|
|||||||
|
|
|
|||||
|
|
|||||||
|
|||||||
|
|
|
|||||
|
|
|||||||
Today in History ~ July 1
Dominion Day -- Canada
Events0070 - Roman Emperor Titus assaults the walls of Jerusalem with battering rams
1097 - 1st Crusaders defeat Sultan Kilidj Arslan of Nicea
1200 - In China, "sunglasses" are invented [T]
1390 - French & Genovese armada sails out against Barbary pirates
1517 - 1st burning of Protestants at stake in Netherlands
1535 - Sir Thomas More went on trial in England charged with treason
1543 - England & Scotland sign Peace treaty of Greenwich
1569 - Latvia Parliament accept Union of Lublin, incorporates into Poland
1656 - 1st Quakers (Mary Fisher/Ann Austin) arrives in Boston and are promptly arrested
1690 - England's Protestant King William III (born in Neth) defeats Roman Catholic King James II (from Scot) in Battle of Boyne (in Ireland). Touching off more than three centuries of religious bloodshed.
1776 - 1st vote on the Declaration of Independence
1798 - Napoleon's fleet reaches Alexandria Egypt
1823 - United Provinces of Central America gain independence from Mexico
1847 - Amateur astronomer M Hencke discovers his second asteroid Hebe
1847 - US issues its 1st adhesive postage stamps.
1859 - The first intercollegiate baseball game was played in Pittsfield, Mass. Amherst beat Williams, 66-32.
1861 - San Francisco's 1st public schoolhouse opens at Washington and Mason Streets
1861 - War Dept decrees that Kansas & Tennessee are to be canvassed for volunteers
1862 - Congress outlaws polygamy (1st time); bad news for Utah
1862 - Emperor Alexander II grants Jews right to publish books
1862 - Internal Revenue Law imposes
1862 - The United States Congress gave the green light to the tax-centric Revenue Act. The legislation, which was soon signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln, 1st federal taxes on inheritance, tobacco & on incomes over $600 (progressive rate) However, the Revenue Act was perhaps more notable for creating the Bureau of Internal Revenue
1863 - First Day of Battle of Gettysburg, Pa; Lee's northward advance halted by cavalry under Union Gen John Buford, allowing remaining Union forces time to occupy high ground [H]
1864 - Battle of Petersburg, VA begins
1867 - Dominion of Canada forms (New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Ontario & Quebec) as the British North America Act took effect.
1873 - Prince Edward Island becomes 7th Canadian province
1874 - The Philadelphia Zoological Society, the first U.S. zoo, opened to the public.
1878 - Treaty of Berlin divide Africa for colonization
1893 - President Cleveland underwent secret surgery to remove a cancerous growth in his mouth. The operation did not become public knowledge until a newspaper article about it was published on Sept. 22, 1917 -- nine years after Cleveland's death.
1898 - During the Spanish-American War, Theodore Roosevelt and his Rough Riders waged an assault on San Juan Hill in Cuba. (most of them on foot) [H]
1899 - Gideon Society established to place bibles in hotels
1902 - With congressional passage of the Philippine Government Act, which provided for the Philippines to be governed by a committee appointed by the U.S. president, the U.S. government formally declared the Philippine Insurrection to be at an end.
1902 - Start of Sherlock Holmes "Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax"
1903 - 1st Tour de France bicycle race begins
1904 - 3rd modern Olympic games opens in St Louis
1907 - World's 1st air force established (US Army)
1911 - Proclamation removes "Dei Gratia" from Canada's coins
1913 - Serbia & Greece declare war on Bulgaria
1916 - At 7:30AM, a 5 day, continuous, British artillery bombardment of German lines stopped, and 11 British divisions (100,000 men) went "over the top" toward the Germans, the worst single day of casualties in British military history, 20,000 soldiers were killed, 40,000 wounded - known as the Battle of the Somme. [H]
1916 - British court martial (Dublin Easter uprising)
1916 - Dwight Eisenhower marries Mary `Mamie' Geneva Doud in Denver Colo
1917 - Race riots in East St Louis Illinois (40 to 200 reported killed)
1919 - First Class Postage DROPS to 2 cents from 3 cents.
