About July 1
July 1, 2025 is the 182nd day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 183 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
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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 231 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.
- 1770 –Lexell’s Comet passed closer to the Earth than any other comet in recorded history, approaching to a distance of 0.0146 a.u.
- 1855 –Signing of the Quinault Treaty: the Quinault and the Quileute cede their land to the United States.
- 1862 –The Russian State Library is founded.
- 1870 –The United States Department of Justice formally comes into existence.
- 1874 –The Sholes and Glidden typewriter, the first commercially successful typewriter, goes on sale.
- 1921 –The Communist Party of China is founded.
- 1935 –Grant Park Music Festival begins its tradition of free summer symphonic music concert series in Chicago‘s Grant Park, which continues as the United States’only annual free outdoor classical music concert series.
- 1935 –Regina, Saskatchewan police and Royal Canadian Mounted Police ambush strikers participating in On-to-Ottawa-Trek.
- 1958 –Flooding of Canada’s St. Lawrence Seaway begins.
- 1960 –Ghana becomes a Republic and Kwame Nkrumah becomes its first President as Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom ceases to be its Head of state.
- 1960 –Independence of Somalia.
- 1968 –The CIA’s Phoenix Program is officially established.
- 1976 –Portugal grants autonomy to Madeira.
- 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.
- 1997 –China resumes sovereignty over the city-state of Hong Kong, ending 156 years of British colonial rule.
- 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 –Over 500,000 people protested against efforts to pass anti-sedition legislation in Hong Kong.
- 2006 –The first operation of Qinghai-Tibet Railway in the People’s Republic of China.
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