is founded.
- 1863American Civil War: the Battle of Gettysburg begins.
- 1863Keti Koti (Emancipation Day) in Suriname, marking the abolition of slavery by the Netherlands.
- 1867The British North America Act of 1867 takes effect as the Constitution of Canada, creating the Canadian Confederation and the federal dominion of Canada; Sir John A. Macdonald is sworn in as the first Prime Minister of Canada.
- 1870The United States Department of Justice formally comes into existence.
- 1873Prince Edward Island joins the Canadian Confederation.
- 1874The Sholes and Glidden typewriter, the first commercially successful typewriter, goes on sale.
- 1878Canada joins the Universal Postal Union.
- 1879Charles Taze Russell publishes the first edition of the religious magazine The Watchtower.
- 1881General Order 70, the culmination of the Cardwell and Childers reforms of the British Army, comes into effect.
- 1881The world’s first international telephone call is made between St. Stephen, New Brunswick, Canada, and Calais, Maine, United States.
- 1885The United States terminates reciprocity and fishery agreement with Canada.
- 1890Canada and Bermuda are linked by telegraph cable.
- 1898Spanish-American War: the Battle of San Juan Hill is fought in Santiago de Cuba.
- 1908SOS is adopted as the international distress signal.
- 1911Germany despatched the gunship Panther to Morocco, sparking the Agadir Crisis.
- 1915Lieutenant Kurt Wintgens achieves the first known aerial victory with a synchronized gun-equipped fighter plane, the Fokker M.5K/MG Eindecker.
- 1916World War I: First day on the Somme – On the first day of the Battle of the Somme 19,000 soldiers of the British Army are killed and 40,000 wounded.
- 1921The Communist Party of China is founded.
- 1923The Canadian Parliament suspends all Chinese immigration.
- 1931United Airlines begins service (as Boeing Air Transport).
- 1935Grant Park Music Festival begins its tradition of free summer symphonic music concert series in Chicago‘s Grant Park, which continues as the United States’only annual free outdoor classical music concert series.
- 1935Regina, Saskatchewan police and Royal Canadian Mounted Police ambush strikers participating in On-to-Ottawa-Trek.
- 1942The Australian Federal Government becomes the sole collector of Income Tax in Australia as the State Income Tax is abolished.
- 1942World War II: first Battle of El Alamein.
- 1943Tokyo City merges with Tokyo Prefecture and is dissolved. Since then, no city in Japan has had the name “Tokyo” (present-day Tokyo is not officially a city).
- 1947The Philippine Air Force is established.
- 1948Muhammad Ali Jinnah (Quaid-i-Azam) inaugurates Pakistan’s central bank, the State Bank of Pakistan.
- 1949The merger of two princely states of India, Cochin and Travancore, into the state of Thiru-Kochi (later re-organized as Kerala) in the Indian Union ends more than 1,000 years of princely rule by the Cochin Royal Family.
- 1957The International Geophysical Year begins.
- 1958Flooding of Canada’s St. Lawrence Seaway begins.
- 1958The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation links television broadcasting across Canada via microwave.
- 1959Specific values for the international yard, avoirdupois pound and derived units (e.g. inch, mile and ounce) are adopted after agreement between the U.S.A., the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth countries.
- 1959The Party of the African Federation holds its constitutive conference.
- 1960Ghana becomes a Republic and Kwame Nkrumah becomes its first President as Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom ceases to be its Head of state.
- 1960Independence of Somalia.
- 1962Independence of Burundi.
- 1962Independence of Rwanda.
- 1963The British Government admits that former diplomat Kim Philby had worked as a Soviet agent.
- 1963ZIP Codes are introduced for United States mail.
- 1966The first color television transmission in Canada takes place from Toronto.
- 1967Canada celebrates the 100th anniversary of the British North America Act, 1867, which officially made Canada its own federal dominion.
- 1967The 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.
- 1968Formal separation of the United Auto Workers from the AFL-CIO.
- 1968The CIA’s Phoenix Program is officially established.
- 1968The Nuclear non-proliferation treaty is signed in Washington, D.C., London and Moscow by sixty-two countries.
