Post by thomasallencummins on Jun 30, 2007 8:21:38 GMT -5
JULY 1ST - A DAY TO REMEMBER ;D
Events
251 - The battle of Abrittus is won by Goths against Romans. Roman Emperors Decius and Herennius Etruscus are killed.
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 Cuitláhuac defeat Spanish Conquistadors under Hernán Cortés.
1690 - Battle of the Boyne as reckoned under Julian calendar.
1782 - American privateers attack Lunenburg, Nova Scotia.
1858 - The joint reading of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace's papers on evolution to the Linnean Society.
1862 - 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 - 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; John A. Macdonald sworn as first Prime Minister.
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 - World's first international telephone call takes place 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's organisation, came into effect.
1885 - United States terminates reciprocity and fishery agreement with Canada.
1890 - Canada and Bermuda 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 was fought in Santiago de Cuba.
1916 - First day on the Somme: On the first day of the Battle of the Somme 20,000 soldiers of the British Army are killed and 40,000 wounded.
1921 - Communist Party of China was founded.
1933 - Canadian Parliament suspends all Chinese immigration.
1935 - Regina, Saskatchewan police and Royal Canadian Mounted Police ambush strikers participating in On-to-Ottawa-Trek.
1942 - World War II: First Battle of El Alamein.
1942 - Aus Federal Govt becomes sole collector of Income Tax (State Income Tax Abolished).
1943 - Tokyo City merged with Tokyo Prefecture and was dissolved. Since then, no city in Japan has had the name "Tokyo." (Present-day Tokyo is not a city.)
1948 - Quaid-i-Azam inaugrates Pakistan's central bank, the State Bank of Pakistan.
1957 - The International Geophysical Year begins (until December 31, 1958).
1958 - The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation links television broadcasting across Canada via microwave.
1958 - Flooding of the St. Lawrence Seaway begins.
1959 - The Party of the African Federation (PFA) holds its constitutive conference.
1960 - Independence of Somalia.
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.
1963 - The Beatles release She Loves You as a single in the United Kingdom.
1966 - First colour television transmission in Canada, 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.
1968 - The CIA's Phoenix Program is officially established.
1968 - The Nuclear non-proliferation treaty signed by about sixty countries in Geneva, Switzerland.
1968 - Formal separation of the United Auto Workers from the AFL-CIO.
1970 - President General Yahya Khan abolished One-Unit of West Pakistan restoring the provinces.
1972 - Andreas Baader, Jan-Carl Raspe and Holger Meins of the Red Army Faction are captured in Frankfurt after a shootout with the police.
1972 - First Gay Pride march in England
1972 - Ratification of Virginia State Constitution
1976 - Portugal granted autonomy to Madeira.
1978 - Northern Territory (Aus) granted Self-Government.
1979 - Sony introduces the Walkman.
1980 - O Canada officially becomes the national anthem of Canada.
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 - Excavation begins on the Channel Tunnel.
1988 - Bologna, Italy: Quartetto Cetra's last concert after over forty years' musical career.
1990 - 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 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 - In Hong Kong, 500,000 people march to protest a new anti-subversion law.
2004 - In Hong Kong, 530,000 people march to urge a faster pace of democratisation and universal suffrage.
2004 - Saturn Orbit Insertion of Cassini-Huygens begins at 01:12 UT and ends at 02:48 UT.
2004 - Horst Köhler becomes the Federal President of Germany.
2005 - Revaluation of the Romanian Leu.
2006 - The first operation of Qinghai-Tibet Railway in the People's Republic of China.
2007 - No Smoking Ban on mainland England in all enclosed public places and work places came into effect.
