1 July
Notable Births
Daniela Avanzini
b. 2004
American singer and dancer (born 2004)
Tate McRae
b. 2003
Canadian singer and dancer (born 2003)
Storm Reid
b. 2003
American actress (born 2003)
Chosen Jacobs
b. 2001
American actor
Lalu Muhammad Zohri
b. 2000
Indonesian sprinter
Chloe Bailey
b. 1998
American singer (born 1998)
Susan Bandecchi
b. 1998
Swiss tennis player (born 1998)
Aleksandra Dolinskė
b. 1998
Lithuanian figure skater (born 1998)
Adelina Sotnikova
b. 1996
Russian figure skater (born 1996)
Boli Bolingoli
b. 1995
Belgian footballer (born 1995)
Savvy Shields
b. 1995
American beauty pageant winner
Taeyong
b. 1995
South Korean rapper (born 1995)
Chloé Paquet
b. 1994
French tennis player (born 1994)
Aaron Sanchez (baseball)
b. 1992
American baseball player (born 1992)
Lucas Vázquez
b. 1991
Spanish footballer (born 1991)
Michael Wacha
b. 1991
American baseball player (born 1991)
Kent Bazemore
b. 1989
American basketball player (born 1989)
Pamela Anderson
b. 1967
Canadian-American actress and model (born 1967)
Ignaz Semmelweis
b. 1818
Early pioneer of antiseptic procedures
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
b. 1646
German polymath (1646–1716)
Notable Deaths
Alex Delvecchio
d. 2025
Canadian ice hockey player and coach (1931–2025)
Jimmy Swaggart
d. 2025
American television evangelist (1935–2025)
Ismail Kadare
d. 2024
Albanian writer (1936–2024)
Robert Towne
d. 2024
American screenwriter, producer, director and actor (1934–2024)
Dilano van 't Hoff
d. 2023
Dutch racing driver (2004–2023)
Louis Andriessen
d. 2021
Dutch composer and pianist (1939–2021)
Bogusław Schaeffer
d. 2019
Polish composer, musicologist, and graphic artist (1929–2019)
Val Doonican
d. 2015
Irish singer (1927–2015)
Czesław Olech
d. 2015
Polish mathematician (1931–2015)
Nicholas Winton
d. 2015
British banker and humanitarian (1909–2015)
Jean Garon
d. 2014
Canadian politician (1938–2014)
Stephen Gaskin
d. 2014
American activist (1935–2014)
Bob Jones (police commissioner)
d. 2014
British politician and police commissioner (1955-2014)
Anatoly Kornukov
d. 2014
Soviet general (1942–2014)
Walter Dean Myers
d. 2014
American children's book author (1937–2014)
Sidney Bryan Berry
d. 2013
US Army general officer
William H. Gray III
d. 2013
American politician (1941–2013)
Marlon Brando
d. 2004
American actor (1924–2004)
Edward Dmytryk
d. 1999
American film director (1908–1999)
Tanya Savicheva
d. 1944
Russian diarist and victim of the Siege of Leningrad
On This Day in History
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2024
At the centennial ceremony of the Dominion of Newfoundland National War Memorial, the Commonwealth War Graves Commission allowed an unprecedented second Canadian Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. The Royal Newfoundland Regiment soldier was entombed in the memorial at this ceremony.
National War Memorial (Newfoundland)
2020
The United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement replaces NAFTA.
United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement
2013
Croatia becomes the 28th member of the European Union.
Croatia
2008
Riots erupt in Mongolia in response to allegations of fraud surrounding the 2008 legislative elections.
2008 riot in Mongolia
2007
Smoking in England is banned in all public indoor spaces.
Smoking bans in the United Kingdom
2006
The first operation of Qinghai–Tibet Railway is conducted in China.
Qinghai–Tibet railway
2004
Saturn orbit insertion of Cassini–Huygens begins at 01:12 UTC and ends at 02:48 UTC.
Saturn
2003
Over 500,000 people protest against efforts to pass anti-sedition legislation in Hong Kong.
Article 23
2002
The International Criminal Court is established to prosecute individuals for genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes and the crime of aggression.
International Criminal Court
2002
Bashkirian Airlines Flight 2937, a Tupolev Tu-154, and DHL Flight 611, a Boeing 757, collide in mid-air over Überlingen, southern Germany, killing all 71 on board both planes.
Tupolev Tu-154
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. In Wales, the powers of the Welsh Secretary are transferred to the National Assembly.
Scottish Parliament
1997
China resumes sovereignty over the city-state of Hong Kong, ending 156 years of British colonial rule. The handover ceremony is attended by British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Charles, Prince of Wales, Chinese President Jiang Zemin and U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright.
Handover of Hong Kong
1997
Space Shuttle program: Space Shuttle Columbia is launched on STS-94, a re-flight of the prematurely-ended STS-83 mission with the same crew.
Space Shuttle program
1991
Cold War: The Warsaw Pact is officially dissolved at a meeting in Prague.
Cold War
1991
The Finnish operator Radiolinja is launched as the world's first GSM network.
Radiolinja
1990
German reunification: East Germany accepts the Deutsche Mark as its currency, thus uniting the economies of East and West Germany.
German reunification
1987
The American radio station WFAN in New York City is launched as the world's first all-sports radio station.
WFAN (AM)
1984
The PG-13 rating is introduced by the MPAA.
Motion Picture Association film rating system
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.
North Korea
1983
The Ministry of State Security is established as China's principal intelligence agency
Ministry of State Security (China)