This Day In History

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  Interesting things that have happened, and people born and died on this date 
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                               By Scott Labrecque 
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Births:  
 
07/01/1381 Laurentius Justitianus, [Lorenzo Giustiniani], saint 
07/01/1506 Louis II, king of Hungary/Bohemia (1516-26) 
07/01/1511 Hadrianus Junius, [Adriaen de Jonghe], medical/historian/humanist 
07/01/1534 Frederik II, King of Denmark/Norway (1559-88) 
07/01/1560 Charles van Cro˜, prince of Chimay/duke of Aarschot 
07/01/1586 Claudio Saracini, composer 
07/01/1646 G W Leibniz, German mathematician/philosopher; postulated monads 
07/01/1663 Franz Xaver Murschhauser, composer 
07/01/1688 Johann Ludwig Steiner, composer 
07/01/1735 James Lyon, composer 
07/01/1742 Georg C Lichtenberg, German physicist/writer (types of Lichtenberg) 
07/01/1764 Georg Chistoph Grosheim, composer 
07/01/1788 Jean-Victor Poncelet, mathematician, founded projective geometry 
07/01/1802 Gideon Welles, Secy Navy (Union), died in 1878 
07/01/1804 George Sand, France, novelist (Valentine, Le Figaro) 
07/01/1807 Thomas Green Clemson, mining engineer, endowed Clemson University 
07/01/1810 Walter White, secretary (NAACP) 
07/01/1812 Willem J d'Ablaing van Giessenburg, genealogist/heraldicus 
07/01/1833 Alfred Thomas Archimedes Torbert, Bvt Major General (Union Army) 
07/01/1840 Robert S Ball, Irish mathematician/astronomer 
07/01/1844 Verney L Cameroon, English explorer (Tanganyika) 
07/01/1857 Roger Connor, 1st baseman (NY Giants) 
07/01/1861 Samuel D Riddle, horse owner (Man 'o War) 
07/01/1872 Louis Bl‚riot, 1st man to fly an airplane across English Channel 
07/01/1879 L‚on Jouhaux, France, socialist/co-founder UN's ILO (Nobel 1951) 
07/01/1881 Piet[er] L Kramer, architect (Amsterdam School) 
07/01/1887 Charles D Brown, actor (Barefoot Boy, Disbarred, Night Editor) 
07/01/1892 James M Cain, Minneapolis Mn, novelist (Postman Always Rings Twice) 
07/01/1892 Jean Lur‡at, French painter 
07/01/1893 Walter Francis White, Atlanta Georgia 
07/01/1898 Andr‚-Marie Charue, bishop of Namen Belgium 
07/01/1899 Charles Laughton, England, actor (Mutiny on Bounty, Spartacus) 
07/01/1899 Henry 'Indiana' Jones Jr, fictional character 'Indiana Jones' 
07/01/1899 Konstant˜n Tsatsos, president Greece 
07/01/1901 Irna Phillips, Chicago, created 6 soap operas (Guiding Light) 
07/01/1902 Billy Wyler, director (Ben Hur, Mrs Miniver) 
07/01/1902 Jos‚ Luis Sert, Spanish/US architect 
07/01/1903 Amy Johnson, British pilot 
07/01/1903 Beatrix Lehmann, actress (Candles at Nine, Staircase) 
07/01/1906 Edward Lansing Gordon Jr, Jackson Miss, long jumper (Olympic-gold-32

07/01/1907 Bill Stern, Rochester NY, sportscaster (Saturday Night Fights) 
07/01/1908 Estee Lauder, CEO (Estee Lauder's cosmetics) 
07/01/1908 Paul Hardy, Belgian writer (Best of Painted Furniture) 
07/01/1908 Peter Anders, German opera singer 
07/01/1909 Madge Evans, Manhattan NYC, TV panelist (Masquerade Party) 
07/01/1911 Alvino Rey, Cleve Ohio, orch leader (King Family) 
07/01/1912 Ahmad H al-Bakr, Iraqi field marshal/president/premier 
07/01/1912 David Brower, environmentalist/president Sierra Club 
07/01/1914 Cristyl Cranz, Germany, slalom (Olympic-gold-1936) 
07/01/1915 Jean Stafford, US writer (Boston Adventure, Lion & Carpenter) 
07/01/1915 Willie Dixon, Vicksburg Miss, bassist (Walkin' the Blues) 
07/01/1916 Olivia de Havilland, Tokyo Japan, actress (Adventures of Robin Hood)

