July 1 in History

Historical Events on July 1

1862 American Civil War: The Battle of Malvern Hill takes place. It is the last of the Seven Days Battles, part of George B. McClellan's Peninsula Campaign.

1890 Canada and Bermuda are linked by telegraph cable.

1949 The merger of two princely states of India, Cochin and Travancore, into the state of Thiru-Kochi (later re-organized as Kerala) in the Indian Union ends more than 1,000 years of princely rule by the Cochin royal family.

1960 Independence of Somalia.

1960 Ghana becomes a republic and Kwame Nkrumah becomes its first President as Queen Elizabeth II ceases to be its head of state.

1962 Independence of Rwanda and Burundi.

1968 The United States Central Intelligence Agency's Phoenix Program is officially established.

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.

2013 Croatia becomes the 28th member of the European Union.

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Famous Birthdays on July 1

1646 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

1916 Olivia de Havilland

1961 Diana, Princess of Wales

1989 Daniel Ricciardo

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Famous Deaths on July 1

1905 John Hay

1974 Juan Perón

1983 Buckminster Fuller

2004 Marlon Brando

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