Births
1481 - Christian II of Denmark, Sweden and Norway (d. 1559)
1506 - Louis II of Hungary and Bohemia (d. 1526)
1534 - Frederick II of Denmark (d. 1588)
1574 - Joseph Hall, English bishop and writer (d. 1656)
1586 - Claudio Saracini, Italian composer (d. 1630)
1633 - Johann Heinrich Heidegger, Swiss theologian (d. 1698)
1646 - Gottfried Leibniz, German mathematician (d. 1716)
1676 - Anthony Collins, English philosopher (d. 1729)
1723 - Pedro Rodríguez, Conde de Campomanes, Spanish statesman (d. 1802)
1725 - Comte de Rochambeau, French soldier (d. 1807)
1742 - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, German physicist (d. 1799)
1788 - Jean-Victor Poncelet, French mathematician (d. 1867)
1804 - George Sand, French writer (d. 1876)
1807 - Thomas Green Clemson, American university founder (d. 1888)
1818 - Ignaz Semmelweis, Hungarian physician (d. 1865)
1834 - Jadwiga Łuszczewska, Polish poet (d. 1908)
1863 - William Grant Stairs, Canadian explorer (d. 1892)
1869 - William Strunk Jr., American grammarian (d. 1946)
1872 - Louis Blériot, French aviator (d. 1936)
1873 - Alice Guy-Blaché, American film director (d. 1968)
1879 - Léon Jouhaux, French labor leader, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1954)
1883 - Arthur Borton, English soldier (d. 1933)
1899 - Thomas A. Dorsey, American composer (d. 1993)
1899 - Charles Laughton, English actor (d. 1962)
1902 - William Wyler, French-born film director (d. 1981)
1903 - Amy Johnson, English pilot (d. 1941)
1906 - Estée Lauder, American entrepreneur (d. 2004)
1906 - Jean Dieudonné, French mathematician (d. 1992)
1908 - Peg Entwistle, Welsh actress (d. 1932)
1909 - Bill Stern, American sportscaster (d. 1971)
1911 - Sergei Sokolov, Soviet marshal
1912 - David R. Brower, American environmentalist (d. 2000)
1912 - Sally Kirkland, American fashion editor (d. 1989)
1913 - Frank Barrett, baseball player (d. 1998)
1915 - Willie Dixon, American musician (d. 1992)
1915 - Joseph Ransohoff, American neurosurgeon (d. 2001)
1916 - Olivia de Havilland, British-born actress
1917 - Humphry Osmond, British psychiatrist
1920 - Harold Sakata, Japanese-born actor (d. 1982)
1921 - Seretse Khama, first President of Botswana
1925 - Farley Granger, American actor
1926 - Robert Fogel, Nobel laureate
1926 - Hans Werner Henze, German composer
1926 - Carl Hahn, German automotive executive
1929 - Gerald Edelman, American biologist, Nobel laureate
1930 - Bobby Day, American singer (d. 1990)
1930 - Moustapha Akkad, Syrian-American filmmaker (d. 2005)
1931 - Leslie Caron, French actress
1934 - Jamie Farr, American actor
1934 - Jean Marsh, English actress
1934 - Sydney Pollack, American film director
1934 - Claude Berri, French actor, director and screenwriter
1938 - Craig Anderson, baseball player
1939 - Karen Black, American actress
1941 - Alfred G. Gilman, American scientist, Nobel laureate
1941 - Myron Scholes, American economist, Nobel laureate
1941 - Twyla Tharp, American choreographer
1941 - Rod Gilbert, Canadian hockey player
1942 - Geneviève Bujold, Canadian actress
1942 - Andraé Crouch, American singer
1945 - Deborah Harry, American musician (Blondie)
1945 - Mike Burstyn, Israeli-American actor
1949 - John Farnham, Australian singer
1951 - Fred Schneider, American singer (The B-52's)
1952 - Dan Aykroyd, Canadian actor
1952 - Steve Shutt, Canadian ice hockey player
1957 - Hannu Kamppuri, Finnish ice hockey player
1961 - Kalpana Chawla, Indian-American astronaut (d. 2003)
1961 - Diana, Princess of Wales (d. 1997)
1961 - Malcolm Elliott, British cyclist
1961 - Carl Lewis, American athlete
1961 - Michelle Wright, Canadian musician
1962 - Andre Braugher, American actor
1963 - Roddy Bottum, American musician (Faith No More and Imperial Teen)
1965 - Harald Zwart, Norwegian film director
1966 - Enrico Annoni, Italian footballer
1967 - Pamela Anderson, Canadian model
1968 - Tim Abell, American actor
1970 - Melissa Peterman, American actress
1971 - Missy Elliott, American singer
1971 - Julianne Nicholson, American actress
1971 - Steven W. Bailey, American actor
1971 - Jamie Walker, American baseball player
1972 - Claire Forlani, American actress
1972 - Alex Machacek, Austrian musician
1975 - Sufjan Stevens, American musician
1976 - Patrick Kluivert, Dutch footballer
1976 - Ruud van Nistelrooy, Dutch footballer
1976 - Justin Lo, Hong Kong singer and songwriter
1976 - Hannu Tihinen, Finnish footballer
1977 - Jarome Iginla, Canadian hockey player
1977 - Liv Tyler, American actress
1981 - Tadhg Kennelly, Australian footballer
1982 - Hilarie Burton, American actress
1982 - Carmella DeCesare, American model
1982 - Joachim Johansson, Swedish tennis player
1982 - Adrian Ward, American football player
1983 - Marit Larsen, Norwegian musician
Events
251 - The battle of Abrittus is won by Goths against Romans. Roman Emperors Decius and Herennius Etruscus are killed.
