A birthday on the globe
1 July on the globe: what happened in the world on this day, and who was born
For 1 July, the English Wikipedia lists 109 events and 261 births. 41 of the events stand at their places as rays of light; 10 more are dashed circles, where the sentence links only to a country or a sea. The taller the ray, the longer ago it happened. The people born that day come further down, as blue points.
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The Earth on 1 July
The picture on the globe was assembled by NASA from satellite photographs taken in July 2004: the snow, the ice and the green are those of the month.
On 1 July the Sun passes straight overhead at noon along the parallel of 23.1° north. In London, the day lasts about 16 hours 35 minutes.
Beyond 67° north the Sun no longer sets; beyond 67° south it no longer rises.
The line between day and night is tilted on the globe exactly as on this day of the year. On the dark side you can see the lights of towns.
Britain & Ireland · Westminster Abbey
1643
First meeting of the Westminster Assembly, a council of theologians ("divines") and members of the Parliament of England appointed to restructure the Church of England, at Westminster Abbey in London.
On the map: Westminster Abbey.
Britain & Ireland · Pride in London
1972
The first Gay pride march in England takes place.
On the map: Pride in London.
Europe · Lublin
1569
Union of Lublin: The Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania confirm a real union; the united country is called the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth or the Republic of Both Nations.
On the map: Lublin.
Also on the day’s list of Wikipedia in Spanish and Chinese.
Europe · Moscow
1968
The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons is signed in Washington, D.C., London and Moscow by sixty-two countries.
On the map: Moscow.
Also on the day’s list of Wikipedia in Chinese.
Wikipedia: Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons
Europe · Madeira
1976
Portugal grants autonomy to Madeira.
On the map: Madeira.
Also on the day’s list of Wikipedia in Spanish and Romanian.
Africa · Alexandria
69
Tiberius Julius Alexander orders his Roman legions in Alexandria to swear allegiance to Vespasian as Emperor.
On the map: Alexandria.
Asia · Tokyo City
1943
The City of Tokyo and the Prefecture of Tokyo are both replaced by the Tokyo Metropolis.
On the map: Tokyo City.
Asia · Kochi
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.
On the map: Kochi.
Also on the day’s list of Wikipedia in Spanish.
Asia · Hong Kong
1997
China resumes sovereignty over the city-state of Hong Kong, ending 156 years of British colonial rule. The handover ceremony is attended by British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Charles, Prince of Wales, Chinese President Jiang Zemin and U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright.
On the map: Hong Kong.
North America · St. Stephen, New Brunswick
1881
The world's first international telephone call is made between St. Stephen, New Brunswick, Canada, and Calais, Maine, United States.
On the map: St. Stephen, New Brunswick.
North America · Grant Park
1935
The first Grant Park Music Festival was held in Chicago's Grant Park.
On the map: Grant Park.
Also on the day’s list of Wikipedia in Chinese.
North America · John F. Kennedy International Airport
1948
The first flight departed New York City's John F. Kennedy International Airport, then known as New York International Airport.
On the map: John F. Kennedy International Airport.
1 July
What the other Wikipedias remember#
For these years the English list has nothing on this day. The events below come from the same day’s lists on Wikipedia in Chinese and were translated for this page.
From Wikipedia in Chinese · St. Louis
1904
The 3rd Summer Olympic Games are held in St Louis, United States.
On the map: St. Louis.
Translated from the list on Wikipedia in Chinese.
1 July
Born on 1 July#
The English Wikipedia lists 261 births for this day. The blue points are the birthplaces of 60 of these people: those written about in the most Wikipedia editions, where Wikidata gives a place of birth.
Born on 1 July
1646
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, German mathematician and philosopher (died 1716)
Place of birth: Leipzig.
Born on 1 July
1804
George Sand, French author and playwright (died 1876)
Place of birth: former 6th arrondissement of Paris.
Born on 1 July
1967
Pamela Anderson, Canadian-American model and actress
Place of birth: Ladysmith.
Born on 1 July
1916
Olivia de Havilland, British-American actress (died 2020)
Place of birth: Tokyo.
Born on 1 July
1742
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, German physicist and academic (died 1799)
Place of birth: Ober-Ramstadt.
Born in Britain and Ireland
1899
Charles Laughton, English-American actor and director (died 1962)
Place of birth: Scarborough.
Born in Britain and Ireland
1989
Hannah Murray, English actress
Place of birth: Bristol.
Born in Britain and Ireland
1935
David Prowse, English actor (died 2020)
Place of birth: Bristol.
1 July
Number one in the charts that week
At the cinema
An animal recorded that day
The record can be seen in GBIF, which brings together wildlife records from around the world.
