On This Day — July 1

Famous events, births, and deaths from July 1 in history, plus the public holidays, religious observances, sports, and national days happening on this date today.

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83 events · 229 births · 101 deaths recorded for July 1.

🕰️ Notable Events on July 1

2013 — Croatia becomes the 28th member of the European Union. Wikipedia ↗
2008 — Rioting erupts in Mongolia in response to allegations of fraud surrounding the 2008 legislative elections. Wikipedia ↗
2007 — Smoking in England is banned in all public indoor spaces. Wikipedia ↗
2006 — The first operation of Qinghai-Tibet Railway in China. Wikipedia ↗
2004 — Saturn orbit insertion of Cassini-Huygens begins at 01:12 UTC and ends at 02:48 UTC. Wikipedia ↗
2003 — Over 500,000 people protest against efforts to pass anti-sedition legislation in Hong Kong. Wikipedia ↗
2002 — The International Criminal Court is established to prosecute individuals for genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and the crime of aggression. Wikipedia ↗
2002 — Bashkirian Airlines Flight 2937, a Tupolev Tu-154, and DHL Flight 611, a Boeing 757, collide in mid-air over Überlingen, southern Germany, killing all 71 on board both planes. Wikipedia ↗
1999 — The Scottish Parliament is officially opened by 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. Wikipedia ↗
1997 — China resumes sovereignty over the city-state of Hong Kong, ending 156 years of British colonial rule. The handover ceremony is attended by British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Prince Charles of Wales, Chinese President Jiang Zemin, and U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. Wikipedia ↗
1991 — The Warsaw Pact is officially dissolved at a meeting in Prague. Wikipedia ↗
1990 — German reunification: East Germany accepts the Deutsche Mark as its currency, thus uniting the economies of East and West Germany. Wikipedia ↗
1987 — The American radio station WFAN in New York City is launched as the world's first all-sports radio station. Wikipedia ↗
1984 — The PG-13 rating is introduced by the MPAA. Wikipedia ↗
1983 — A 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. Wikipedia ↗
1980 — "O Canada" officially becomes the national anthem of Canada. Wikipedia ↗
1979 — Sony introduces the Walkman. Wikipedia ↗
1978 — The Northern Territory in Australia is granted self-government. Wikipedia ↗
1976 — Portugal grants autonomy to Madeira. Wikipedia ↗
1972 — The first Gay pride march in England takes place. Wikipedia ↗
1968 — The United States Central Intelligence Agency's Phoenix Program is officially established. Wikipedia ↗
1968 — The Nuclear non-proliferation treaty is signed in Washington, D.C., London and Moscow by sixty-two countries. Wikipedia ↗
1968 — Formal separation of the United Auto Workers from the AFL-CIO in the United States. Wikipedia ↗
1967 — Merger Treaty: 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. Wikipedia ↗
1966 — The first color television transmission in Canada takes place from Toronto. Wikipedia ↗
1963 — ZIP codes are introduced for United States mail. Wikipedia ↗
1963 — The British Government admits that former diplomat Kim Philby had worked as a Soviet agent. Wikipedia ↗
1962 — Independence of Rwanda and Burundi. Wikipedia ↗
1960 — Independence of Somalia. Wikipedia ↗
1960 — Ghana becomes a republic and Kwame Nkrumah becomes its first President as Queen Elizabeth II ceases to be its head of state. Wikipedia ↗
1959 — Specific 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. Wikipedia ↗
1958 — The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation links television broadcasting across Canada via microwave. Wikipedia ↗
