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1 July

On This Day: 1 July

The Crusaders, led by Prince Bohemond of Taranto, defeat a Seljuk army led by sultan Kilij Arslan I at the Battle of Dorylaeum Click to show or hide the answer
Sir Thomas More goes on trial Click to show or hide the answer
The Westminster Assembly – appointed to restructure the Church of England – meets for the first time, at Westminster Abbey Click to show or hide the answer
Battle of the Boyne: William III defeats the Jacobites under James II (Julian date) Click to show or hide the answer
Battle of Fleumo: George Frederick, Duke of Waldeck, of the Grand Alliance, defeated by Napoleon's marshal the Duc de Luxembourg Click to show or hide the answer
The first volume of Diderot's Encyclopedie is published Click to show or hide the answer
At the Battle of Porto Novo (in southern India), Haidar Ali – in alliance with the French – attacks the Carnatic but is defeated Click to show or hide the answer
Compulsory registration of births, marriages and deaths comes into force in Britain Click to show or hide the answer
The first adhesive postage stamps (5 cents and 10 cents) go on sale in the USA Click to show or hide the answer
Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace read their respective papers on evolution to the Linnean Society Click to show or hide the answer
Battle of Malvern Hill – the last of the Seven Days Battles (in the American Civil War) Click to show or hide the answer
Battle of Gettysburg begins Click to show or hide the answer
The Province of Canada, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia join to form the Dominion of Canada; Sir John A. Macdonald is sworn in as its first Prime Minister Click to show or hide the answer
Queen Victoria unveils London's Albert Memorial Click to show or hide the answer
Prince Edward Island joins the Canadian Confederation Click to show or hide the answer
Pennsylvania minister Charles Taze Russell publishes the first edition of The Watchtower Click to show or hide the answer
The first international telephone call is made between St. Stephen, New Brunswick and Calais, Maine Click to show or hide the answer
The sovereignty of King Leopold I of the Belgians over the Congo is announced Click to show or hide the answer
Zanzibar is ceded to Britain, and Heligoland is ceded to Germany in exchange Click to show or hide the answer
The Klondike Gold Rush begins Click to show or hide the answer
Britain acquires a 99–year lease on Hong Kong's New Territories Click to show or hide the answer
George Bernard Shaw's Candida receives its première Click to show or hide the answer
The first Tour de France begins Click to show or hide the answer
SOS is adopted as the international distress signal Click to show or hide the answer
The Union of South Africa is formed, with Dominion status Click to show or hide the answer
A crisis develops between France and Germany over Agadir, Morocco, after the German gunboat Panther is despatched Click to show or hide the answer
The first Variety Command Performance takes place at the Palace Theatre, London Click to show or hide the answer
On the first day of the Battle of the Somme, 19,000 soldiers of the British Army are killed and 40,000 wounded Click to show or hide the answer
The new–style Coca Cola bottle is first produced Click to show or hide the answer
British civil administration in Palestine begins Click to show or hide the answer
Popeye the Sailor is created by Elzie Segar Click to show or hide the answer
Wiley Post (USA) and Harold Gatty (Australia) complete the first circumnavigation of the globe in a single–engined monoplane aircraft Click to show or hide the answer
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation is formed Click to show or hide the answer
Salvador Dalí delivers a lecture (entitled Fantômes paranoïaques authentiques) to the International Surrealist Exhibition in London, wearing a deep–sea diving suit. Nearly suffocating, Dalí had to be rescued by the young poet David Gascoyne, who arrived with a spanner to release him from the diving helmet Click to show or hide the answer
The 999 emergency service comes into operation in Britain Click to show or hide the answer
The first conscripts are called up in Britain Click to show or hide the answer
German forces occupy Jersey Click to show or hide the answer
WBNT in New York broadcasts the first TV commercial (Bulova Clock & Watch Co.) Click to show or hide the answer
First Battle of El Alamein Click to show or hide the answer
The Bretton Woods Conference (to discuss international monetary policy) begins Click to show or hide the answer
