1 July

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.
• 1931 - Official opening of Milan Central Station
• 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 - The United Kingdom hands sovereignty over Hong Kong to the People's Republic of China
• 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 took 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.

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 († 1993)
• 1902 - William Wyler, three-time Academy Award winning director († 1981)
• 1903 - Amy Johnson, aviator († 1941)
• 1912 - David R. Brower, founder of many environmentalist organizations(† 2000)
• 1916 - Olivia de Havilland, 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
• 1946 - June Montiero, singer formerly of the group the Toys
• 1952 - Dan Aykroyd, actor
• 1961 - Diana, Princess of Wales, († 1997)
• 1961 - Carl Lewis, American athletics legend, nine-time Olympic gold medalist
• 1961 - Michelle Wright, singer/guitarist, songwriter, drummer
• 1967 - Pamela Anderson, actress
• 1976 - Patrick Kluivert, Dutch football player
• 1976 - Ruud van Nistelrooy, Dutch football player
• 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
• 2003 - Herbie Mann, jazz flautist

Holidays and observances

• Canada Day (formerly Dominion Day) - national holiday of Canada
• Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Establishment Day

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