This Day in History for 1st July

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 100 of 323

69 - Bataafs nobleman Gaius Julius Civilis proclaimed emperor of Syria
70 - Titus sets up batterig rams to assault the walls of Jerusalem
251 - The Battle of Abrittus is won by the Goths against the Romans. Roman Emperors Decius and Herennius Etruscus are killed.
649 - Pope Martinus I elected to succeed Theodore I
1097 - 1st Crusaders defeat Sultan Kilidj Arslan of Nicea
1200 - In China, sunglasses are invented
1233 - Earl Otto II van Gelre grants Arnhem state justice
1252 - King Alfonso X "el Sabio" of Castile/Leon crowned
1253 - Battle at Westkapelle-Floris the Guardian beats Gwijde van Dampierre
1347 - Engagement of Count Louis of Male to Margaretha to daughter of Jan III
1390 - French & Genuese armada sails out against barbarian pirates
1517 - 1st burning of Protestants at stake in Netherlands
1517 - Inquisitor Adrian Boeyens (pope Adrianus VI) becomes cardinal
1535 - Sir Thomas More goes on trial in England charged with treason
1543 - England & Scotland sign Peace treaty of Greenwich
1569 - Latvia Parliament accept Union of Lublin, incorporate into Poland
1600 - Prince Maurits' army occupies Newport Flanders Neth
1656 - 1st Quakers (Mary Fisher/Ann Austin) arrives in Boston (arrested)
1674 - Spain, France & Netherlands form Triple Alliance
1689 - Matsuo Basho, zen poet, leaves for 150 days journey on Honshu Japan
1690 - Battle of Colors: French beats Spanish/Dutch army
1690 - Army of England's Protestant King William III defeats Roman Catholic King James II in Battle of Boyne in Ireland
1745 - Warship Elisabeth joins Bonnie Prince Charlies frigate Doutelle [OS]
1747 - Battle at Lafeld: France beat English/Dutch army
1776 - 1st vote on Declaration of Independence
1782 - American privateers attack Lunenburg, Nova Scotia.
1795 - John Rutledge becomes 2nd chief justice of Supreme Court
1798 - Napoleon's fleet reaches Alexandria Egypt
1810 - Louis Napoleon resigns as king of the Netherlands
1816 - Fr frigate Medusa wrecked; basis of Géricault's "Raft of the Medusa"
1820 - 1st edition of newspaper "Courrier de la Meuse" published"
1823 - 9th Postmaster General: John McLean of Ohio takes office
1823 - United Provinces of Central America gain independence from Mexico
1831 - Admiral James C Ross reaches magnetic North Pole
1839 - Abdul-Medjid succeeds Mahmud II as Sultan of Turkey
1847 - 1st US postage stamps go on sale, 5 cent Franklin & 10 cent Washington, NYC
1850 - At least 626 ships lie at anchor around SF Bay
1858 - 1st Canadian coins minted (1, 5, 10 and 20 cent)
Naturalist Charles Darwin 1858 - The joint reading of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace's papers on evolution to the Linnean Society.
1859 - 1st intercollegiate baseball game, Amherst beats Williams 66-32
1859 - Balloon covers a record 809 miles over St Louis
1861 - 1st public schoolhouse opens at Washington & Mason St, SF
1861 - War Dept decrees the KA & TN are to be canvassed for volunteers
1862 - Battle at Booneville Mississippi: Confed superior power driven out
1862 - Congress outlaws polygamy (1st time); bad news for Utah
1862 - US Civil War: Day 7 of 7 Days-Battle of Malvern Hill (Poindexter's Farm) Union forces repel Confederate attack
1862 - Emperor Alexander II grants Jews right to publish books
1862 - Battle of Holly Spring, MS
1862 - Internal Revenue Law imposes 1st federal taxes on inheritance, tobacco & on incomes over $600 (progressive rate)
1862 - The Russian State Library is founded.
1863 - -2] Battle at Baltimore: Crump's Crossroads Virginia
1863 - Battle of Gettysburg, Pa; Lee's northward advance halted
1863 - Free city delivery of mail begins in 49 US cities; postage 3 cents per oz
1863 - Slavery abolished in Suriname & Netherlands Antilles
1864 - Battle of Petersburg, VA [->JUL 31] -front US3695 CS---
1867 - Dominion of Canada forms (New Bruns, Nova Scotia, Ontario & Quebec)
1869 - Dutch newspaper stamp tax repealed
1869 - US mint at Carson City, Nevada opens
1870 - James W Smith of SC is 1st black to enter West Point
1871 - The decimal currency system is made uniform in Canada
1873 - Henry Ossian Flipper of Ga is 2nd black to enter West Point
1873 - Prince Edward Island becomes 7th Canadian province
1874 - 1st Chamber accept law against child labor
1874 - 1st US kidnapping for ransom, 4-year-old Charles Ross, $20,000
1874 - 1st US zoo opens (Philadelphia)
1875 - Universal Postal Union established
1877 - 1st edition of "Amsterdammer" published
1878 - Treaty of Berlin divide Africa up for colonization
1878 - Canada joins the Universal Postal Union.
1879 - Ex-khedive Ismael Pasha sails from Alexandria to Naples
1879 - Charles Taze Russell publishes the first edition of the religious magazine The Watchtower.
1881 - 1st international telephone conversation, Calais, ME-St Stephen, NB
1881 - US Assay Office in St Louis, Missouri opens
1881 - General Order 70, the culmination of the Cardwell-Childers reforms of the British Army's organisation, comes into effect.
1883 - ANWB forms in Utrecht
1885 - The United States terminates reciprocity and fishery agreement with Canada.
Abolitionist Frederick Douglass 1889 - Frederick Douglass named Minister to Haiti
1889 - US mint at Carson City, Nevada reopens
1890 - Great-Britain & Germany sign Zanzibar-Helgoland Treaty
1890 - Canada and Bermuda are linked by telegraph cable.
1893 - SF Bay City Club opens 1st US bicycle race track, made of wood
1896 - Harbor of Ymuiden opens
1896 - Wilfrid Laurel sworn in as 1st French speaking premier
1897 - Bronx acquires Hutton Square
1898 - Teddy Roosevelt & his Rough Riders charge up San Juan Hill
1899 - Gideon Society established to place bibles in hotels
1899 - SF City Hall turned over to city, after 29 years of building
1902 - Ranji (230) & Newham (153) add 344 for 7th wkt, Sussex v Essex
1902 - Start of Sherlock Holmes "Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax" (BG)
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)
1910 - Chicago's Comiskey Park opens - St Louis Browns beat White Sox 2-0
1910 - Union of South Africa becomes a dominion
1910 - White Sox Park (Comiskey Park) opens with 2-0 loss to Browns
1911 - German boat Panther nears for Agadir Morocco
1911 - Proclamation removes "Dei Gratia" from Canada's coins
1913 - Serbia & Greece declare war on Bulgaria
1915 - Australia begins Commonwealth Lighthouse Service
1915 - Australian Survey Corps becomes part of Military Forces

