1 Julie

The 1st o Julie is the 182nt day o the year (183rd in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 183 days ti come.

Events

1867: Poleetical cairt o Canadae

1960: Banner o Somalie

1976: Banner o Madeira

1997: Hong Kong, handed back tae Cheenae

1999: Donald Dewar, Elizabeth II an David Steel at Scots Pairlament openin

2004: Representation o the Cassini probe at Saturn

• 1502 – A hurricane sinks 20 ships aff the Caribbean island o Hispaniola.
• 1770 – Lexell's Comet passed closer tae the Yird than ony ither comet in recordit history, approachin tae a distance o 0.0146 a.u.
• 1863 – American Ceevil War: The Battle o Gettysburg stairts.
• 1863 – The Netherlands abolish slavery.
• 1867 – The Canadian Confederation is creatit.
• 1904 – The 1904 Simmer Olympics in St. Louis, Missouri, stairt.
• 1908 – SOS is adoptit as an internaitional distress signal.
• 1916 – Warld War I: Stairt o the Battle o the Somme.
• 1921 – The Communist Pairty o Cheenae is foondit.
• 1923 – Canadae introduces the "Cheenese Exclusion Act"; it is repealed in 1947.
• 1937 – The Unitit Kinrick's 999 emergency caw seestem comes intae force.
• 1943 – Tokyo Ceety merges wi the Prefectur o Tokyo.
• 1960 – Unthirldom o Somalie.
• 1960 – Ghana becomes a Republic an Kwame Nkrumah becomes its first Preses as Queen Elizabeth II ceases tae be its Heid o state.
• 1962 – Unthirldom o Rwanda.
• 1962 – Unthirldom o Burundi.
• 1969 – The investiture o Charles, Prince o Wales taks place at Caernarfon Castle.
• 1969 – Gustav Heinemann becomes Preses o Wast Germany.
• 1974 – Walter Scheel becomes Preses o Wast Germany.
• 1976 – Portugal gies autonomy tae Madeira.
• 1977 – Virginia Wade becomes the maist recent Breetish wumman tae win a singles teetle at the Wimbledon Championships.
• 1979 – Karl Carstens becomes Preses o Wast Germany.
• 1984 – Richard von Weizsaecker becomes Preses o Germany.
• 1984 – Weemen in Liechtenstein get the richt tae vote.
• 1990 – A monetar union o Wast Germany an East Germany enters intae force.
• 1991 – The Warsaw Pact is offeecially dissolved at a meetin in Prague.
• 1994 – Roman Herzog becomes Preses o Germany.
• 1997 – Cheenae resumes sovereignty ower the ceety-state o Hong Kong, endin 156 year o Breetish colonial rule.
• 1999 – The new Scots Pairlament is offeecially opened.
• 1999 – Johannes Rau becomes Preses o Germany.
• 2000 – The Oresund Brig, linkin Swaden an Denmark, is offeecially opened.
• 2002 – A Roushie passenger plane an a German DHL cargo plane collide ower Ueberlingen, Loch Constance, Soothren Germany, killin 71 fowk.
• 2004 – Horst Köhler becomes Preses o Germany.
• 2004 – The Cassini-Huygens probe goes intae the orbit o Saturn.
• 2012 – Spain wins UEFA Euro 2012, defeatin Italy 4-0 in the final in Kiev.
• 2013 – Croatie jyns the European Union, as its 28t member.
• 2016 – A re-run is declared for the Austrick preses election 2016 atween Alexander Van der Bellen an Norbert Hofer.
• 2016 – UEFA Euro 2016: Wales advance tae the semi-feenals efter a 3-1 win ower Belgium.
• 2018 – Andrés Manuel López Obrador is electit Preses o Mexico.
• 2019 – Then-15-year-auld debutant Coco Gauff defeats Venus Williams in the openin roond o the weemen's singles at the Wimbledon Championships.
• 2020 – The Fowkrepublic o Cheenae's new security law, which gies it increasit pouers in Hong Kong, enters intae force.
• 2020 – Voters in Roushie approve several constitutional chynges in a referendum; amang thaim is a chynge that could permit Vladimir Putin tae remain Preses tae 2036.