The first nuclear bomb tests begin over Bikini Atoll Click to show or hide the answer
The International Geophysical Year begins Click to show or hide the answer
Specific values for the international yard, avoirdupois pound and derived units are adopted after agreement between the USA, UK and other Commonwealth countries Click to show or hide the answer
The Somali Republic is formed Click to show or hide the answer
Rwanda and Burundi become independent Click to show or hide the answer
A referendum in Algeria backs General de Gaulle's peace plan Click to show or hide the answer
ZIP codes are introduced in the USA Click to show or hide the answer
HM Government admits that former diplomat Kim Philby had worked as a Soviet agent, and that he was the "third man" in the Burgess and Maclean case Click to show or hide the answer
Bill Wyman urinates against the wall of a service station in Stratford, East London, after being refused permission to use the toilets. Mick Jagger and Brian Jones do the same nearby Click to show or hide the answer
The European Community is formally created by a merger of the Common Market, the European Coal and Steel Community, and the European Atomic Energy Commission Click to show or hide the answer
The BBC makes its first colour broadcast, from the Wimbledon championships Click to show or hide the answer
The Treaty on the Non–Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons is signed in Washington DC, London and Moscow by 62 countries Click to show or hide the answer
Prince Charles is invested as Prince of Wales, at Caernarfon Castle Click to show or hide the answer
Juan Peron dies and is succeeded by his widow Maria Estela Click to show or hide the answer
Sony introduces the Walkman Click to show or hide the answer
Canada officially adopts O Canada as its national anthem Click to show or hide the answer
The 6d coin is withdrawn from circulation Click to show or hide the answer
Diego Maradona signs for Napoli for £1 million Click to show or hide the answer
Geoffrey Collier, former head of securities at Morgan Grenfell, becomes the first person to be convicted of insider dealing, since it became illegal in 1980 (in relation to the take–over of the engineering firm AE by Robert Maxwell, the previous November) Click to show or hide the answer
RCA buys Motown Records for $61 million Click to show or hide the answer
President Gorbachev announces that he will not tolerate separatism Click to show or hide the answer
The East and West German currencies are united under the Deutschmark Click to show or hide the answer
The Warsaw Pact is finally abolished at a meeting in Prague Click to show or hide the answer
Yasser Arafat, chairman of the PLO, returns to the Gaza Strip after 27 years in exile Click to show or hide the answer
Hong Kong reverts to Chinese rule as Britain's lease expires Click to show or hide the answer
EMI secures the copyright to 15,000 Motown hits in a £132m ($132m?) deal Click to show or hide the answer
The Queen opens the new Scottish parliament Click to show or hide the answer
Twenty lives are lost when a cable car taking staff to an international observatory in the French Alps plunges 260 feet Click to show or hide the answer
Ken Follett, millionaire novelist and long–standing Labour activist and fundraiser, makes a scathing personal criticism of Prime Minister Tony Blair – questioning his morals and describing spin doctors as "the rent boys of politics" Click to show or hide the answer
Sarah Payne, aged 8, fails to return after playing with her brothers and sister in a field near their grandparents' home in West Sussex Click to show or hide the answer
The International Criminal Court is established Click to show or hide the answer
All 71 people on board both planes lose their lives when a passenger airliner and a cargo plane collide in mid–air over Lake Constance, in southern Germany Click to show or hide the answer
Roman Abramovich agrees to buy Chelsea Football Club – the deal to be completed within three weeks Click to show or hide the answer
The Cassini mission enters Saturn orbit (and leaves after 1 hour 36 minutes) Click to show or hide the answer
Felipe Scolari makes it a hat–trick of wins over Sven Goran Eriksson as Portugal beat England in the World Cup quarter finals – on penalties again. Wayne Rooney is sent off for "violent conduct" Click to show or hide the answer
A ban on smoking in enclosed public places and workplaces comes into effect in England Click to show or hide the answer
Croatia becomes the 28th member of the European Union Click to show or hide the answer

© Haydn Thompson 2019