07/01/1919 Hans Bender, German poet 
07/01/1921 Seretse Khama, 1st premier/president of Botswana (Bechuanaland) 
07/01/1925 Farley Granger, actor (Arnold, Rope, Deathmask) 
07/01/1926 Hans Werner Henze, Gttersloh Germany, composer (Das Floss Medusa) 
07/01/1927 Hans Eklund, composer 
07/01/1928 Constance Ford, US actress (Cabinet of Calgary, Ada-Another World) 
07/01/1928 Volker Wangenheim, composer 
07/01/1929 Gerald M Edelman, US biochemist (Nobel 1972) 
07/01/1930 Andreas JAI Bruggeman, mayor of Ship bell/Village leader 
07/01/1930 Imelda Marcos, former 1st lady (Philipines)/shoe collector 
07/01/1931 Leslie Caron, Boulogne-Biliancourt France, actr (Lili, Father Goose)

07/01/1932 Bobby Day, [Robert Byrd), Fort Worth Tx, rock vocalist (Rockin' Robi

07/01/1933 Frank Baumann, baseball player 
07/01/1933 Peter Walwyn, British race horse trainer 
07/01/1934 Claude Berri, Paris France, director (Le Sex Shop, L'Homme Blesse) 
07/01/1934 Jamie Farr, Toledo Oh, actor (Klinger-M*A*S*H, AfterMASH) 
07/01/1934 Jean Marsh, London England, actress (Dark Places, Eagle has Landed) 
07/01/1934 Sydney Pollack, director (Tootsie, Presumed Innocent) 
07/01/1937 Ebrahim I Ebrahim, South African ANC'er/Umkhonto we Sizwe-leader 
07/01/1939 Charles Hatcher, (Rep-D-GA, 1981-  ) 
07/01/1939 Delaney Bramlett, Okla, rocker (Shindogs, Delaney & Bonnie) 
07/01/1940 Kenneth Clarke, British minister 
07/01/1941 John Gould, British composer/musical comic 
07/01/1941 Rod Gilbert, Canada, NHL wing (NY Rangers) 
07/01/1941 Sally Quinn, Georgia, CBS newscaster (Morning Show) 
07/01/1941 Twyla Tharp, Indiana, choreographer (Twyla Tharp Dance Troupe) 
07/01/1942 Genevieve Bujold, Montr‚al, actress (King of Hearts, Choose Me) 
07/01/1942 Karen Black, Park Ridge Ill, (5 Easy Pieces, Trilogy of Horror, Pyx)

07/01/1942 William Carney, (Rep-R-NY, 1979-86) 
07/01/1945 Deborah Harry, Miami Fla, singer (Blondie-Heart of Glass) 
07/01/1946 June Montiero, US singer (Toys-A Lover's Concerto) 
07/01/1946 Ron Silver, NYC, actor (Gary-Rhoda, Entity, Silkwood, Best Friends) 
07/01/1951 Daryl Anderson, Seattle, actor (Animal-Lou Grant) 
07/01/1951 Fred Schneider, vocals/guitarist (B-52's-Rock Lobster) 
07/01/1951 Trevor Eve, Wales, actor (Shadow Chasers) 
07/01/1952 Dan Aykroyd, Ottawa Canada, comedian/actor (SNL, Dragnet) 
07/01/1955 Keith Whitley, Sandy Hook Ky, country singer (Don't Close Your Eyes)

07/01/1956 Lorna Patterson, Whittier Calif, actress (Airplane, Pvt Benjamin) 
07/01/1958 Nancy Lieberman, Bkln NY, basketball player (Olympic-silver-1976) 
07/01/1960 Evelyn 'Champagne' King, Bronx NY, singer (Shame, I'm In Love) 
07/01/1961 Diana Frances Spencer, Sandringham England, Princess of Wales 
07/01/1961 [Fred] Carlton Lewis, Birmingham Al, track star (Oly-gold-84, 88, 92

07/01/1964 Poi Burton, rocker (Transvision Vamp-Velveteen) 
07/01/1967 Pamela Anderson, Ladysmith BC, playmate (Feb, 1990) (Home Improvemen

 
 
Deaths:  
 
