On this day in History - Jul 1

• 0251 - The battle of Abrittus is won by Goths against Romans. Roman Emperors Decius and Herennius Etruscus are killed.
• 0868 - Ali al-Hadi dies (b. 0828).Shia Imam.
• 1097 - Battle of Dorylaeum: Crusaders under Bohemond of Taranto defeat a Turkish army under Qilich Arslan I.
• 1109 - Alfonso VI of Castile dies (b. 1040).
• 1277 - Baibars dies (b. 1223). Mameluk sultan of Egypt.
• 1481 - Christian II of Denmark was born (d. 1559). Sweden and Norway.
• 1506 - Louis II of Hungary and Bohemia was born (d. 1526).
• 1520 - La Noche Triste: Joint Mexican Indian force led by Aztecs under Cuitláhuac defeat Spanish Conquistadors under Hernán Cortés.
• 1534 - Frederick II of Denmark was born (d. 1588).
• 1566 - Nostradamus dies (b. 1503). French astrologer.
• 1569 - Union of Lublin: The Kingdom of Poland (Polish Crown) and Great Duchy of Lithuania confirm a real union, the united country is called the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth or the Republic of Both Nations.
• 1574 - Joseph Hall was born (d. 1656). English bishop and writer.
• 1586 - Claudio Saracini was born (d. 1630). Italian composer.
• 1592 - Marc'Antonio Ingegneri dies. Italian composer.
• 1614 - Isaac Casaubon dies (b. 1559). French-born classical scholar.
• 1622 - William Parker, 4th Baron Monteagle dies (b. 1575). British politician.
• 1646 - Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was born (d. 1716). German mathematician and philosopher.
• 1676 - Anthony Collins was born (d. 1729). English philosopher.
• 1681 - Oliver Plunkett dies (b. 1629). Irish saint.
• 1690 - Glorious Revolution: Battle of the Boyne as reckoned under Julian calendar.
• 1705 - Giovanni Andrea Bontempi dies. Italian composer.
  
• 1708 - Emperor Tekle Haymanot I of Ethiopia dies stabbed to death (b. 1706).
• 1723 - Pedro Rodríguez, Conde de Campomanes was born (d. 1802). Spanish statesman.
• 1725 - Comte de Rochambeau was born (d. 1807). French soldier.
• 1742 - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg was born (d. 1799). German physicist.
• 1774 - Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland dies (b. 1705). English statesman.
• 1782 - Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham dies (b. 1730). Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
• 1782 - American privateers attack Lunenburg, Nova Scotia.
• 1784 - Wilhelm Friedemann Bach dies (b. 1710). German composer.
• 1788 - Jean-Victor Poncelet was born (d. 1867). French mathematician.
• 1804 - George Sand (Amantine Aurore Lucile Dupin) was born (d. 1876). French writer.
• 1807 - Thomas Green Clemson was born (d. 1888). American university founder.
• 1818 - Ignaz Semmelweis was born (d. 1865). Hungarian physician.
• 1819 - Jemima Wilkinson dies (b. 1752). American preacher.
• 1834 - Jadwiga Łuszczewska was born (d. 1908). Polish poet.
• 1836 - Joaquín Prieto is reelected President of Chile.
• 1854 - Uma centena de importantes comerciantes de Buenos Aires fundam a atual Bolsa da capital argentina.
• 1858 - The joint reading of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace's papers on evolution to the Linnean Society.
• 1860 - Charles Goodyear dies (b. 1800). American inventor.
• 1862 - Russian State Library is founded.
• 1862 - American Civil War: The Battle of Malvern Hill takes place, the final battle in the Seven Days Campaign, part of the George B. McClellan's Peninsula Campaign.
• 1863 - American Civil War: the Battle of Gettysburg begins.
• 1863 - William Stairs was born (d. 1892). Canadian explorer.
• 1863 - John Fulton Reynolds dies (b. 1820). American Civil War general.