1958 — Flooding of Canada's Saint Lawrence Seaway begins. Wikipedia ↗
1957 — The International Geophysical Year begins. Wikipedia ↗
1949 — The 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. Wikipedia ↗
1948 — Muhammad Ali Jinnah (Quaid-i-Azam) inaugurates Pakistan's central bank, the State Bank of Pakistan. Wikipedia ↗
1947 — The Philippine Air Force is established. Wikipedia ↗
1943 — Tokyo City merges with Tokyo Prefecture and is dissolved. Since this date, no city in Japan has the name "Tokyo" (present-day Tokyo is not officially a city). Wikipedia ↗
1942 — World War II: First Battle of El Alamein. Wikipedia ↗
1942 — The Australian Federal Government becomes the sole collector of income tax in Australia as State Income Tax is abolished. Wikipedia ↗
1935 — Regina, Saskatchewan police and Royal Canadian Mounted Police ambush strikers participating in the On-to-Ottawa Trek. Wikipedia ↗
1932 — Australia's national broadcaster, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, was formed. Wikipedia ↗
1931 — United Airlines begins service (as Boeing Air Transport). Wikipedia ↗
1931 — Wiley Post and Harold Gatty become the first people to circumnavigate the globe in a fixed-wing aircraft. Wikipedia ↗
1923 — The Canadian Parliament suspends all Chinese immigration. Wikipedia ↗
1922 — The Great Railroad Strike of 1922 begins in the United States. Wikipedia ↗
1916 — World 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. Wikipedia ↗
1915 — Leutnant Kurt Wintgens of the then-named German Deutsches Heer's Fliegertruppe army air service achieves the first known aerial victory with a synchronized machine-gun armed fighter plane, the Fokker M.5K/MG Eindecker. Wikipedia ↗
1911 — Germany despatches the gunship SMS Panther to Morocco, sparking the Agadir Crisis. Wikipedia ↗
1908 — SOS is adopted as the international distress signal. Wikipedia ↗
1903 — Start of first Tour de France bicycle race. Wikipedia ↗
1898 — Spanish-American War: The Battle of San Juan Hill is fought in Santiago de Cuba. Wikipedia ↗
1890 — Canada and Bermuda are linked by telegraph cable. Wikipedia ↗
1887 — Clay Allison, eccentric gunfighter and rancher, dies in a freak wagon accident in Texas.
1885 — The United States terminates reciprocity and fishery agreement with Canada. Wikipedia ↗
1881 — The world's first international telephone call is made between St. Stephen, New Brunswick, Canada, and Calais, Maine, United States.[1] Wikipedia ↗
1881 — General Order 70, the culmination of the Cardwell and Childers reforms of the British Army, comes into effect. Wikipedia ↗
1879 — Charles Taze Russell publishes the first edition of the religious magazine The Watchtower. Wikipedia ↗
1878 — Canada joins the Universal Postal Union. Wikipedia ↗
1874 — The Sholes and Glidden typewriter, the first commercially successful typewriter, goes on sale. Wikipedia ↗
1873 — Prince Edward Island joins into Canadian Confederation. Wikipedia ↗
1870 — The United States Department of Justice formally comes into existence. Wikipedia ↗
1867 — The British North America Act of 1867 takes effect as the Province of Canada, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia join into confederation to create the modern nation of Canada. Sir John A. Macdonald is sworn in as the first Prime Minister of Canada. This date is commemorated annually in Canada as Canada Day, a national holiday. Wikipedia ↗
1863 — Keti Koti (Emancipation Day) in Suriname, marking the abolition of slavery by the Netherlands. Wikipedia ↗
1863 — American Civil War: The Battle of Gettysburg begins. Wikipedia ↗
