WillDekkard
07-01-2010, 04:44 AM
Hear are some notable events that happened on This Date in History
- July 1st
C A N A D A 4713 D A Y
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* 69 Tiberius Julius Alexander orders his Roman legions in Alexandria to swear allegiance to Vespasian as emperor.
* 1097 Battle of Dorylaeum: Crusaders under Bohemond of Taranto defeat a Seljuk army under Qilich Arslan I.
* 1520 La Noche Triste: Joint Mexican Indian force led by Aztecs under Cuitlαhuac defeat Spanish Conquistadors under Hernαn Cortιs.
* 1569 Union of Lublin: The Kingdom of Poland (Polish Crown) and Great Duchy of Lithuania confirm a real union, the united country is called the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth or the Republic of Both Nations.
* 1690 Glorious Revolution: Battle of the Boyne as reckoned under Julian calendar.
* 1770 Lexell's Comet passed closer to the Earth than any other comet in recorded history, approaching to a distance of 0.0146 a.u.
* 1782 American privateers attack Lunenburg, Nova Scotia.
* 1837 A system of the civil registration of births, marriages and deaths is established in England and Wales.
* 1855 Quinault Treaty signed, Quinault and Quileute cede their land to the United States.
* 1858 The joint reading of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace's papers on evolution to the Linnean Society.
* 1862 The Russian State Library is founded.
* 1862 American Civil War: The Battle of Malvern Hill takes place, the final battle in the Seven Days Campaign, part of the George B. McClellan's Peninsula Campaign.
* 1863 Keti Koti, Emancipation Day in Suriname, marking the abolition of slavery by the Netherlands.
* 1863 American Civil War: The Battle of Gettysburg begins.
* 1867 The British North America Act, 1867 takes effect as the Constitution of Canada, creating the Canadian Confederation and the federal dominion of Canada; John A. Macdonald is sworn in as the first Prime Minister of Canada.
* 1870 The United States Department of Justice formally comes into existence.
* 1873 Prince Edward Island joins the Canadian Confederation.
* 1878 Canada joins the Universal Postal Union.
* 1879 Charles Taze Russell publishes the first edition of the religious magazine The Watchtower.
* 1881 The world's first international telephone call is made between St. Stephen, New Brunswick, Canada, and Calais, Maine, United States.
* 1881 General Order 70, the culmination of the Cardwell-Childers reforms of the British Army, comes into effect.
* 1885 The United States terminates reciprocity and fishery agreement with Canada.
* 1890 Canada and Bermuda are linked by telegraph cable.
* 1892 The Homestead Strike, a strike by the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers against the Carnegie Steel Company, begins.
* 1898 Spanish-American War: The Battle of San Juan Hill is fought in Santiago de Cuba.
* 1908 SOS is adopted as the international Distress signal.
* 1915 Leutnant Kurt Wintgens achieves the first known aerial victory with a synchronized gun-equipped fighter plane, the Fokker M.5K/MG Eindecker.
* 1916 World War I: First day on the Somme On the first day of the Battle of the Somme 19,000 soldiers of the British Army are killed and 40,000 wounded.
* 1921 The Communist Party of China is founded.
* 1931 United Airlines begins service (as Boeing Air Transport).
* 1933 The Canadian Parliament suspends all Chinese immigration.
* 1935 Regina, Saskatchewan police and Royal Canadian Mounted Police ambush strikers participating in On-to-Ottawa-Trek.
* 1935 Grant Park Music Festival begins its tradition of free summer symphonic music concert series in Chicago's Grant Park, which continues as the United States' only annual free outdoor classical music concert series.
* 1942 World War II: First Battle of El Alamein.
* 1942 Australian Federal Government becomes sole collector of Income Tax (State Income Tax Abolished).
* 1943 Tokyo City merges with Tokyo Prefecture and is dissolved. Since then, no city in Japan has had the name "Tokyo". (Present-day Tokyo is not a city.)
* 1947 The Philippine Air Force is established.