• 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.
• 1867 - Death sentence is abolished in Portugal / Abolição da pena de morte em Portugal para todos os crimes civis.
• 1869 - William Strunk Jr. was born (d. 1946). American grammarian.
• 1870 - The United States Department of Justice formally comes into existence.
• 1872 - Louis Blériot was born (d. 1936). French aviation pioneer.
• 1873 - Prince Edward Island joins the Canadian Confederation.
• 1873 - Alice Guy-Blaché was born (d. 1968). American film director.
• 1876 - O Colorado tornou-se o oitavo Estado da união dos Estados Unidos da América.
• 1876 - Mijail A. Bakunin dies. Russian anarquist.
• 1878 - Canada joins the Universal Postal Union.
• 1879 - Charles Taze Russell publishes the first edition of the religious magazine The Watchtower.
• 1879 - Léon Jouhaux was born (d. 1954). French labor leader, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize.
• 1881 - General Order 70, the culmination of the Cardwell-Childers reforms of the British Army's organisation, came into effect.
• 1881 - World's first international telephone call, between St. Stephen, New Brunswick, Canada, and Calais, Maine, USA.
• 1883 - Arthur Borton was born (d. 1933). English soldier.
• 1885 - United States terminates reciprocity and fishery agreement with Canada.
• 1888 - Pedro José Cevallos takes place as President of Ecuador.
• 1890 - Canada and Bermuda linked by telegraph cable.
• 1892 - The Homestead Strike, a strike by the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers against the Carnegie Steel Company, begins.
• 1894 - Allan Pinkerton dies (b. 1819). American private detective.
• 1896 - Harriet Beecher Stowe dies (b. 1811). American author.
• 1898 - Spanish-American War: The Battle of San Juan Hill was fought in Santiago de Cuba.
• 1899 - Charles Laughton was born (d. 15 Dec.1962 ). English award-winning actor: The Private Life of Henry VIII [1933]; Mutiny on the Bounty, Witness for the Prosecution, Advise and Consent, Les Misérables, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Captain Kidd, The Man on the Eiffel Tower, Spartacus; husband of actress Elsa Lanchester.
• 1899 - Thomas A. Dorsey was born (d. 23 Jan 1993). American composer, ‘Father of Gospel Music’: musician: pianist; blues composer; gospel music composer: composed over 1,000 gospel songs.
• 1902 - William Wyler was born (d. 27 Jul 1981). French-born three-time Academy Award-winning director: Funny Girl, Ben Hur, The Big Country, Friendly Persuasion, Roman Holiday, Carrie, Wuthering Heights.
• 1903 - Amy Johnson was born (d. 1941). English aviator.
• 1904 - Games of the III Olympiad open in Saint Louis, Missouri.
• 1906 - Estée Lauder was born (d. 2004). American entrepreneur, cosmetics pioneer.
• 1906 - Sporting Club de Portugal is founded / É fundado o Sporting Clube de Portugal por José Alvalade.
• 1906 - Jean Dieudonné was born (d. 1992). French mathematician.
• 1908 - Peg Entwistle was born (d. 1932). Welsh actress.
• 1909 - Bill Stern was born. American sportscaster.
• 1911 - No Perú, o americano Hiram Bingham descobriu as ruinas da cidade sagrada dos incas Machu Picchu.
• 1911 - Sergei Sokolov was born. Soviet marshal.
• 1912 - David R. Brower was born (d. 2000). American environmentalist.
• 1912 - Sally Kirkland was born (d. 1989). American fashion editor.
• 1913 - Frank Barrett was born (d. 1998). Baseball player.
• 1914 - Em Londres, o cientista Archibald Low apresentou um aparelho para emissão de imagens à distância, a que deu o nome de "televisão".
• 1915 - Olaria Atlético Clube of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil is founded /Fundação do Olaria Atlético Clube do estado de Rio de Janeiro, Brasil.