1924 - Through regular transcontinental airmail service forms, NYC-SF
1929 - US cartoonist Elzie Segar creates "Popeye"
1929 - US Immigration law of 1924 in effect
1931 - Ice vending machines introduced in LA 25 lbs, 15 cents
1932 - NY Gov FDR nominated for president at the Dem Convention in Chicago
1933 - German Nazi regime decrees married women should not work
1933 - Strauss/Hofmannsthal opera "Arabella," premieres in Dresden
1934 - 1st x-ray photo of entire body, Rochester, NY
1937 - Rev Martin Niemoeller (Bekennende Kirche) arrested in Germany
1937 - Spanish bishops support Franco & fascists
1940 - Australia refuses entry to Dutch Jewish refugees
1940 - Guernsey in the Channel Islands was occupied by German forces. The only part of the British Isles to be occupied.
1941 - 1st coml TV license granted-W2XBS-WNBT (NBC) & WCBW (CBS) NYC
1941 - DiMaggio ties Willie Keeler's 44 game hitting streak
1942 - German troops conquer Sebastopol
1943 - "Pay-as-you-go" - 1st withholding tax from paychecks
1944 - 2500+ killed in London/SE England by German flying bombs
1944 - Bretton Woods Conference starts, establishing world-wide financial systems (like the IMF and the World Bank).
1944 - Count Claus von Stauffenberg promoted to colonel
1944 - Von Rundstedt against Keitel: "Signs peace, idiots!"
1946 - The United States exploded its first post-war test of the atomic bomb, a 20-kiloton atomic bomb near Bikini Atoll in the Pacific.
1947 - 192m long passenger ship Willem Ruys (Achille Lauro) launched
1949 - Bao Dai's Republic of Vietnam gains independence from France
1950 - 1st 407 US soldiers flown to South Korea
1956 - Elvis Presley wearing a tuxedo appears on Steve Allen Show
1956 - Ike's Interstates The Highway Revenue Act of 1956 was put into effect by Congress
1959 - Israeli Knesset agrees to weapon sales to West-Germany
1959 - World Refugee Year
1960 - British Somaliland becomes Somalia
1960 - Fidel Castro nationalizes Esso, Shell & Texaco in Cuba
1960 - Ghana becomes a republic
1960 - Italian Somaliland gains independence, unites with Somali Republic
1960 - USSR shoots down US RB-47 reconnaissance plane
1961 - Haleakala National Park established in Hawaii
1962 - Algeria votes for independence
1962 - Burundi & Rwanda gain independence from Belgium (National Days).
1963 - Beatles record "She Loves You"
1963 - US postal service institutes Zone Improvement Plan (zip code)
1966 - Medicare goes into effect.
1967 - "Funny Girl" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 1348 performances
1967 - Beatles' "Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band," goes #1 for 15 weeks
1968 - The United States, Britain, the Soviet Union and 58 other nations signed the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.
1969 - Charles Philip Arthur George invested as the Prince of Wales
1971 - British & Argentina sign accord about Falkland Islands (later cause of war)
1971 - Golden Gate Bridge paid for (so why is there still a toll?).
1971 - State of Washington becomes 1st state to ban sex discrimination
1972 - "Hair" closes at Biltmore Theater NYC after 1750 performances
1972 - Ms. Magazine starts publishing
1973 - "Jesus Christ Superstar" closes at Mark Hellinger NYC after 711 performances
1973 - Caribbean Day
1974 - General Augusto Pinochet becomes president of Chile
1974 - Isabel Peron succeeds husband Juan as pres of Argentina
1977 - Virginia Wade beats Betty Stove for Wimbeldon's woman's singles
1978 - Former Pres Nixon makes 1st public speech since resigning in 1974
1979 - Susan B Anthony dollar is issued, 1st US coin to honor a woman
1980 - "O Canada," the national anthem of Canada, was proclaimed.