07/01/1378 Jan I V van Arkel, bishop of Utrecht/Luik, dies 
07/01/1589 Christophe Plantin, French/Belgian book publisher, dies 
07/01/1592 Marc A Ingegneri, Italian violinist/composer (Responsoria), dies 
07/01/1627 Nathaniel Bacon, English painter, dies at 41 
07/01/1662 Simon Ives, composer, dies at 61 
07/01/1691 Marc'Antonio Pasqualini, composer, dies at 77 
07/01/1723 Willem van de Pose, gov of Cape Colony (1699-1797), dies at about 59

07/01/1742 Bohuslav Matej Czernohorsky, Czech monk/composer, dies at 58 
07/01/1776 Francis Salvador, 1st Jew to die in American Revolutionary War 
07/01/1784 Wilhelm Friedmann Bach, composer (Sinfonias 64), dies at 73 
07/01/1805 Georg Ritschel, composer, dies at 60 
07/01/1839 Mahmud II, sultan of Turkey (1808-39), dies at 53 
07/01/1847 George F Kersting, German painter, dies at 61 
07/01/1863 John Fulton Reynolds, Union general-major, dies in battle at 42 
07/01/1883 Manuel Gregorio Tavarez, composer, dies at 39 
07/01/1885 Hermann von Fehling, German chemist (Fehling's reagens), dies at 73 
07/01/1894 Julius PJA van Nyevelt, Dutch min of Foreign affairs, dies at 77 
07/01/1910 Marius Petipa, Fren ballet dancer/choreographer (Casse-noisette), di

07/01/1922 Giovanni Verga, Italian writer (I mala voglia), dies 
07/01/1925 Erik Alfred Leslie Satie, French composer (Dreamy Fish), dies at 59 
07/01/1925 John P Veth, painter/etcher/lithographer/art historian, dies 
07/01/1939 Louis Davids [Simon David], cabaret performer/chorus performer, dies

07/01/1943 Auguste Reitsma, Dutch resistance fighter (census director), execute

07/01/1943 C Bakker, Dutch resistance fighter (census bureau), executed 
07/01/1943 C L Barentsen, Dutch resistance fighter (census bureau), executed 
07/01/1943 Coos Hartogh, Dutch resistance fighter (census bureau), executed 
07/01/1943 Cor Roos, Dutch resistance fighter (census bureau), executed 
07/01/1943 Henri Halberstadt, Dutch resistance fighter (census dir), executed 
07/01/1943 Johan Brouwer, hispanist/writer/Dutch resistance fighter, executed 
07/01/1943 Karl Gr”ger, Dutch resistance fighter (census bureau), executed 
07/01/1943 Koen Limperg, Dutch resistance fighter (census bureau), executed 
07/01/1943 Sam Bloemgarten, Dutch resistance fighter (census bureau), executed 
07/01/1943 Willem Arondeus, Dutch resistance fighter (census bureau), executed 
07/01/1943 Willem Brouwer, Dutch resistance fighter (census bureau), executed 
07/01/1947 Clarence Lucas, composer, dies at 80 
07/01/1949 Louis Davids, [Simon David], cabaret artist, dies at 65 
07/01/1950 Edward Faber Schneider, composer, dies at 77 
07/01/1950 Eliel Saarinen, Fins/US architect (Chicago Trib building, dies at 76

07/01/1953 Azzedine Bey, Tunisian heir to the throne, murdered 
07/01/1953 Jacob D du Toit [Totius], South African poet/theologist, dies 
07/01/1958 Apie [Adrian P] Prince, writer (I go my eige job), dies 
07/01/1958 Harry Nicholls Holmes, Dr (crystallized vitamin A), dies at 78 
07/01/1958 Rudolf von Laban, Czech/German choeographer (modern dance), dies 
07/01/1963 Camille Chautemps, premier France, dies 
07/01/1964 Pierre Monteux, French/US conductor: Concert worker, dies at 89 
07/01/1965 Claude Thornhill, composer, dies at 55 
07/01/1968 Virginia Weidler, actress (All This & Heaven Too), dies at 42 
07/01/1973 Mario La Broca, composer, dies at 76 
07/01/1974 Juan D Per¢n, president of Argentina (1946-55, 73-74), dies at 78 
07/01/1979 Richard Ward, actor (Beacon Hill), dies at 64 
07/01/1980 Charles Percy Snow, British writer (Friends & Associates), dies at 7