• 1915 - Willie Dixon was born (d. 1992). American musician.
• 1915 - Joseph Ransohoff was born (d. 2001). American neurosurgeon.
• 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.
• 1916 - Lei Seca nos Estados Unidos: 24 estados americanos proibiram as bebidas alcóolicas, em um prenúncio da Lei Seca. A 18° emenda entrou em vigor em 1920 e durou quase 14 anos, proibindo a fabricação, transporte, venda ou porte de qualquer bebida alcóolica. A clandestinidade fez proliferar os gangsters e a corrupção policial.
• 1916 - Olivia de Havilland was born. British-born Academy Award-winning actress: To Each His Own [1946], The Heiress [1949]; Gone with the Wind; sister of actress, Joan Fontaine.
• 1917 - Rolf Rodenstock was born (d. 1977). Industrialist.
• 1917 - Humphry Osmond was born. British psychiatrist.
• 1920 - Harold Sakata was born (d. 1982). Japanese-born actor.
• 1921 - Communist Party of China was founded.
• 1921 - Seretse Khama was born. First President of Botswana.
• 1923 - Canadian Parliament suspends all Chinese immigration.
• 1925 - Erik Satie dies (b. 1866). French composer.
• 1925 - António Maria da Silva assume o cargo de primeiro-ministro de Portugal.
• 1925 - Farley Granger was born. American actor.
• 1926 - Hans Werner Henze was born. German composer.
• 1926 - Robert Fogel was born. American economic historian and scientist, Nobel laureate.
• 1926 - Hans Werner Henze was born. German composer.
• 1926 - Carl Hahn was born. German automotive executive.
• 1927 - Inauguración del estadio de Cerro Porteño de Paraguay, en donde hoy se ubica el Santuario Nacional del Perpetuo Socorro.
• 1928 - General Alvaro Obregón is elected President of Mexico.
• 1929 - Gerald Edelman was born. American biologist, Nobel laureate.
• 1930 - Bobby Day was born (d. 27 Jul 1990). American singer.
• 1930 - Moustapha Akkad was born (d. 2005). Syrian-American filmmaker.
• 1931 - United Airlines began service (as Boeing Air Transport).
• 1931 - Leslie Caron was born. French actress: Lili, The L-Shaped Room, Gigi, An American in Paris, Father Goose, Daddy Long Legs.
• 1931 - Official opening of Milan Central Station.
• 1933 - Canadian Parliament suspends all Chinese immigration.
• 1934 - Claude Berri was born. French actor, director and screenwriter.
• 1934 - Jean Marsh was born. English actress : Upstairs, Downstairs, The Jewel in the Crown, Fatherland, Frenzy, The Changeling.
• 1934 - Sydney Pollack was born. American film director: The Firm, Out of Africa, Tootsie, Absence of Malice, They Shoot Horses Don’t They, Three Days of the Condor, The Way We Were.
• 1934 - Jamie Farr was born. American actor: M*A*S*H, The Blackboard Jungle, Scrooged, Cannonball Run, With Six You Get Egg Roll.
• 1935 - Regina, Saskatchewan police and Royal Canadian Mounted Police ambush strikers participating in On-to-Ottawa-Trek.
• 1938 - Craig Anderson was born. Baseball player.
• 1939 - Karen Black was born. American actress.
• 1941 - Twyla Tharp was born. American choreographer.
• 1941 - Alfred G. Gilman was born. American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
• 1941 - Myron Scholes was born. American economist, Nobel laureate.
• 1941 - Rod Gilbert was born. Canadian hockey player.
• 1942 - Andraé Crouch was born. American singer.
• 1942 - Geneviève Bujold was born. Canadian actress.
• 1942 - World War II: First Battle of El Alamein.
• 1942 - Australian Federal Government becomes sole collector of Income Tax (State Income Tax Abolished).
• 1943 - Tokyo City merged with Tokyo Prefecture and was dissolved. Since then, no city in Japan has had the name "Tokyo." (Present-day Tokyo is not a city.)