1981 - A hitherto unknown symphony by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was authentic and that he wrote it at the age of nine. The Symphony in F debuted in Munich, New York, and Washington
1982 - 2,100 Unification Church couples wed in NYC MSG
1982 - Cal Ripken's 1st game
1982 - General Reynaldo Bignone sworn in as president of Argentina
1982 - Kosmos 1383 1st search and rescue satellite launched.
1987 - NYC radio station WFAN-AM becomes the 1st 24 hour all sports radio replacing WHN's country music WYNY-FM adopts country music format
1987 - Robert Bork nominated to Supreme Court, rejected in Oct by Senate
1990 - German Democratic Republic accepts Deutsche Mark as its currency. East Germans lined up to obtain West German deutsche marks as a state treaty unifying the monetary and economic systems of the two Germanys went into effect.
1991 - The Warsaw Pact, the last vestige of the Cold War-era Soviet bloc, was formally disbanded.
1991 - President George H.W. Bush nominated federal appeals court judge Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court. He joined the high court after a confirmation process marked by allegations of sexual harassment.
1992 - California issued its first state IOUs since the Great Depression as a budget standoff left the state cashless on the first day of its fiscal year.
1992 - A gunman opened fire in a Fort Worth, Texas, courtroom, killing two lawyers and wounding three other people. He later surrendered at a TV station.
1994 - Yassar Arafat returns to Gaza strip
1995 - "Kiss of the Spider Woman" closes at Broadhurst NYC after 906 performances
1996 - A dozen members of a paramilitary organization were arrested in Arizona and charged with plotting to bomb government buildings.
1996 - Placido Domingo becomes artistic director of Washington Opera
1997 - Nevada Athletic Commission suspends Mike Tyson for biting Holyfield
1997 - Hong Kong reverted to Chinese rule after 156 years as a British colony.
1999 - Exactly six months before the year 2000, Congress passed legislation to shield businesses from a potential flood of Y2K computer-related lawsuits.
2001 - Vice President Dick Cheney rested at home, a day after having a new pacemaker implanted in his chest.
2002 - Cannon fire and bombs from a U.S. Air Force AC-130 struck a town in southern Afghanistan. Killing about 50 people, including members of a wedding party. U.S. officials said the plane had been fired on.
2002 - In a rare high altitude accident, as passenger airliner collided with a cargo plane over Germany, killing all 71 aboard.
Birthdays Today
1646 - G W Leibniz, German mathematician/philosopher; postulated monads
1788 - Jean-Victor Poncelet, mathematician founder of projective geometry.
1804 - George Sand, France, (female) novelist (Valentine, Le Figaro)
1807 - Thomas Green Clemson, mining engineer endowed Clemson University.
1853 - Cecil John Rhodes, South African politician diamond merchant.
1872 - Louis Bleriot (aviator: 1st man to fly an airplane across the English Channel [1909])
1879 - Leon Jouhaux, French socialist cofounder of UN's ILO (Nobel 1951).
