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
- 1569 –Union of Lublin: the Kingdom of Poland and the Great Duchy of Lithuania confirm a real union; the united country is called the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth or the Republic of Both Nations.
- 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 –American Civil War: the Battle of Malvern Hill takes place. It is the final battle in the Seven Days Campaign, part of George B. McClellan’s Peninsula Campaign.
- 1863 –Keti Koti (Emancipation Day) in Suriname, marking the abolition of slavery by the Netherlands.
- 1898 –Spanish-American War: the Battle of San Juan Hill is fought in Santiago de Cuba.
- 1911 –Germany despatched the gunship Panther to Morocco, sparking the Agadir Crisis.
- 1915 –Lieutenant Kurt Wintgens achieves the first known aerial victory with a synchronized gun-equipped fighter plane, the Fokker M.5K/MG Eindecker.
- 1923 –The Canadian Parliament suspends all Chinese immigration.
- 1931 –United Airlines begins service (as Boeing Air Transport).
- 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.
- 1942 –The Australian Federal Government becomes the sole collector of Income Tax in Australia as the State Income Tax is abolished.
- 1948 –Muhammad Ali Jinnah (Quaid-i-Azam) inaugurates Pakistan’s central bank, the State Bank of Pakistan.
- 1957 –The International Geophysical Year begins.
- 1958 –The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation links television broadcasting across Canada via microwave.
- 1962 –Independence of Burundi.
- 1972 –The first Gay Pride march in England takes place.
- 1976 –Portugal grants autonomy to Madeira.
- 1991 –The Warsaw Pact is officially dissolved at a meeting in Prague.
- 2007 –Smoking in England is banned in all public indoor spaces.
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