• 1944 - Salgueiro Maia was born (d. 1992). Portuguese soldier who had crucial importance in 25 April Revolution.
• 1944 - Tanya Savicheva dies (b. 1930). Russian diarist.
• 1945 - Deborah Harry was born. American musician (Blondie).
• 1945 - Mike Burstyn was born. Israeli-American actor.
• 1946 - June Montiero was born. Singer formerly of the group the Toys.
• 1946 - Mireya Elisa Moscoso de Arias was born. President of Panamá.
• 1947 - The Australian real estate franchise L. J. Hooker lists on the Australian Stock Exchange.
• 1947 - British parliament passed India independence act. According to this took a decision for giving independence to India on August 15.
• 1948 - Official opening of New York International Airport (now known as John F. Kennedy International Airport) at Idlewild.
• 1948 - Quaid-i-Azam inaugrates Pakistan's central bank, the State Bank of Pakistan.
• 1948 - Achille Varzi dies (b. 1904). Italian race car driver.
• 1949 - John Farnham was born. Australian singer.
• 1950 - Eliel Saarinen dies (b. 1873). Finnish architect, father of Eero Saarinen.
• 1951 - Fred Schneider was born. American singer (The B-52's).
• 1952 - Dan Aykroyd was born. Canadian actor.
• 1952 - Steve Shutt was born. Canadian ice hockey player.
• 1957 - The International Geophysical Year begins (until December 31, 1958).
• 1957 - Hannu Kamppuri was born. Finnish ice hockey player.
• 1958 - The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation links television broadcasting across Canada via microwave.
• 1958 - Flooding of the St. Lawrence Seaway begins.
• 1959 - The Party of the African Federation (PFA) holds its constitutive conference.
• 1959 - Tomás Monje dies. President of Bolivia (1946-1947).
• 1960 - Ghana becomes a Republic and Kwame Nkrumah becomes its first President as Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom ceases to be the Head of state.
• 1960 - Independence of Somalia.
• 1960 - Evelyn King was born in Bronx, New York. American soul/dance singer.
• 1960 - Carlos Souto Pena Fº. dies (b. 17 May 1929). Brazilian poet.
• 1961 - Diana, Princess of Wales was born (d. 31 Ago 1997).
• 1961 - Carl Lewis was born. American athletics legend, nine-time Olympic Olympic Gold Medalist: long jump [1996], long jump and 4x100 relay [1992], 100 meter in 9.93 seconds, a world record, long jump, 4x100 meter relay [1988], 100 meter & 200 meter sprints, long jump & 4x100 meter relay [1984]; Olympic Hall of Famer; AP Male Athlete of the Year [1983, 1984].
• 1961 - Michelle Wright was born. Canadian singer, guitarist, songwriter, drummer.
• 1961 - Kalpana Chawla was born (d. 2003). Indian-American astronaut.
• 1961 - Malcolm Elliott was born. British cyclist.
• 1961 - Louis-Ferdinand Céline dies (b. 1894). French writer.
• 1962 - Independence of Rwanda.
• 1962 - Independence of Burundi.
• 1962 - Julio Adalberto Rivera assume a presidência de El Salvador
• 1962 - Andre Braugher was born. American actor.
• 1963 - ZIP Codes introduced for United States mail.
• 1963 - The British Government admits that former diplomat Kim Philby had worked as a Soviet agent.
• 1963 - The Beatles release She Loves You as a single in the United Kingdom.
• 1963 - U.S President John F. Kennedy arrives in Rome.
• 1963 - Roddy Bottum was born. American musician (Faith No More and Imperial Teen).
• 1964 - Pierre Monteux dies (b. 1875). French conductor.
• 1965 - Harald Zwart was born. Norwegian film director.
• 1965 - Wally Hammond dies. English cricketer.
• 1966 - First colour television transmission in Canada, from Toronto.
