Historical Events on July 1 (Part 2)

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• 1960 Ghana becomes a republic
• 1960 No passports needed inside Benelux
• 1960 Robert Bolt's "A Man For All Seasons" premieres in London
• 1960 The independent Somali Democratic Republic, commonly known as Somalia, is formed out of former British and Italian territories
• 1960 USSR shoots down US RB-47 reconnaissance plane

• 1961 Haleakala National Park forms in Hawaii
• 1961 KNDU TV channel 25 in Richland-Pasco-Kennew, WA (NBC) 1st broadcast

• 1962 Algeria votes for independence from France
• 1962 Burundi & Rwanda gain independence from Belgium (National Days)
• 1963 The Beatles record "She Loves You" and "I'll Get You"

• 1963 ZIP (Zone Improvement Plan) Codes are introduced for United States mail
• 1965 Dutch soccer clubs Sportclub Enschede & Enschedese Boys merge to form FC Twente '65 FC (2009-10 Eredivisie champions)
• 1965 Kinderstraf trial starts
• 1965 KUID TV channel 12 in Moscow, ID (PBS) begins broadcasting
• 1966 1st color television transmission in Canada is broadcast from Toronto
• 1966 Construction crews begin tearing up Market St in San Francisco to build the Bay Area Rapid Transit system (BART)
• 1966 NASA launches spacecraft Explorer 33
• 1966 US national health insurance program Medicare goes into effect
• 1966 Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Spaniard Manuel Santana wins last of 4 major titles beating American Dennis Ralston 6-4, 11-9, 6-4
• 1967 "Funny Girl" closes at Winter Garden Theater, NYC, after 1348 performances
• 1967 1st British colour TV broadcast, on BBC 2
• 1967 BBC starts its World Radio Club

• 1967 Canada celebrates the 100th anniversary of the 1867 British North America Act which served as Canada's constitution for over 100 years

• 1968 Cardinals pitcher Bob Gibson's streak of 47 2/3 scoreless innings (3rd most live era) ends on wild pitch but earns 8-1 win v LA Dodgers
• 1968 Formal separation of the United Auto Workers from the AFL-CIO.
• 1968 Fortuna Sittard soccer team forms in Sittard

• 1968 The CIA's Phoenix Program is officially established.
• 1968 US, Britain, USSR & 58 nations sign Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty
• 1968 USSR performs underground nuclear test

• 1969 John Lennon and Yoko Ono are admitted to hospital after he crashes his car near Durness in the Scottish Highlands
• 1969 Shelby Singleton buys Sun Records from Sam Phillips
• 1970 British Home Secretary Reginald Maudling visits N. Ireland and is reported as saying: "For God's sake bring me a large Scotch. What a bloody awful country!"
• 1970 Dutch soccer club FC Utrecht is established (KNVB Cup 1985, 2003-04)
• 1971 Britain and Argentina sign accord about Falkland Islands
• 1971 Debt raised to build San Franisco's Golden Gate Bridge paid off
• 1971 North Carolina becomes 38th state to approve of lower voting age to 18, ratifying 26th amendment
• 1971 State of Washington becomes 1st state to ban sex discrimination
• 1971 Twenty-sixth Amendment, which lowers the voting age from 21 to 18, is ratified and becomes part of the United States Constitution
• 1972 "Hair" closes at Biltmore Theater, NYC, after 1750 performances

• 1972 The first Gay Pride march in England takes place.
• 1973 1st US-China basketball game, US collegiates beats Shanghai 96-61

• 1973 Australian Bruce Crampton becomes the 5th golfer (but first non-American) to win more than $1m when 4th in the Western Open
• 1973 British Library established as the country's national library and legal depository, one of the largest libraries in the world with over 170 million items (previously part of the British Museum) [1]

• 1974 1st Laura Ashley store in the US opens (San Francisco)

• 1974 Isabel Peron succeeds husband Juan as President of Argentina
• 1974 Monmouthshire renamed Gwent and becomes part of Wales
• 1974 NFL players go on strike for 41 days challenging the "Rozelle Rule" but had to wait until 1977 for new collective bargaining agreement
• 1975 WEDway People Mover opens in Tomorrowland, Disney World, Florida
• 1976 Kenneth Gibson, is 1st black president of US Conference of Mayors
• 1976 Portugal grants autonomy to Madeira.
• 1977 East German sprinter Marlies Göhr sets world record for 100m (10.88) in Dresden, Germany

• 1978 "Act" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 233 performances

• 1978 Northern Territory of Australia becomes self-governing
• 1979 Sony introduces the Walkman, first popular portable cassette player
• 1979 Stampede Pass, Washington is covered with 6" of snow
• 1979 Sweden becomes 1st nation to prohibit "corporal punishment or other injurious or humiliating treatment" of children by their parents
• 1980 'O Canada' officially becomes the national anthem of Canada.