1862 — The Russian State Library is founded as the Library of the Moscow Public Museum. Wikipedia ↗
1862 — Princess Alice of the United Kingdom, second daughter of Queen Victoria, marries Prince Louis of Hesse, the future Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse. Wikipedia ↗
1862 — American Civil War: The Battle of Malvern Hill takes place. It is the last of the Seven Days Battles, part of George B. McClellan's Peninsula Campaign. Wikipedia ↗
1858 — Joint reading of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace's papers on evolution to the Linnean Society of London. Wikipedia ↗
1855 — Signing of the Quinault Treaty: The Quinault and the Quileute cede their land to the United States. Wikipedia ↗
1837 — A system of civil registration of births, marriages and deaths is established in England and Wales. Wikipedia ↗
1819 — Johann Georg Tralles discovers the Great Comet of 1819, (C/1819 N1). It was the first comet analyzed using polarimetry, by François Arago. Wikipedia ↗
1782 — Raid on Lunenburg: American privateers attack the British settlement of Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. Wikipedia ↗
1770 — Lexell's Comet passes closer to the Earth than any other comet in recorded history, approaching to a distance of 0.0146 a.u. Wikipedia ↗
1766 — François-Jean de la Barre, a young French nobleman, is tortured and beheaded before his body is burnt on a pyre along with a copy of Voltaire's Dictionnaire philosophique nailed to his torso for the crime of not saluting a Roman Catholic religious procession in Abbeville, France. Wikipedia ↗
1690 — Glorious Revolution: Battle of the Boyne in Ireland (as reckoned under the Julian calendar). Wikipedia ↗
1643 — First meeting of the Westminster Assembly, a council of theologians ("divines") and members of the Parliament of England appointed to restructure the Church of England, at Westminster Abbey in London. Wikipedia ↗
1569 — Union of Lublin: The Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania confirm a real union; the united country is called the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth or the Republic of Both Nations. Wikipedia ↗
1523 — Johann Esch and Heinrich Voes become the first Lutheran martyrs, burned at the stake by Roman Catholic authorities in Brussels. Wikipedia ↗
1431 — The Battle of La Higueruela takes place in Granada, leading to a modest advance of the Kingdom of Castile during the Reconquista. Wikipedia ↗
1097 — Battle of Dorylaeum: Crusaders led by prince Bohemond of Taranto defeat a Seljuk army led by sultan Kilij Arslan I. Wikipedia ↗
552 — Battle of Taginae: Byzantine forces under Narses defeat the Ostrogoths in Italy. During the fighting king Totila is mortally wounded. Wikipedia ↗
Tiberius Julius Alexander orders his Roman legions in Alexandria to swear allegiance to Vespasian as Emperor. Wikipedia ↗

🎂 Notable Births on July 1

1998 — Aleksandra Golovkina, Lithuanian figure skater Wikipedia ↗
1996 — Adelina Sotnikova, Russian figure skater Wikipedia ↗
1995 — Boli Bolingoli-Mbombo, Belgian footballer Wikipedia ↗
1995 — Savvy Shields, Miss America 2015 Wikipedia ↗
1992 — Aaron Sanchez, American baseball player Wikipedia ↗
1991 — Michael Wacha, American baseball player Wikipedia ↗
1990 — Ben Coker, English footballer Wikipedia ↗
1990 — Natsuki Sato, Japanese singer and actress Wikipedia ↗
1989 — Kent Bazemore, American basketball player Wikipedia ↗
1989 — Leah McFall, Northern Irish singer-songwriter Wikipedia ↗
1989 — Daniel Ricciardo, Australian race car driver Wikipedia ↗
1989 — Hannah Murray, English actress Wikipedia ↗
1988 — Dedé, Brazilian footballer Wikipedia ↗