• 1966 - Enrico Annoni was born. Italian footballer.
• 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.
• 1967 - Canada celebrates the 100th anniversary of the British North America Act, 1867.
• 1967 - Pamela Anderson was born. Canadian actress: Baywatch, Raw Justice, Playboy’s Babes of Baywatch, Pam & Tommy Lee: Stolen Honeymoon, Cribs.
• 1967 - Fidel Sánchez Hernández assume a presidência de El Salvador.
• 1967 - Marisa Monte was born. Brazilian singer and composer.
• 1968 - The CIA's Phoenix Program is officially established.
• 1968 - The Nuclear non-proliferation treaty signed by about sixty countries in Geneva, Switzerland.
• 1968 - Formal separation of the United Auto Workers with the AFL-CIO.
• 1968 - Tim Abell was born. American actor.
• 1968 - Fritz Bauer dies (b. 1903). German judge and prosecutor.
• 1969 - Rock group The Band release their influential debut Music From Big Pink.
• 1969 - O príncipe Carlos de Inglaterra é investido como Príncipe de Gales, no Castelo de Caernarvon.
• 1970 - President General Yahya Khan abolished One-Unit of West Pakistan restoring the provinces.
• 1970 - Melissa Peterman was born. American actress.
• 1971 - Julianne Nicholson was born. American actress.
• 1971 - Steven W. Bailey was born. American actor.
• 1971 - Jamie Walker was born. American baseball player.
• 1971 - Missy "Misdemeanor" Elliott was born. American Hip hop artist .
• 1971 - William Lawrence Bragg dies (b. 1890). English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1972 - Andreas Baader, Jan-Carl Raspe and Holger Meins of the Red Army Faction are captured in Frankfurt after a shootout with the police.
• 1972 - First Gay Pride march in England.
  
• 1972 - Ratification of Virginia State Constitution.
• 1972 - Claire Forlani was born. Actress : J.F.K.: Reckless Youth, Police Academy: Mission to Moscow, The Rock, The Last Time I Committed Suicide, Meet Joe Black, AntiTrust.
• 1972 - Alex Machacek was born. Austrian musician.
• 1972 - Andreas Baader, Jan-Carl Raspe and Holger Meins of the Red Army Faction are captured in Frankfurt after a shootout with the police.
• 1973 - Jesus Christ Superstar closed in New York City after 720 performances on Broadway. The cast album quickly became a million-seller.
• 1974 - Juan Domingo Perón dies (b. 1895). President of Argentina. Maria Estela Martinez de Perón succeeds him into the Presidency.
• 1974 -Portugal restabece relações diplomáticas com a Hungria.
• 1975 - Sufjan Stevens was born. American musician.
• 1976 - Portugal granted autonomy to Madeira.
• 1976 - Início dos XXI Jogos Olímpicos, em Montreal (Canadá).
• 1976 - Patrick Kluivert was born. Dutch football player.
• 1976 - Ruud van Nistelrooy was born. Dutch football player.
• 1976 - Justin Lo was born. Hong Kong singer and songwriter.
• 1976 - Hannu Tihinen was born. Finnish footballer.
• 1977 - Jarome Iginla was born. Canadian hockey player.
• 1977 - Keigo Hayashi was born. Japanese music artist.
• 1977 - Liv Tyler was born. American model and actress: Silent Fall, Heavy, That Thing You Do!, Armageddon, Cookie’s Fortune, Lord of the Rings series.
• 1978 - Northern Territory (Aus) granted Self-Government.
• 1979 - Sony introduces the Walkman.
• 1980 - O Canada officially becomes the national anthem of Canada.
• 1980 - Patrick Aufiero was born. American hockey player.
• 1981 - Tadhg Kennelly was born. Irish-born Australian Rules footballer.
• 1981 - Carlos de Oliveira dies (b. 1921). Portuguese writer.
• 1981 - Rushton Moreve dies (b. 1948). American bass player.
