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| Science Boy
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|  On This Day (July 1)
- 1520 – La Noche Triste: Spanish Conquistadors under Hernán Cortés barely succeeded in escaping from the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan.
- 1569 – The Union of Lublin was signed, merging the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania into a single state, the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
- 1804 - George Sand, French writer born. (d. 1876) (Amandine Aurore Lucile Dupin, Baronne Dudevant, best known by her pseudonym George Sand, was a French novelist and feminist.)
George Sand. Photo by Nadar, 1864.
- 1858 - The joint reading of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace's papers on evolution to the Linnean Society.
- 1863 - American Civil War: the Battle of Gettysburg begins.
- 1867 – The British North America Act came into effect, uniting the Province of Canada, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia into the Canadian Confederation.
- 1898 - Spanish-American War: The Battle of San Juan Hill was fought in Santiago de Cuba.
- 1916 – World War I: The first day of the Battle of the Somme became the bloodiest day in the history of the British Army, with 57,470 casualties of which 19,240 were killed or died of wounds.
- 1925 - Erik Satie, French composer died. (b. 1866) (Satie was a French composer and pianist.)
- 1942 - World War II: First Battle of El Alamein.
- 1997 – The United Kingdom transferred sovereignty of Hong Kong to the People's Republic of China.
- 1983 - R. Buckminster Fuller, American architect and philosopher died. (b. 1903) (Fuller was an American architect, author, designer, futurist, inventor, and visionary. He was the second president of Mensa. Carbon compounds known as Fullerenes were named after him and he designed the geodesic dome.)
The Climatron greenhouse at Missouri Botanical Gardens, built in 1960, inspired the domes in the science fiction film Silent Running.
- 1999 - Forrest Mars Sr., American candy magnate died. (b. 1904) (Mars was the driving force of the Mars multi-billionaire candy empire. He is best known for inventing M&M's and the Mars bar, as well as orchestrating the launch of Uncle Ben's.)
Picture of the Day 
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt of the Rough Riders, a regiment of volunteers in the United States Army. Under Roosevelt's leadership, the Rough Riders became famous for dual charges up Kettle Hill and San Juan Hill on July 1, 1898. On leaving the Army, Roosevelt was elected governor of New York in 1898. He was then chosen to be William McKinley's vice-presidential running mate in the 1900 election. Roosevelt then succeeded to the presidency upon McKinley's assassination in 1901. |
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