All your birthdays
The weather that day
Data: Met Office Hadley Centre (HadCET); NOAA (GHCN-Daily, Mauna Loa).
Above the Earth
Sources: Jonathan McDowell, GCAT (launches); GFZ Potsdam (Kp index). Days are counted in Universal Time.
Football that day
International matches played that day:
Source: the “International football results” dataset kept by Mart Jürisoo (CC0).
Also that day
The earthquake’s page at the USGS
Source: the USGS catalogue. The day is counted in Universal Time (UTC).
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Below: 1 July through the years.
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Everything Wikipedia lists for 1 July
The list is the English Wikipedia’s, in its own wording, as it stood in October 2026. 58 events have no place on the map: the sentence links to no place with coordinates, only to places too wide to mark, or to several countries.
- 69
Tiberius Julius Alexander orders his Roman legions in Alexandria to swear allegiance to Vespasian as Emperor.
Africa · AlexandriaWikipedia: Tiberius Julius Alexander - 552
Battle of Taginae: Byzantine forces under Narses defeat the Ostrogoths in Italy, and the Ostrogoth king, Totila, is mortally wounded.
Europe · Battle of TaginaeWikipedia: Battle of Taginae - 692
Berhtwald was elected Archbishop of Canterbury.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Berhtwald - 1097
Battle of Dorylaeum: Crusaders led by prince Bohemond of Taranto defeat a Seljuk army led by sultan Kilij Arslan I.
Asia · Battle of DorylaeumWikipedia: Battle of Dorylaeum - 1431
The Battle of La Higueruela takes place in Granada, leading to a modest advance of the Kingdom of Castile during the Reconquista.
Europe · Battle of La HigueruelaWikipedia: Battle of La Higueruela - 1520
Spanish conquistadors led by Hernán Cortés fight their way out of Tenochtitlan after nightfall.
Latin America · La Noche TristeWikipedia: La Noche Triste - 1523
Jan van Essen and Hendrik Vos become the first Lutheran martyrs, burned at the stake by Roman Catholic authorities in Brussels.
Europe · BrusselsWikipedia: Jan van Essen and Hendrik Vos - 1543
Having been defeated in the Battle of Solway Moss in the previous year, the Scots conclude the peace Treaty of Greenwich with the Kingdom of England. In it, they also agree to a marriage between the infant Queen Mary and Prince Edward, son of Henry VIII.
Britain & Ireland · GreenwichWikipedia: Battle of Solway Moss - 1569
Union of Lublin: The Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania confirm a real union; the united country is called the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth or the Republic of Both Nations.
Europe · LublinWikipedia: Union of Lublin - 1643
First meeting of the Westminster Assembly, a council of theologians ("divines") and members of the Parliament of England appointed to restructure the Church of England, at Westminster Abbey in London.
Britain & Ireland · Westminster AbbeyWikipedia: Church of England - 1690
Glorious Revolution: Battle of the Boyne in Ireland (as reckoned under the Julian calendar).
Britain & Ireland · Battle of the BoyneWikipedia: Glorious Revolution - 1690
War of the Grand Alliance: Marshal de Luxembourg triumphs over an Anglo-Dutch army at the battle of Fleurus.
Europe · Battle of FleurusWikipedia: Nine Years' War - 1766
François-Jean de la Barre, a young French nobleman, is tortured and beheaded before his body is burnt on a pyre along with a copy of Voltaire's Dictionnaire philosophique nailed to his torso for the crime of not saluting a Roman Catholic religious procession in Abbeville, France.
Europe · AbbevilleWikipedia: François-Jean de la Barre - 1770
Lexell's Comet is seen closer to the Earth than any other comet in recorded history, approaching to a distance of 0.0146 astronomical units (2,180,000 km; 1,360,000 mi).
no place on the mapWikipedia: Lexell's Comet - 1782
Raid on Lunenburg: American privateers attack the British settlement of Lunenburg, Nova Scotia.
North America · Lunenburg, Nova ScotiaWikipedia: Raid on Lunenburg, Nova Scotia - 1819
Johann Georg Tralles discovers the Great Comet of 1819 (C/1819 N1). It is the first comet analyzed using polarimetry, by François Arago.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Johann Georg Tralles - 1823
The five Central American nations of Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica declare independence from the First Mexican Empire after being annexed the year prior.
Latin America · First Mexican EmpireWikipedia: Central America under Mexican rule - 1837
A system of civil registration of births, marriages and deaths is established in England and Wales.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Civil registration - 1841
Thomas Lempriere and James Clark Ross carve a marker on the Isle of the Dead in Van Diemen's Land to measure tidal variations, one of the earliest surviving benchmarks for sea level rise.