• 1982 - Carmella DeCesare was born in Avon Lake, Ohio. American model who was Playboy's Playmate of the Year for 2004.
• 1982 - Hilarie Burton was born. American actress.
• 1982 - Joachim Johansson was born. Swedish tennis player.
• 1982 - Adrian Ward was born. American football player.
• 1982 - Romola Garai was born. English actress.
• 1982 - Justin Huber was born. Australian baseball player.
• 1983 - A North Korean Ilyushin Il-62M jet en route to Conakry Airport in Guinea crashed into the Fouta Djall Mountains in Guinea-Bissau, killing all 23 people on board.
• 1983 - Marit Larsen was born. Norwegian musician (M2M).
• 1983 - Leeteuk was born. Korean singer.
• 1983 - R. Buckminster Fuller dies (b. 1903). American architect and philosopher.
• 1984 - The PG-13 rating is introduced by the MPAA.
• 1984 - Moshe Feldenkrais dies (b. 1904). Ukrainian-born educator.
• 1986 - In an interview with Playboy magazine, science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke comes out as a bisexual.
• 1987 - American radio station WFAN in New York City is launched as the world's first all-sports radio station.
• 1987 - Excavation begins on the Channel Tunnel.
• 1988 - Bologna, Italy: Quartetto Cetra's last concert after over forty years' musical career.
• 1988 - Evan Ellingson was born. American actor.
• 1989 - Mitch Hewer was born. English actor.
• 1989 - Hannah Murray was born. English actress.
• 1990 - East Germany accepts the Deutsche Mark as its currency, thus uniting the economies of East and West Germany.
• 1990 - Young B. was born. American rapper.
• 1991 - The Warsaw Pact is officially dissolved at a meeting in Prague.
• 1991 - Jade Barbosa was born. Brazilian Olimpic gymnast.
• 1991 - Paulo Mendes Campos dies in Rio de Janeiro (b. 28 Fev 1922 in Belo Horizonte) . Brazilian writer.
• 1991 - Michael Landon dies (b. 1936). American actor, director, and producer.
• 1992 - Francisco Mendes dies (b. 1933). Guinea-Bissauan politician.
• 1992 - Franco Cristaldi dies (b. 1924). Italian film producer.
• 1994 - Real begins to be the Brazilian currency / O Real passa a ser a moeda corrente do Brasil.
• 1995 - Wolfman Jack dies (b. 1939). American radio personality.
• 1995 - Henrique Santana dies. Portuguese actor.
• 1996 - William T. Cahill dies (b. 1904). Governor of New Jersey.
• 1996 - Steve Tesich dies (b. 1942). Serbian screenwriter.
• 1996 - Margaux Hemingway dies (b. 1954). American actress and model.
• 1997 - The People's Republic of China resumes sovereignty over the city-state of Hong Kong, ending 156 years of British colonial rule.
• 1997 - Robert Mitchum dies (b. 1917). American actor.
• 1999 - At the first meeting of the Scottish Parliament in nearly three centuries, Winnie Ewing opened with the famous words, "The Scottish Parliament, adjourned on the 25th day of March in the year 1707, is hereby reconvened".
• 1999 - Viktor Chebrikov dies. Chief of the Russian secrete services (KGB) 1982-1988.
• 1999 - Edward Dmytryk dies (b. 1908). Canadian-born film director.
• 1999 - Joshua Nkomo dies. One of the leaders of Zimbabwe independency.
• 1999 - Guy Mitchell dies (b. 1927). American popular singer.
• 1999 - Forrest Mars Sr. dies (b. 1904). American candy magnate.
• 1999 - Sylvia Sidney dies (b. 1910). American actress.
• 2000 - Vermont's civil unions law goes into effect.
• 2000 - Mais de 300 mil pessoas celebram na localidade cubana de Manzanillo o regresso do menino Elián González, que naufragou em frente a costa da Flórida, vindo de Cuba e cuja custódia foi, durante sete meses, uma batalha legal entre Cuba e EUA.