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Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 225

1381 - Laurentius Justitianus, [Lorenzo Giustiniani], saint
1481 - Christian II of Denmark, Sweden and Norway (d. 1559)
1506 - Louis II, king of Hungary/Bohemia (1516-26)
1511 - Hadrianus Junius, [Adriaen de Jonghe], medical/historian/humanist
1534 - Frederick II, King of Denmark and Norway (1559-88)
1560 - Charles van Croij, prince of Chimay/duke of Aarschot
1574 - Joseph Hall, English bishop and writer (d. 1656)
1586 - Claudio Saracini, composer
1633 - Johann Heinrich Heidegger, Swiss theologian (d. 1698)
1646 - G W Leibniz, German mathematician/philosopher; postulated monads
1663 - Franz Xaver Murschhauser, composer
1688 - Johann Ludwig Steiner, composer
1723 - Pedro R de Campomanes, Spanish economist/historian/literary
1725 - Comte de Rochambeau, French soldier (d. 1807)
1735 - James Lyon, composer
1742 - Georg C Lichtenberg, German physicist/writer (types of Lichtenberg)
1764 - Georg Christoph Grosheim, composer
1788 - Jean-Victor Poncelet, mathematician, founded projective geometry
1802 - Gideon Welles, Secy Navy (Union), died in 1878
1804 - George Sand, France, (female) novelist (Valentine, Le Figaro)
1807 - Thomas Green Clemson, mining engineer, endowed Clemson University
1810 - Walter White, secretary (NAACP)
1812 - Willem J d'Ablaing van Giessenburg, Dutch genealogist/heraldicus
1818 - Ignaz Semmelweis, gynecologist
1833 - Alfred Thomas Archimedes Torbert, Bvt Major General (Union Army)
1834 - Jadwiga Łuszczewska, Polish poet (d. 1908)
1840 - Robert S Ball, Irish mathematician/astronomer
1844 - Verney L Cameroon, English explorer (Tanganyika)
1857 - Roger Connor, 1st baseman (NY Giants)
1861 - Samuel D Riddle, horse owner (Man 'o War)
1863 - William Grant Stairs, Canadian explorer (d. 1892)
1869 - William Strunk Jr., American grammarian (d. 1946)
1872 - Louis Bleriot, 1st man to fly an airplane across English Channel
1873 - Alice Guy-Blaché, American film director (d. 1968)
1874 - Michel H Campen, author/critic (Bikoerim)
1879 - Leon Jouhaux, France, socialist/co-founder UN's ILO (Nobel 1951)
1881 - Piet[er] L Kramer, architect (Amsterdam School)
1883 - Arthur Borton, English soldier (d. 1933)
1887 - Charles D Brown, Iowa, actor (Barefoot Boy, Disbarred, Night Editor)
1892 - James M Cain, Minneapolis Mn, novelist (Postman Always Rings Twice)
1893 - Walter Francis White, Atlanta Georgia
1896 - Pavel G Antokolski, Russian poet/director (Syn) [NS]
1898 - Andre-Marie Charue, bishop of Namen Belgium
1899 - Cavan O'Connor, singer
1899 - Charles Laughton, England, actor (Mutiny on Bounty, Spartacus)
1899 - Henry "Indiana" Jones Jr, fictional character "Indiana Jones"
1899 - Konstantinos Tsatsos Greek politician and president (1975-1980)
1901 - Irna Phillips, Chicago, created 6 soap operas (Guiding Light)