Oceania · Isle of the DeadWikipedia: Thomas Lempriere - 1849
Belgium introduced its first series of postage stamps, known as epaulettes.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Epaulettes - 1855
Signing of the Quinault Treaty: The Quinault and the Quileute cede their land to the United States.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Quinault Treaty - 1858
Joint reading of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace's papers on evolution to the Linnean Society of London.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Charles Darwin - 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.
North America · Battle of Malvern HillWikipedia: American Civil War - 1862
Princess Alice of the United Kingdom, second daughter of Queen Victoria, marries Prince Louis of Hesse, the future Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Princess Alice of the United Kingdom - 1862
The Russian State Library is founded as the Library of the Moscow Public Museum.
Europe · Russian State LibraryWikipedia: Russian State Library - 1863
American Civil War: The Battle of Gettysburg begins.
North America · Battle of GettysburgWikipedia: Battle of Gettysburg - 1863
Slavery is abolished in the Dutch colony of Surinam, a date subsequently celebrated as Ketikoti in independent Suriname.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Surinam - 1867
The British North America Act takes effect as the Province of Canada, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia join into confederation to create the modern nation of Canada. John A. Macdonald is sworn in as the first Prime Minister of Canada. This date is commemorated annually in Canada as Canada Day, a national holiday.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Constitution Act, 1867 - 1870
The United States Department of Justice formally comes into existence.
no place on the mapWikipedia: United States Department of Justice - 1873
Prince Edward Island joins into Canadian Confederation.
North America · Prince Edward IslandWikipedia: Prince Edward Island - 1874
The Sholes and Glidden typewriter, the first commercially successful typewriter, goes on sale.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Sholes and Glidden typewriter - 1878
Canada joins the Universal Postal Union.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Universal Postal Union - 1879
Charles Taze Russell publishes the first edition of the religious magazine The Watchtower.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Charles Taze Russell - 1881
General Order 70, the culmination of the Cardwell and Childers reforms of the British Army, comes into effect.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Cardwell Reforms - 1881
The world's first international telephone call is made between St. Stephen, New Brunswick, Canada, and Calais, Maine, United States.
North America · St. Stephen, New BrunswickWikipedia: Telephone call - 1885
The Congo Free State is established by King Leopold II of Belgium.
Africa · Congo Free StateWikipedia: Congo Free State - 1885
The United States terminates reciprocity and fishery agreement with Canada.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Reciprocity - 1890
Canada and Bermuda are linked by telegraph cable.
North America · BermudaWikipedia: Bermuda - 1898
Spanish–American War: The Battle of San Juan Hill is fought in Santiago de Cuba, Cuba.
Latin America · Battle of San Juan HillWikipedia: Spanish–American War - 1901
The French government enacts its anti-clerical legislation Law of Association prohibiting the formation of new monastic orders without governmental approval.
no place on the map - 1903
Start of first Tour de France bicycle race.
no place on the mapWikipedia: 1903 Tour de France - 1908
SOS is adopted as the international distress signal.
no place on the mapWikipedia: SOS - 1911
Germany dispatches the gunboat SMS Panther to Morocco, sparking the Agadir Crisis.
Africa · Agadir CrisisWikipedia: Agadir Crisis - 1915
World War I: Leutnant Kurt Wintgens of the then-named German Deutsches Heer's Fliegertruppe army air service achieves the first known aerial victory with a synchronized machine-gun armed fighter plane, the Fokker M.5K/MG Eindecker.
no place on the mapWikipedia: World War I - 1916
World War I: First day on the Somme: On the first day of the Battle of the Somme 19,000 soldiers of the British Army are killed and 40,000 wounded.
Europe · First day on the SommeWikipedia: First day on the Somme - 1917
Chinese General Zhang Xun seizes control of Beijing and restores the monarchy, installing Puyi, last emperor of the Qing dynasty, to the throne. The restoration is reversed just shy of two weeks later, when Republican troops regain control of the capital.
Asia · BeijingWikipedia: Manchu Restoration - 1917
World War I: Russia launches the "Kerensky offensive" against Austria-Hungary to capture Galicia, its final offensive of the war.
Europe · Austria-HungaryWikipedia: Kerensky offensive - 1921
The Chinese Communist Party is founded by Chen Duxiu and Li Dazhao, with the help of the Far Eastern Bureau of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks), who seized power in Russia after the 1917 October Revolution, and the Far Eastern Secretariat of the Communist International.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Chinese Communist Party - 1921
Yan Ruisheng, the first full-length Chinese film, is released in Shanghai.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Yan Ruisheng - 1922
The Great Railroad Strike of 1922 begins in the United States.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Great Railroad Strike of 1922 - 1923
The Parliament of Canada suspends all Chinese immigration.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Parliament of Canada - 1924
The National War Memorial for the Dominion of Newfoundland is inaugurated by Field Marshal Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig in St. John's, Newfoundland. The date commemorates the first day of the Battle of the Somme, where at Beaumont-Hamel, 86 percent of the Royal Newfoundland Regiment was wiped out.
