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1923 – Canadae introduces the "Cheenese Exclusion Act"; it is repealed in 1947.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