What are the important events that happened on July 1? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
July 1: Facts & Myths About This Day
July 1 is the 182nd day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 183 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is June 18, 2025 – a Tuesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 486,480 hours has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘hectaoctacontadigon’ day.
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Cancer is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Ruby is the modern birthstone for this month. Ruby is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 231 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,575 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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July 1: This Day In History
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.
July 1 Historical Events
- 1881 –General Order 70, the culmination of the Cardwell and Childers reforms of the British Army, comes into effect.
- 1942 –World War II: first Battle of El Alamein.
- 1948 –Muhammad Ali Jinnah (Quaid-i-Azam) inaugurates Pakistan’s central bank, the State Bank of Pakistan.
- 1962 –Independence of Rwanda.
- 1968 –Formal separation of the United Auto Workers from the AFL-CIO.
- 1968 –The Nuclear non-proliferation treaty is signed in Washington, D.C., London and Moscow by sixty-two countries.
- 1970 –President General Yahya Khan abolishes One-Unit of West Pakistan restoring the provinces.
- 1972 –The first Gay Pride march in England takes place.
- 1984 –The PG-13 rating is introduced by the MPAA.
- 2008 –Rioting erupted in Mongolia in response to allegations of fraud surrounding the 2008 legislative elections.
Who were born on July 1?
- 1804 –George Sand, French writer (d. 1876)
- 1818 –Ignaz Semmelweis, Hungarian physician (d. 1865)
- 1899 –Thomas A. Dorsey, American composer (d. 1993)
- 1908 –Peter Anders, German operatic tenor (d. 1954)
- 1915 –Joseph Ransohoff, American neurosurgeon (d. 2001)
- 1944 –Lew Rockwell, American libertarian political commentator and activist
- 1947 –Kazuyoshi Hoshino, Japanese racing driver
- 1951 –Fred Schneider, American singer (The B-52's)
- 1957 –Lisa Blount, American actress and producer (d. 2010)
- 1976 –Ruud van Nistelrooy, Dutch footballer
Who died on July 1?
- 868 –Ali al-Hadi, Shi'a Imam (b. 828)
- 1592 –Marc'Antonio Ingegneri, Italian composer (b. c. 1547)
- 1894 –Allan Pinkerton, American private detective (b. 1819)
- 1968 –Fritz Bauer, German judge and prosecutor (b. 1903)
- 1971 –William Lawrence Bragg, English physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1890)
- 1983 –R. Buckminster Fuller, American architect and philosopher (b. 1903)
- 1991 –Michael Landon, American actor (b. 1936)
- 1994 –Merriam Modell, American novelist (b. 1908)
- 1995 –Wolfman Jack, American radio personality (b. 1938)
- 1999 –Guy Mitchell, American popular singer (b. 1927)
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