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
- 1097 –Battle of Dorylaeum: Crusaders led by Prince Bohemond of Taranto defeat a Seljuk army led by Sultan Kilij Arslan I.
- 1837 –A system of the civil registration of births, marriages and deaths is established in England and Wales.
- 1855 –Signing of the Quinault Treaty: the Quinault and the Quileute cede their land to the United States.
- 1858 –Joint reading of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace’s papers on evolution to the Linnean Society.
- 1862 –The Russian State Library is founded.
- 1863 –Keti Koti (Emancipation Day) in Suriname, marking the abolition of slavery by the Netherlands.
- 1881 –General Order 70, the culmination of the Cardwell and Childers reforms of the British Army, comes into effect.
- 1885 –The United States terminates reciprocity and fishery agreement with Canada.
- 1898 –Spanish-American War: the Battle of San Juan Hill is fought in Santiago de Cuba.
- 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.
- 1942 –World War II: first Battle of El Alamein.
- 1960 –Independence of Somalia.
- 1967 –Canada celebrates the 100th anniversary of the British North America Act, 1867, which officially made Canada its own federal dominion.
- 1968 –The CIA’s Phoenix Program is officially established.
- 1972 –The first Gay Pride march in England takes place.
- 1976 –Portugal grants autonomy to Madeira.
- 1978 –The Northern Territory in Australia is granted Self-Government.
- 1987 –The American radio station WFAN in New York, New York is launched as the world’s first all-sports radio station.
- 2004 –Saturn orbit insertion of Cassini-Huygens begins at 01:12 UTC and ends at 02:48 UTC.
- 2006 –The first operation of Qinghai-Tibet Railway in the People’s Republic of China.
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