• 2000 - The Oresund Bridge, connecting Sweden and Denmark, opens for traffic.
• 2000 - Sarah Payne dies (b. 1992). British murder victim.
• 2000 - Walter Matthau dies (b. 1920). American actor.
• 2001 - Nikolay Basov dies (b. 1922). Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate.
• 2001 - A Selecção brasileira perde para o Uruguai (1 -0) na estreia do técnico Luiz Felipe Scolari.
• 2002 - A Bashkirian Airlines Tupolev TU-154 and a DHL (German cargo) Boeing 757 collide in mid-air over 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.
• 2002 - A Bashkirian Airlines (flight 2937) Tupolev TU-154 and a DHL (German cargo) Boeing 757 collide in mid-air over Ueberlingen, southern Germany, killing 71.
• 2003 - 500,000 people take part in a march in Hong Kong to protest, amongst other things, the government's handling of the plans to implement a new anti-subversion law required under Article 23 of Hong Kong's Basic Law).
• 2003 - David Beckam, English football player, signs contract with Real Madrid.
• 2003 - Herbie Mann dies (b. 1930). American jazz flutist.
• 2003 - Wesley Mouzon dies (b. 1927). American boxer.
• 2003 - N!xau dies (b. 1944). Namibian bushman who appeared in The Gods Must Be Crazy.
  
• 2004 - In Hong Kong, 530,000 people march to urge a faster pace of democratisation and universal suffrage.
• 2004 - Saturn Orbit insertion of Cassini-Huygens begins at 01:12 UT and ends at 02:48 UT.
• 2004 - Horst Köhler becomes the Federal President of Germany.
• 2004 - Marlon Brando dies (b. 1924). American actor.
• 2004 - Peter Barnes dies (b. 1931). English writer.
• 2004 - Todor Skalovski dies (b. 1909). Macedonian composer.
• 2005 - Microsoft plans to end official support of Windows 2000.
  
• 2005 - Make Poverty HistoryDay and Live8 Concert. ).
• 2005 - United Kingdom takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union.
• 2005 - Revaluation of the Romanian Leu.
• 2005 - Luther Vandross dies (b 1951). American singer.
• 2005 - Obie Benson dies (b. 1936). American musician.
• 2006 - The first operation of Qinghai-Tibet Railway in the People's Republic of China.
• 2006 - Brazil is beaten (0-1) against France in Quarters-Final of 2006 Germany World Cup and Portugal puts England off after penalty kicks decision.
  
• 2006 - Fred Trueman dies (b. 1931). English cricketer.
• 2007 - The celebration of 10 years being a Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China with the opening of Ocean Park's new panda house with two new pandas and the visit of Chinese premier, Hu Jintao.
• 2007 - Portugal takes over the Presidency of The council of The European Union, suceeding Germany.
• 2007 - Smoking in England is banned 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. Ban also put into effect in Australia.
• 2007 - Prince William and Prince Harry throw a concert in memory of their mother the late Diana, Princess of Wales, on what would have been her 46th birthday.
• 2008 - Mel Galley dies (b. 1948). English guitarist.
• Australia, New Zealand: Tartan Day
• Botswana: Sir Seretse Khama Day.
• Bulgaria: July Morning tradition.
• Burundi: Independence Day.
  
• Canada: Canada Day (formerly Dominion Day).
• Newfoundland and Labrador: Memorial Day.
• Quebec: Moving Day.
• Ghana: Republic Day.
• Hong Kong: Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Establishment Day.
• Madeira: Madeira Day.
• Netherlands Antilles, Suriname: Emancipation Day.
• Rwanda: Independence Day.
• Somalia: Republic Day.
• Surinam Keti Koti (Breaking of Chains) Day of Liberty; On July 1, 1863 slavery was abolished.
• Portugal: Wine Day/ Dia do Vinho (2007).