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 182nd day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 183 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is June 18, 2025 – a Tuesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,751,328,000 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 ‘hectaoctacontadigon’ day.
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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 231 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 4,575 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
- 1837 –A system of the civil registration of births, marriages and deaths is established in England and Wales.
- 1855 –Signing of the Quinault Treaty: the Quinault and the Quileute cede their land to the United States.
- 1858 –Joint reading of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace’s papers on evolution to the Linnean Society.
- 1881 –The world’s first international telephone call is made between St. Stephen, New Brunswick, Canada, and Calais, Maine, United States.
- 1885 –The United States terminates reciprocity and fishery agreement with Canada.
- 1898 –Spanish-American War: the Battle of San Juan Hill is fought in Santiago de Cuba.
- 1911 –Germany despatched the gunship Panther to Morocco, sparking the Agadir Crisis.
- 1962 –Independence of Burundi.
- 1967 –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.
- 2004 –Saturn orbit insertion of Cassini-Huygens begins at 01:12 UTC and ends at 02:48 UTC.
Who were born on July 1?
- 1899 –Charles Laughton, English actor (d. 1962)
- 1912 –Sally Kirkland, American fashion editor (d. 1989)
- 1920 –Harold Sakata, American actor (d. 1982)
- 1931 –Leslie Caron, French actress
- 1952 –Timothy J. Tobias, American composer and musician (d. 2006)
- 1961 –Carl Lewis, American athlete
- 1962 –Andre Braugher, American actor
- 1976 –Ruud van Nistelrooy, Dutch footballer
- 1980 –Nelson Cruz, Dominican Baseball Player
- 1981 –Tadhg Kennelly, Irish Australian rules footballer
Who died on July 1?
- 1109 –King Alfonso VI of Castile (b. 1040)
- 1277 –Baibars, Mameluk Sultan of Egypt (b. 1223)
- 1905 –John Hay, American statesman (b. 1838)
- 1964 –Pierre Monteux, French conductor (b. 1875)
- 1983 –R. Buckminster Fuller, American architect and philosopher (b. 1903)
- 1999 –Sylvia Sidney, American actress (b. 1910)
- 2003 –Nǃxau, Namibian actor (b. 1944)
- 2004 –Marlon Brando, American actor (b. 1924)
- 2005 –Renaldo “Obie” Benson, American soul singer-songwriter (b. 1936)
- 2009 –Alexis Argüello, Nicaraguan boxer and politician (b. 1952)
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