July 1 Historical Events
The following events took place on July 1. The list is arranged in chronological order.
Found 91 events. Showing 31 - 60.
- 1903Start of first Tour de France bicycle race.
- 1908SOS is adopted as the international distress signal.
- 1911Germany despatches the gunship SMS Panther to Morocco, sparking the Agadir Crisis.
- 1915Leutnant Kurt Wintgens of the then-named German Fliegertruppe air service achieves the first known aerial victory with a synchronized machine-gun armed fighter plane, the Fokker M.5K/MG Eindecker.
- 1916World 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.
- 1921The Communist Party of China (CPC) is founded.
- 1922The Great Railroad Strike of 1922 begins in the United States.
- 1923The Canadian Parliament suspends all Chinese immigration.
- 1931United Airlines begins service (as Boeing Air Transport).
- 1932Australia’s national broadcaster, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, was formed.
- 1933Wiley Post becomes the first person to fly solo around the world traveling 15596 mi in seven days, 18 hours and 45 minutes.
- 1935Regina, Saskatchewan police and Royal Canadian Mounted Police ambush strikers participating in the On-to-Ottawa Trek.
- 1942World War II: First Battle of El Alamein.
- 1942The Australian Federal Government becomes the sole collector of income tax in Australia as State Income Tax is abolished.
- 1943Tokyo City merges with Tokyo Prefecture and is dissolved. Since this date, no city in Japan has the name “Tokyo” (present-day Tokyo is not officially a city).
- 1947The Philippine Air Force is established.
- 1948Muhammad Ali Jinnah (Quaid-i-Azam) inaugurates Pakistan’s central bank, the State Bank of Pakistan.
- 1949The 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.
- 1957The International Geophysical Year begins.
- 1958The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation links television broadcasting across Canada via microwave.
- 1958Flooding of Canada’s Saint Lawrence Seaway begins.
- 1959The Party of the African Federation holds its constitutive conference.
- 1959Specific 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.
- 1960Independence of Somalia.
- 1960Ghana becomes a republic and Kwame Nkrumah becomes its first President as Queen Elizabeth II ceases to be its head of state.
- 1962Independence of Rwanda.
- 1962Independence of Burundi.
- 1963ZIP codes are introduced for United States mail.
- 1963The British Government admits that former diplomat Kim Philby had worked as a Soviet agent.
- 1966The first color television transmission in Canada takes place from Toronto.
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