1901 - Sylvia Mary Paget Chancellor, philanthropist
1902 - Billy Wyler, director (Ben Hur, Mrs Miniver)
1902 - Jose Luis Sert, Spanish/US architect
1903 - Amy Johnson, British pilot
1903 - Beatrix Lehmann, England, actress (Candles at Nine, Staircase)
1904 - Mary Calderone, physician/founder (planned parenthood)
1906 - Edward Lansing Gordon Jr, Jackson Miss, long jumper (Olympic-gold-32)
1906 - Frank Parker, NYC, actor (Shawn-Days of our Life)
1906 - Estée Lauder, American entrepreneur (d. 2004)
1907 - Bill Stern, Rochester NY, sportscaster (Saturday Night Fights)
1908 - Estee Lauder, CEO (Estee Lauder's cosmetics)
1908 - Paul Hardy, Belgian writer (Best of Painted Furniture)
1908 - Peter Anders, German opera singer
1908 - Peg Entwistle, Welsh actress (d. 1932)
1909 - Juan Carlos Onetti, novelist
1909 - Madge Evans, Manhattan NYC, TV panelist (Masquerade Party)
1909 - Bill Stern, American sportscaster (d. 1971)
1911 - Alvino Rey, Cleve Ohio, orchestra leader (King Family)
1911 - Sergei Sokolov, Soviet marshal
1912 - Ahmad H al-Bakr, Iraqi fieldmarshal/president/premier
1912 - David Brower, environmentalist/president (Sierra Club)
1912 - Roy McKelvie, soldier/sports writer
1912 - Sally Kirkland, American fashion editor (d. 1989)
1913 - Jo Sinclair, writer
1914 - Cristyl Cranz, Germany, slalom (Olympic-gold-1936)
1914 - Earle Warren, alto sax player
1914 - Magda Gabor, Budapest Hungary, actress (People vs Zsa Zsa Gabor)
1915 - Jean Stafford, US writer (Boston Adventure, Lion & Carpenter)
1915 - Viscount Leverhulm, English large landowner (Unilever)
1915 - Willie Dixon, Vicksburg Missisipi, blues artist (Walkin' the Blues, Mellow Down Easy)
1915 - Joseph Ransohoff, American neurosurgeon (d. 2001)
1916 - Olivia de Havilland, Tokyo Japan, actress (Adventures of Robin Hood)
1919 - Hans Bender, German poet
1920 - Harold Sakata, American actor (d. 1982)
1921 - Seretse Khama, 1st premier/president of Botswana (Bechuanaland)
1923 - Constance Ford, actress (Ada Hobson-Another World)
1925 - Farley Granger, San Jose CA, actor (Arnold, Rope, Deathmask)
1926 - Franclaois-Regis Bastide, writer/broadcaster
1926 - Robert Fogel, Nobel laureate
1926 - Carl Hahn, German automotive executive
1927 - Hans Eklund, composer
1927 - Ruben Gomez, baseball player
1928 - Constance Ford, US actress (Cabinet of Calgary, Ada-Another World)
1928 - Volker Wangenheim, composer
1929 - Gerald M Edelman, US biochemist (Nobel 1972)
1930 - Andreas JAI Bruggeman, Dutch mayor (Schipluiden/Leiderdorp)
1930 - Moustapha Akkad, Syrian-American filmmaker (d. 2005)
1931 - Leslie Caron, Boulogne-Biliancourt France, actr (Lili, Father Goose)
1931 - Tab Hunter, actor (Tab Hunter Show, Lust in the Dust)
1932 - Bobby Day, [Robert Byrd], Fort Worth Tx, rock vocalist (Rockin' Robin)
1932 - Ze'ev Schiff, Israeli journalist (d. 2007)
1933 - Frank Baumann, baseball player

