July 1

Today in History
• 70 - Roman General Titus and his forces set up battering rams to assault the walls of Jerusalem
• 1200 - In China, sunglasses are invented
• 1390 - French and Genuese armada sails out against barbarian pirates
• 1698 - Congregation of Notre Dame of Montreal founded by Marguerite Bourgeoys
• 1776 - 1st vote on Declaration of Independence for Britain's North American colonies
• 1795 - John Rutledge becomes 2nd chief justice of US Supreme Court
• 1820 - 1st edition of newspaper "Courrier de la Meuse" published in the Netherlands
• 1831 - Admiral James C Ross reaches magnetic North Pole


Holidays - Traditional and Obscure
• American Zoo Day
• Burundi Independence Day
• Canada Day
• Ghana Republic Day
• Ketikoti
• National U.S. Postage Stamp Day
• Singapore Armed Forces Day
• Sir Seretse Khama Day

Birthdays
• 1381 - Laurentius Justitianus, Lorenzo Giustiniani, saint
• 1506 - Louis II, king of Hungary/Bohemia, 1516-26
• 1534 - Frederik II, King of Denmark/Norway, 1559-88
• 1646 - Gottfried Leibniz, mathematician and philosopher (differential and integral calculus)
• 1725 - Comte de Rochambeau, French Military commander that assisted the Thirteen Colonies
• 1802 - Gideon Welles, 24th U.S. Secretary of the Navy under Presidents Lincoln and Johnson
• 1818 - Ignaz Semmelweis, Hungarian physician who discovered the cause of childbed fever
• 1872 - Louis Blériot, French aviator and 1st man to fly an airplane across English Channel