07/01/1981 George Voskovec, actor (Fred-Nero Wolfe, Peter-Skag), dies at 76 
07/01/1982 John Everett Watts, composer, dies at 51 
07/01/1982 Shon Coco Palm, [Jacobo JM Palm], Cura‡an, composer, dies 
07/01/1982 Vera [A Veronica] Bondam, [Veronica], actress, dies at 86 
07/01/1983 R Buckminster Fuller, inventor/philosopher, dies in LA at 87 
07/01/1986 Roy Poole, actor (Winds of War), dies at 62 
07/01/1988 Hellmuth Christian Wolff, composer, dies at 82 
07/01/1988 Lex van Delden, composer/writer, dies at 68 
07/01/1989 William Ching, actor (Moonlighter, Terror in Haunted House), dies 
07/01/1990 Anna Palk, actress (Play it Cool, Frozen Dead), dies 
07/01/1990 Jurriaan Schrofer, graphic designer, dies 
07/01/1991 Joost Baljeu, painter/founder-editor Structure, dies 
07/01/1991 Michael Landon, actor (Bonanza), dies at 54 of cancer 
07/01/1992 Franco Cristaldi, Italian producer (Amarcord), dies 
 
 
Significant Events:  
 
07/01/  69 Bataafs nobleman Gaius Julius Civilis proclaimed emperor of Syria 
07/01/ 649 Pope Martinus I elected to succeed Theodore I 
07/01/1097 1st Crusaders defeat Sultan Kilidj Arslan of Nicea 
07/01/1233 Earl Otto II van Gelre grants Arnhem state justice 
07/01/1252 King Alfonso X 'el Sabio' of Castili‰/Le¢n crowned 
07/01/1253 Battle at Westkapelle-Floris the Guardian beats Gw˜de van Dampierre 
07/01/1347 Engagement of Count Louis of Male to Margaretha to daughter of Jan I

07/01/1390 French & Genuese armada sails out against barbarian pirates 
07/01/1517 Inquisitor Adrian Boeyens (pope Adrianus VI) becomes cardinal 
07/01/1535 Sir Thomas More went on trial in England charged with treason 
07/01/1656 1st Quakers (Mary Fisher/Ann Austin) arrives in Boston (arrested) 
07/01/1689 Matsuo Basho, zen poet, leaves for 150 days journey on Honshu Japan 
07/01/1690 Battle of Colors: French beats Spanish/Dutch army 
07/01/1747 Battle at Lafeld: France beat English/Dutch army 
07/01/1776 1st vote on Declaration of Independence 
07/01/1795 John Rutledge becomes 2nd chief justice of Supreme Court 
07/01/1797 Napoleons fleet reaches Alexandria Egypt 
07/01/1810 Louis Napoleon resigns as king of the Netherlands 
07/01/1816 Fr frigate Medusa wrecked; basis of G‚ricault's 'Raft of the Medusa'