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Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 8 of 8

1916 - Dwight Eisenhower marries Mary `Mamie' Geneva Doud in Denver, Colorado
1982 - Over 2000 Unification Church couples marry at NY Madison Square Garden
1989 - Hugh Hefner (Playboy editor) weds playmate Kimberly Conrad
1995 - Crown Prince of Greece and the oldest son of the deposed King Constantine of Greece, Pavlos (28) weds Robert W. Miller's daughter Marie-Chantal Miller (26) at London's Cathedral of Saint Sophia
1995 - Princess Stephanie of Monaco (30) weds her bodyguard Daniel Ducruet (31) on a civil ceremony in Monaco
1998 - Eight-time Grammy Award-winning singer Barbra Streisand (57) weds actor James Brolin (58) in Malibu
2006 - "Hi-5" actress and singer Jennifer Peterson-Hind (26) weds recording artist Tom Korbee in Madison, Wisconsin
2011 - English model Kate Moss (37) weds English guitarist Jamie Hince (42) at St. Peter's Church, Southrop in Gloucestershire

Famous Divorces

Divorces 1 - 4 of 4

2011 - "Medium" actress Patricia Arquette (40) divorces actor Thomas Jane (39) due to irreconcilable differences after 5 years of marriage
2011 - Actor Ryan Reynolds (34) divorces actress Scarlett Johansson (26) due to irreconcilable differences after two years of marriage
2011 - Ann Serano Lopez divorces actor and talk show host George Lopez (49) due to irreconcilable differences
2011 - Journalist and executive producer Maria Shriver (55) divorces Hollywood action film icon Arnold Schwarzenegger (63) due to irreconcilable differences after 25 years of marriage

