549 Historic Events for July 1
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| 1869 |
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Dutch newspaper stamp tax repealed
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| 1870 |
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James W Smith of SC is 1st black to enter West Point
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| 1871 |
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The decimal currency system is made uniform in Canada
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| 1872 |
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Louis Bl‚riot, 1st man to fly an airplane across English Channel
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| 1873 |
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Henry Flipper of Ga is 2nd black to enter West Point
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| 1873 |
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Prince Edward Island becomes 7th Canadian province
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| 1874 |
Birth |
Michel H Campen, author/critic (Bikoerim)
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| 1874 |
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1st US zoo opens (Philadelphia)
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| 1874 |
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1st US kidnapping for ransom, 4-year-old Charles Ross, $20,000
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| 1874 |
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1st Chamber accept law against child labor
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| 1875 |
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Universal Postal Union established
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| 1877 |
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1st edition of "Amsterdammer" published
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| 1878 |
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Treaty of Berlin divide Africa up for colonization
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| 1879 |
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Ex-khedive Ismael Pasha sails from Alexandria to Naples
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| 1879 |
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L‚on Jouhaux, France, socialist/co-founder UN's ILO (Nobel 1951)
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| 1881 |
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US Assay Office in St Louis, Missouri opens
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| 1881 |
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Piet[er] L Kramer, architect (Amsterdam School)
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| 1881 |
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1st international telephone conversation, Calais, ME-St Stephen, NB
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| 1883 |
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Manuel Gregorio Tavarez, composer, dies at 39
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| 1883 |
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ANWB forms in Utrecht
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| 1885 |
Death |
Hermann von Fehling, German chemist (Fehling's reagens), dies at 73
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| 1887 |
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Charles D Brown, Iowa, actor (Barefoot Boy, Disbarred, Night Editor)
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| 1889 |
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Frederick Douglass named Minister to Haiti
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| 1889 |
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US mint at Carson City, Nevada reopens
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| 1890 |
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Great-Britain and Germany sign Zanzibar-Helgoland Treaty
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