07/01/1820 1st edition of newspaper 'Courrier de la Meuse' published' 
07/01/1823 United Provinces of Central America gain independence from Mexico 
07/01/1847 1st US postage stamps go on sale, 5› Franklin & 10› Washington, NYC 
07/01/1847 Amateur astronomer M Hencke discovers 2nd asteroid Hebe 
07/01/1847 K L Hencke discovers asteroid #6 Hebe 
07/01/1850 At least 626 ships lie at anchor around SF Bay 
07/01/1859 1st intercollegiate baseball game, Amherst beats Williams 66-32 
07/01/1859 Balloon covers a record 809 miles over St Louis 
07/01/1861 1st public schoolhouse opens at Washington & Mason St, SF 
07/01/1861 War Dept decrees the KA & TN are to be canvassed for volunteers 
07/01/1862 Battle at Booneville Mississippi: Confed superior power driven out 
07/01/1862 Battle of Malvern Hill, VA (Harrison's Landing, Crew's Farm) 
07/01/1862 Congress outlaws polygamy (1st time); bad news for Utah 
07/01/1862 Day 7 of 7 Days-Battle of Malvern Hill 
07/01/1862 Lincoln appoints Isaac Newton sec of agriculture-no kidding! 
07/01/1863 -2] Battle at Baltimore: Crump's Crossroads Virginia 
07/01/1863 Battle of Gettysburg, Pa; Lee's northward advance halted 
07/01/1863 Free city delivery of mail begins in 49 US cities; postage 3›/« oz 
07/01/1863 Slavery abolished in Suriname & Netherlands Antilles 
07/01/1864 Battle of Petersburg, VA [->JUL 31] -front  US3695 CS--- 
07/01/1867 Dominion of Canada forms (New Bruns, Nova Scotia, Ontario & Qu‚bec) 
07/01/1869 Dutch newspaper stamp tax repealed 
07/01/1869 US mint at Carson City, Nevada opens 
07/01/1870 James W Smith of SC is 1st black to enter West Point 
07/01/1873 Henry Flipper of Ga is 2nd black to enter West Point 
07/01/1873 Prince Edward Island becomes 7th Canadian province 
07/01/1874 1st US kidnapping for ransom, 4-year-old Charles Ross, $20,000 
07/01/1874 First Chamber accept law against child labor 
07/01/1875 Universal Postal Union established 
07/01/1877 1st edition of 'Amsterdammer' published 
07/01/1878 Treaty of Berlin 
07/01/1881 1st international telephone conversation, Calais, ME-St Stephen, NB 
07/01/1881 US Assay Office in St Louis, Missouri opens 
07/01/1883 ANWB forms in Utrecht 
07/01/1884 V Knorre discovers asteroid #238 Hypatia 
07/01/1889 Frederick Douglass named Minister to Haiti 
07/01/1889 US mint at Carson City, Nevada reopens 
07/01/1893 SF Bay City Club opens 1st US bicycle race track, made of wood 
07/01/1896 Harbor of Ymuiden opens 
07/01/1897 Bronx acquires Hutton Square 
07/01/1898 Teddy Roosevelt & his Rough Riders charge up San Juan Hill 
07/01/1899 Gideon Society established to place bibles in hotels 
07/01/1899 SF City Hall turned over to city, after 29 years of building 
07/01/1902 Start of Sherlock Holmes 'Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax' (BG)

07/01/1903 1st Tour de France bicycle race begins 
07/01/1904 3rd modern Olympic games opens in St Louis 
07/01/1910 Chicago's Comiskey Park opens 
07/01/1910 Union of South Africa becomes a dominion 
07/01/1911 German boat Panther nears for Agadir Morocco 
07/01/1913 Serbia & Greece declare war on Bulgaria 
07/01/1915 Australia begins Commonwealth Lighthouse Service 
07/01/1915 Australian Survey Corps becomes part of Military Forces 
07/01/1916 Battle on the Somme: British 4th Army walks to German lines 
07/01/1916 British court martial (Easter uprising) 
07/01/1916 Eisenhower marries Mary `Mamie' Geneva Doud in Denver Colo 
07/01/1916 General Douglas Haig: 'The one are in splendid spirits' 
07/01/1917 257cm-mirror for Mount Wilson Observatory mounted 
07/01/1917 Race riots in East St Louis Illinois (40 to 200 reported killed) 
07/01/1917 Reds Fred Toney pitches completes doubleheader victories over Pirate

07/01/1919 1st class postage drops from 3› to 2› 
07/01/1920 Wash Senator Walter Johnson no-hits Boston Red Sox, 1-0 
07/01/1923 1st permanent radio network-AT&T (WEAF NY & WMAF Mass) 
07/01/1924 Light Brigade established 
07/01/1924 Through regular transcontinental airmail service established, NYC-SF

