| Date | Weekday | Event |
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| July 1, 1535 | Monday | Sir Thomas More went on trial in England charged with treason |
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| July 1, 1690 | Saturday | Army of England's Protestant King William III defeats former Roman Catholic king James II in the Battle of the Boyne in Ireland |
| July 1, 1776 | Monday | 1st vote on the Declaration of Independence |
| July 1, 1823 | Tuesday | United Provinces of Central America gain independence from Mexico. |
| July 1, 1847 | Thursday | Amateur astronomer M Hencke discovers his second asteroid Hebe |
| July 1, 1847 | Thursday | 1st adhesive US postage stamps go on sale |
| July 1, 1847 | Thursday | US issues its 1st postage stamps. |
| July 1, 1850 | Monday | At least 626 ships lying at anchor around SF Bay |
| July 1, 1861 | Monday | 1st public schoolhouse opens at Washington and Mason Streets S.F. |
| July 1, 1862 | Tuesday | Congress outlaws polygamy; bad news for Utah. |
| July 1, 1863 | Wednesday | Battle of Gettysburg Pa.; Lee's northward advance halted. |
| July 1, 1867 | Monday | Dominion of Canada formed from N.Bruns. N.Scotia Ontario & Qu‚bec. |
| July 1, 1873 | Tuesday | Prince Edward Island becomes 7th Canadian province. |
| July 1, 1898 | Friday | Teddy Roosevelt & his Rough Riders charge up San Juan Hill |
| July 1, 1899 | Saturday | SF City Hall turned over to city after 29 years of building |
| July 1, 1916 | Saturday | Eisenhower married Mary ``Mamie'' Geneva Doud in Denver Colo |
| July 1, 1919 | Tuesday | 1st class postage drops to 2› from 3›. |
| July 1, 1932 | Friday | NY Gov FDR nominated for president at the Dem Convention in Chicago |
| July 1, 1941 | Tuesday | 1st coml TV license granted-W2XBS-WNBT (NBC) & WCBW (CBS) NYC |
| July 1, 1941 | Tuesday | DiMaggio ties Willie Keeler's 44 game hitting streak |
| July 1, 1943 | Thursday | 1st withholding tax from paychecks |
| July 1, 1944 | Saturday | Bretton Woods Conference starts establishing IMF and World Bank. |
| July 1, 1959 | Wednesday | World Refugee Year |
| July 1, 1960 | Friday | Italian Somalia gains independence unites with Somali Republic. |
| July 1, 1960 | Friday | Ghana becomes a republic. |
| July 1, 1961 | Saturday | Haleakala National Park established in Hawaii |
| July 1, 1962 | Sunday | Burundi & Rwanda gain independence from Belgium (National Days). |
| July 1, 1963 | Monday | Beatles record "She Loves You" |
| July 1, 1966 | Friday | Construction crews begin tearing up Market St to build BART |
| July 1, 1966 | Friday | Medicare goes into effect. |
| July 1, 1968 | Monday | US Britain USSR & 58 nations sign Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty |
| July 1, 1969 | Tuesday | Charles Philip Arthur George invested as the Prince of Wales |
| July 1, 1971 | Thursday | Golden Gate Bridge paid for (so why is there still a toll?) |
| July 1, 1973 | Sunday | Caribbean Day |
| July 1, 1975 | Tuesday | WEDway PeopleMover inaugurated |
| July 1, 1977 | Friday | Virginia Wade beats Betty Stove for Wimbeldon's woman's singles |
| July 1, 1982 | Thursday | Kosmos 1383 1st search and rescue satellite launched. |
| July 1, 1982 | Thursday | More than 2000 Unification Church couples married at NY MSG |
| July 1, 1987 | Wednesday | NYC radio station WFAN-AM becomes the 1st 24 hour all sports radio replacing WHN's country music WYNY-FM adopts country music format |