North America · National War MemorialWikipedia: Battle of the Somme - 1927
The Singapore Improvement Trust was founded to oversee the construction of public housing in Singapore, where more than three quarters of residents live.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Singapore Improvement Trust - 1931
United Airlines begins service (as Boeing Air Transport).
no place on the mapWikipedia: United Airlines - 1931
Wiley Post and Harold Gatty become the first people to circumnavigate the globe in a single-engined monoplane aircraft (a Lockheed Vega).
no place on the mapWikipedia: Wiley Post - 1932
Australia's national broadcaster, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, is formed.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Australian Broadcasting Corporation - 1935
In Regina, Saskatchewan, police and Royal Canadian Mounted Police ambush strikers participating in the On-to-Ottawa Trek.
North America · Regina, SaskatchewanWikipedia: Regina, Saskatchewan - 1935
The first Grant Park Music Festival was held in Chicago's Grant Park.
North America · Grant ParkWikipedia: Grant Park Music Festival - 1940
Second World War: The Grand Quartier Général of the French Army was disbanded, following the French surrender.
no place on the mapWikipedia: World War II - 1942
The Australian Federal Government becomes the sole collector of income tax in Australia as State Income Tax is abolished.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Australian Government - 1942
World War II: start of the First Battle of El Alamein.
Africa · First Battle of El AlameinWikipedia: World War II - 1943
The City of Tokyo and the Prefecture of Tokyo are both replaced by the Tokyo Metropolis.
Asia · Tokyo CityWikipedia: Tokyo City - 1946
Crossroads Able is the first postwar nuclear weapon test.
Oceania · Operation CrossroadsWikipedia: Operation Crossroads - 1947
The Philippine Air Force is established.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Philippine Air Force - 1948
Muhammad Ali Jinnah (Quaid-i-Azam) inaugurates Pakistan's central bank, the State Bank of Pakistan.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Muhammad Ali Jinnah - 1948
The first flight departed New York City's John F. Kennedy International Airport, then known as New York International Airport.
North America · John F. Kennedy International AirportWikipedia: John F. Kennedy International Airport - 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.
Asia · KochiWikipedia: Kochi - 1957
The International Geophysical Year begins.
no place on the mapWikipedia: International Geophysical Year - 1958
Flooding of Canada's Saint Lawrence Seaway begins.
North America · St. Lawrence SeawayWikipedia: St. Lawrence Seaway - 1958
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation links television broadcasting across Canada via microwave.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation - 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.
North America · AlaskaWikipedia: B. Anthony Stewart - 1959
Specific values for the international yard, avoirdupois pound and derived units (e.g. inch, mile and ounce) are adopted after agreement between the US, the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth countries.
no place on the mapWikipedia: International yard and pound - 1960
Ghana becomes a republic and Kwame Nkrumah becomes its first President as Queen Elizabeth II ceases to be its head of state.
Africa · GhanaWikipedia: Ghana - 1960
The Trust Territory of Somaliland (the former Italian Somaliland) gains its independence from Italy. Concurrently, it unites as scheduled with the five-day-old State of Somaliland (the former British Somaliland) to form the Somali Republic.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Trust Territory of Somaliland - 1962
Independence of Rwanda and Burundi.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Rwanda - 1963
The British Government admits that former diplomat Kim Philby had worked as a Soviet agent.
Asia · Soviet UnionWikipedia: Kim Philby - 1963
ZIP codes are introduced for United States mail.
no place on the mapWikipedia: ZIP Code - 1966
The People's Liberation Army Rocket Force (first known as the 2nd Artillery Corps) is founded.
no place on the mapWikipedia: People's Liberation Army Rocket Force - 1966
The first color television transmission in Canada takes place from Toronto.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Color television - 1967
Merger Treaty: The European Community is formally created out of a merger between the Common Market, the European Coal and Steel Community, and the European Atomic Energy Commission.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Merger Treaty - 1968
Formal separation of the United Auto Workers from the AFL–CIO in the United States.
no place on the mapWikipedia: United Auto Workers - 1968
The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons is signed in Washington, D.C., London and Moscow by sixty-two countries.
- 1968
The United States Central Intelligence Agency's Phoenix Program is officially established.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Central Intelligence Agency - 1970
The Belfast Banking Company, which issued banknotes in Northern Ireland, merged with its rival Northern Bank.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Belfast Banking Company - 1972
The first Gay pride march in England takes place.
