On This Day:
Tuesday July 1, 2014 This is the 182nd day of the year, with 183 days remaining in 2014. Fact of the Day: adjectives Adjectives have no inflections aside from the determiners . The endings -er and -est denote degrees of comparison and are regarded as noninflectional suffixes (English is the only European language to employ uninflected adjectives).
Holidays Canada: Canada Day / Dominion Day / Independence Day.
Feast day of St. Gall of Clermont, Saints Aaron and Julius, St. Eparchius or Cybard, St. Oliver Plunket, St. Carilephus or Calais, St. Thierry or Theodoric of Mont d'Or, St. Servanus or Serf, St. Simeon Salus, and St. Shenute.
Burundi: Independence Day.
Rwanda: Independence Day.
Botswana: Sir Seretse Khama Day.
China: Half-Year Day.
Ghana: Republic Day.
Suriname: Liberation Day.
Events 1751 - The first volume of Denis Diderot's "Encyclopédie" was published in Paris.
1838 - Charles Darwin presented a paper on his theory of evolution to the Linnean Society in London.
1847 - The United States Post Office issued its first stamps, a five-cent stamp honoring Benjamin Franklin and a ten-cent stamp for George Washington.
1859 - The first intercollegiate baseball game was played, between Amherst and Williams College.
1862 - The Bureau of Internal Revenue was established by an act of Congress.
1863 - In the Civil War, the Battle of Gettysburg began.
1873 - The province of Prince Edward Island joined the confederation of Canada.
1874 - The first zoo in the United States opened, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1898 - In the Spanish-American War, Teddy Roosevelt and his "Rough Riders" waged a victorious assault on San Juan Hill and El Caney in Cuba.
1916 - In World War I, the British launched a massive offensive against German forces in the Somme River region of France.
1934 - The Federal Communications Commission, as mandated in the "Communications Act of 1934," replaced the Federal Radio Commission as the regulator of broadcasting in the United States.
1941 - Mammoth Cave National Park was established in Kentucky.
1943 - "Pay as you go" income-tax withholding started.
1963 - The U.S. Post Office began using the 5-digit ZIP Code system.
1966 - Medicare went into effect.
1968 - The United States, Britain, Soviet Union, and 58 other nations signed the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.
1969 - Britain's Prince Charles was dubbed the Prince of Wales.
1971 - The U.S. Post Office became the U.S. Postal Service.
1979 - The Sony Walkman was introduced.
1980 - "O Canada" was proclaimed the national anthem of Canada.
1991 - Court TV debuted.
1991 - The "Warsaw Pact," the last vestige of the Cold War-era Soviet bloc, was formally disbanded.
1994 - PLO chairman Yasser Arafat drove from Egypt into Gaza, returning to Palestinian land after 27 years in exile.
1997 - Hong Kong reverted to Chinese rule after 156 years as a British colony.
2000 - Vermont's civil unions law went into effect, granting gay couples most of the rights, benefits, and responsibilities of marriage.
2000 - The Confederate flag was removed from South Carolina's Statehouse.
2005 - Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor announced her intention to retire.
2006 - The Qinghai-Tibet Railway in the People's Republic of China begins operation.
2007 - England bans smoking in virtually all enclosed public places and workplaces.
Births 1872 - Louis Bleriot, French aviation pioneer.
1902 - Myron Cohen, American comedian, entertainer, actor.
1908 - Estee Lauder, American cosmetics entrepreneur.
1934 - Sydney Pollack, American film director.
1952 - Dan Aykroyd, Canadian comedian, actor, screenwriter, and musician.
1961 - Lady Diana Spencer, Princess of Wales.
1961 - Carl Lewis, retired American track and field athlete.
1967 - Pamela Anderson, Canadian model.
Deaths 1896 - Harriet Beecher Stowe, American abolitionist and novelist.
1974 - Juan Perón, Argentinian politician.
1991 - Michael Landon (born Eugene Maurice Orowitz), American actor.
1995 - Wolfman Jack (born Robert Weston Smith), gravelly-voiced American radio personality.
2000 - Walter Matthau, American actor.
2004 - Marlon Brando, American Academy Award-winning actor.
2005 - Luther Vandross, American R&B and soul, singer and songwriter.
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