- 1970President General Yahya Khan abolishes One-Unit of West Pakistan restoring the provinces.
- 1972The first Gay Pride march in England takes place.
- 1976Portugal grants autonomy to Madeira.
- 1978The Northern Territory in Australia is granted Self-Government.
- 1979Sony introduces the Walkman.
- 1980O Canada officially becomes the national anthem of Canada.
- 1981The Wonderland Murders occurred in the early morning hours, allegedly masterminded by businessman and drug dealer Eddie Nash.
- 1983A North Korean Ilyushin Il-62M jet en route to Conakry Airport in Guinea crashes into the Fouta Djallon mountains in Guinea-Bissau, killing all 23 people on board.
- 1984The PG-13 rating is introduced by the MPAA.
- 1987The American radio station WFAN in New York, New York is launched as the world’s first all-sports radio station.
- 1990German re-unification: East Germany accepts the Deutsche Mark as its currency, thus uniting the economies of East and West Germany.
- 1991The Warsaw Pact is officially dissolved at a meeting in Prague.
- 1997China resumes sovereignty over the city-state of Hong Kong, ending 156 years of British colonial rule.
- 1999The Scottish Parliament is officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II on the day that legislative powers are officially transferred from the old Scottish Office in London to the new devolved Scottish Executive in Edinburgh.
- 2002A Bashkirian Airlines (flight 2937) Tupolev TU-154 and a DHL (German cargo) Boeing 757 collide in mid-air over Ueberlingen, southern Germany, killing 71.
- 2002The International Criminal Court is established to prosecute individuals for genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and the crime of aggression.
- 2003Over 500,000 people protested against efforts to pass anti-sedition legislation in Hong Kong.
- 2004Saturn orbit insertion of Cassini-Huygens begins at 01:12 UTC and ends at 02:48 UTC.
- 2006The first operation of Qinghai-Tibet Railway in the People’s Republic of China.
- 2007Smoking in England is banned in all public indoor spaces.
- 2008Rioting erupted in Mongolia in response to allegations of fraud surrounding the 2008 legislative elections.
Who Were Born On July 1?
- 1481King Christian II of Denmark, Sweden and Norway (d. 1559)
- 1506King Louis II of Hungary and Bohemia (d. 1526)
- 1534King Frederick II of Denmark and Norway and Duke of Schleswig (d. 1588)
- 1574Joseph Hall, English bishop and writer (d. 1656)
- 1586Claudio Saracini, Italian composer (d. 1630)
- 1633Johann Heinrich Heidegger, Swiss theologian (d. 1698)
- 1646Gottfried Leibniz, German mathematician (d. 1716)
- 1676Anthony Collins, English philosopher (d. 1729)
- 1723Pedro Rodríguez, Conde de Campomanes, Spanish statesman (d. 1802)
- 1725Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau, French nobleman and soldier (d. 1807)
- 1731Adam Duncan, 1st Viscount Duncan Royal Navy Admiral (d.1804)
- 1742Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, German physicist (d. 1799)
- 1788Jean-Victor Poncelet, French mathematician (d. 1867)
- 1804Charles Gordon Greene, American journalist (d. 1886)
- 1804George Sand, French writer (d. 1876)
- 1807Thomas Green Clemson, American educator (d. 1888)
- 1818Ignaz Semmelweis, Hungarian physician (d. 1865)
- 1834Jadwiga Łuszczewska, Polish poet (d. 1908)
- 1863William Grant Stairs, Canadian explorer (d. 1892)
- 1869William Strunk, Jr., American grammarian (d. 1946)
