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The end of this day marks the halfway point of a leap year. It also falls on the same day of the week as New Year's Day in a leap year. ==Events== * 69 – Tiberius Julius Alexander orders his Roman legions in Alexandria to swear allegiance to Vespasian as Emperor. * 552 – Battle of Taginae: Byzantine forces under Narses defeat the Ostrogoths in Italy. During the fighting king Totila is mortally wounded. *1097 – Battle of Dorylaeum: Crusaders led by prince Bohemond of Taranto defeat a Seljuk army led by sultan Kilij Arslan I. *1431 – The Battle of La Higueruela takes place in Granada, leading to a modest advance of the Kingdom of Castile during the Reconquista. *1523 – Johann Esch and Heinrich Voes become the first Lutheran martyrs, burned at the stake by Roman Catholic authorities in Brussels. *1569 – Union of Lublin: The Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania confirm a real union; the united country is called the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth or the Republic of Both Nations. *1643 – First meeting of the Westminster Assembly, a council of theologians ("divines") and members of the Parliament of England appointed to restructure the Church of England, at Westminster Abbey in London. *1690 – Glorious Revolution: Battle of the Boyne in Ireland (as reckoned under the Julian calendar). *1766 – François-Jean de la Barre, a young French nobleman, is tortured and beheaded before his body is burnt on a pyre along with a copy of Voltaire's ''Dictionnaire philosophique'' nailed to his torso for the crime of not saluting a Roman Catholic religious procession in Abbeville, France. *1770 – Lexell's Comet passes closer to the Earth than any other comet in recorded history, approaching to a distance of 0.0146 a.u. *1782 – Raid on Lunenburg: American privateers attack the British settlement of Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. *1837 – A system of civil registration of births, marriages and deaths is established in England and Wales. *1855 – Signing of the Quinault Treaty: The Quinault and the Quileute cede their land to the United States. *1858 – Joint reading of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace's papers on evolution to the Linnean Society in London. *1862 – The Russian State Library is founded as the Library of the Moscow Public Museum. * 1862 – Princess Alice of the United Kingdom, second daughter of Queen Victoria, marries Prince Louis of Hesse, the future Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse. * 1862 – American Civil War: The Battle of Malvern Hill takes place. It is the final battle in the Seven Days Campaign, part of George B. McClellan's Peninsula Campaign. *1863 – Keti Koti (Emancipation Day) in Suriname, marking the abolition of slavery by the Netherlands. * 1863 – American Civil War: The Battle of Gettysburg begins. *1867 – The British North America Act of 1867 takes effect as the Constitution of Canada, creating the Canadian Confederation and the federal dominion of Canada; Sir John A. Macdonald is sworn in as the first Prime Minister of Canada. This date is commemorated annually in Canada as Canada Day, a national holiday. *1870 – The United States Department of Justice formally comes into existence. *1873 – Prince Edward Island joins the Canadian Confederation. *1874 – The Sholes and Glidden typewriter, the first commercially successful typewriter, goes on sale. *1878 – Canada joins the Universal Postal Union. *1879 – Charles Taze Russell publishes the first edition of the religious magazine ''The Watchtower''. *1881 – The world's first international telephone call is made between St. Stephen, New Brunswick, Canada, and Calais, Maine, United States. * 1881 – General Order 70, the culmination of the Cardwell and Childers reforms of the British Army, comes into effect. *1885 – The United States terminates reciprocity and fishery agreement with Canada. *1890 – Canada and Bermuda are linked by telegraph cable. *1898 – Spanish–American War: The Battle of San Juan Hill is fought in Santiago de Cuba. *1903 – Start of first Tour de France bicycle race. *1908 – SOS is adopted as the international distress signal. *1911 – Germany despatches the gunship to Morocco, sparking the Agadir Crisis. *1915 – ''Leutnant'' 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''. *1916 – World 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. *1921 – The Communist Party of China (CPC) is founded. *1922 – The Great Railroad Strike of 1922 begins in the United States. *1923 – The Canadian Parliament suspends all Chinese immigration. *1931 – United Airlines begins service (as Boeing Air Transport). *1932 – Australia's national broadcaster, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, was formed. *1933 – Wiley Post becomes the first person to fly solo around the world traveling in seven days, 18 hours and 45 