Britain & Ireland · Pride in LondonWikipedia: Pride - 1976
Portugal grants autonomy to Madeira.
Europe · MadeiraWikipedia: Madeira - 1978
The Northern Territory in Australia is granted self-government.
Oceania · Northern TerritoryWikipedia: Northern Territory - 1979
Sony introduces the Walkman.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Sony - 1980
"O Canada" officially becomes the national anthem of Canada.
no place on the mapWikipedia: O Canada - 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.
Africa · 1983 CAAK Ilyushin Il-62 crashWikipedia: 1983 CAAK Ilyushin Il-62 crash - 1983
The Ministry of State Security is established as China's principal intelligence agency
no place on the mapWikipedia: Ministry of State Security - 1984
The PG-13 rating is introduced by the MPAA.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Motion Picture Association film rating system - 1987
The American radio station WFAN in New York City is launched as the world's first all-sports radio station.
North America · WFANWikipedia: WFAN - 1990
German reunification: East Germany accepts the Deutsche Mark as its currency, thus uniting the economies of East and West Germany.
Europe · East GermanyWikipedia: German reunification - 1991
Cold War: The Warsaw Pact is officially dissolved at a meeting in Prague.
Europe · PragueWikipedia: Cold War - 1991
The Finnish operator Radiolinja is launched as the world's first GSM network.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Radiolinja - 1997
China resumes sovereignty over the city-state of Hong Kong, ending 156 years of British colonial rule. The handover ceremony is attended by British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Charles, Prince of Wales, Chinese President Jiang Zemin and U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright.
Asia · Hong KongWikipedia: Handover of Hong Kong - 1997
Space Shuttle program: Space Shuttle Columbia is launched on STS-94, a re-flight of the prematurely-ended STS-83 mission with the same crew.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Space Shuttle program - 1999
The Scottish Parliament is officially opened by Elizabeth II on the day that legislative powers are officially transferred from the old Scottish Office in London to the new devolved Scottish Executive in Edinburgh. In Wales, the powers of the Welsh Secretary are transferred to the National Assembly.
Britain & Ireland · EdinburghWikipedia: Scottish Government - 2002
Bashkirian Airlines Flight 2937, a Tupolev Tu-154, and DHL Flight 611, a Boeing 757, collide in mid-air over Überlingen, southern Germany, killing all 71 on board both planes.
Europe · 2002 Überlingen mid-air collisionWikipedia: 2002 Überlingen mid-air collision - 2002
The International Criminal Court is established to prosecute individuals for genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes and the crime of aggression.
no place on the mapWikipedia: International Criminal Court - 2003
Over 500,000 people protest against efforts to pass anti-sedition legislation in Hong Kong.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Article 23 - 2004
Saturn orbit insertion of Cassini–Huygens begins at 01:12 UTC and ends at 02:48 UTC.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Saturn - 2006
The Qinghai–Tibet railway first operates in China.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Qinghai–Tibet railway - 2007
Smoking bans in the United Kingdom culminate in a prohibition on smoking in all public indoor spaces in England.
no place on the mapWikipedia: Smoking bans in the United Kingdom - 2008
Riots erupt in Mongolia in response to allegations of fraud surrounding the 2008 legislative elections.
no place on the mapWikipedia: 2008 riot in Mongolia - 2013
Croatia becomes the 28th member of the European Union.
no place on the mapWikipedia: 2013 enlargement of the European Union - 2020
The United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement replaces NAFTA.
no place on the mapWikipedia: United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement - 2024
At the centennial ceremony of the Dominion of Newfoundland National War Memorial, the Commonwealth War Graves Commission allows an unprecedented second Canadian Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. The Royal Newfoundland Regiment soldier is entombed in the memorial at this ceremony.
North America · National War MemorialWikipedia: National War Memorial
What the other Wikipedias remember
For these years the English list has nothing on this day. The events below come from the same day’s lists on Wikipedia in Chinese and were translated for this page.
- 1904
The 3rd Summer Olympic Games are held in St Louis, United States.
Who was born on 1 July
In order of how many Wikipedia editions have an article about each. The first 60 of 261 are shown.