- 1872Louis Blériot, French aviator (d. 1936)
- 1873Alice Guy-Blaché, American film director (d. 1968)
- 1879Léon Jouhaux, French labor figure, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1954)
- 1883Arthur Borton, English soldier (d. 1933)
- 1899Charles Laughton, English actor (d. 1962)
- 1899Konstantinos Tsatsos, Greek politician (d. 1987)
- 1899Thomas A. Dorsey, American composer (d. 1993)
- 1902William Wyler, French-born American film director (d. 1981)
- 1903Amy Johnson, English pilot (d. 1941)
- 1906Estée Lauder, American entrepreneur (d. 2004)
- 1906Jean Dieudonné, French mathematician (d. 1992)
- 1907Bill Stern, American sportscaster (d. 1971)
- 1908Peter Anders, German operatic tenor (d. 1954)
- 1911Sergei Sokolov, Soviet marshal
- 1912David R. Brower, American environmentalist (d. 2000)
- 1912Sally Kirkland, American fashion editor (d. 1989)
- 1913Frank Barrett, American baseball player (d. 1998)
- 1913Vasantrao Naik, Indian politician (d. 1979)
- 1915Joseph Ransohoff, American neurosurgeon (d. 2001)
- 1915Willie Dixon, American blues vocalist and record producer (d. 1992)
- 1916Olivia de Havilland, British-born actress
- 1917Humphry Osmond, British psychiatrist (d. 2004)
- 1920Harold Sakata, American actor (d. 1982)
- 1921Seretse Khama, Botswanan politician (d. 1980)
- 1925Farley Granger, American actor (d. 2011)
- 1926Carl Hahn, German automotive executive
- 1926Hans Werner Henze, German composer
- 1926Robert Fogel, American economist, Nobel laureate
- 1927Alan J. Charig, British palaeontologist (d. 1997)
- 1929Gerald Edelman, American biologist, Nobel laureate
- 1930Bobby Day, American singer (d. 1990)
- 1930Carol Chomsky, American linguist, wife of Noam Chomsky (d. 2008)
- 1930Moustapha Akkad, Syrian-American filmmaker (d. 2005)
- 1931Leslie Caron, French actress
- 1932Ze'ev Schiff, Israeli journalist (d. 2007)
- 1933C. Scott Littleton, American anthropologist and academic (d. 2010)
- 1934Claude Berri, French actor, director and screenwriter (d. 2009)
- 1934Jamie Farr, American actor
- 1934Jean Marsh, English actress
- 1934Sydney Pollack, American film director (d. 2008)
- 1935James Cotton, American blues harmonica player
- 1938Craig Anderson, American baseball player
- 1939Delaney Bramlett, American singer and songwriter (d. 2008)
- 1939Karen Black, American actress
- 1941Alfred G. Gilman, American pharmacologist, Nobel laureate
- 1941Myron Scholes, American economist, Nobel laureate
- 1941Rod Gilbert, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1941Twyla Tharp, American choreographer
- 1942Andraé Crouch, American singer
- 1942Geneviève Bujold, Canadian actress
- 1942Mike Malloy, American talk radio host
- 1943Jeff Wayne, American pianist, keyboardist and composer
- 1943Marian Glinka, Polish actor (d. 2008)
- 1944Lew Rockwell, American libertarian political commentator and activist
- 1945Debbie Harry, American singer (Blondie)
- 1945Mike Burstyn, Israeli-born American actor
- 1947Kazuyoshi Hoshino, Japanese racing driver
- 1947Shirley Hemphill, American actress (d. 1999)
- 1948John Ford, English songwriter and guitarist (Strawbs)
- 1949John Farnham, English-born Australian singer
- 1950David Duke, American politician and white supremacist
- 1951Anne Feeney, American protest singer
- 1951Fred Schneider, American singer (The B-52's)
- 1951Terrence Mann, American actor and dancer
- 1951Trevor Eve, British actor
- 1952Dan Aykroyd, Canadian actor
