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 
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1923 – Canadae introduces the "Cheenese Exclusion Act"; it is repealed in 1947.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 
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 
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 (umwhile Dominion Day) in Canadae
 Independence Day (Burundi, Rwanda, Somalie)
 Keti Koti (Suriname)
 Madeira Day
 Republic Day (Ghana)
 Doctors' Day (Indie)
 Julie Mornin (Bulgarie)

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