1988 — Aleksander Lesun, Russian modern pentathlete Wikipedia ↗
1987 — Michael Schrader, German decathlete Wikipedia ↗
1986 — Charlie Blackmon, American baseball player Wikipedia ↗
1986 — Andrew Lee, Australian footballer Wikipedia ↗
1986 — Julian Prochnow, German footballer Wikipedia ↗
1985 — Chris Perez, American baseball player Wikipedia ↗
1984 — Donald Thomas, Bahamian high jumper Wikipedia ↗
1983 — Marit Larsen, Norwegian singer-songwriter and keyboard player Wikipedia ↗
1982 — Justin Huber, Australian baseball player Wikipedia ↗
1982 — Joachim Johansson, Swedish tennis player Wikipedia ↗
1982 — Adrian Ward, American football player Wikipedia ↗
1982 — Hilarie Burton, American actress. Wikipedia ↗
1981 — Carlo Del Fava, South African-Italian rugby player Wikipedia ↗
1981 — Tadhg Kennelly, Irish-Australian footballer Wikipedia ↗
1980 — Patrick Aufiero, American ice hockey player Wikipedia ↗
1979 — Forrest Griffin, American mixed martial artist and actor Wikipedia ↗
1977 — Tom Frager, Senegalese-French singer-songwriter and guitarist Wikipedia ↗
1977 — Keigo Hayashi, Japanese musician Wikipedia ↗
1977 — Jarome Iginla, Canadian ice hockey player Wikipedia ↗
1977 — Liv Tyler, American model and actress Wikipedia ↗
1976 — Patrick Kluivert, Dutch footballer and coach Wikipedia ↗
1976 — Hannu Tihinen, Finnish footballer Wikipedia ↗
1976 — Albert Torrens, Australian rugby league player Wikipedia ↗
1976 — Ruud van Nistelrooy, Dutch footballer and manager Wikipedia ↗
1976 — Szymon Ziółkowski, Polish hammer thrower Wikipedia ↗
1975 — Sean Colson, American basketball player and coach Wikipedia ↗
1975 — Sufjan Stevens, American singer-songwriter and guitarist Wikipedia ↗
1974 — Jefferson Pérez, Ecuadorian race walker Wikipedia ↗
1972 — Claire Forlani, English actress Wikipedia ↗
1971 — Missy Elliott, American rapper, producer, dancer, and actress Wikipedia ↗
1971 — Julianne Nicholson, American actress Wikipedia ↗
1969 — Séamus Egan, American-Irish singer-songwriter and guitarist Wikipedia ↗
1967 — Pamela Anderson, Canadian-American model and actress Wikipedia ↗
1966 — Enrico Annoni, Italian footballer and coach Wikipedia ↗
1966 — Shawn Burr, Canadian-American ice hockey player (d. 2013) Wikipedia ↗
1965 — Carl Fogarty, English motorcycle racer Wikipedia ↗
1965 — Garry Schofield, English rugby player and coach Wikipedia ↗
1965 — Harald Zwart, Norwegian director and producer Wikipedia ↗
1964 — Bernard Laporte, French rugby player and coach Wikipedia ↗
1963 — Roddy Bottum, American singer and keyboard player Wikipedia ↗
1963 — Nick Giannopoulos, Australian actor Wikipedia ↗
1963 — David Wood, American lawyer and environmentalist (d. 2006) Wikipedia ↗
1962 — Andre Braugher, American actor and producer Wikipedia ↗
1961 — Malcolm Elliott, English cyclist Wikipedia ↗
1961 — Ivan Kaye, English actor Wikipedia ↗
1961 — Carl Lewis, American long jumper and runner Wikipedia ↗
1961 — Diana, Princess of Wales (d. 1997) Wikipedia ↗
1961 — Michelle Wright, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist Wikipedia ↗
1960 — Michael Beattie, Australian rugby league player and coach Wikipedia ↗
1960 — Lynn Jennings, American runner Wikipedia ↗
1960 — Evelyn "Champagne" King, American soul/disco singer Wikipedia ↗
1960 — Kevin Swords, American rugby player Wikipedia ↗
1958 — Jack Dyer Crouch, II, American diplomat, United States Deputy National Security Advisor Wikipedia ↗
1957 — Lisa Blount, American actress and producer (d. 2010) Wikipedia ↗
1957 — Hannu Kamppuri, Finnish ice hockey player Wikipedia ↗
1957 — Sean O'Driscoll, English footballer and manager Wikipedia ↗
1955 — Nikolai Demidenko, Russian pianist and educator Wikipedia ↗