- 1952Steve Shutt, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1952Timothy J. Tobias, American composer and musician (d. 2006)
- 1953Jadranka Kosor, Croatian journalist and politician
- 1953Lawrence Gonzi, Maltese politician
- 1955Keith Whitley, American country music singer (d. 1989)
- 1956Alan Ruck, American actor
- 1956Ulf Larsson, Swedish actor (d. 2009)
- 1957Hannu Kamppuri, Finnish ice hockey player
- 1957Lisa Blount, American actress and producer (d. 2010)
- 1959Dale Midkiff, American actor
- 1960Kevin Swords, American rugby player
- 1961Carl Lewis, American athlete
- 1961Diana, Princess of Wales, Prince Charles’s ex wife (d. 1997)
- 1961Kalpana Chawla, Indian-born American astronaut (d. 2003)
- 1961Malcolm Elliott, British cyclist
- 1961Michelle Wright, Canadian country music singer and guitarist
- 1962Andre Braugher, American actor
- 1963David Wood, American environmentalist
- 1963Roddy Bottum, American musician (Faith No More, Imperial Teen)
- 1964Bernard Laporte, French rugby player and coach
- 1965Harald Zwart, Norwegian film director
- 1966Enrico Annoni, Italian footballer
- 1966Shawn Burr, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1967Pamela Anderson, Canadian model
- 1968Jordi Mollà, Spanish actor
- 1968Tim Abell, American actor
- 1970Henry Simmons, American actor
- 1970Melissa Peterman, American actress
- 1971Amira Casar, French actress
- 1971Jamie Walker, American baseball player
- 1971Julianne Nicholson, American actress
- 1971Missy Elliott, American rapper and singer
- 1971Steven W. Bailey, American actor
- 1972Alex Machacek, Austrian musician
- 1972Claire Forlani, English actress
- 1974Jefferson Pérez, Ecuadorian race walker
- 1975Sufjan Stevens, American singer and musician
- 1976Hannu Tihinen, Finnish footballer
- 1976Justin Lo, Hong Kong singer and songwriter
- 1976Patrick Kluivert, Dutch footballer
- 1976Plies, American rapper
- 1976Ruud van Nistelrooy, Dutch footballer
- 1976Thomas Sadoski, American actor
- 1977Birgit Schuurman, Dutch singer and actress
- 1977Greg Pattillo, American beatboxing flautist
- 1977Jarome Iginla, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1977Liv Tyler, American actress
- 1977Pamela Rogers Turner, former elementary school physical education teacher/coach and convicted sex offender
- 1977Tom Frager, French-born singer and surfer
- 1979Forrest Griffin, American mixed martial artist
- 1980Nelson Cruz, Dominican Baseball Player
- 1980Patrick Aufiero, American ice hockey player
- 1981Amanda Diva, American actress and rapper
- 1981Carlo del Fava, South African-born Italian rugby player
- 1981Tadhg Kennelly, Irish Australian rules footballer
- 1982Adrian Ward, American football player
- 1982Carmella DeCesare, American glamor model
- 1982Hilarie Burton, American actress
- 1982Joachim Johansson, Swedish tennis player
- 1982Justin Huber, Australian baseball player
- 1983Leeteuk (Park Jung Su), Korean singer
- 1983Lynsey Bartilson, American actress
- 1983Marit Larsen, Norwegian singer-songwriter (M2M)
- 1986Agnes Monica, Indonesian singer
- 1986Andrew Lee, Australian rules footballer
- 1988Dedé, Brazilian footballer
- 1988Evan Ellingson, American actor
- 1989Daniel Ricciardo, Australian racing driver
- 1989Hannah Murray, English actress
- 1989Mitch Hewer, English actor
- 1990Natsuki Sato, Japanese singer
- 1996Adelina Sotnikova, Russian figure skater
- 1998Hollie Steel, English singer
Who Died On July 1?
