# On this day: July 1

July 1 is the 182nd day of the year (183rd in leap years), with 183 days left until the end of the year.

## July 1 in one line

Headline entries for July 1, from Wikipedia: in 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 British Army's history, with 57,470 casualties, including 19,240 deaths; born 1646: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, German mathematician and philosopher (died 1716); died 2004: Marlon Brando, American actor and director (born 1924). In 2026 it is a Wednesday, in 2027 a Thursday.

## Events on July 1

- 692 Berhtwald was elected Archbishop of Canterbury. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berhtwald)
- 1523 Jan van Essen and Hendrik Vos were burnt at the stake in Brussels, becoming the first Lutherans executed by the Council of Brabant. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_van_Essen_and_Hendrik_Vos)
- 1643 The Westminster Assembly of Divines first assembled to restructure the Church of England. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westminster_Assembly)
- 1690 Williamite forces defeated the Jacobites at the Battle of the Boyne near Drogheda, marking a turning point in the Williamite War in Ireland. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Boyne)
- 1782 American Revolutionary War: Five American privateer vessels raided the British settlement at Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raid_on_Lunenburg%2C_Nova_Scotia_(1782))
- 1841 Thomas Lempriere and James Clark Ross carved a sandstone marker on Tasmania's Isle of the Dead, one of the oldest benchmarks for measuring sea level rise. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_level_rise)
- 1849 Belgium introduced its first series of postage stamps, known as epaulettes. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epaulettes_(stamp))
- 1862 American Civil War: Confederate general Robert E. Lee launched a series of disjointed and ultimately unsuccessful assaults on the nearly impregnable Union position on Malvern Hill in Henrico County, Virginia. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Malvern_Hill)
- 1874 The Remington No. 1, the first commercially successful typewriter, went on sale. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sholes_and_Glidden_typewriter)
- 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 British Army's history, with 57,470 casualties, including 19,240 deaths. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Somme)
- 1921 Yan Ruisheng, the first full-length Chinese film, is released in Shanghai. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yan_Ruisheng)
- 1922 Seven of the sixteen American railroad labor organizations staged a nationwide strike that lasted two months. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Railroad_Strike_of_1922)
- 1927 The Singapore Improvement Trust was founded to oversee the construction of public housing in Singapore, where more than three quarters of residents live. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singapore_Improvement_Trust)
- 1935 The first Grant Park Music Festival was held in Chicago's Grant Park. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grant_Park_Music_Festival)
- 1940 Second World War: The Grand Quartier Général of the French Army was disbanded, following the French surrender. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Quartier_G%C3%A9n%C3%A9ral_(1939%E2%80%931940))
- 1948 The first flight departed New York City's John F. Kennedy International Airport, then known as New York International Airport. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy_International_Airport)
- 1959 B. Anthony Stewart is credited with the first image on the cover of National Geographic featuring the 49-star flag of the United States after Alaska's admission to the Union as a U.S. state. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_the_United_States)
- 1960 Ghana became a republic, with Kwame Nkrumah as its first president. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwame_Nkrumah)
- 1970 The Belfast Banking Company, which issued banknotes in Northern Ireland, merged with its rival Northern Bank. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belfast_Banking_Company)
- 1979 Sony introduced the Walkman, a portable audio player that changed listening habits by offering users the ability to play one's own choice of music. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walkman)
- 1983 A North Korean Ilyushin Il-62M jet crashed into the Fouta Djallon mountains in Guinea, killing all 23 people on board. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_CAAK_Ilyushin_Il-62_crash)
- 1991 The Finnish operator Radiolinja is launched as the world's first GSM network. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GSM)
- 1991 Cold War: The Warsaw Pact is officially dissolved at a meeting in Prague. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warsaw_Pact)
- 1999 Legislative powers in Scotland were first devolved from the Scottish Office in London to the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Parliament)
- 2002 Bashkirian Airlines Flight 2937 and DHL Flight 611 collided in mid-air over Überlingen, Germany, killing all 71 people aboard both aircraft. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002_%C3%9Cberlingen_mid-air_collision)
- 2008 Rioting erupted in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, over allegations of fraud surrounding the recent legislative election. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_riot_in_Mongolia)