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 100 of 129

251 - Decius, Roman Emperor (b. 207)
251 - Herennius Etruscus, joint Roman Emperor with father Decius (b. ca. 227)
868 - Ali al-Hadi, Shia Imam (b. 828)
1109 - King Alfonso VI of Castile (b. 1040)
1277 - Baibars, Mameluk sultan of Egypt (b. 1223)
1378 - Jan I V van Arkel, bishop of Utrecht/Luik, dies
1523 - Hendrik Voes, Flemish priest/church reformer, burned at stake
1523 - John of Esschen, Flemish priest/church reformer, burned at stake
1589 - Christophe Plantin, French/Belgian book publisher, dies
1592 - Marc A Ingegneri, Italian violinist/composer (Responsoria), dies
1614 - Isaac Casaubon, French-born classical scholar (b. 1559)
1622 - William Parker, 4th Baron Monteagle, British politician (b. 1575)
1627 - Nathaniel Bacon, English painter, dies at 41
1662 - Simon Ives, composer, dies at 61
1681 - Oliver Plunkett, Irish saint (b. 1629)
1691 - Marc'Antonio Pasqualini, composer, dies at 77
1708 - Emperor Tekle Haymanot I of Ethiopia (b. 1706)
1723 - Willem van de Pose, gov of Cape Colony (1699-1797), dies at about 59
1742 - Bohuslav Matěj Černohorský, Czech monk/composer, dies at 58
1774 - Henry Fox Holland, English corrupt politician, dies at 68
1776 - Francis Salvador, 1st Jew to die in American Revolutionary War
1782 - Charles Watson-Wentworth 2nd marquis of Rockingham, dies at 52
1784 - Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, composer, son of J.S. Bach, dies at 73
1805 - Georg Ritschel, composer, dies at 60
1819 - Jemima Wilkinson, American preacher (b. 1752)
1839 - Mahmud II, sultan of Turkey (1808-39), dies at 53
1847 - George F Kersting, German painter, dies at 61
Inventor Charles Goodyear (1860) 1860 - Charles Goodyear, American inventor, dies at 59
1863 - John Fulton Reynolds, Union general-major, dies in battle at 42
1883 - Manuel Gregorio Tavarez, composer, dies at 39
1885 - Hermann von Fehling, German chemist (Fehling's reagens), dies at 73
1894 - Julius PJA van Nyevelt, Dutch min of Foreign affairs, dies at 77
1894 - Allan Pinkerton, American private detective (b. 1819)
1896 - Harriet Beecher Stowe, US author (Uncle Tom's Cabin), dies at 85
1910 - Marius Petipa, Fren ballet dancer/choreographer (Casse-noisette), dies
1916 - William Booth, cricketer (WW I 2 Tests for England 1913-14), dies
1922 - Giovanni Verga, Italian writer (I mala voglia), dies at 81
1925 - Erik Alfred Leslie Satie, French composer (Dreamy Fish), dies at 59
1925 - Jan P Veth, Dutch painter/lithographer/art historian, dies at 61
1939 - Louis Davids [Simon David], cabaret performer/chorus performer, dies
1943 - Auguste Reitsma, Dutch resistance fighter (census director), executed
1943 - C Bakker, Dutch resistance fighter (census bureau), executed
1943 - C L Barentsen, Dutch resistance fighter (census bureau), executed
1943 - Coos Hartogh, Dutch resistance fighter (census bureau), executed
1943 - Cor Roos, Dutch resistance fighter (census bureau), executed
1943 - Henri Halberstadt, Dutch resistance fighter (census dir), executed
1943 - Johan Brouwer, hispanist/writer/Dutch resistance fighter, executed
1943 - Koen Limperg, Dutch resistance fighter (census bureau), executed
1943 - Sam Bloemgarten, Dutch resistance fighter (census bureau), executed
