Monday July 1, 2024
A date scroll with Latin text from “The Extremes of Good and Evil” by Cicero, written in 45 BC.

July 1: Day of the Week

July 1, 2024 is the 183rd day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 183 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Monday.

If you are trying to learn Japanese then this day of the week in Japanese is Getsuyōbi.

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Here’s the July calendar. You can also browse the full year monthly calendar.

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Zodiac & Birthstone

Cancer is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Ruby is the modern birthstone for this month. Ruby is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

July 1: This Day in History

The end of this day marks the halfway point of a leap year. It also falls on the same day of the week as New Year’s Day in a leap year.

July 1 Historical Event(s)

1782
American privateers attack Lunenburg, Nova Scotia.
1837
A system of the civil registration of births, marriages and deaths is established in England and Wales.
1898
Spanish-American War: the Battle of San Juan Hill is fought in Santiago de Cuba.
1908
SOS is adopted as the international distress signal.
1959
Specific values for the international yard, avoirdupois pound and derived units (e.g. inch, mile and ounce) are adopted after agreement between the U.S.A., the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth countries.
1963
ZIP Codes are introduced for United States mail.
1968
Formal separation of the United Auto Workers from the AFL-CIO.
1990
German re-unification: East Germany accepts the Deutsche Mark as its currency, thus uniting the economies of East and West Germany.
1991
The Warsaw Pact is officially dissolved at a meeting in Prague.
2004
Saturn orbit insertion of Cassini-Huygens begins at 01:12 UTC and ends at 02:48 UTC.

Who were born on July 1?

1646
Gottfried Leibniz, German mathematician (d. 1716)
1742
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, German physicist (d. 1799)
1899
Konstantinos Tsatsos, Greek politician (d. 1987)
1915
Willie Dixon, American blues vocalist and record producer (d. 1992)
1930
Moustapha Akkad, Syrian-American filmmaker (d. 2005)
1932
Ze'ev Schiff, Israeli journalist (d. 2007)
1976
Hannu Tihinen, Finnish footballer
1976
Patrick Kluivert, Dutch footballer
1976
Thomas Sadoski, American actor
1982
Adrian Ward, American football player

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