* 1948 Quaid-i-Azam inaugurates Pakistan's central bank, the State Bank of Pakistan.
* 1949 Merger of two princely states of India, Cochin and Travancore to become the state of Thiru-Kochi (later re-organized as Kerala) in Indian Union, ending more than 1000 years of princely rule by Cochin Royal Family.
* 1957 The International Geophysical Year begins.
* 1958 The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation links television broadcasting across Canada via microwave.
* 1958 Flooding of Canada's St. Lawrence Seaway begins.
* 1959 The Party of the African Federation holds its constitutive conference.
* 1959 Specific values for the international yard, avoirdupois pound and derived units (e.g. inch, mile and ounce) are adopted after agreement between the U.S., U.K. and other commonwealth countries.
* 1960 Independence of Somalia.
* 1960 Ghana becomes a Republic and Kwame Nkrumah becomes its first President as Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom ceases to be the Head of state.
* 1962 Independence of Rwanda.
* 1962 Independence of Burundi.
* 1963 ZIP Codes are introduced for United States mail.
* 1963 The British Government admits that former diplomat Kim Philby had worked as a Soviet agent.
* 1966 The first color television transmission in Canada takes place from Toronto.
* 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.
* 1967 Canada celebrates the 100th anniversary of the British North America Act, 1867, which officially made Canada its own federal dominion.
* 1968 The CIA's Phoenix Program is officially established.
* 1968 The Nuclear non-proliferation treaty is signed in Washington, D.C., London and Moscow by sixty-two countries.
* 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.
* 1972 The first Gay Pride march in England takes place.
* 1976 Portugal grants autonomy to Madeira.
* 1978 The Northern Territory in Australia is granted Self-Government.
* 1979 Sony introduces the Walkman.
* 1980 O Canada officially becomes the national anthem of Canada.
* 1981 The Wonderland Murders occurred in the early morning hours, allegedly masterminded by businessman and drug dealer Eddie Nash.
* 1983 A North Korean Ilyushin Il-62M jet en route to Conakry Airport in Guinea crashes into the Fouta Djall Mountains in Guinea-Bissau, killing all 23 people on board.
* 1984 The PG-13 rating is introduced by the MPAA.
* 1987 American radio station WFAN in New York City is launched as the world's first all-sports radio station.
* 1990 German re-unification: East Germany accepts the Deutsche Mark as its currency, thus uniting the economies of East and West Germany.
* 1991 The Warsaw Pact is officially dissolved at a meeting in Prague.
* 1997 The People's Republic of China resumes sovereignty over the city-state of Hong Kong, ending 156 years of British colonial rule.
* 1999 The Scottish Parliament is officially opened by Queen Elizabeth on the day that legislative powers are officially transferred from the old Scottish Office in London to the new devolved Scottish Executive in Edinburgh.
* 2000 Vermont's civil unions law goes into effect.
* 2000 The Oresund Bridge, connecting Sweden and Denmark, opens for traffic.
* 2002 The International Criminal Court is established to prosecute individuals for genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and the crime of aggression.
* 2002 A Bashkirian Airlines (flight 2937) Tupolev TU-154 and a DHL (German cargo) Boeing 757 collide in mid-air over Ueberlingen, southern Germany, killing 71.
* 2003 Over 500,000 people protested against China's brutality in Hong Kong.
* 2004 Saturn Orbit insertion of Cassini-Huygens begins at 01:12 UTC and ends at 02:48 UTC.
* 2006 The first operation of Qinghai-Tibet Railway in the People's Republic of China.
* 2007 Smoking in England is banned in all public indoor spaces. With the ban already in force in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, this means it is illegal to smoke in indoor public places anywhere in the UK. The ban is also put into effect in Australia.
* 2008 Rioting erupted in Mongolia in response to allegations of fraud surrounding the 2008 legislative elections.
* 2009 Croatian Prime Minister Ivo Sanader resigns giving no specific reason. Jadranka Kosor is announced as the next Prime Minister, the first woman ever to hold the post.