• 1981 Laurel Canyon California murders (4 die, 1 wounded)
• 1981 Nell Dunn's "Steaming" premieres in London

• 1981 Radio Shack 3rd release of Model III TRSDOS 1.3
• 1982 2,100 Unification church couples wed in NYC
• 1982 ABC national music radio network scheduled premiere (never happened)

• 1982 Challenger moves overland to Dryden
• 1982 General Reynaldo Bignone sworn in as President of Argentina
• 1982 Kosmos 1383, 1st search & rescue satellite, launched
• 1982 PEC Zwolle '82 soccer club renamed when purchased by Dutch businessman Marten Eibrink
• 1983 Arbitrator Raymond Goetz rules 43 players who are on Disabled List during 1981 players' strike not entitled to salaries for that period
• 1984 "Baby" closes at Barrymore Theater NYC after 241 performances
• 1984 The PG-13 rating is introduced by the MPAA

• 1987 New York City radio station WFAN-AM commences first 24 hour all sports radio format

• 1987 WHN-AM in NY City changes call letters to WFAN (now WEVD) replacing WHN's country music, WYNY-FM adopts country music format
• 1988 In New Zealand, Bastion Point land returned to the local Maori iwi (tribe), Ngāti Whātua
• 1990 1st Zen winter session in Sydney Zen Center's Gorrick's Run Zendo

• 1990 German Democratic Republic accepts Deutsche Mark as its currency
• 1990 In Victoria, Australia, helmetless bike riding becomes illegal
• 1990 US Senior Open Men's Golf, Ridgewood CC: Lee Trevino wins by 2 strokes from Jack Nicklaus for his first Champions Tour major title

• 1992 6.6 earthquake in Big Bear Valley of Los Angeles
• 1992 Ali Kafi becomes president of Algeria
• 1992 Fox broadcasting adds Wednesday night TV programming
• 1993 1 second "leap" adjustment added to the Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) clock
• 1993 Richard Riordan elected as Los Angeles first Republican mayor in 36 years
• 1993 Russian manned space craft TM-17, launches into orbit
• 1993 STS-57 (Endeavour) lands
• 1994 Fokker's-28 crashes at Tidjikja, Mauritania (94 killed)
• 1994 Roman Herzog sworn in as German president
• 1994 Russian spacecraft Soyuz TM-19 launches from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
• 1994 Yassar Arafat returns to Gaza strip
• 1995 "Kiss of the Spider Woman" closes at Broadhurst theater, NYC, after 906 performances
• 1995 All NBA business apart from the Draft is suspended until a new collective bargaining agreement made with the players - no games lost
• 1995 Kiersten Rickenbach, of NJ, crowned America's Junior Miss
• 1996 Canadian NHL franchise Winnipeg Jets officially moves to Arizona, renamed the Phoenix Coyotes
• 1996 In a tour match v India, Hampshire's Kevan James becomes the only 1st class cricketer to take 4 wickets in 4 balls - and then score a century (103)

