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 182^nd 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.

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.

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.
• 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.
• 1908 –
  SOS is adopted as the international distress signal.
• 1911 –
  Germany despatched the gunship Panther to Morocco, sparking the Agadir Crisis.
• 1957 –
  The International Geophysical Year begins.
• 1966 –
  The first color television transmission in Canada takes place from Toronto.
• 1967 –
  Canada celebrates the 100th anniversary of the British North America Act, 1867, which officially made Canada its own federal dominion.
• 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.
• 1968 –
  Formal separation of the United Auto Workers from the AFL-CIO.
• 1970 –
  President General Yahya Khan abolishes One-Unit of West Pakistan restoring the provinces.

Who were born on July 1?

• 1481 –
  King Christian II of Denmark, Sweden and Norway (d. 1559)
• 1506 –
  King Louis II of Hungary and Bohemia (d. 1526)
• 1633 –
  Johann Heinrich Heidegger, Swiss theologian (d. 1698)
• 1908 –
  Peter Anders, German operatic tenor (d. 1954)
• 1951 –
  Anne Feeney, American protest singer
• 1952 –
  Timothy J. Tobias, American composer and musician (d. 2006)
• 1961 –
  Diana, Princess of Wales, Prince Charles’s ex wife (d. 1997)
• 1980 –
  Nelson Cruz, Dominican Baseball Player
• 1986 –
  Andrew Lee, Australian rules footballer
• 1988 –
  Dedé, Brazilian footballer

Who died on July 1?

• 1592 –
  Marc'Antonio Ingegneri, Italian composer (b. c. 1547)
• 1622 –
  William Parker, 4th Baron Monteagle, British politician (b. 1575)
• 1774 –
  Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland, English statesman (b. 1705)
• 1784 –
  Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, German composer (b. 1710)
• 1965 –
  Wally Hammond, English cricketer (b. 1903)
• 1996 –
  William T. Cahill, American politician (b. 1904)
• 1999 –
  Sylvia Sidney, American actress (b. 1910)
• 2000 –
  Walter Matthau, American actor (b. 1920)
• 2003 –
  Herbie Mann, American jazz flutist (b. 1930)
• 2008 –
  Mark Dean Schwab, American rapist and murderer (b. 1968)