July 01

Tuesday 01, 1986:

In an interview with Playboy magazine, science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke comes out as a bisexual.

Monday 01, 1957:

The International Geophysical Year begins (until December 31, 1958).

Saturday 01, 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.

Thursday 01, 1858:

The joint reading of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace's papers on evolution to the Linnean Society.

Tuesday 01, 251:

251 ? The battle of Abrittus is won by Goths against Romans. Roman Emperors Decius and Herennius Etruscus are killed.

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