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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