Historical Events on July 1

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• 69 Batavian nobleman Gaius Julius Civilis proclaimed emperor of Syria

• 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, daughter of Jan III
• 1390 French and 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 Latvian Parliament accepts Union of Lublin, incorporate into Poland
• 1600 Prince Maurits' army occupies Newport Flanders Netherlands
• 1656 1st Quakers (Mary Fisher/Ann Austin) arrive in Boston (arrested)
• 1674 Spain, France & Netherlands form Triple Alliance
• 1689 Matsuo Basho, zen poet, leaves for 150 days journey on Honshu, Japan
• 1690 Army of Protestant King William III defeats deposed Roman Catholic King James II in Battle of Boyne in Ireland

• 1745 Warship Elisabeth joins Bonnie Prince Charlie's frigate Doutelle [OS]
• 1747 Battle at Lafeld: France beat British/Dutch army

• 1782 American privateers attack Lunenburg, Nova Scotia.
• 1795 John Rutledge becomes 2nd chief justice of US Supreme Court

• 1810 Louis Napoleon abdicates as king of the Netherlands
• 1816 French frigate Medusa wrecked; basis of Géricault's painting "Raft of the Medusa"
• 1820 1st edition of newspaper "Courrier de la Meuse" published
• 1823 9th US 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 and 10 cent Washington, NYC
• 1850 At least 626 ships lie at anchor around San Francisco Bay
• 1858 1st Canadian coins minted (1, 5, 10 and 20 cent)

• 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 and Mason St, San Francisco
• 1861 US War Department decrees that Kansas and Tennessee are to be canvassed for volunteers
• 1862 Battle at Booneville Mississippi: Confederate superior power driven out
• 1862 Congress outlaws polygamy for the 1st time
• 1862 Battle of Malvern Hill [Poindexter's Farm], day 7 of 7 days battles, Union forces repel Confederate attack, Tactical Union victory (US Civil War)
• 1862 Emperor Alexander II grants Jews right to publish books
• 1862 US Internal Revenue Law imposes 1st federal taxes on inheritance, tobacco and on incomes over $600 (progressive rate)
• 1862 The Russian State Library is founded in Moscow


• 1863 -2] Battle at Baltimore: Crump's Crossroads Virginia
• 1863 Battle of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania; 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 and Dutch Antilles

• 1869 Dutch newspaper stamp tax repealed
• 1869 US mint at Carson City, Nevada opens
• 1870 James W. Smith of South Carolina is one of 1st African Americans to attend West Point
• 1871 The decimal currency system is made uniform in Canada

• 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 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, Maine to St Stephen, New Brunswick
• 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, the Netherlands
• 1885 The United States terminates reciprocity and fishery agreement with Canada

• 1889 US mint at Carson City, Nevada reopens
• 1890 Great Britain and Germany sign Zanzibar-Helgoland Treaty
• 1890 Canada and Bermuda are linked by telegraph cable.
• 1893 San Francisco 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 of Canada
• 1897 Bronx acquires Hutton Square

• 1897 21st Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Reginald Doherty beats H Mahony (6-4 6-4 6-3)

• 1899 Gideon Society established to place bibles in hotels
• 1899 San Francisco 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)
• 1902 US Congress passes the Philippines Government Act, providing that the Philippines be governed by a commission appointed by the President, with consent from the senate; Filipinos are to be treated as citizens of their land, no the USA
• 1903 1st Tour de France bicycle race begins
• 1903 20th Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Dorothea Chambers beats E Larcombe (4-6 6-4 6-2)
• 1903 27th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Laurence Doherty beats Frank Riseley (7-5 6-3 6-0)

• 1907 The Orange River Colony, known as the Orange Free State, is granted self-government by the British
• 1908 "SOS" (· · · – – – · · ·) distress signal becomes the worldwide standard for help
• 1910 Chicago's Comiskey Park opens - St Louis Browns beat White Sox 2-0
• 1910 Union of South Africa becomes a dominion
• 1911 Proclamation removes "Dei Gratia" (by the Grace of God) from Canadian coins
• 1911 The German gunboat 'Panther' arrives off Agadir allegedly to protect German interests and nationals in Morocco
• 1913 Serbia and Greece declare war on Bulgaria

• 1915 Australia begins Commonwealth Lighthouse Service
• 1915 Australian Survey Corps becomes part of Military Forces
• 1916 British court martial (Easter uprising)
• 1916 Coca-Cola brings current coke formula to the market

• 1916 First day of the Battle of the Somme: the British Army suffers its worst day, losing 19,240 men (WWI)
• 1917 257cm-mirror for Mount Wilson Observatory mounted
• 1917 Race riots in East St Louis Illinois (40 to 200 reported killed)
• 1917 Reds' Fred Toney pitches completes doubleheader victories over Pirates
• 1917 Robins (Dodgers) play their 1st Sunday game in Brooklyn
• 1919 US 1st class postage drops from 3 cents to 2 cents
• 1919 Scheveningen soccer team forms in Scheveningen