- 1646
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, German mathematician and philosopher (died 1716)
- 1961
Diana, Princess of Wales (died 1997)
Park HouseWikipedia: Diana, Princess of Wales - 1804
George Sand, French author and playwright (died 1876)
former 6th arrondissement of ParisWikipedia: George Sand - 1967
Pamela Anderson, Canadian-American model and actress
LadysmithWikipedia: Pamela Anderson - 1955
Li Keqiang, Chinese economist and politician, 7th Premier of the People's Republic of China (died 2023)
- 1916
Olivia de Havilland, British-American actress (died 2020)
- 1742
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, German physicist and academic (died 1799)
Ober-RamstadtWikipedia: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg - 1977
Liv Tyler, American actress
East HarlemWikipedia: Liv Tyler - 1818
Ignaz Semmelweis, Hungarian-Austrian physician and obstetrician (died 1865)
- 1934
Sydney Pollack, American actor, director and producer (died 2008)
LafayetteWikipedia: Sydney Pollack - 1961
Carl Lewis, American long jumper and runner
BirminghamWikipedia: Carl Lewis - 1976
Ruud van Nistelrooy, Dutch footballer and manager
- 1902
William Wyler, French-American film director, producer and screenwriter (died 1981)
MulhouseWikipedia: William Wyler - 1899
Charles Laughton, English-American actor and director (died 1962)
ScarboroughWikipedia: Charles Laughton - 1985
Léa Seydoux, French actor
16th arrondissement of ParisWikipedia: Léa Seydoux - 1991
Lucas Vázquez, Spanish footballer
CurtisWikipedia: Lucas Vázquez - 1989
Daniel Ricciardo, Australian race car driver
- 1952
Dan Aykroyd, Canadian actor, producer and screenwriter
OttawaWikipedia: Dan Aykroyd - 1926
Robert Fogel, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2013)
New York CityWikipedia: Robert Fogel - 1945
Debbie Harry, American singer-songwriter and actress
- 1976
Patrick Kluivert, Dutch footballer and coach
AmsterdamWikipedia: Patrick Kluivert - 1481
Christian II of Denmark (died 1559)
- 1953
Jadranka Kosor, Croatian journalist and politician, 9th Prime Minister of Croatia
- 1939
Karen Black, American actress (died 2013)
Park RidgeWikipedia: Karen Black - 1872
Louis Blériot, French pilot and engineer (died 1936)
CambraiWikipedia: Louis Blériot - 1929
Gerald Edelman, American biologist and immunologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2014)
- 1971
Missy Elliott, American rapper, producer, dancer and actress
PortsmouthWikipedia: Missy Elliott - 1921
Seretse Khama, Batswana lawyer and politician, 1st President of Botswana (died 1980)
SeroweWikipedia: Seretse Khama - 1927
Chandra Shekhar, 8th Prime Minister of India (died 2007)
IbrahimpattiWikipedia: Chandra Shekhar - 1534
Frederick II of Denmark (died 1588)
HaderslevWikipedia: Frederick II of Denmark - 1788
Jean-Victor Poncelet, French mathematician and engineer (died 1867)
- 1931
Leslie Caron, French actress and dancer
Boulogne-BillancourtWikipedia: Leslie Caron - 1941
Alfred G. Gilman, American pharmacologist and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2015)
New HavenWikipedia: Alfred G. Gilman - 1941
Myron Scholes, Canadian-American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
TimminsWikipedia: Myron Scholes - 1506
Louis II of Hungary (died 1526)
- 1879
Léon Jouhaux, French union leader, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1954)
15th arrondissement of ParisWikipedia: Léon Jouhaux - 1903
Amy Johnson, English pilot (died 1941)
Kingston upon HullWikipedia: Amy Johnson - 2003
Tate McRae, Canadian singer-songwriter and dancer
CalgaryWikipedia: Tate McRae - 1989
Hannah Murray, English actress
BristolWikipedia: Hannah Murray - 1906
Estée Lauder, American businesswoman, co-founder of Estée Lauder Companies (died 2004)
CoronaWikipedia: Estée Lauder - 1942
Geneviève Bujold, Canadian actress
MontrealWikipedia: Geneviève Bujold - 2004
Alejandro Garnacho, Spanish-Argentine footballer
ArroyomolinosWikipedia: Alejandro Garnacho - 1982
Hilarie Burton, American actress
SterlingWikipedia: Hilarie Burton - 1953
Lawrence Gonzi, Maltese lawyer and politician, 12th Prime Minister of Malta
VallettaWikipedia: Lawrence Gonzi - 1873
Alice Guy-Blaché, French-American film director, producer and screenwriter (died 1968)
Saint-MandéWikipedia: Alice Guy-Blaché - 1935
David Prowse, English actor (died 2020)
BristolWikipedia: David Prowse - 1911
Sergey Sokolov, Russian marshal and politician, Soviet Minister of Defence (died 2012)
YevpatoriyaWikipedia: Sergei Sokolov - 1918
Ahmed Deedat, South African writer and public speaker (died 2005)
- 1924
Antoni Ramallets, Spanish footballer and manager (died 2013)
BarcelonaWikipedia: Antoni Ramallets - 1925
Farley Granger, American actor (died 2011)
San JoseWikipedia: Farley Granger - 1934
Claude Berri, French actor, director and screenwriter (died 2009)
10ᵗʰ arrondissement of ParisWikipedia: Claude Berri - 1975
Sufjan Stevens, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
DetroitWikipedia: Sufjan Stevens - 1899
Konstantinos Tsatsos, Greek scholar and politician, President of Greece (died 1987)
- 1949
