July 1<\/p>\n
1097 \u2013 The army of the First Crusade under the command of Prince Behemond of Antioch, defeats the army of Sultan Kilij Arslan at Dorylaeum near modern day Eski\u015fehir, Turkey.<\/p>\n
1431 \u2013 Forces of King John of Castile engage those of Sultan Muhammed of Granada at La Higueruela scoring a minor victory during the Reconquista of Spain.<\/p>\n
1523 \u2013 Jan van Essen and Hendrik Vos, the first Lutheran martyrs, are burned at the stake in Brussels.<\/p>\n
1770 \u2013 Lexell’s Comet, named after the man who computed its orbit – Anders Johan Lexell – is detected as passing closer to the Earth than any other comet in recorded history to that time, approaching to a distance of 0.0146 astronomical units, 1,360,000 miles.<\/p>\n
1782 \u2013 During the Revolution, the US privateer, Captain Noah Stoddard of Fairhaven, Massachusetts, commanding the 16 gun schooner Scammel<\/em>, and other privateer vessels raid the British settlement at Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, following maxim #1; Pillage, then<\/em> Burn, as they first loot, then destroy the town.<\/p>\n 1855 \u2013 Under the terms of the Quinault Treaty, <\/em>the Quinault and the Quileute indian tribes of western Washington state cede their lands to the U.S.<\/p>\n 1862 \u2013 The Battle of Malvern Hill, near Richmond Virginia, takes place; the last of the ‘Seven Days Battles’ of the Union Virginia Peninsula Campaign during the Civil War.<\/p>\n 1863 \u2013 The Battle of Gettysburg begins<\/p>\n 1870 \u2013 Having been signed into law on June 22nd, the act forming the United States Department of Justice comes into effect.<\/p>\n 1874 \u2013 The Sholes and Glidden typewriter, the first commercially successful model, goes on sale.<\/p>\n 1881 \u2013 The world’s first international telephone call is made between St. Stephen, New Brunswick, Canada, and Calais, Maine.<\/p>\n 1898 \u2013 The Battle of San Juan Hill is fought in Santiago de Cuba during the Spanish-American War.<\/p>\n 1908 \u2013 SOS\u00a0 \u00b7\u00b7\u00b7 – – – \u00b7\u00b7\u00b7<\/strong>\u00a0is adopted as the international distress signal.<\/p>\n 1916 \u2013 On the first day of the Battle of the Somme during World War I, 19,000 soldiers of the British Army are killed and 40,000 wounded.<\/p>\n 1922 \u2013 The Great Railroad Strike of 1922, by 7 of the 16 railroad labor organizations existing at the time, begins in the U.S.<\/p>\n 1931 \u2013 Wiley Post and Harold Gatty successfully complete their flight of circumnavigation in a single-engined monoplane aircraft.<\/p>\n 1942 \u2013 The First Battle of El Alamein begins during World War II<\/p>\n 1946 \u2013 As the start of Operation<\/em> Crossroads, <\/em>off Bikini Atoll in the Pacific, the MK3 Nuclear bomb “Gilda<\/em>“, identical to the one dropped on Nagasaki is dropped from B-29 Dave’s Dream<\/em> of the 509th Bombardment Group, one of the photographic aircraft on the Nagasaki bombing mission, as the ‘Able’<\/em> shot during the first series of nuclear weapon tests after World War II.<\/p>\n 1959 \u2013 The 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., the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth countries.<\/p>\n 1963 \u2013 ZIP codes are introduced for United States mail<\/p>\n 1968 \u2013 The United States Central Intelligence Agency’s Phoenix Program, to destroy the Viet Cong operating in South Vietnam, is officially established.<\/p>\n 1979 \u2013 Sony introduces the Walkman.<\/p>\n 1984 \u2013 The PG-13 movie rating is introduced by the MPAA.<\/p>\n 1991 \u2013 The Warsaw Pact is officially dissolved at a meeting in Prague.<\/p>\n 2002 \u2013 The International Criminal Court is established at The Hague to prosecute individuals for genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and crimes of aggression.<\/p>\n 2020 \u2013 The United States Mexico Canada Agreement – USMCA, replaces the North American Free Trade Agreement – NAFTA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" July 1 1097 \u2013 The army of the First Crusade under the command of Prince Behemond of Antioch, defeats the army of Sultan Kilij Arslan at Dorylaeum near modern day Eski\u015fehir, Turkey. 1431 \u2013 Forces of King John of Castile engage those of Sultan Muhammed of Granada at La Higueruela scoring a minor victory during … Continue reading 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