## Born on July 1

- 1646 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, German mathematician and philosopher (died 1716) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottfried_Wilhelm_Leibniz)
- 1742 Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, German physicist and academic (died 1799) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Christoph_Lichtenberg)
- 1804 George Sand, French author and playwright (died 1876) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Sand)
- 1818 Ignaz Semmelweis, Hungarian-Austrian physician and obstetrician (died 1865) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignaz_Semmelweis)
- 1899 Charles Laughton, English-American actor and director (died 1962) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Laughton)
- 1902 William Wyler, French-American film director, producer and screenwriter (died 1981) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Wyler)
- 1916 Olivia de Havilland, British-American actress (died 2020) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivia_de_Havilland)
- 1926 Robert Fogel, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2013) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Fogel)
- 1934 Sydney Pollack, American actor, director and producer (died 2008) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_Pollack)
- 1945 Debbie Harry, American singer-songwriter and actress [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debbie_Harry)
- 1952 Dan Aykroyd, Canadian actor, producer and screenwriter [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Aykroyd)
- 1953 Jadranka Kosor, Croatian journalist and politician, 9th Prime Minister of Croatia [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jadranka_Kosor)
- 1955 Li Keqiang, Chinese economist and politician, 7th Premier of the People's Republic of China (died 2023) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Keqiang)
- 1961 Diana, Princess of Wales (died 1997) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diana%2C_Princess_of_Wales)
- 1961 Carl Lewis, American long jumper and runner [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Lewis)
- 1967 Pamela Anderson, Canadian-American model and actress [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Anderson)
- 1976 Ruud van Nistelrooy, Dutch footballer and manager [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruud_van_Nistelrooy)
- 1976 Patrick Kluivert, Dutch footballer and coach [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Kluivert)
- 1977 Liv Tyler, American actress [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liv_Tyler)
- 1985 Léa Seydoux, French actor [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9a_Seydoux)
- 1989 Daniel Ricciardo, Australian race car driver [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Ricciardo)
- 1991 Lucas Vázquez, Spanish footballer [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucas_V%C3%A1zquez)

## Died on July 1

- 1736 Ahmed III, Ottoman sultan (born 1673) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_III)
- 1839 Mahmud II, Ottoman sultan (born 1785) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahmud_II)
- 1896 Harriet Beecher Stowe, American author and activist (born 1811) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet_Beecher_Stowe)
- 1925 Erik Satie, French pianist and composer (born 1866) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Satie)
- 1934 Ernst Röhm, German paramilitary commander, co-founder and leader of the Sturmabteilung (SA) (born 1887) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_R%C3%B6hm)
- 1961 Louis-Ferdinand Céline, French physician and author (born 1894) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis-Ferdinand_C%C3%A9line)
- 1971 William Lawrence Bragg, Australian-English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1890) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Bragg)
- 1974 Juan Perón, Argentinian general and politician, President of Argentina (born 1895) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Per%C3%B3n)
- 1983 Buckminster Fuller, American architect, designed the Montreal Biosphère (born 1895) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckminster_Fuller)
- 1997 Robert Mitchum, American actor (born 1917) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Mitchum)
- 2000 Walter Matthau, American actor (born 1920) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Matthau)
- 2001 Nikolay Basov, Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1922) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolay_Basov)
- 2004 Marlon Brando, American actor and director (born 1924) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marlon_Brando)
- 2024 Ismail Kadare, Albanian novelist (born 1936) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ismail_Kadare)

