Today is Wednesday, July 1, the 182nd day of 2026. There are 183 days left in the year.In 1863, the pivotal, three-day Civil War Battle of Gettysburg, resulting in a Union victory, began in Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n
In 1867, Canada became a self-governing dominion of Great Britain as the British North America Act took effect. Called Dominion Day until 1982, the national holiday is now known as Canada Day.<\/p>\n
In 1903, the first Tour de France began. (It ended on July 19, won by Maurice Garin.)<\/p>\n
In 1944, delegates from 44 countries began meeting at Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, where they agreed to establish the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.<\/p>\n
In 1963, the U.S. Post Office inaugurated its five-digit ZIP codes.<\/p>\n
In 1973, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration was established.<\/p>\n
In 1984, the first movie rated PG-13 (\u201cRed Dawn,\u201d starring Patrick Swayze) was released.<\/p>\n
In 1991, President George H.W. Bush nominated federal appeals court judge Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court, beginning an ultimately successful confirmation process marked by allegations of sexual harassment.<\/p>\n
In 1997, Hong Kong reverted to Chinese rule after 156 years as a British colony.<\/p>\n
In 2004, actor Marlon Brando died in Los Angeles at age 80.<\/p>\n
In 2015, after more than a half-century of hostility, the United States and Cuba declared their intent to reopen embassies in each other\u2019s capitals, leading to a historic full restoration of diplomatic relations between the Cold War foes.<\/p>\n
In 2018, LeBron James announced that he would be signing with the Los Angeles Lakers, leaving Cleveland for the second time in his career.<\/p>\n
In 2019, 15-year-old Coco Gauff, the youngest player to qualify at Wimbledon in the professional era, defeated 39-year-old Venus Williams in the first round.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Today is Wednesday, July 1, the 182nd day of 2026. There are 183 days left in the year.In…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":111498,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[17,6186,8704,38863,38862,38861,1645],"class_list":["post-111497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-canada","tag-history","tag-nation","tag-on-this-date","tag-today-in-history","tag-todayinhistory","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}