• 1996 WBSI TV replaces WNYC on channel 31 in NYC

• 1997 STS 94 (Columbia 23) launches into orbit
• 1997 United Kingdom returns Hong Kong and the New Territories to the People's Republic of China
• 1998 NBA commences a player lockout after no agreement with players about salary issues - lasts 204 days with the season shortened by 50 games
• 1999 The Scottish Parliament is officially opened by Queen Elizabeth on the day powers are transferred from the old Scottish Office in London to the new devolved Scottish Executive in Edinburgh
• 2000 The Oresund Bridge, connecting Sweden and Denmark, opens for traffic
• 2000 Vermont's civil unions law goes into effect.
• 2001 US Senior Open Men's Golf, Salem CC: Bruce Fleischer wins his lone major title by 1 stroke from Gil Morgan and Isao Aoki of Japan
• 2002 Bashkirian Airlines (flight 2937) Tupolev TU-154 and a DHL (German cargo) Boeing 757 collide in mid-air over Ueberlingen, southern Germany, killing 71
• 2002 The International Criminal Court is established to prosecute individuals for genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and the crime of aggression
• 2003 Aerobie Pro thrown by Erin Hemmings sets world record for longest throw at 1,333 feet (406.3 meters) at Fort Funston
• 2004 Saturn Orbit insertion of Cassini-Huygens begins at 01:12 UTC and ends at 02:48 UTC.
• 2005 Texas Rangers pitcher Kenny Rogers is suspended for 20 games and fined $50k for shoving a cameraman - sentence later overturned
• 2006 The first operation of Qinghai-Tibet Railway in the People's Republic of China
• 2007 England bans smoking in all public indoor spaces: with the ban already in force in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, this means it is illegal to smoke in indoor public places anywhere in the UK. Australia implements a similar ban.
• 2007 US Open Women's Golf, Pine Needles: American Christie Kerr wins by 2 strokes from Lorena Ochoa & Angela Park
• 2008 Denmark is the first European economy to confirm it is in recession since the global credit crunch began; its GDP shrinks 0.6% in the first quarter after a 0.2% contraction in the fourth quarter of 2007

• 2011 NBA owners begin the second player lockout in 12 years, shortening the season by 16 games before a salary agreement was reached
• 2012 17 people are killed and 45 injured in an attack on two churches in Garissa, Kenya

• 2012 UEFA European Championship Final, Olympic Stadium, Kyiv, Ukraine: Spain crush Italy, 4-0 to retain their title
• 2013 47 people are killed and 90 are wounded in two bomb blasts in Pakistan
• 2013 Croatia becomes the 28th member of the European Union
• 2013 Demonstrations occur across Egypt with 15 million people calling for the resignation of their President, Mohammed Morsi

• 2014 Martin Schulz is re-elected President of the European Parliament
• 2015 Greek Credit Crisis: Greece becomes 1st developed country to default on debt to the International Monetary Fund (1.7 billion)
• 2015 US and Cuba announce agreement to re-open embassies and establish full diplomatic ties
• 2016 Islamic militants storm a cafe in Dhaka, Bangladesh, killing 20 hostages and 2 police, country's worse terror attack
• 2017 Brazilian police arrest drug kingpin Luiz Carlos da Rocha in Sorriso
• 2017 Canada celebrates 150 years since its formation
• 2017 Ethiopian politician, Tedros Adhanom takes office as first African Director-General of the World Health Organization
• 2017 Mexican police kill 19 gunmen in drug-related shootout in northern state of Sinaloa
• 2018 Canada's retaliatory tariffs against the US's steel tariffs take effect, 25% on some steel, 10% on 250 other goods

• 2018 Colombia's Chiribiquete National Park declared a world heritage site by the UN
• 2018 French gangster Redoine Faid escapes the Sud-Francilien prison in Réau, France by helicopter
• 2018 Nationwide protests over Trump administration immigration policies in the US

• 2018 PGA Women's Championship, Kemper Lakes GC: Park Sung-hyun of South Korea wins in a playoff with Nasa Hataoka & Ryu So-yeon
• 2018 Suicide bombing targeting Sikh community kills at least 19 people in Jalalabad, Afghanistan
• 2018 US Senior Open Men's Golf, Broadmoor GC: David Toms wins by 1 stroke from Miguel Ángel Jiménez, Jerry Kelly and Tim Petrovic
• 2019 At least 16 people killed in a Taliban attack with over 100 injured in Kabul, Afghanistan
• 2019 Japan resumes commercial whaling after a break of more than 30 years
• 2020 America confirms more than 50,000 new COVID-19 cases in one day for the 1st time
• 2020 Australian state of Melbourne re-imposes a COVID-19 lockdown on 36 Melbourne suburbs affecting 300,000 people
• 2020 Europe opens its borders to 15 safe countries after months of lockdown, excluding the US, Brazil and Russia

• 2020 WHO says Middle East at "critical threshold" with COVID-19 cases over 1 million, 80% of deaths in Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia
• 2020 Word record drug haul of 14 tonnes of amphetamines seized by Italian police in Salerno worth $1.1 billion. Thought made in Syria by Islamic State.

• 2021 State of New York charges The Trump Organization and its chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg with tax fraud and grand larceny [1]
• 2022 Germany and Nigeria have signed an agreement to return ownership of more than 1,000 Benin Bronzes, looted during colonial times, back to Nigeria [1]

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