1892 - James M Cain, Minneapolis Mn, novelist (Postman Always Rings Twice)
1899 - Charles Laughton, England, actor (Mutiny on Bounty, Spartacus)
1899 - Thomas Dorsey (musician: pianist; blues composer; gospel music composer: composed over 1,000 gospel songs)
1902 - Myron Cohen (comedian)
1902 - William Wyler (director: Funny Girl, Ben Hur, The Big Country, Friendly Persuasion, Roman Holiday, Carrie, Wuthering Heights )
1908 - Estee Lauder (cosmetics mogul)
1912 - David Brower,
1915 - Willie Dixon (blues musician: bass: Big Three Trio; songwriter and producer of the 1950s Chicago sound)
1916 - Olivia DeHavilland, in Tokyo Japan, (Academy Award-winning actress: To Each His Own [1946], The Heiress [1949]; Gone with the Wind; sister of actress, Joan Fontaine)
1922 - Jean-Pierre Rampal, [Louis], Marseilles France, flutist
1925 - Farley Granger (actor: Very Close Quarters, Night Flight from Moscow, The Purple Heart, The Robe, Arnold)
1930 - Bobby Day (Byrd) (singer: Rockin' Robin; groups: Hollywood Flames, Bob & Earl)
1931 - Leslie Caron (actress: Lili, The L-Shaped Room, Gigi, An American in Paris, Father Goose, Daddy Long Legs)
1934 - Jamie Farr (Jameel Farah) (actor: M*A*S*H, The Blackboard Jungle, Scrooged, Cannonball Run, With Six You Get Egg Roll)
1934 - Jean Marsh (actress: Upstairs, Downstairs, The Jewel in the Crown, Fatherland, Frenzy, The Changeling)
1934 - Sydney Pollack (director: The Firm, Out of Africa, Tootsie, Absence of Malice, They Shoot Horses Don't They, Three Days of the Condor, The Way We Were)
1935 - Seiji Ozawa, [Fentian Shenyan], Manchuria, orchestra conductor
1941 - Rod Gilbert (hockey)
1941 - Sally Quinn, CBS News reporter
1941 - Twyla Tharp, in Indiana Choreographer
1942 - Genevieve Bujold (actress: Anne of a Thousand Days, Coma, Dead Ringers)
1942 - Karen Black (Ziegler) (actress: Five Easy Pieces, Portnoy's Complaint, The Great Gatsby, Nashville, Airport '75)
1946 - Deborah Harry (singer: group: Blondie: The Tide is High, Rapture, Heart of Glass, Sunday Girl)
1946 - Ron Silver, NYC, actor (Reversal of Fortune, Entity, Silkwood, Best Friends)
1947 - Harold McLinton (football)
1952 - Dan Aykroyd (comedian, actor: Driving Miss Daisy, Grosse Point Blank, Coneheads, Saturday Night Live, Dragnet, Ghostbusters, The Blues Brothers)
1953 - Pat Donovan (football: Dallas Cowboys tackle: Super Bowl X, XII, XIII)
1956 - Lorna Patterson, in Whittier Calif
1960 - Evelyn 'Champagne' King, Singer
1961 - Carl Lewis (Olympic Gold Medalist: 100 meter & 200 meter sprints, long jump & 4x100 meter relay [1984]; 100 meter in 9.93 seconds, a world record, long jump, 4x100 meter relay [1988], long jump and 4x100 relay [1992]; Olympic Hall of Famer; AP Male Athlete of the Year [1983, 1984])
1961 - Lady Diana (Spencer) (Former Princess of Wales, humanitarian, activist) was born near Sandringham, England. (She died in August 1997 in a car crash in Paris at 36.)
Famous deaths
1523 - Hendrik Voes, Flemish priest/church reformer, burned at stake
1523 - John of Esschen, Flemish priest/church reformer, burned at stake
1784 - Wilhelm Friedmann Bach, composer (Sinfonias 64), dies at 73
1863 - John Fulton Reynolds, Union general, dies in battle (Gettysburg) at 42
1896 - Harriet Beecher Stowe, US author (Uncle Tom's Cabin), dies at 85
1964 - Pierre Monteux, French/US conductor (Concert Bldg Orch), dies at 89
1974 - Juan D Peron, president of Argentina (1946-55, 73-74), dies at 78
1980 - Charles Percy Snow, British writer (Friends & Associates), dies at 75
1983 - R Buckminster Fuller, inventor/philosopher, dies in LA at 87
1991 - Michael Landon, actor (Bonanza, Hwy to Heaven), dies of cancer at 54
1995 - Legendary Rock and roll disc jockey Wolfman Jack, born Robert Smith died at age 57 in Belvidere, N.C.
1997 - Actor Robert Mitchum died in Santa Barbara County, Calif., at age 79.
If you have other Birthdays or events to add for this day please E-mail me
Yesterday Tomorrow
