01 July History


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  • 96    -    Vespasian, a Roman army leader, is hailed as a Roman emperor by the Egyptian legions.
  • 1543    -    England and Scotland sign the Peace of Greenwich.
  • 1596    -    An English fleet under the Earl of Essex, Lord Howard of Effingham and Francis Vere capture and sack Cadiz, Spain.
  • 1690    -    Led by Marshall Luxembourg, the French defeat the forces of the Grand Alliance at Fleurus in the Netherlands.
  • 1777    -    British troops depart from their base at the Bouquet river to head toward Ticonderoga, New York.
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  • 1798    -    Napoleon Bonaparte takes Alexandria, Egypt.
  • 1838    -    Charles Darwin presents a paper on his theory of evolution to the Linnean Society in London.
  • 1862    -    Union artillery stops a Confederate attack at Malvern Hill, Virginia.
  • 1863    -    In the first day's fighting at Gettysburg, Federal forces retreat through the town and dig in at Cemetery Ridge and Cemetery Hill.
  • 1867    -    Canada, by the terms of the British North America Act, becomes an independent dominion.
  • 1876    -    Montenegro declares war on the Turks.
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  • 1898    -    American troops take San Juan Hill and El Caney, Cuba, from the Spaniards.
  • 1942    -    German troops capture Sevestapol, Crimea, in the Soviet Union.
  • 1945    -    The New York State Commission Against Discrimination is established–the first such agency in the United States.
  • 1950    -    American ground troops arrive in South Korea to halt the advancing North Korean army.
  • 1961    -    British troops land in Kuwait to aid against Iraqi threats.
  • 1963    -    The U.S. postmaster introduces the zip code.
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  • 1966    -    The U.S. Marines launch Operation Holt in an attempt to finish off a Vietcong battalion in Thua Thien Province in Vietnam.

  • 01 July Birthdays

  • 1649    -    Gottfried Von Leibniz, German philosopher and mathematician.
  • 1804    -    George Sand (Amandine-Aurore Lucille Dupin), French novelist.
  • 1876    -    Susan Glaspell, playwright, (Alison's House).
  • 1892    -    James M. Cain, author (The Postman Always Rings Twice, Mildred Pierce).
  • 1899    -    Thomas Dorsey, American songwriter, singer and pianist, the "father of gospel music."
  • 1902    -    William Wyler, film director (The Best Years of Our Lives, Ben Hur).
  • 1903    -    Amy Johnson, English aviator.
  • 1915    -    Willie Dixon, blues musician.
  • 1915    -    Sydney Pollack, film director (Tootsie, Out of Africa).
  • 1915    -    Jean Stafford, American writer (The Mountain Lion).
  • 1916    -    Roland Robert Tuck, British fighter ace during World War II.
  • 1961    -    Diana Frances Spencer, princess of Wales.