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 Cuitláhuac defeat Spanish Conquistadors under Hernán Cortés.
1690 - Battle of the Boyne as reckoned under Julian calendar.
1782 - American privateers attack Lunenburg, Nova Scotia.
1858 - The joint reading of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace's papers on evolution to the Linnean Society.
1862 - 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 - 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; John A. Macdonald sworn as first Prime Minister.
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 - World's first international telephone call takes place 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's organisation, came into effect.
1885 - United States terminates reciprocity and fishery agreement with Canada.
1890 - Canada and Bermuda 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 was fought in Santiago de Cuba.
1916 - First day on the Somme: On the first day of the Battle of the Somme 20,000 soldiers of the British Army are killed and 40,000 wounded.
1921 - Communist Party of China was founded.
1933 - Canadian Parliament suspends all Chinese immigration.
1935 - Regina, Saskatchewan police and Royal Canadian Mounted Police ambush strikers participating in On-to-Ottawa-Trek.
1942 - World War II: First Battle of El Alamein.
1942 - Aus Federal Govt becomes sole collector of Income Tax (State Income Tax Abolished).
1943 - Tokyo City merged with Tokyo Prefecture and was dissolved. Since then, no city in Japan has had the name "Tokyo." (Present-day Tokyo is not a city.)
1948 - Quaid-i-Azam inaugrates Pakistan's central bank, the State Bank of Pakistan.
1957 - The International Geophysical Year begins (until December 31, 1958).
1958 - The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation links television broadcasting across Canada via microwave.
1958 - Flooding of the St. Lawrence Seaway begins.
1959 - The Party of the African Federation (PFA) holds its constitutive conference.
1960 - Independence of Somalia.
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.
1963 - The Beatles release She Loves You as a single in the United Kingdom.
1966 - First colour television transmission in Canada, 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.
1968 - The CIA's Phoenix Program is officially established.
1968 - The Nuclear non-proliferation treaty signed by about sixty countries in Geneva, Switzerland.
1968 - Formal separation of the United Auto Workers from the AFL-CIO.
1970 - President General Yahya Khan abolished One-Unit of West Pakistan restoring the provinces.
1972 - Andreas Baader, Jan-Carl Raspe and Holger Meins of the Red Army Faction are captured in Frankfurt after a shootout with the police.
1972 - First Gay Pride march in England
1972 - Ratification of Virginia State Constitution
1976 - Portugal granted autonomy to Madeira.
1978 - Northern Territory (Aus) granted Self-Government.
1979 - Sony introduces the Walkman.
1980 - O Canada officially becomes the national anthem of Canada.
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 - Excavation begins on the Channel Tunnel.
1988 - Bologna, Italy: Quartetto Cetra's last concert after over forty years' musical career.
1990 - 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 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 - In Hong Kong, 500,000 people march to protest a new anti-subversion law.
2004 - In Hong Kong, 530,000 people march to urge a faster pace of democratisation and universal suffrage.
2004 - Saturn Orbit Insertion of Cassini-Huygens begins at 01:12 UT and ends at 02:48 UT.
2004 - Horst Köhler becomes the Federal President of Germany.
2005 - Revaluation of the Romanian Leu.
2006 - The first operation of Qinghai-Tibet Railway in the People's Republic of China.
2007 - No Smoking Ban on mainland England in all enclosed public places and work places came into effect.