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- July 1st
C A N A D A 4713 D A Y
c/p from Wikipedia
* 69 Tiberius Julius Alexander orders his Roman legions in Alexandria to swear allegiance to Vespasian as emperor.
* 1097 Battle of Dorylaeum: Crusaders under Bohemond of Taranto defeat a Seljuk army under Qilich Arslan I.
* 1520 La Noche Triste: Joint Mexican Indian force led by Aztecs under Cuitlαhuac defeat Spanish Conquistadors under Hernαn Cortιs.
* 1569 Union of Lublin: The Kingdom of Poland (Polish Crown) and Great Duchy of Lithuania confirm a real union, the united country is called the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth or the Republic of Both Nations.
* 1690 Glorious Revolution: Battle of the Boyne as reckoned under Julian calendar.
* 1770 Lexell's Comet passed closer to the Earth than any other comet in recorded history, approaching to a distance of 0.0146 a.u.
* 1782 American privateers attack Lunenburg, Nova Scotia.
* 1837 A system of the civil registration of births, marriages and deaths is established in England and Wales.
* 1855 Quinault Treaty signed, Quinault and Quileute cede their land to the United States.
* 1858 The joint reading of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace's papers on evolution to the Linnean Society.
* 1862 The Russian State Library is founded.
* 1862 American Civil War: The Battle of Malvern Hill takes place, the final battle in the Seven Days Campaign, part of the George B. McClellan's Peninsula Campaign.
* 1863 Keti Koti, Emancipation Day in Suriname, marking the abolition of slavery by the Netherlands.
* 1863 American Civil War: The Battle of Gettysburg begins.
* 1867 The British North America Act, 1867 takes effect as the Constitution of Canada, creating the Canadian Confederation and the federal dominion of Canada; John A. Macdonald is sworn in as the first Prime Minister of Canada.
* 1870 The United States Department of Justice formally comes into existence.
* 1873 Prince Edward Island joins the Canadian Confederation.
* 1878 Canada joins the Universal Postal Union.
* 1879 Charles Taze Russell publishes the first edition of the religious magazine The Watchtower.
* 1881 The world's first international telephone call is made between St. Stephen, New Brunswick, Canada, and Calais, Maine, United States.
* 1881 General Order 70, the culmination of the Cardwell-Childers reforms of the British Army, comes into effect.
* 1885 The United States terminates reciprocity and fishery agreement with Canada.
* 1890 Canada and Bermuda are linked by telegraph cable.
* 1892 The Homestead Strike, a strike by the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers against the Carnegie Steel Company, begins.
* 1898 Spanish-American War: The Battle of San Juan Hill is fought in Santiago de Cuba.
* 1908 SOS is adopted as the international Distress signal.
* 1915 Leutnant Kurt Wintgens achieves the first known aerial victory with a synchronized gun-equipped fighter plane, the Fokker M.5K/MG Eindecker.
* 1916 World War I: First day on the Somme On the first day of the Battle of the Somme 19,000 soldiers of the British Army are killed and 40,000 wounded.
* 1921 The Communist Party of China is founded.
* 1931 United Airlines begins service (as Boeing Air Transport).
* 1933 The Canadian Parliament suspends all Chinese immigration.
* 1935 Regina, Saskatchewan police and Royal Canadian Mounted Police ambush strikers participating in On-to-Ottawa-Trek.
* 1935 Grant Park Music Festival begins its tradition of free summer symphonic music concert series in Chicago's Grant Park, which continues as the United States' only annual free outdoor classical music concert series.
* 1942 World War II: First Battle of El Alamein.
* 1942 Australian Federal Government becomes sole collector of Income Tax (State Income Tax Abolished).
* 1943 Tokyo City merges with Tokyo Prefecture and is dissolved. Since then, no city in Japan has had the name "Tokyo". (Present-day Tokyo is not a city.)
* 1947 The Philippine Air Force is established.