- 552Totila, King of the Ostrogoths (birth year unknown)
- 868Ali al-Hadi, Shi'a Imam (b. 828)
- 1109King Alfonso VI of Castile (b. 1040)
- 1277Baibars, Mameluk Sultan of Egypt (b. 1223)
- 1592Marc'Antonio Ingegneri, Italian composer (b. c. 1547)
- 1614Isaac Casaubon, French-born classical scholar (b. 1559)
- 1622William Parker, 4th Baron Monteagle, British politician (b. 1575)
- 1681Oliver Plunkett, Irish Catholic Archbishop of Armagh and saint (b. 1629)
- 1708Emperor Tekle Haymanot I of Ethiopia (b. 1706)
- 1774Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland, English statesman (b. 1705)
- 1782Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, British statesman and noble (b. 1730)
- 1784Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, German composer (b. 1710)
- 1819Jemima Wilkinson, American preacher (b. 1752)
- 1839Mahmud II, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1785)
- 1860Charles Goodyear, American inventor (b. 1800)
- 1863John Fulton Reynolds, American Civil War general (b. 1820)
- 1894Allan Pinkerton, American private detective (b. 1819)
- 1896Harriet Beecher Stowe, American abolitionist and writer (b. 1811)
- 1905John Hay, American statesman (b. 1838)
- 1925Erik Satie, French composer (b. 1866)
- 1942Peadar Mac Fhionnlaoich, Irish language writer (b. 1857)
- 1944Carl Mayer, Austrian screenplay writer (b. 1894)
- 1944Tanya Savicheva, Russian diarist (b. 1930)
- 1948Achille Varzi, Italian race car driver (b. 1904)
- 1950Émile Jaques-Dalcroze, Swiss composer and music educator (b. 1865)
- 1950Gottlieb Eliel Saarinen, Finnish architect (b. 1873)
- 1961Louis-Ferdinand Céline, French writer (b. 1894)
- 1964Pierre Monteux, French conductor (b. 1875)
- 1965Wally Hammond, English cricketer (b. 1903)
- 1967Gerhard Ritter, German historian (b. 1888)
- 1968Fritz Bauer, German judge and prosecutor (b. 1903)
- 1971William Lawrence Bragg, English physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1890)
- 1974Juan Perón, 29th and 41st President of Argentina (b. 1895)
- 1976Anneliese Michel, German woman said to be possessed by demons (b. 1952)
- 1978Kurt Student, German Luftwaffe general (b. 1890)
- 1981Carlos de Oliveira, Portuguese writer (b. 1921)
- 1981Rushton Moreve, American bass player (Steppenwolf) (b. 1948)
- 1983R. Buckminster Fuller, American architect and philosopher (b. 1903)
- 1984Moshe Feldenkrais, Ukrainian educator (b. 1904)
- 1987Snakefinger, British guitarist, violinist and composer (The Residents) (b. 1949)
- 1991Michael Landon, American actor (b. 1936)
- 1992Francisco Mendes, Guinea-Bissau politician (b. 1933)
- 1992Franco Cristaldi, Italian film producer (b. 1924)
- 1994Merriam Modell, American novelist (b. 1908)
- 1995Wolfman Jack, American radio personality (b. 1938)
- 1996Margaux Hemingway, American actress and model (b. 1954)
- 1996Steve Tesich, Serbian screenwriter (b. 1942)
- 1996William T. Cahill, American politician (b. 1904)
- 1997Robert Mitchum, American actor (b. 1917)
- 1999Edward Dmytryk, Canadian-born film director (b. 1908)
- 1999Forrest Mars Sr., American candy magnate (b. 1904)
- 1999Guy Mitchell, American popular singer (b. 1927)
- 1999Sylvia Sidney, American actress (b. 1910)
- 2000Sarah Payne, British murder victim (b. 1992)
- 2000Walter Matthau, American actor (b. 1920)
- 2001Nikolay Basov, Russian physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1922)
- 2003Herbie Mann, American jazz flutist (b. 1930)
- 2003Nǃxau, Namibian actor (b. 1944)
- 2003Wesley Mouzon, American boxer (b. 1927)
- 2004Marlon Brando, American actor (b. 1924)
- 2004Peter Barnes, English writer (b. 1931)
- 2004Todor Skalovski, Macedonian composer (b. 1909)
- 2005Luther Vandross, American singer (b. 1951)
- 2005Renaldo “Obie” Benson, American soul singer-songwriter (b. 1936)
- 2006Fred Trueman, English cricketer (b. 1931)
- 2008Mark Dean Schwab, American rapist and murderer (b. 1968)
- 2008Mel Galley, English guitarist (Whitesnake) (b. 1948)
- 2009Alexis Argüello, Nicaraguan boxer and politician (b. 1952)
- 2009Karl Malden, American actor (b. 1912)
- 2009Mollie Sugden, English actress (b. 1922)
- 2009Onni Palaste, Finnish writer (b. 1917)
- 2010Arnold Friberg, American illustrator (b. 1913)
- 2010Don Coryell, American football head coach (b. 1924)
- 2010Geoffrey Hutchings, British actor (b. 1939)
- 2010Ilene Woods, American actress (b. 1929)
- 2011Leslie Brooks, American actress (b. 1922)
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