07/01/1925 NY Giant Hack Wilson hits 2 HRs in 3rd inning beating Phillies, 16-7

07/01/1925 SDAP wins 4 chairs in Second-Parliamentary election 
07/01/1925 Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs created in UK 
07/01/1929 US Immigration law of 1924 in effect 
07/01/1930 Great-Britain signs accord for Independence of Iraq 
07/01/1931 Ice vending machines introduced in LA 25 lbs, 15› 
07/01/1931 Phillies Chuck Klein hits for cycle vs Chicago Cubs 
07/01/1931 Trans African Railway in use (Benguela, Angola-Jadotville, Congo) 
07/01/1932 Helen Moody wins Wimbeldon 
07/01/1932 NY Gov FDR nominated for president at Dem Convention in Chicago 
07/01/1933 G Neujmin discovers asteroid #1590 Tsiolkovskaja 
07/01/1933 German nazi regime decides married women shouldn't work 
07/01/1934 1st x-ray photo of entire body, Rochester, NY 
07/01/1935 General Neth Persbureau (ANP) forms in Amsterdam 
07/01/1936 AVRO-studio in Hilversum opens 
07/01/1936 Watchfulness Committee forms in Amsterdam 
07/01/1937 Rev Martin Niem”ller (Bekennende Kirche) arrested in Germany 
07/01/1937 Spanish bishops support Franco & fascists 
07/01/1938 J Donald Budge wins Wimbledon tennis championship 
07/01/1940 Australia refuses entry to Dutch Jewish refugees 
07/01/1941 1st coml TV licenses granted-W2XBS-WNBT (NBC) & WCBW (CBS), NYC 
07/01/1941 Bulova Watch Co pays $9 for 1st ever network TV commercial 
07/01/1941 Joe Dimaggio on way to 56, ties Willie Keeler's 44 game hit streak 
07/01/1941 WCBW (now WCBS) TV channel 2 in NY, NY (CBS) begins broadcasting 
07/01/1941 WNBT TV (W2XBS, Now WNBC) channel 4 in NYC (NBC) begins broadcasting

07/01/1942 German troops conquer Sebastopol 
07/01/1943 1st withholding tax from paychecks 
07/01/1944 Bretton Woods Conference starts, establishing IMF & World Bank 
07/01/1944 Earl Claus von Stauffenberg promoted to colonel 
07/01/1945 Allies troop land on Balikpapan 
07/01/1946 Rajah cedes Sarawak to British crown 
07/01/1946 US drops atom bomb on Bikini atoll (4th atomic explosion) 
07/01/1947 Brit Dominion Affairs office becomes Commonwealth Relations office 
07/01/1948 NYC subway fare goes to 10›, bus fare to 7› & combo fare at 12› 
07/01/1949 Bao Dai's Republic of Vietnam gains independence from France 
07/01/1949 Ted Schroeder wins Wimbledon 
07/01/1949 WBRC TV channel 6 in Birmingham, AL (ABC) begins broadcasting 
07/01/1949 WCCO TV channel 4 in Minneapolis-St Paul, MN (CBS) begins broadcasti

07/01/1950 1st US ground troops in Korea 
07/01/1950 NYC bus fare rises to 10› equal to subway fare, combo fare at 15› 
07/01/1950 WHBF TV channel 4 in Rock Island, IL (CBS) begins broadcasting 
07/01/1951 Cleve Indian Bob Feller, 3rd no-hitter beats Det Tigers, 2-1 
07/01/1953 KLAS TV channel 8 in Las Vegas, NV (CBS) begins broadcasting 
07/01/1953 KTVH (now KWCH) TV channel 12 in Hutchinson-Wichita, KS (CBS) begins

07/01/1953 KWCH TV channel 12 in Hutchinson-Wichita, KS (CBS) begins broadcasti

07/01/1954 WDBO (now WCPX) TV channel 6 in Orlando, FL (CBS) begins broadcastin

07/01/1955 KOTA TV channel 3 in Rapid City, SD (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting 
07/01/1955 Tony Trabert wins Wimbledon 
07/01/1956 Elvis Presley wearing a tuxedo appears on Steve Allen Show 
07/01/1956 Ibrahim Hashiroe succeeds Said el-Moefti as premier of Jordan 
07/01/1957 International Geophysisal Year begins (until Dec 31, 1958) 
07/01/1957 WRLP TV channel 32 in Greenfield/Keene/Brat, MA (IND) 1st broadcast 
07/01/1959 Heinrich Lbke elected pres of West-Germany 
07/01/1959 Israeli Knesseth agress to weapon sales to West-Germany 
07/01/1959 WVTV TV channel 18 in Milwaukee, WI (IND) begins broadcasting 
07/01/1959 World Refugee Year begins 
07/01/1960 British Somaliland becomes Somalia 
07/01/1960 Fidel Castro nationalizes Esso, Shell & Texaco in Cuba 
07/01/1960 Ghana becomes a republic 
07/01/1960 Italian Somaliland gains independence, unites with Somali Republic 
07/01/1960 No passports needed inside Benelux 
07/01/1960 USSR shoots down US RB-47 reconnaissance plane 
07/01/1961 Haleakala National Park established in Hawaii 
07/01/1961 KNDU TV channel 25 in Richland-Pasco-Kennew, WA (NBC) 1st broadcast 
07/01/1961 Mickey Wright beats Betsy Rawls to win US Women's Golf Open 
07/01/1962 Algeria agrees to independence 
07/01/1962 Burundi & Rwanda gain independence from Belgium (National Days) 
07/01/1963 Beatles record 'She Loves You' & 'I'll Get You' 
07/01/1963 Pres Kennedy arrives in Rome 
07/01/1963 US postal service institutes (Zone Improvement Plan) zip code 
07/01/1965 KUID TV channel 12 in Moscow, ID (PBS) begins broadcasting 
07/01/1965 Kinderstraf trial starts 
07/01/1966 Construction crews begin tearing up Market St to build BART 
07/01/1966 Explorer 33 launched 
07/01/1966 Medicare goes into effect 
07/01/1967 BBC starts their World Radio Club 
07/01/1967 Beatles' 'Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band,' goes #1 for 15 wee

