TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON: JULY 1
0069 Vespasian, a Roman army leader, is hailed as a Roman emperor by the Egyptian legions.
1535 Sir Thomas More went on trial in England charged with treason
1543 England and Scotland sign the Peace of Greenwich.
1690 Army of England’s Protestant King William III defeats Roman Catholic King James II in Battle of the Boyne in Ireland (Now celebrated on July 12 as “The Battle of the Orange” )
1798 Napoleon Bonaparte takes Alexandria, Egypt.
1838 Charles Darwin presents a paper on his theory of evolution to the Linnean Society in London.
1862 The U.S. Congress established the Bureau of Internal Revenue.
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.
1898 During the Spanish-American War, Theodore Roosevelt and his “Rough Riders” waged a victorious assault on San Juan Hill in Cuba.
1905 The USDA Forest Service was created within the Department of Agriculture. The agency was given the mission to sustain healthy, diverse, and productive forests and grasslands for present and future generations.
1916 First day of the Battle of the Somme: the British Army suffers its worst day, losing 19,240 men (WWI)
1934 1st x-ray photo of entire body, Rochester, NY
1943 1st withholding tax from paychecks
1945 The New York State Commission Against Discrimination is established–the first such agency in the United States.
1961 The first community air-raid shelter was built. The shelter in Boise, ID had a capacity of 1,000 people and family memberships sold for $100.
1963 The U.S. postmaster introduces the ZIP code.
1966 Medicare goes into effect
1968 The Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty was signed by 60 countries. It limited the spreading of nuclear material for military purposes. On May 11, 1995, the treaty was extended indefinitely.
1979 The Walkman makes its appearance in stores for the first time
1980 “O Canada” was proclaimed the national anthem of Canada.
1980 U.S. President Jimmy Carter signed legislation that provided for 2 acres of land near the Lincoln Memorial for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
1991 The Warsaw Pact, a defense treaty between 8 communist countries, is formally disbanded in Prague
1997 After 156 years of British colonial rule, Hong Kong was returned to China.
2002 The International Criminal Court (ICC) is established
REFERENCE: HISTORY.NET, ONTHISDAY.COM, TIMEANDDATE.COM, INFOPLEASE.COM, FACTMONSTER.COM, SCOPESYS.COM, ON-THIS-DAY.COM, THEPEOPLEHISTORY.COM