Births

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

Diana, Princess o Wales

• 1481 – Christian II o Denmark (d. 1559)
• 1534 – Frederick II o Denmark (d. 1583)
• 1646 – Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, German mathematician (d. 1716)
• 1804 – George Sand, French writer (d. 1876)
• 1818 – Ignaz Semmelweis, Hungarian medicinar (d. 1865)
• 1899 – Charles Laughton, Inglis actor an director (d. 1962)
• 1902 – William Wyler, American film director, producer an screenwriter (d. 1981)
• 1903 – Amy Johnson, Breetish pilot (d. 1941)
• 1906 – Peter Ritchie Calder, Scots author, jurnalist an academic (d. 1982)
• 1916 – Olivia de Havilland, Breetish-American actress (d. 2020)
• 1921 – Seretse Khama, 1st Preses o Botswana (d. 1980)
• 1929 – Gerald Edelman, American biologist (d. 2014)
• 1934 – Sydney Pollack, American actor an director (d. 2008)
• 1940 – Craig Brown, Scots fitbawer an manager
• 1945 – Debbie Harry, American sangster
• 1952 – Dan Aykroyd, Canadian-American actor an enterteener
• 1955 – Li Keqiang, Cheenese politeecian, 7t Premier o the Fowkrepublic o Cheenae
• 1957 – Graeme Sinclair, Scots fitbawer
• 1961 – Diana, Princess o Wales (d. 1997)
• 1961 – Carl Lewis, American athlete
• 1967 – Pamela Anderson, Canadian-American actress an telly personality
• 1976 – Ruud van Nistelrooy, Dutch fitbawer
• 1977 – Liv Tyler, American actress
• 1989 – Daniel Ricciardo, Australie racin driver
• 1996 – Adelina Sotnikova, Roushie feegur skeitcher

Daiths

1896: Cover o Harriet Beecher Stowe's beuk Uncle Tom's Cabin

• 1591 – William Douglas, 9t Yerl o Angus, Scots nobleman (b. 1533)
• 1736 – Ahmed III, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1673)
• 1787 – Charles de Rohan, Prince o Soubise, French nobleman an general (b. 1715)
• 1790 – William Roy, Scots militar ingineer, surveyor an antiquarian (b. 1726)
• 1824 – Lachlan Macquarie, Scots Govrenor o New Sooth Wales (b. 1762)
• 1831 – Archibald Cochrane, 9t Yerl o Dundonal, Scots nobleman an inventor (b. 1748)
• 1839 – Mahmud II, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1785)
• 1846 – Pape Gregory XVI (b. 1765)
• 1876 – Mikhail Bakunin, Roushie anarchist an social revolutionary (b. 1804)
• 1896 – Harriet Beecher Stowe, American writer (b. 1811)
• 1925 – Erik Satie, French componer (b. 1866)
• 1971 – William Lawrence Bragg, Breetish pheesicist (b. 1890)
• 1974 – Juan Perón, Argentine militar afficer an politeecian, Preses o Argentinae (b. 1895)
• 1983 – Buckminster Fuller, American airchitect an philosopher, designed the Montreal Biosphère (b. 1903)
• 1997 – Robert Mitchum, American actor (b. 1917)
• 2001 – Nikolay Basov, Roushie pheesicist (b. 1922)
• 2006 – Ryutaro Hashimoto, Prime meenister o Japan (b. 1937)
• 2009 – Karl Malden, American actor (b. 1912)
• 2011 – Willie Fernie, Scots fitbawer (b. 1928)
• 2015 – Nicholas Winton, Inglis humanitarian (b. 1909)

Halidays

Canadae Day celebration in Ottawa

• Canadae Day (umwhile Dominion Day) in Canadae
• Independence Day (Burundi, Rwanda, Somalie)
• Keti Koti (Suriname)
• Madeira Day
• Republic Day (Ghana)
• Doctors' Day (Indie)
• Julie Mornin (Bulgarie)