July 01

Friday 01, 2005:

2005 - Conflict between the State Senate and the House of Representatives results in a partial shutdown of the government of the State of Minnesota.

Thursday 01, 2004:

Saturn Orbit Insertion of Cassini-Huygens begins at 01:12 UT and ends at 02:48 UT.

Tuesday 01, 2003:

In Hong Kong, 500,000 people march to protest a new anti-subversion law.

Monday 01, 2002:

A Bashkirian Airlines Tupolev TU-154 and a DHL (German cargo) Boeing 757 collide in mid-air over southern Germany, killing 71.

Saturday 01, 2000:

Vermont's civil unions law goes into effect.

Thursday 01, 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.

Tuesday 01, 1997:

The United Kingdom hands sovereignty over Hong Kong to the People's Republic of China.

Monday 01, 1991:

The Warsaw Pact is officially dissolved.

Sunday 01, 1990:

East Germany accepts the Deutsche Mark as its currency, thus uniting the economies of East and West Germany.

Friday 01, 1988:

Bologna, Italy: Quartetto Cetra's last concert after over forty years' musical career.

Wednesday 01, 1987:

Excavation begins on the Channel Tunnel.

Tuesday 01, 1986:

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

Friday 01, 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.

Tuesday 01, 1980:

O Canada officially becomes the national anthem of Canada.

Sunday 01, 1979:

Sony introduces the Walkman.

Saturday 01, 1972:

Andreas Baader, Jan-Carl Raspe and Holger Meins of the Red Army Faction are captured in Frankfurt after a shootout with the police.

Tuesday 01, 1969:

Rock group The Band release their influential debut Music From Big Pink.

Monday 01, 1968:

Formal separation of the United Auto Workers from the AFL-CIO.

Saturday 01, 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.

Friday 01, 1966:

First colour television transmission in Canada, from Toronto.

Monday 01, 1963:

1963 - U.S President John F. Kennedy arrives in Rome

Sunday 01, 1962:

1962 - Independence of Burundi.

Friday 01, 1960:

Independence of Somalia.

Wednesday 01, 1959:

The Party of the African Federation (PFA) holds its constitutive conference.

Tuesday 01, 1958:

1958 - Flooding of the St. Lawrence Seaway begins.

Monday 01, 1957:

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

Thursday 01, 1948:

Official opening of New York International Airport (now known as John F. Kennedy International Airport) at Idlewild.

Tuesday 01, 1947:

The Australian real estate franchise L. J. Hooker lists on the Australian Stock Exchange

Monday 01, 1935:

Regina, Saskatchewan police and Royal Canadian Mounted Police ambush strikers participating in On-to-Ottawa-Trek.

Sunday 01, 1923:

Canadian Parliament suspends all Chinese immigration.

Wednesday 01, 1931:

Official opening of Milan Central Station.

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.

Friday 01, 1904:

Games of the III Olympiad open in Saint Louis, Missouri.

Tuesday 01, 1890:

Canada and Bermuda linked by telegraph cable.

Wednesday 01, 1885:

United States terminates reciprocity and fishery agreement with Canada.

Friday 01, 1881:

General Order 70, the culmination of the Cardwell-Childers reforms of the British Army's organisation, came into effect.

Monday 01, 1878:

Canada joins the Universal Postal Union.

Tuesday 01, 1873:

Prince Edward Island joins the Canadian Confederation.

Friday 01, 1870:

The United States Department of Justice formally comes into existence.

Monday 01, 1867:

The British North America Act takes effect as the constitution of Canada, creating the Canadian Confederation; John A. Macdonald sworn as first Prime Minister.

Wednesday 01, 1863:

American Civil War: the Battle of Gettysburg begins.

Tuesday 01, 1862:

Russian State Library is founded

Thursday 01, 1858:

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

Monday 01, 1782:

American privateers attack Lunenburg, Nova Scotia.

Saturday 01, 1690:

Battle of the Boyne as reckoned under Julian calendar.

Thursday 01, 1097:

Battle of Dorylaeum: Crusaders under Bohemond of Taranto defeat a Turkish army under Qilich Arslan I.

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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