What happened this day in history July 1

What are the important events that happened on July 1? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

July 1: Facts & Myths About This Day

July 1 is the 183rd day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 183 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is June 18, 2024 – a Monday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 1,719,792,000 seconds has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.

Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘hectaoctacontatrigon’ day.

Cancer is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Ruby is the modern birthstone for this month. Ruby is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 212 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,210 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

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July 1: This 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.

July 1 Historical Events

  • 1858
    Joint reading of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace’s papers on evolution to the Linnean Society.
  • 1862
    American 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.
  • 1874
    The Sholes and Glidden typewriter, the first commercially successful typewriter, goes on sale.
  • 1878
    Canada joins the Universal Postal Union.
  • 1915
    Lieutenant Kurt Wintgens achieves the first known aerial victory with a synchronized gun-equipped fighter plane, the Fokker M.5K/MG Eindecker.
  • 1935
    Regina, Saskatchewan police and Royal Canadian Mounted Police ambush strikers participating in On-to-Ottawa-Trek.
  • 1960
    Ghana 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.
  • 1968
    The CIA’s Phoenix Program is officially established.
  • 1970
    President General Yahya Khan abolishes One-Unit of West Pakistan restoring the provinces.
  • 1999
    The 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.

Who were born on July 1?

  • 1818
    Ignaz Semmelweis, Hungarian physician (d. 1865)
  • 1907
    Bill Stern, American sportscaster (d. 1971)
  • 1915
    Willie Dixon, American blues vocalist and record producer (d. 1992)
  • 1917
    Humphry Osmond, British psychiatrist (d. 2004)
  • 1934
    Sydney Pollack, American film director (d. 2008)
  • 1942
    Mike Malloy, American talk radio host
  • 1951
    Terrence Mann, American actor and dancer
  • 1966
    Shawn Burr, Canadian ice hockey player
  • 1971
    Julianne Nicholson, American actress
  • 1989
    Hannah Murray, English actress

Who died on July 1?

  • 1592
    Marc'Antonio Ingegneri, Italian composer (b. c. 1547)
  • 1622
    William Parker, 4th Baron Monteagle, British politician (b. 1575)
  • 1944
    Carl Mayer, Austrian screenplay writer (b. 1894)
  • 1965
    Wally Hammond, English cricketer (b. 1903)
  • 1981
    Carlos de Oliveira, Portuguese writer (b. 1921)
  • 1981
    Rushton Moreve, American bass player (Steppenwolf) (b. 1948)
  • 1991
    Michael Landon, American actor (b. 1936)
  • 2003
    Nǃxau, Namibian actor (b. 1944)
  • 2006
    Fred Trueman, English cricketer (b. 1931)
  • 2009
    Mollie Sugden, English actress (b. 1922)

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