minutes. *1935 – Regina, Saskatchewan police and Royal Canadian Mounted Police ambush strikers participating in the On-to-Ottawa Trek. *1942 – World War II: First Battle of El Alamein. * 1942 – The Australian Federal Government becomes the sole collector of income tax in Australia as State Income Tax is abolished. *1943 – Tokyo 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). *1947 – The Philippine Air Force is established. *1948 – Muhammad Ali Jinnah (Quaid-i-Azam) inaugurates Pakistan's central bank, the State Bank of Pakistan. *1949 – The 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. *1957 – The International Geophysical Year begins. *1958 – The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation links television broadcasting across Canada via microwave. * 1958 – Flooding of Canada's Saint Lawrence Seaway begins. *1959 – The Party of the African Federation holds its constitutive conference. * 1959 – Specific 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. *1960 – Independence of Somalia. * 1960 – Ghana becomes a republic and Kwame Nkrumah becomes its first President as Queen Elizabeth II ceases to be its head of state. *1962 – Independence of Rwanda. * 1962 – Independence of Burundi. *1963 – ZIP codes are introduced for United States mail. * 1963 – The British Government admits that former diplomat Kim Philby had worked as a Soviet agent. *1966 – The first color television transmission in Canada takes place from Toronto. *1967 – The European Community is formally created out of a merger with the Common Market, the European Coal and Steel Community, and the European Atomic Energy Commission. * 1967 – Canada celebrates the 100th anniversary of the British North America Act, 1867, which officially made Canada its own federal dominion. *1968 – The United States Central Intelligence Agency's Phoenix Program is officially established. * 1968 – The Nuclear non-proliferation treaty is signed in Washington, D.C., London and Moscow by sixty-two countries. * 1968 – Formal separation of the United Auto Workers from the AFL–CIO in the United States. *1970 – President General Yahya Khan abolishes One-Unit of West Pakistan restoring the provinces. *1972 – The first Gay pride march in England takes place. *1976 – Portugal grants autonomy to Madeira. *1978 – The Northern Territory in Australia is granted Self-Government. *1979 – Sony introduces the Walkman. *1980 – "O Canada" officially becomes the national anthem of Canada. *1981 – The Wonderland murders occur in the early morning hours in Los Angeles, allegedly masterminded by businessman and drug dealer Eddie Nash. *1983 – A North Korean Ilyushin Il-62M jet en route to Conakry Airport in Guinea crashes into the Fouta Djallon mountains in Guinea-Bissau, killing all 23 people on board. *1984 – The PG-13 rating is introduced by the MPAA. *1987 – The American radio station WFAN in New York City is launched as the world's first all-sports radio station. *1990 – German reunification: East Germany accepts the Deutsche Mark as its currency, thus uniting the economies of East and West Germany. *1991 – The Warsaw Pact is officially dissolved at a meeting in Prague. *1997 – China resumes sovereignty over the city-state of Hong Kong, ending 156 years of British colonial rule. *1999 – The Scottish Parliament is officially opened by Elizabeth II on the day that legislative powers are officially transferred from the old Scottish Office in London to the new devolved Scottish Executive in Edinburgh. *2002 – The International Criminal Court is established to prosecute individuals for genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and the crime of aggression. * 2002 – Bashkirian Airlines Flight 2937 and a DHL (German cargo) Boeing 757 collide in mid-air over Überlingen, southern Germany, killing all 71 on board. *2003 – Over 500,000 people protest against efforts to pass anti-sedition legislation in Hong Kong. *2004 – Saturn orbit insertion of Cassini–Huygens begins at 01:12 UTC and ends at 02:48 UTC. *2006 – The first operation of Qinghai–Tibet Railway in China. *2007 – The Concert for Diana is held at the new Wembley Stadium in London and broadcast in 140 countries. * 2007 – Smoking in England is banned in all public indoor spaces. *2008 – Rioting erupts in Mongolia in response to allegations of fraud surrounding the 2008 legislative elections. *2013 – Croatia becomes the 28th member of the European Union. * 2013 – The United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) begins its operative peacekeeping mandate in Mali. * 2013 – Neptune's moon S/2004 N 1 is discovered. *2015 – Militants launch attacks on Egyptian Armed Forces checkpoints in North Sinai, leaving dozens of security personnel and insurgents killed. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「July 1」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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