• 1920 55th British Golf Open: George Duncan shoots a 303 at Royal Cinque Ports Golf Club
• 1920 Sir Herbert Samuel takes over as high commissioner over Palestine, where Arab resistance to the British mandate continues
• 1921 The Communist Party of China is founded and Chen Duxiu elected its leader
• 1923 1st permanent radio network-AT&T (WEAF NY & WMAF Mass)
• 1924 Dircet regular transcontinental airmail service between New York and San Francisco forms
• 1925 NY Giant Hack Wilson hits 2 HRs in 3rd inning beating Phillies, 16-7
• 1925 SDAP wins 4 chairs in Second-Parliamentary election
• 1925 Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs created in UK
• 1926 Canada restores gold standard
• 1929 US Immigration law of 1924 in effect
• 1930 Great Britain signs accord for Independence of Iraq
• 1931 Cleveland Municipal Stadium is completed
• 1931 Ice vending machines introduced in LA 25 lbs, 15 cents
• 1931 Phillies Chuck Klein hits for cycle vs Chicago Cubs
• 1931 Trans African Railway in use (Benguela, Angola-Jadotville, Congo)

• 1932 45th Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Helen Moody beats Helen Jacobs (6-3 6-1)

• 1932 NY newspaper Evening Standard goes bankrupt
• 1933 German nazi regime declares that married women shouldn't work
• 1933 Strauss & von Hofmannsthal's opera "Arabella," premieres in Dresden
• 1933 The Canadian Parliament suspends all Chinese immigration.
• 1934 1st x-ray photo of entire body, Rochester, NY
• 1935 Algemeen Nederlands Persbureau (ANP, General Dutch Press Agency) forms in Amsterdam
• 1936 AVRO radio broadcast studios in Hilversum opens
• 1936 Watchfulness Committee forms in Amsterdam
• 1937 Rev Martin Niemöller (Bekennende Kirche) arrested in Germany

• 1938 58th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Don Budge beats Henry Austin (61 60 63)
• 1938 The South African Press Association (SAPA) is established as a non-governmental institution by South Africa's major newspapers to facilitate the sharing of news, both national and international
• 1940 Australia refuses entry to Dutch Jewish refugees
• 1941 1st commercial TV licenses granted-W2XBS-WNBT (NBC) & WCBW (CBS), NYC
• 1941 Bulova Watch Co pays $9 for 1st ever network TV commercial

• 1941 WCBW (now WCBS) TV channel 2 in NY, NY (CBS) begins broadcasting
• 1941 WNBT TV (W2XBS, Now WNBC) channel 4 in NYC (NBC) begins broadcasting
• 1942 German troops conquer Sebastopol
• 1943 "Pay-as-you-go" - 1st withholding tax from paychecks
• 1944 2,500+ killed in London/SE England by German flying bombs

• 1944 Graf (Count) Claus von Stauffenberg promoted to colonel

• 1944 US headquarter moves to Colombières Normandy
• 1944 Von Rundstedt against Keitel: "Sign peace, idiots!"

• 1945 55th Postmaster General: Robert E Hannegan of Mo takes office
• 1945 Allies troop land on Balikpapan

• 1946 US drops atom bomb on Bikini atoll (4th atomic explosion)
• 1947 192m long passenger ship Willem Ruys (Achille Lauro) launched
• 1947 British Dominion Affairs office becomes Commonwealth Relations office

• 1948 NYC subway fare goes to 10 cents, bus fare to 7 cents and combo fare at 12 cents
• 1949 63rd Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Ted Schroeder beat Drobny (3-6 6-0 6-3 4-6 6-4)
• 1949 WBRC TV channel 6 in Birmingham, AL (ABC) begins broadcasting
• 1949 WCCO TV channel 4 in Minneapolis-St Paul, MN (CBS) begins broadcasting
• 1950 "Lost in the Stars" closes at Music Box Theater NYC after 281 performances
• 1950 1st 407 US soldiers flown to South Korea
• 1950 NYC bus fare rises to 10 cents equal to subway fare, combo fare at 15 cents
• 1950 WHBF TV channel 4 in Rock Island, IL (CBS) begins broadcasting
• 1951 Beverly Hanson wins LPGA Eastern Golf Open
• 1951 Cleve Indian Bob Feller, 3rd no-hitter beats Det Tigers, 2-1
• 1953 KLAS TV channel 8 in Las Vegas, NV (CBS) begins broadcasting
• 1953 KTVH (now KWCH) TV channel 12 in Hutchinson-Wichita, KS (CBS) begins
• 1954 Cards' Joe Cunningham hits 2 HRs for record 3 HRs in his 1st 2 days
• 1954 Test Cricket debut of Khalid Hassan, 16 yrs 352, then world record
• 1954 WDBO (now WCPX) TV channel 6 in Orlando, FL (CBS) begins broadcasting
• 1955 69th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Tony Trabert beats Kurt Nielsen (6-3 7-5 6-1)
• 1955 KOTA TV channel 3 in Rapid City, SD (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting
• 1956 Beverly Hanson wins LPGA Western Golf Open

• 1956 Ibrahim Hashiroe succeeds Said el-Moefti as premier of Jordan
• 1957 International Geophysical Year begins (until Dec 31, 1958)
• 1957 WRLP TV channel 32 in Greenfield/Keene/Brat, MA (IND) 1st broadcast
• 1958 The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation links television broadcasting across Canada via microwave
• 1959 Heinrich Lubke elected President of West Germany
• 1959 Israeli Knesset agrees to weapon sales to West Germany
• 1959 WVTV TV channel 18 in Milwaukee, WI (IND) begins broadcasting
• 1959 World Refugee Year begins
• 1959 The Party of the African Federation (PFA) holds its constitutive conference.
• 1960 Benjamin Britten's cantate "Carmen Baseliense" premieres in Basel
• 1960 The independent Somali Democratic Republic, commonly known as Somalia, is formed out of former British and Italian territories

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