07/01/1968 John Lennon's 1st full art exhibition (You are Here) 
07/01/1968 US, Britain, USSR & 58 nations sign Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty 
07/01/1969 Charles Philip Arthur George invested as Prince of Wales 
07/01/1969 John & Yoko are hospitilized after a car crash 
07/01/1971 British & Argentina sign accord about Falkland Islands 
07/01/1971 Golden Gate Bridge paid for (so why is there still a toll?) 
07/01/1972 Ms. magazine begins publishing 
07/01/1973 1st US-China basketball game, US collegiates beats Shanghai 96-61 
07/01/1974 General Pinochet becomes president of Chile 
07/01/1974 Isabel Per¢n succeeds husband Juan as pres of Argentina 
07/01/1974 Monmouthshire renamed Gwent & becomes part of Wales 
07/01/1975 Felix Aguilar Observatory discovers asteroid #2680 
07/01/1975 WEDway People Mover inaugurated 
07/01/1976 Kenneth Gibson, is 1st black president of US Conference of Mayors 
07/01/1977 Virginia Wade beats Betty Stove for Wimbledon's woman's singles 
07/01/1978 Former Pres Nixon makes 1st public speech since resigning in 1974 
07/01/1978 Northern Territory of Australia becomes self-governing 
07/01/1979 Stampede Pass, Washington is covered with 6' of snow 
07/01/1980 Steve Overt runs world record 3:48.8 mile in Oslo 
07/01/1981 Laurel Canyon Calif murders (4 die, 1 wounded) 
07/01/1981 Prince Willem Alexander opens Willems Bridge in Rotterdam 
07/01/1981 Radio Shack 3rd release of Model III TRSDOS 1.3 
07/01/1982 2,100 Unification church couples wed in NYC 
07/01/1982 ABC national music radio network scheduled premiere (never happened)

07/01/1982 Challenger moves overland to Dryden 
07/01/1982 General Reynaldo Bignone sworn in as president of Argentina 
07/01/1982 Kosmos 1383, 1st search & rescue satellite, launched 
07/01/1982 Over 2000 Unification Church couples marry at NY MSG 
07/01/1987 Bork nominated to Supreme Court, rejected in Oct by senate 
07/01/1987 NYC radio station WFAN-AM becomes 1st 24 hour all sports radio 
07/01/1989 Hugh Hefner (Playboy editor) weds playmate Kimberly Conrad 
07/01/1989 NFL owners vote unanimously to form WLAF 
07/01/1989 Playboy publisher Hugh Hefner marries Playmate Kimberly Conrad 
07/01/1990 1st Zen winter session in Sydney Zen Center's Gorrick's Run Zendo 
07/01/1990 Despite Andy Hawkins no-hitting White Sox, Yankees lose 4-0 
07/01/1990 German Democratic Republic accepts Deutsche Mark as its currency 
07/01/1990 In Victoria, Australia, helmetless bike riding becomes illegal 
07/01/1992 6.6 earthquake in Big Bear Valley of Los Angeles 
07/01/1992 Ali Kafi becomes president of Algeria 
07/01/1992 Fox broadcasting adds Wednesday night TV programming 
07/01/1993 1 second is added to the clock 
07/01/1993 Russian manned space craft TM-17, launches into orbit 
07/01/1993 STS-57 (Endeavour) lands 
07/01/1994 Fokker's-28 crashes at Tidjikja, Mauritania (94 killed) 
07/01/1994 Roman Herzog sworn in as German president 
07/01/1994 Yassar Arafat returns to Gaza strip 
07/01/1997 UK returns Hong Kong to China 
  
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