July
1
Independence
Day
Burundi : July 1 1962
Canada : 1 July 1867
Rwanda : July 1 1962
Somalia : July 1 1960
July
1
National
Doctors' Day (India)
On July 1 is celebrated
as Doctors' day. It is to
honour the legendary physician
and the second Chief Minister
of West Bengal, Dr Bidhan
Chandra Roy. He was born
on July 1, 1882 and died
on the same date in 1962,
aged 80 years. Dr Roy was
honoured with the country's
highest civilian award,
Bharat Ratna on February
4, 1961.
Every
year this holiday is celebrated
in India on the 1st of July.
This observance fulfills
a need to show the doctors
and physicians in our lives
how important they are to
us and how invaluable their
treatments are that cure
us. The celebrations are
indicative of the respect
that they command in the
lives of their patients
and thus obligate them to
fulfill their responsibilities
as well.
Events
July
1
69
– Tiberius Julius Alexander
orders his Roman legions
in Alexandria to swear allegiance
to Vespasian as Emperor.
1097 – Battle of Dorylaeum:
Crusaders led by Prince
Bohemond of Taranto defeat
a Seljuk army led by Sultan
Kilij Arslan I.
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.
1690 – Glorious Revolution:
Battle of the Boyne (as
reckoned under the Julian
calendar).
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.
1782 – American privateers
attack Lunenburg, Nova Scotia.
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.
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.
1863 – American Civil War:
the Battle of Gettysburg
begins.
1867 – The British North
America Act of 1867 takes
effect as the Constitution
of Canada, creating the
Canadian Confederation and
the federal dominion of
Canada; Sir John A. Macdonald
is sworn in as the first
Prime Minister of Canada.
1870 – The United States
Department of Justice formally
comes into existence.
1873 – Prince Edward Island
joins the Canadian Confederation.
1874 – The Sholes and Glidden
typewriter, the first commercially
successful typewriter, goes
on sale.
1878 – Canada joins the
Universal Postal Union.
1879 – Charles Taze Russell
publishes the first edition
of the religious magazine
The Watchtower.
1881 – The world's first
international telephone
call is made between St.
Stephen, New Brunswick,
Canada, and Calais, Maine,
United States.
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.
1890 – Canada and Bermuda
are linked by telegraph
cable.
1898 – Spanish-American
War: the Battle of San Juan
Hill is fought in Santiago
de Cuba.
1908 – SOS is adopted as
the international distress
signal.
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.
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.
1923 – The Canadian Parliament
suspends all Chinese immigration.
1931 – United Airlines begins
service (as Boeing Air Transport).
1935 – Regina, Saskatchewan
police and Royal Canadian
Mounted Police ambush strikers
participating in On-to-Ottawa-Trek.
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 – World War II: first
Battle of El Alamein.
1942 – The Australian Federal
Government becomes the sole
collector of Income Tax
in Australia as the State
Income Tax is abolished.
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).
1947 – The Philippine Air
Force is established.
1948 – Muhammad Ali Jinnah
(Quaid-i-Azam) inaugurates
Pakistan's central bank,
the State Bank of Pakistan.
1949 – The merger of two
princely states of India,
Cochin and Travancore, into
the state of Thiru-Kochi
(later re-organized as Kerala)
in the Indian Union ends
more than 1,000 years of
princely rule by the Cochin
Royal Family.
1957 – The International
Geophysical Year begins.
1958 – The Canadian Broadcasting
Corporation links television
broadcasting across Canada
via microwave.
1958 – Flooding of Canada's
St. Lawrence Seaway begins.
1959 – The Party of the
African Federation holds
its constitutive conference.
1959 – Specific values for
the international yard,
avoirdupois pound and derived
units (e.g. inch, mile and
ounce) are adopted after
agreement between the U.S.A.,
the United Kingdom and other
Commonwealth countries.
1960 – Independence of Somalia.
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.
1962 – Independence of Rwanda.
1962 – Independence of Burundi.
1963 – ZIP Codes are introduced
for United States mail.
1963 – The British Government
admits that former diplomat
Kim Philby had worked as
a Soviet agent.
1966 – The first color television
transmission in Canada takes
place from Toronto.
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.
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.
1968 – The Nuclear non-proliferation
treaty is signed in Washington,
D.C., London and Moscow
by sixty-two countries.
1968 – Formal separation
of the United Auto Workers
from the AFL-CIO.
1970 – President General
Yahya Khan abolishes One-Unit
of West Pakistan restoring
the provinces.
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.
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.
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.
1987 – The American radio
station WFAN in New York,
New York is launched as
the world's first all-sports
radio station.
1990 – German re-unification:
East Germany accepts the
Deutsche Mark as its currency,
thus uniting the economies
of East and West Germany.
1991 – The Warsaw Pact is
officially dissolved at
a meeting in Prague.
1997 – China resumes sovereignty
over the city-state of Hong
Kong, ending 156 years of
British colonial rule.
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.
2002 – The International
Criminal Court is established
to prosecute individuals
for genocide, crimes against
humanity, war crimes, and
the crime of aggression.
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.
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.
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.
Holidays
and observances
Canada
Day, formerly Dominion Day.
(Canada)
Christian Feast Day:
Aaron (Syriac Christianity)
Feast of the Most Precious
Blood
Blessed Fray Junípero Serra
Julius and Aaron
Leontius of Autun
Servanus
July 1 (Eastern Orthodox
liturgics)
Doctors' Day (India)
Earliest day on which St
Pauls Carnival can fall,
while July 7 is the latest;
celebrated on the first
Saturday in July. (Bristol)
Emancipation Day (Netherlands
Antilles)
Emancipation Day or Keti
Koti (Suriname)
Hong Kong SAR Establishment
Day (Hong Kong)
Independence Day, celebrates
the independence of Burundi
from Belgium in 1962.
Independence Day, celebrates
the independence of Rwanda
from Belgium in 1962.
International Tartan Day
(Australia and New Zealand)
July Morning tradition (Bulgaria)
Madeira Day (Madeira)
Memorial Day (Newfoundland
and Labrador)
Moving Day (Quebec)
Republic Day (Ghana)
Republic Day, celebrates
the independence of Somalia
from Italy and the unification
of British Somaliland and
Italian Somaliland to form
Somali Republic. (Somalia)
Sir Seretse Khama Day (Botswana)
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