1943 - Willem Arondeus, Dutch resistance fighter (census bureau), executed
1943 - Willem Brouwer, Dutch resistance fighter (census bureau), executed
1944 - Carl Mayer, actor (Dreaming Lips, Ariane, Sunrise), dies at 49
1947 - Clarence Lucas, composer, dies at 80
1949 - Louis Davids, [Simon David], cabaret artist, dies at 65
1950 - Edward Faber Schneider, composer, dies at 77
1950 - Eliel Saarinen, Fins/US architect (Chicago Trib building), dies at 76
1950 - Emile Jaques-Dalcroze, Swiss musician (b. 1865)
1953 - Azzedine Bey, Tunisian heir to the throne, murdered
1953 - Jacob D du Toit [Totius], South African poet/theologist, dies
1958 - Apie [Adrian P] Prince, Dutch writer (I Go Me Own Way), dies
1958 - Harry Nicholls Holmes, Dr (crystallized vitamin A), dies at 78
1958 - Rudolf von Laban, Czech/Ger choreographer (modern dance), dies at 78
1961 - Louis-Ferdinand Céline, French writer (b. 1894)
1963 - Camille Chautemps, premier France, dies
1964 - Pierre Monteux, French/US conductor (Concert Bldg Orch), dies at 89
1965 - Claude Thornhill, composer, dies at 55
1965 - Wally Hammond, South African cricketer (7,249 runs for England), dies
1968 - Dick Young, cricketer (England wicketkeeper v Aust 1907-08), dies
1968 - Virginia Weidler, actress (All This & Heaven Too), dies at 42
1971 - Lord Learie Constantine, WI cricketer (all-rounder & fielder), dies
1973 - Mario La Broca, composer, dies at 76
1974 - Juan D Peron, president of Argentina (1946-55, 73-74), dies at 78
1976 - Anneliese Michel, German woman said to be possessed by demons (b. 1952)
1978 - Kurt Student, German Luftwaffe general (b. 1890)
1979 - Richard Ward, actor (Beacon Hill), dies at 64
1980 - Charles Percy Snow, British writer (Friends & Associates), dies at 75
1981 - George Voskovec, actor (Fred-Nero Wolfe, Peter-Skag), dies at 76
1981 - Carlos de Oliveira, Portuguese writer (b. 1921)
1981 - Rushton Moreve, American bass player (b. 1948)
1982 - John Everett Watts, composer, dies at 51
1982 - Vera [A Veronica] Bondam, actress, dies at 86
1983 - R Buckminster Fuller, inventor/philosopher, dies in LA at 87
1984 - Moshe Feldenkrais, Ukrainian-born educator (b. 1904)
1986 - Roy Poole, actor (Winds of War), dies at 62
1987 - Snakefinger, British-born musician (b. 1949)
1988 - Hellmuth Christian Wolff, composer, dies at 82
1988 - Lex van Delden, Dutch composer/writer, dies at 68
1989 - William Ching, actor (Moonlighter, Terror in Haunted House), dies
1990 - Anna Palk, actress (Play it Cool, Frozen Dead), dies of cancer at 48
1990 - Jurriaan Schrofer, graphic designer, dies
1991 - Joost Baljeu, painter/founder-editor Structure, dies
1991 - Michael Landon, actor (Bonanza, Hwy to Heaven), dies of cancer at 54
1992 - Franco Cristaldi, Italian producer (Amarcord), dies
1992 - Francisco Mendes, Guinea-Bissauan politician (b. 1933)
1994 - Johanna Ader-Appels, resistance fighter/author, dies
1995 - Bruce Mitchell, South African cricketer (leading Test scorer with 3471), dies
1995 - Ronald Farrow, radio producer/priest, dies at 49
1995 - Wolfman Jack, disc jockey (Midnight Special), dies at 57
1996 - Alfred Marks, actor (Fanny Hill, Desert Mice), dies at 75
1996 - Margaux Hemmingway, actress (Lipstick), dies at 41