About July 1
July 1, 2024 is the 183rd day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 183 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
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Cancer is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Ruby is the modern birthstone for this month. Ruby is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 212 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
July 1: More About This Day
The end of this day marks the halfway point of a leap year. It also falls on the same day of the week as New Year’s Day in a leap year.
What Happened On July 1
- 1855 –Signing of the Quinault Treaty: the Quinault and the Quileute cede their land to the United States.
- 1879 –Charles Taze Russell publishes the first edition of the religious magazine The Watchtower.
- 1915 –Lieutenant Kurt Wintgens achieves the first known aerial victory with a synchronized gun-equipped fighter plane, the Fokker M.5K/MG Eindecker.
- 1916 –World War I: First day on the Somme – On the first day of the Battle of the Somme 19,000 soldiers of the British Army are killed and 40,000 wounded.
- 1921 –The Communist Party of China is founded.
- 1958 –The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation links television broadcasting across Canada via microwave.
- 1960 –Independence of Somalia.
- 1963 –ZIP Codes are introduced for United States mail.
- 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.
- 1976 –Portugal grants autonomy to Madeira.
- 1978 –The Northern Territory in Australia is granted Self-Government.
- 1979 –Sony introduces the Walkman.
- 1980 –O Canada officially becomes the national anthem of Canada.
- 1981 –The Wonderland Murders occurred in the early morning hours, allegedly masterminded by businessman and drug dealer Eddie Nash.
- 1987 –The American radio station WFAN in New York, New York is launched as the world’s first all-sports radio station.
- 1991 –The Warsaw Pact is officially dissolved at a meeting in Prague.
- 1999 –The Scottish Parliament is officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II on the day that legislative powers are officially transferred from the old Scottish Office in London to the new devolved Scottish Executive in Edinburgh.
- 2004 –Saturn orbit insertion of Cassini-Huygens begins at 01:12 UTC and ends at 02:48 UTC.
- 2007 –Smoking in England is banned in all public indoor spaces.
- 2008 –Rioting erupted in Mongolia in response to allegations of fraud surrounding the 2008 legislative elections.
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