* 1948 Quaid-i-Azam inaugurates Pakistan's central bank, the State Bank of Pakistan.
* 1949 Merger of two princely states of India, Cochin and Travancore to become the state of Thiru-Kochi (later re-organized as Kerala) in Indian Union, ending more than 1000 years of princely rule by Cochin Royal Family.
* 1957 The International Geophysical Year begins.
* 1958 The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation links television broadcasting across Canada via microwave.
* 1958 Flooding of Canada's St. Lawrence Seaway begins.
* 1959 The Party of the African Federation holds its constitutive conference.
* 1959 Specific values for the international yard, avoirdupois pound and derived units (e.g. inch, mile and ounce) are adopted after agreement between the U.S., U.K. and other commonwealth countries.
* 1960 Independence of Somalia.
* 1960 Ghana becomes a Republic and Kwame Nkrumah becomes its first President as Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom ceases to be the Head of state.
* 1962 Independence of Rwanda.
* 1962 Independence of Burundi.
* 1963 ZIP Codes are introduced for United States mail.
* 1963 The British Government admits that former diplomat Kim Philby had worked as a Soviet agent.
* 1966 The first color television transmission in Canada takes place from Toronto.
* 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.
* 1967 Canada celebrates the 100th anniversary of the British North America Act, 1867, which officially made Canada its own federal dominion.
* 1968 The CIA's Phoenix Program is officially established.
* 1968 The Nuclear non-proliferation treaty is signed in Washington, D.C., London and Moscow by sixty-two countries.
* 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.
* 1972 The first Gay Pride march in England takes place.
* 1976 Portugal grants autonomy to Madeira.
* 1978 The Northern Territory in Australia is granted Self-Government.
* 1979 Sony introduces the Walkman.
* 1980 O Canada officially becomes the national anthem of Canada.
* 1981 The Wonderland Murders occurred in the early morning hours, allegedly masterminded by businessman and drug dealer Eddie Nash.
* 1983 A North Korean Ilyushin Il-62M jet en route to Conakry Airport in Guinea crashes into the Fouta Djall Mountains in Guinea-Bissau, killing all 23 people on board.
* 1984 The PG-13 rating is introduced by the MPAA.
* 1987 American radio station WFAN in New York City is launched as the world's first all-sports radio station.
* 1990 German re-unification: East Germany accepts the Deutsche Mark as its currency, thus uniting the economies of East and West Germany.
* 1991 The Warsaw Pact is officially dissolved at a meeting in Prague.
* 1997 The People's Republic of China resumes sovereignty over the city-state of Hong Kong, ending 156 years of British colonial rule.
* 1999 The Scottish Parliament is officially opened by Queen Elizabeth on the day that legislative powers are officially transferred from the old Scottish Office in London to the new devolved Scottish Executive in Edinburgh.
* 2000 Vermont's civil unions law goes into effect.
* 2000 The Oresund Bridge, connecting Sweden and Denmark, opens for traffic.
* 2002 The International Criminal Court is established to prosecute individuals for genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and the crime of aggression.
* 2002 A Bashkirian Airlines (flight 2937) Tupolev TU-154 and a DHL (German cargo) Boeing 757 collide in mid-air over Ueberlingen, southern Germany, killing 71.
* 2003 Over 500,000 people protested against China's brutality in Hong Kong.
* 2004 Saturn Orbit insertion of Cassini-Huygens begins at 01:12 UTC and ends at 02:48 UTC.
* 2006 The first operation of Qinghai-Tibet Railway in the People's Republic of China.
* 2007 Smoking in England is banned in all public indoor spaces. With the ban already in force in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, this means it is illegal to smoke in indoor public places anywhere in the UK. The ban is also put into effect in Australia.
* 2008 Rioting erupted in Mongolia in response to allegations of fraud surrounding the 2008 legislative elections.
* 2009 Croatian Prime Minister Ivo Sanader resigns giving no specific reason. Jadranka Kosor is announced as the next Prime Minister, the first woman ever to hold the post.
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