## Holidays and observances

- Christian feast day: Aaron (Catholic Church and Syriac Christianity) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron)
- Christian feast day: Blessed Antonio Rosmini-Serbati [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Rosmini)
- Christian feast day: Junípero Serra [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jun%C3%ADpero_Serra)
- Christian feast day: Julius and Aaron [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_and_Aaron)
- Christian feast day: Leontius of Autun [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leontius_of_Autun)
- Christian feast day: Oliver Plunkett [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Plunkett)
- Christian feast day: Servanus [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Serf)
- Christian feast day: Veep [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Veep)
- Christian feast day: July 1 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_1_(Eastern_Orthodox_liturgics))
- Christian feast day: Feast of the Most Precious Blood of Our Lord Jesus Christ (removed from official Roman Catholic calendar since 1969) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feast_of_the_Most_Precious_Blood)
- Armed Forces Day (Singapore) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armed_Forces_Day)
- Bobby Bonilla Day (United States) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Bonilla)
- Canada Day, formerly Dominion Day (Canada) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominion_Day)
- Children's Day (Pakistan) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children's_Day)
- Chinese Communist Party Founding Day (China) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Communist_Party)
- Day of Officials and Civil Servants (Hungary) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_of_Officials_and_Civil_Servants)
- Doctors' Day (India) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Doctors'_Day)
- Emancipation Day (Sint Maarten and Sint Eustatius) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emancipation_Day)
- Engineer's Day (Bahrain, Mexico) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engineer's_Day)
- Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Establishment Day (Hong Kong, China) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong_Special_Administrative_Region_Establishment_Day)
- Independence Day (Burundi), celebrates the independence of Burundi from Belgium in 1962. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_holidays_in_Burundi)
- Independence Day (Rwanda) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_holidays_in_Rwanda)
- Independence Day (Somalia) [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independence_Day_(Somalia))
- International Tartan Day [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tartan_Day)

## Sources

- [Wikipedia — “July 1”](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_1) — events, births, deaths and observances (text under CC BY-SA 4.0) (checked 2026-10-15)
- [Wikipedia — “Selected anniversaries/July 1”](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Selected_anniversaries/July_1) — the anniversaries editors chose for the date and the article each one is about (checked 2026-10-15)
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/) — in how many language editions each entry's own article exists, used to fill the lists (CC0) (checked 2026-10-15)
- [vacanza/holidays (open-source holiday rules, MIT licence)](https://github.com/vacanza/holidays) — holiday rules used to build the lists (checked 2026-10-15)

The events, births, deaths and observances above are from the English Wikipedia article [“July 1”](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_1) and the articles it links to ([authors and history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_1?action=history)), retrieved 2026-10-15 through the Wikimedia “On this day” feed. They are licensed under [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/); this selection is shared under the same licence. Every anniversary that Wikipedia's editors selected for July 1 stays on the list; the remaining places, up to 26 events, 22 births and 14 deaths, go to the entries whose own article — about the event itself, or else the person or thing it is about — appears in the most language editions (counted from Wikidata); an article about a person or thing, which covers far more than one day, counts half. An entry with no article of its own counts, also at half, by the least covered article it links, and one that links only places counts for nothing. The 1916 entry comes first in the one-line summary: a short list, checked by hand, names the event a date is best known for where the order above would put a lesser one first. Each list runs by year, and the wording is unchanged apart from removing references to pictures, audio and video.

## July 1 in the calendar

| Year | Weekday | ISO week | Moon (UTC) |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2026 | Wednesday | 2026-W27 | 🌖 Waning Gibbous |
| 2027 | Thursday | 2027-W26 | 🌘 Waning Crescent |
| 2028 | Saturday | 2028-W26 | 🌔 Waxing Gibbous |
| 2029 | Sunday | 2029-W26 | 🌖 Waning Gibbous |
| 2030 | Monday | 2030-W27 | 🌒 Waxing Crescent |

Moon phases are for the day in UTC; at the edges of a phase your local date can differ.

## Public holidays on July 1

- [🇨🇦 Canada](https://whathappen.today/holidays/canada/): Canada Day (2026 and 2027)

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