NATIONAL POSTAL WORKER DAY
69 – Tiberius Julius Alexander orders his Roman legions in Alexandria to swear allegiance to Vespasian as Emperor.
1770 – Lexell's Comet passes closer to the Earth than any other comet in recorded history, approaching to a distance of 0.0146 a.u. The comet had been discovered in June 1770 by Charles Messier. The comet has not been seen since 1770 and is considered a lost comet.
1819 – Johann Georg Tralles discovers the Great Comet of 1819, (C/1819 N1). It was the first comet analyzed using polarimetry, by François Arago.
1921 – The Communist Party of China (CPC) is founded.
1819 – Johann Georg Tralles discovers the Great Comet of 1819, (C/1819 N1). It was the first comet analyzed using polarimetry, by François Arago.
1863 – American Civil War: The Battle of Gettysburg (PA) begins. General George Meade Army of the Potomac opposed Genral Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia. Known as the high point of the Confederacy, their defeat here changed the tide of the war to the Union.
1898 – The Spanish–American War: The Battle of San Juan Hill (San Juan Heights) is fought in Santiago de Cuba. The battle for the heights was the bloodiest and most famous battle of the war. It was also the location of the greatest victory for the Rough Riders, as claimed by the press and its new commander, 40-year old Theodore Roosevelt, who was to eventually become first vice-president and then president, and who was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor in 2001 for his actions in Cuba.
1916 – World War I: First day on the Somme river― On the first day of the Battle of the Somme (which ended on November 18 1916) 19,000 soldiers of the British Army are killed and 40,000 wounded. It was the largest battle of the First World War on the Western Front; more than one million men were wounded or killed, making it one of the bloodiest battles in human history.
1921 – The Communist Party of China (CPC) is founded.
1933 – American Aviator Wiley Post becomes the first person to fly solo around the world traveling 15,596 miles (25,099 km) in seven days, 18 hours and 45 minutes.
1942 – World War II: First Battle of El Alamein. It was a battle of the Western Desert Campaign of the Second World War, fought in Egypt between Axis forces(Germany and Italy) of the Panzer Army Africa(Panzerarmee Afrika) (also known as the Afrika Korps) commanded by Field Marshal (Generalfeldmarschall)Erwin Rommel nicknamed "The Desert Fox" and Allied(British Imperial) forces (Britain, British India, Australia, South Africa and New Zealand) of the Eighth Army, commanded by General Claude Auchinleck. The British prevented a second advance by the Axis forces into Egypt.
1943 – Tokyo City merges with Tokyo Prefecture and is dissolved. Since this date, no city in Japan has the name "Tokyo" (present-day Tokyo is not officially a city).
1958 – Flooding of Canada's Saint Lawrence Seaway begins.
1963 – ZIP codes are introduced for United States mail.
1979 – Sony introduces the Walkman.
1980 – "O Canada" officially becomes the national anthem of Canada.
1943 – Tokyo City merges with Tokyo Prefecture and is dissolved. Since this date, no city in Japan has the name "Tokyo" (present-day Tokyo is not officially a city).
1958 – Flooding of Canada's Saint Lawrence Seaway begins.
1963 – ZIP codes are introduced for United States mail.
1979 – Sony introduces the Walkman.
1980 – "O Canada" officially becomes the national anthem of Canada.
1981 – The Wonderland murders (also known as the Four on the Floor Murders or the Laurel Canyon Murders) occur in the early morning hours in Los Angeles, allegedly masterminded by businessman and drug dealer Eddie Nash. He, his henchman Gregory DeWitt Diles,[3][4]and porn star John Holmes were at various times arrested, tried, and acquitted for their involvement in the murders.
1984 – The PG-13 rating is introduced by the MPAA.
1991 – The Warsaw Pact is officially dissolved at a meeting in Prague. The Warsaw Pact was created in reaction to the integration of West Germany into NATO in 1955 per the Paris Pacts of 1954, but it is also considered to have been motivated by Soviet desires to maintain control over military forces in Central and Eastern Europe
1984 – The PG-13 rating is introduced by the MPAA.
1991 – The Warsaw Pact is officially dissolved at a meeting in Prague. The Warsaw Pact was created in reaction to the integration of West Germany into NATO in 1955 per the Paris Pacts of 1954, but it is also considered to have been motivated by Soviet desires to maintain control over military forces in Central and Eastern Europe
1997 – China resumes sovereignty over the city-state of Hong Kong, ending 156 years of British colonialrule.
2002 – The International Criminal Court is established to prosecute individuals for genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and the crime of aggression.
2013 – Neptune's moon S/2004 N 1 is discovered. It is a small moon, about 18 km (11 mi) in diameter, which orbits the planet in just under one Earth day. Its discovery on 1 July 2013 increased Neptune's retinue of known satellites to fourteen. The moon is so dim that it was not observed when Voyager 2 flew by in 1989. Mark Showalter of theSETI Institute found it by analyzing archived Neptune photographs the Hubble Space Telescope captured between 2004 and 2009
2015 – Militants launch attacks on Egyptian Armed Forces checkpoints in North Sinai, leaving dozens of security personnel and insurgents killed.
Today's Births
1646 – Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, German mathematician and philosopher (d. 1716)
1961 – Diana, Princess of Wales (d. 1997)
2015 – Militants launch attacks on Egyptian Armed Forces checkpoints in North Sinai, leaving dozens of security personnel and insurgents killed.
Today's Births
1646 – Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, German mathematician and philosopher (d. 1716)
1961 – Diana, Princess of Wales (d. 1997)
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