1955 — Li Keqiang, Chinese economist and politician, 7th Premier of the People's Republic of China Wikipedia ↗
1955 — Lisa Scottoline, American lawyer and author Wikipedia ↗
1954 — Keith Whitley, American singer and guitarist (d. 1989) Wikipedia ↗
1953 — Lawrence Gonzi, Maltese lawyer and politician, 12th Prime Minister of Malta Wikipedia ↗
1953 — Jadranka Kosor, Croatian journalist and politician, 9th Prime Minister of Croatia Wikipedia ↗
1952 — Dan Aykroyd, Canadian actor, producer, and screenwriter Wikipedia ↗
1952 — David Lane, English oncologist and academic Wikipedia ↗
1952 — Steve Shutt, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster Wikipedia ↗
1952 — Timothy J. Tobias, American pianist and composer (d. 2006) Wikipedia ↗
1951 — Trevor Eve, English actor and producer Wikipedia ↗
1951 — Anne Feeney, American singer-songwriter and activist Wikipedia ↗
1951 — Julia Goodfellow, English physicist and academic Wikipedia ↗
1951 — Klaus-Peter Justus, German runner Wikipedia ↗
1951 — Tom Kozelko, American basketball player Wikipedia ↗
1951 — Terrence Mann, American actor, singer, and dancer Wikipedia ↗
1951 — Fred Schneider, American singer-songwriter and keyboard player Wikipedia ↗
1951 — Victor Willis, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and actor Wikipedia ↗
1950 — David Duke, American white supremacist, politician and former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard Wikipedia ↗
1949 — Néjia Ben Mabrouk, Tunisian-Belgian director and screenwriter Wikipedia ↗
1949 — John Farnham, English-Australian singer-songwriter Wikipedia ↗
1949 — David Hogan, American composer and educator (d. 1996) Wikipedia ↗
1949 — Venkaiah Naidu, Indian lawyer and politician Wikipedia ↗
1948 — John Ford, English-American singer-songwriter and guitarist Wikipedia ↗
1947 — Kazuyoshi Hoshino, Japanese race car driver Wikipedia ↗
1947 — Malcolm Wicks, English academic and politician (d. 2012) Wikipedia ↗
1946 — Mick Aston, English archaeologist and academic (d. 2013) Wikipedia ↗
1946 — Erkki Tuomioja, Finnish sergeant and politician, Finnish Minister for Foreign Affairs Wikipedia ↗
1945 — Mike Burstyn, American actor and singer Wikipedia ↗
1945 — Debbie Harry, American singer-songwriter and actress Wikipedia ↗
1943 — Philip Brunelle, American conductor and organist Wikipedia ↗
1943 — Peeter Lepp, Estonian politician, 37th Mayor of Tallinn Wikipedia ↗
1943 — Jeff Wayne, American composer, musician, and lyricist Wikipedia ↗
1942 — Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, Iraqi field marshal and politician (d. 2015) Wikipedia ↗
1942 — Geneviève Bujold, Canadian actress Wikipedia ↗
1942 — Andraé Crouch, American singer-songwriter, producer, and pastor (d. 2015) Wikipedia ↗
1942 — Julia Higgins, English chemist and academic Wikipedia ↗
1941 — Rod Gilbert, Canadian-American ice hockey player Wikipedia ↗
1941 — Alfred G. Gilman, American pharmacologist and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2015) Wikipedia ↗
1941 — Myron Scholes, Canadian-American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate Wikipedia ↗
1941 — Twyla Tharp, American dancer and choreographer Wikipedia ↗
1940 — Craig Brown, Scottish footballer and manager Wikipedia ↗
1940 — Ela Gandhi, South African activist and politician Wikipedia ↗
1940 — Cahit Zarifoğlu, Turkish poet and author (d. 1987) Wikipedia ↗
1939 — Karen Black, American actress (d. 2013) Wikipedia ↗
1939 — Delaney Bramlett, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (d. 2008) Wikipedia ↗
1938 — Craig Anderson, American baseball player and coach Wikipedia ↗
1938 — Hariprasad Chaurasia, Indian flute player and composer Wikipedia ↗