Venkaiah Naidu, Indian lawyer and politician
NelloreWikipedia: Venkaiah Naidu - 1950
David Duke, American white supremacist, politician and Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard
- 1962
Andre Braugher, American actor (died 2023)
ChicagoWikipedia: Andre Braugher - 1996
Adelina Sotnikova, Russian figure skater
- 1892
James M. Cain, American author and journalist (died 1977)
AnnapolisWikipedia: James M. Cain - 1915
Willie Dixon, American blues singer-songwriter, bass player, guitarist and producer (died 1992)
VicksburgWikipedia: Willie Dixon - 1916
Iosif Shklovsky, Ukrainian astronomer and astrophysicist (died 1985)
HlukhivWikipedia: Iosif Shklovsky
What is celebrated on 1 July
- Christian feast day: Aaron (Catholic Church and Syriac Christianity)
- Christian feast day: Blessed Antonio Rosmini-Serbati
- Christian feast day: Junípero Serra
- Christian feast day: Julius and Aaron
- Christian feast day: Leontius of Autun
- Christian feast day: Oliver Plunkett
- Christian feast day: Servanus
- Christian feast day: Veep
- Christian feast day: 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)
- Armed Forces Day (Singapore)
- Bobby Bonilla Day (United States)
- Canada Day, formerly Dominion Day (Canada)
- Children's Day (Pakistan)
A greeting link for someone
Type a name and, if you like, the year of birth. The link opens with a greeting, and beside each event it says how old the person turned that day, or how many years before their birth it happened.
The name and the year go only into the link you send.
All 366 days
How the globe is made
Where the events come from
Each edition of this page uses the day’s list from Wikipedia in its own language: Romanian, English, Spanish, Chinese. The lists are written by volunteers and differ from one edition to the next; the text of each event is Wikipedia’s, with a link to the article. A row that appears twice in a list is shown once. The lists have not been checked event by event: they are Wikipedia’s, mistakes included.
For events before 1582, and for countries that moved to the Gregorian calendar later (Britain in 1752, Russia in 1918), the same day may be counted Old Style in one list and New Style in another.
The chapter “What the other Wikipedias remember” adds up to five events a day from the lists of the other three editions, only for years in which the English list has nothing on that day. They were translated for this page, passed the same filters as the tour, and are not counted among the events of the English list.
How an event gets onto the map
The place comes from Wikidata. If the sentence links to the article about the event itself (a battle, an opening, an earthquake), dated to the same year, the ray stands on its coordinates or on those of its location. Otherwise it stands on the first place the sentence links to: a town, a building, a mountain, an island. This second step can be wrong: sometimes the sentence only mentions the place. That is why the page says, under each event, which place the ray stands on.
When the sentence links to a single state or province, or to a single sea, lake or desert larger than 5,000 km², the globe shows a dashed circle, not a ray. The circle has the area Wikidata gives, with its radius kept between 1.2° and 16°, or a radius of 4.5° when Wikidata gives no area; it says only that the sentence links to that place. Organisations, ships, spacecraft, museum objects, rivers, mountain ranges, languages and continents are never used as places. When a sentence names several states and no exact place, the event stays in the list only.
What the height means
The height of a ray shows how many years have passed, on a logarithmic scale: 10 years, 100 years and 1,000 years are equal steps apart; anything older than about 2,600 years has the tallest ray. The colour runs from pale yellow for recent years to violet for antiquity.
Where the tour stops
In each region the tour stops at up to three events (five in Britain and Ireland), chosen mainly by three things: whether Wikipedia’s editors put the event in the “On this day” box of their main page (the English, Spanish and Chinese editions), how many Wikipedia editions have an article about it, and how many of the four lists include it. Events whose sentence or article is about a war, an attack, a crime or a disaster are left out of the tour; they stay in the whole list, in Wikipedia’s wording. The filter is a list of words and a list of Wikidata types, so it can miss some.
The tour of births names the people with articles in the most editions and leaves aside those whom the list or Wikidata describes as rulers, politicians, commanders, leaders of movements or criminals; they stay in the list.
The Earth and the Sun
The daytime images are NASA’s Blue Marble Next Generation mosaics, one for each month of 2004; the night side is Black Marble 2016. The tilt of the line between day and night is computed for the day; the hour is chosen so that the place being read is in daylight. The latitude where the Sun stands overhead is the average of the four years of the leap cycle; in a given year it can differ by up to 0.4°.