Births
1481 - Christian II of Denmark, Sweden and Norway (d. 1559)
1506 - Louis II of Hungary and Bohemia (d. 1526)
1534 - Frederick II of Denmark (d. 1588)
1574 - Joseph Hall, English bishop and writer (d. 1656)
1586 - Claudio Saracini, Italian composer (d. 1630)
1633 - Johann Heinrich Heidegger, Swiss theologian (d. 1698)
1646 - Gottfried Leibniz, German mathematician (d. 1716)
1676 - Anthony Collins, English philosopher (d. 1729)
1723 - Pedro Rodríguez, Conde de Campomanes, Spanish statesman (d. 1802)
1725 - Comte de Rochambeau, French soldier (d. 1807)
1742 - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, German physicist (d. 1799)
1788 - Jean-Victor Poncelet, French mathematician (d. 1867)
1804 - George Sand, French writer (d. 1876)
1807 - Thomas Green Clemson, American university founder (d. 1888)
1818 - Ignaz Semmelweis, Hungarian physician (d. 1865)
1834 - Jadwiga Łuszczewska, Polish poet (d. 1908)
1863 - William Grant Stairs, Canadian explorer (d. 1892)
1869 - William Strunk Jr., American grammarian (d. 1946)
1872 - Louis Blériot, French aviator (d. 1936)
1873 - Alice Guy-Blaché, American film director (d. 1968)
1879 - Léon Jouhaux, French labor leader, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1954)
1883 - Arthur Borton, English soldier (d. 1933)
1899 - Thomas A. Dorsey, American composer (d. 1993)
1899 - Charles Laughton, English actor (d. 1962)
1902 - William Wyler, French-born film director (d. 1981)
1903 - Amy Johnson, English pilot (d. 1941)
1906 - Estée Lauder, American entrepreneur (d. 2004)
1906 - Jean Dieudonné, French mathematician (d. 1992)
1908 - Peg Entwistle, Welsh actress (d. 1932)
1909 - Bill Stern, American sportscaster (d. 1971)
1911 - Sergei Sokolov, Soviet marshal
1912 - David R. Brower, American environmentalist (d. 2000)
1912 - Sally Kirkland, American fashion editor (d. 1989)
1913 - Frank Barrett, baseball player (d. 1998)
1915 - Willie Dixon, American musician (d. 1992)
1915 - Joseph Ransohoff, American neurosurgeon (d. 2001)
1916 - Olivia de Havilland, British-born actress
1917 - Humphry Osmond, British psychiatrist
1920 - Harold Sakata, Japanese-born actor (d. 1982)
1921 - Seretse Khama, first President of Botswana
1925 - Farley Granger, American actor
1926 - Robert Fogel, Nobel laureate
1926 - Hans Werner Henze, German composer
1926 - Carl Hahn, German automotive executive
1929 - Gerald Edelman, American biologist, Nobel laureate
1930 - Bobby Day, American singer (d. 1990)
1930 - Moustapha Akkad, Syrian-American filmmaker (d. 2005)
1931 - Leslie Caron, French actress
1934 - Jamie Farr, American actor
1934 - Jean Marsh, English actress
1934 - Sydney Pollack, American film director
1934 - Claude Berri, French actor, director and screenwriter
1938 - Craig Anderson, baseball player
1939 - Karen Black, American actress
1941 - Alfred G. Gilman, American scientist, Nobel laureate
1941 - Myron Scholes, American economist, Nobel laureate
1941 - Twyla Tharp, American choreographer
1941 - Rod Gilbert, Canadian hockey player
1942 - Geneviève Bujold, Canadian actress
1942 - Andraé Crouch, American singer
1945 - Deborah Harry, American musician (Blondie)
1945 - Mike Burstyn, Israeli-American actor
1949 - John Farnham, Australian singer
1951 - Fred Schneider, American singer (The B-52's)
1952 - Dan Aykroyd, Canadian actor
1952 - Steve Shutt, Canadian ice hockey player
1957 - Hannu Kamppuri, Finnish ice hockey player
1961 - Kalpana Chawla, Indian-American astronaut (d. 2003)
1961 - Diana, Princess of Wales (d. 1997)
1961 - Malcolm Elliott, British cyclist
1961 - Carl Lewis, American athlete
1961 - Michelle Wright, Canadian musician
1962 - Andre Braugher, American actor
1963 - Roddy Bottum, American musician (Faith No More and Imperial Teen)
1965 - Harald Zwart, Norwegian film director
1966 - Enrico Annoni, Italian footballer
1967 - Pamela Anderson, Canadian model
1968 - Tim Abell, American actor
1970 - Melissa Peterman, American actress
1971 - Missy Elliott, American singer
1971 - Julianne Nicholson, American actress
1971 - Steven W. Bailey, American actor
1971 - Jamie Walker, American baseball player
1972 - Claire Forlani, American actress
1972 - Alex Machacek, Austrian musician
1975 - Sufjan Stevens, American musician
1976 - Patrick Kluivert, Dutch footballer
1976 - Ruud van Nistelrooy, Dutch footballer
1976 - Justin Lo, Hong Kong singer and songwriter
1976 - Hannu Tihinen, Finnish footballer
1977 - Jarome Iginla, Canadian hockey player
1977 - Liv Tyler, American actress
1981 - Tadhg Kennelly, Australian footballer
1982 - Hilarie Burton, American actress
1982 - Carmella DeCesare, American model
1982 - Joachim Johansson, Swedish tennis player
1982 - Adrian Ward, American football player
1983 - Marit Larsen, Norwegian musician
