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The1st 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 oCanadae 1960 :Banner oSomalie 1976 :Banner oMadeira 1997 :Hong Kong ,handed back taeCheenae 1999 :Donald Dewar ,Elizabeth II anDavid Steel atScots Pairlament openin2004 :Representation o the Cassini probe atSaturn 1502 – Ahurricane sinks 20 ships aff theCaribbean island oHispaniola .1770 –Lexell's Comet passed closer tae theYird than ony ither comet in recordit history, approachin tae a distance o 0.0146 a.u.1863 –American Ceevil War :TheBattle o Gettysburg stairts.1863 – TheNetherlands abolish slavery.1867 – TheCanadian Confederation is creatit.1904 – The1904 Simmer Olympics inSt. Louis ,Missouri ,stairt.1908 –SOS is adoptit as an internaitional distress signal.1916 –Warld War I :Stairt o theBattle o the Somme .1921 – TheCommunist Pairty o Cheenae is foondit.1923 –Canadae introduces the "Cheenese Exclusion Act "; it is repealed in 1947.1937 – TheUnitit Kinrick 's999 emergency caw seestem comes intae force.1943 –Tokyo Ceety merges wi thePrefectur oTokyo .1960 –Unthirldom oSomalie .1960 –Ghana becomes aRepublic anKwame Nkrumah becomes its firstPreses as QueenElizabeth II ceases tae be itsHeid o state .1962 – Unthirldom oRwanda .1962 – Unthirldom oBurundi .1969 – The investiture oCharles, Prince o Wales taks place atCaernarfon Castle.1969 –Gustav Heinemann becomesPreses oWast Germany .1974 –Walter Scheel becomesPreses oWast Germany .1976 –Portugal gies autonomy taeMadeira .1977 –Virginia Wade becomes the maist recent Breetish wumman tae win a singles teetle at theWimbledon Championships .1979 –Karl Carstens becomesPreses oWast Germany .1984 –Richard von Weizsaecker becomesPreses oGermany .1984 – Weemen inLiechtenstein get the richt tae vote.1990 – A monetar union oWast Germany anEast Germany enters intae force.1991 – TheWarsaw Pact is offeecially dissolved at a meetin inPrague .1994 –Roman Herzog becomesPreses oGermany .1997 –Cheenae resumes sovereignty ower the ceety-state oHong Kong ,endin 156 year o Breetishcolonial rule.1999 – The newScots Pairlament is offeecially opened.1999 –Johannes Rau becomesPreses oGermany .2000 – The Oresund Brig, linkinSwaden anDenmark ,is offeecially opened.2002 – ARoushie passenger plane an a German DHL cargo plane collide ower Ueberlingen,Loch Constance ,SoothrenGermany ,killin 71 fowk.2004 –Horst Köhler becomesPreses oGermany .2004 – The Cassini-Huygens probe goes intae the orbit oSaturn .2012 –Spain winsUEFA Euro 2012 ,defeatinItaly 4-0 in the final inKiev .2013 –Croatie jyns theEuropean Union ,as its 28t member.2016 – A re-run is declared for theAustrick preses election 2016 atweenAlexander Van der Bellen anNorbert Hofer .2016 –UEFA Euro 2016 :Wales advance tae the semi-feenals efter a 3-1 win owerBelgium .2018 –Andrés Manuel López Obrador is electitPreses oMexico .2019 – Then-15-year-auld debutantCoco Gauff defeatsVenus Williams in the openin roond o the weemen's singles at theWimbledon Championships .2020 – TheFowkrepublic o Cheenae 's new security law, which gies it increasit pouers inHong Kong ,enters intae force.2020 – Voters inRoushie approve several constitutional chynges in a referendum; amang thaim is a chynge that could permitVladimir Putin tae remain Preses tae2036 .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 ,1stPreses oBotswana (d.1980 )1929 –Gerald Edelman ,American biologist (d.2014 )1934 –Sydney Pollack ,American actor an director (d.2008 )1940 –Craig Brown ,Scots fitbawer an manager1945 –Debbie Harry ,American sangster1952 –Dan Aykroyd ,Canadian-American actor an enterteener1955 –Li Keqiang ,Cheenese politeecian, 7tPremier o theFowkrepublic o Cheenae 1957 –Graeme Sinclair ,Scots fitbawer1961 –Diana, Princess o Wales (d.1997 )1961 –Carl Lewis ,American athlete1967 –Pamela Anderson ,Canadian-American actress an telly personality1976 –Ruud van Nistelrooy ,Dutch fitbawer1977 –Liv Tyler ,American actress1989 –Daniel Ricciardo ,Australie racin driver1996 –Adelina Sotnikova ,Roushie feegur skeitcherDaiths 1896 :Cover oHarriet Beecher Stowe 's beuk Uncle Tom's Cabin1591 –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 oNew 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 oArgentinae (b.1895 )1983 –Buckminster Fuller ,American airchitect an philosopher, designed theMontreal Biosphère (b.1903 )1997 –Robert Mitchum ,American actor (b.1917 )2001 –Nikolay Basov ,Roushie pheesicist (b.1922 )2006 –Ryutaro Hashimoto ,Prime meenister oJapan (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 inOttawa
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