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
- 69 –Tiberius Julius Alexander orders his Roman legions in Alexandria to swear allegiance to Vespasian as Emperor.
- 1690 –Glorious Revolution: Battle of the Boyne (as reckoned under the Julian calendar).
- 1862 –The Russian State Library is founded.
- 1863 –American Civil War: the Battle of Gettysburg begins.
- 1874 –The Sholes and Glidden typewriter, the first commercially successful typewriter, goes on sale.
- 1908 –SOS is adopted as the international distress signal.
- 1911 –Germany despatched the gunship Panther to Morocco, sparking the Agadir Crisis.
- 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.
- 1943 –Tokyo City merges with Tokyo Prefecture and is dissolved. Since then, no city in Japan has had the name “Tokyo” (present-day Tokyo is not officially a city).
- 1962 –Independence of Burundi.
- 1967 –Canada celebrates the 100th anniversary of the British North America Act, 1867, which officially made Canada its own federal dominion.
- 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.
- 1968 –Formal separation of the United Auto Workers from the AFL-CIO.
- 1972 –The first Gay Pride march in England takes place.
- 1978 –The Northern Territory in Australia is granted Self-Government.
- 1983 –A North Korean Ilyushin Il-62M jet en route to Conakry Airport in Guinea crashes into the Fouta Djallon mountains in Guinea-Bissau, killing all 23 people on board.
- 1984 –The PG-13 rating is introduced by the MPAA.
- 2004 –Saturn orbit insertion of Cassini-Huygens begins at 01:12 UTC and ends at 02:48 UTC.
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