The day you were born
The number ones come from the weekly lists on Wikipedia: Billboard for the United States (from 1940; the Hot 100 from August 1958), the UK Singles Chart (from November 1952), Los 40 Principales for Spain (from July 1966) and, for Romania, the Romanian Top 100 and Airplay 100 (2001–2021, with missing weeks). The page shows the chart of the week in which the day of birth falls, with its date; Billboard and the UK chart are dated at the end of their week. For Romania before 2001 and for China these sources have no weekly chart.
The films are those that reached cinemas in the United States up to ten days before or three days after that day (some of them in a few cinemas at first), from the English Wikipedia’s yearly lists (from 1968), in order of how many editions have an article about them. The events “in those days” are the ones on the neighbouring days’ lists that carry the year of birth, passed through the same filter as the tour.
The day of birth, year included
The Moon, the star sign and the constellation are worked out by the page itself, for noon Universal Time on the day. The lit part of the Moon is rounded and can differ by a few per cent from that at the hour of birth. The sign follows the usual zodiac of twelve equal parts starting at the March equinox; the constellation is the one the Sun actually stood in front of, by the borders set by the International Astronomical Union, and within a day of a border the page does not name it. When the Sun changes sign while it is that day anywhere on Earth, the page gives the moment of crossing, rounded to ten minutes and accurate to within about a quarter of an hour, and the clock time in a few cities, with the time zone and summer time of that year.
The year in the Chinese calendar is the one your device’s own calendar gives for the date, checked against the Hong Kong Observatory’s tables. “All your birthdays” uses the same sources as the rest of the chapter for the same day in every year since the birth: the temperature, well-known launches that took place on that very day, matches of the teams the edition follows, snow deeper than 10 cm and strong geomagnetic storms. The three things at the top and the four on the picture are chosen in a fixed order (the song, the animal, a full Moon, a well-known launch before an ordinary earthquake); on the picture you can change them.
When the link carries a year of birth, the page adds a few things about that exact day. The weather is the Met Office’s Central England temperature record and the readings from New York’s Central Park; the “usual high” is the average of the daily highs of 1961–1990 for that date, with two days either side. The carbon dioxide figure is the monthly mean at the Mauna Loa observatory, where measurements begin in March 1958.
The earthquake is the one with the largest magnitude in the USGS catalogue for that day, counted in Universal Time. Before the 1960s the catalogue has gaps even above magnitude 5.5, so in the older years many days have no earthquake. The page gives only the magnitude and the place: the country the epicentre falls in or, when the epicentre is at sea within 300 km of a coast, the nearest country; farther out, only the ocean.
The launches are those that reached orbit or left for the Moon and the planets, from Jonathan McDowell’s GCAT catalogue. If nothing left that day, the page shows the nearest launch within three days before or after, and says how many days away it was. The geomagnetic storm appears only when the Kp index reached at least 5 in one of the day’s eight three-hour intervals.
The animal comes from GBIF: an observation made by a person (the animal seen or heard, or its tracks), dated to that exact day, with coordinates and a CC0 or CC BY licence. Only a few hundred well-known species are searched (mammals, birds, turtles, butterflies); of those noted that day, mammals and species with articles in many Wikipedia editions come first; birds noted almost every day, and species used recently, wait their turn. Observations dated 1 January are left out, because records without a day are often filed there. An observation shows that the animal was recorded there, not how many animals there were.
The matches are those between national teams. Only matches of England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland, the United States, Canada and Australia are shown, along with those at the big final tournaments. The picture to send is drawn in the page from the day’s globe and the facts above, and stays on your device until you send it.
Sources
- Events, births and holidays: the day’s page on Wikipedia, text under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Coordinates, places of birth and the number of editions: Wikidata (CC0).
- The Earth by day: NASA Blue Marble Next Generation. The Earth by night: NASA Black Marble 2016.
- Borders and regions: Natural Earth.
- World population and births per year: UN World Population Prospects 2024.
- Charts and films: Wikipedia’s lists for Billboard, the UK Singles Chart, Los 40 Principales, Romanian Top 100, Airplay 100 and American films by year (CC BY-SA 4.0).
- Weather: Met Office Hadley Centre, HadCET (Open Government Licence) and NOAA GHCN-Daily, New York Central Park. Carbon dioxide: NOAA Global Monitoring Laboratory, Mauna Loa.
- Earthquakes: the USGS catalogue. Launches: Jonathan McDowell, GCAT (CC BY). Kp index: GFZ Potsdam (CC BY 4.0). Matches: International football results, Mart Jürisoo (CC0).
- Animal observations: GBIF, with a link to each record; species names come from Wikidata.