Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/July 1
This is a list of selected July 1 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.
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Explosion of the Hawthorn Ridge mine during the first day of the Battle of the Somme -
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The original Walkman model TPS-L2 that went on sale in 1979 -
Canadian Red Ensign
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Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
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| 1569 – The Union of Lublin was signed, merging the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania into a single state, the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. | refimprove section |
| 1862 – The Russian State Library, the first free public library in Moscow and now the national library of Russia, was founded. | refimprove |
| 1898 – The Battle of San Juan Hill, the most famous battle of the Spanish–American War, took place in Santiago, Cuba. | refimprove section |
| 1916 – First World War: The first day of the Battle of Albert, the opening phase of the Battle of the Somme, became the bloodiest day in the history of the British Army, with 57,470 casualties of which 19,240 were killed or died of wounds. | citations needed |
| 1948 – The State Bank of Pakistan, the central bank of Pakistan, commenced operation. | no footnotes |
| 1979 – Sony introduced the Walkman portable audio player, changing music listening habits by allowing people to carry their own choice of music with them. | original research, refimprove/unreferenced sections |
| 1997 – The United Kingdom transferred sovereignty of Hong Kong to the People's Republic of China, ending over 150 years of British colonial rule. | needs more footnotes |
| 2002 – The Rome Statute entered into force, establishing the International Criminal Court to prosecute individuals for genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and crimes of aggression. | Rome Statute has refimprove section, ICC has unreferenced section |
Eligible
- 1770 – Lexell's Comet passed closer to the Earth than any other comet in recorded history, approaching to a distance of 0.015 AU.
- 1782 – American Revolutionary War: Five American privateer vessels attacked the British settlement at Lunenburg, Nova Scotia.
- 1867 – The British North America Act came into effect, uniting the Province of Canada, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia into the Canadian Confederation.
- 1874 – The Remington No. 1, the first commercially successful typewriter, went on sale.
- 1915 – World War I: German fighter pilot Kurt Wintgens became the first person to shoot down another plane in aerial combat using a synchronized machine gun.
- 1935 – Grant Park Music Festival, the United States' only annual free outdoor classical music concert series, began its tradition of free symphonic music concerts in Chicago's Grant Park.
- 1999 – Legislative governance of Scotland was transferred from the Scottish Office in Westminster to the Scottish Parliament.
- 2002 – Bashkirian Airlines Flight 2937 and DHL Flight 611 collided in mid-air over the towns of Owingen and Überlingen in Germany, killing all 71 people aboard both aircraft.
- 2006 – The Qinghai–Tibet Railway, the only railway line to the Tibet Autonomous Region, was inaugurated.
- 2008 – Rioting erupted in Ulan Bator, Mongolia, in response to allegations of fraud surrounding the recent legislative elections.
July 1: Canada Day; Republic Day in Ghana (1960); Independence Day in Rwanda (1962)
- 1879 – American evangelist Charles Taze Russell published the first issue of The Watchtower, the most widely circulated magazine in the world.
- 1911 – The German gunboat Panther arrived in the Moroccan port of Agadir, sparking the Agadir Crisis between Germany, Great Britain, and France.
- 1943 – Tokyo City was dissolved, with its territory divided into the special wards of the newly created Tokyo Metropolis.
- 1960 – Ghana became a republic with Kwame Nkrumah as its first president.
- 1963 – The British government revealed that former MI6 agent Kim Philby (pictured) had engaged in espionage for the Soviet Union.