TODAY IN HISTORY
TODAY IS MONDAY, JULY 1, the 182nd day of 2019. There are 183 days left in the year.
TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT IN HISTORY: On this date 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.
In 1863, the pivotal three-day Civil War Battle of Gettysburg, resulting in a Union victory, began in Pennsylvania.
In 1867, Canada became a selfgoverning dominion of Great Britain as the British North America Act took effect.
In 1934, Hollywood began enforcing its Production Code subjecting motion pictures to censorship review.
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.
In 1946, the United States exploded a 20-kiloton atomic bomb near Bikini Atoll in the Pacific.
In 1961, Diana, the princess of Wales, was born in Sandringham, England. She died in a 1997 car crash in Paris at age 36.
In 1963, the U.S. Post Office inaugurated its five-digit ZIP codes.
In 1973, the Drug Enforcement Administration was established.
In 1991, the Warsaw Pact formally disbanded.
In 1995, rock-and-roll disc jockey Wolfman Jack died in Belvidere, North Carolina, at age 57.
In 1997, Hong Kong reverted to Chinese rule after 156 years as a British colony.
In 2002, the world’s first permanent war crimes tribunal, the International Criminal Court, came into existence. A Russian passenger jet collided with a cargo plane over southern Germany, killing all 69 people, including 45 schoolchildren, on the Russian plane and the cargo jet pilots.
TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS: Actress Olivia de Havilland is 103. Actress-dancer Leslie Caron is 88. Actress Jean Marsh and actor Jamie Farr are 85. Actor David Prowse is 84. Cookiemaker Wally Amos is 83. Dancer-choreographer Twyla Tharp is 78. Actress Genevieve Bujold is 77. Rock singer-actress Deborah Harry is 74. Movie-TV producer-director Michael Pressman is 69. Actors Daryl Anderson, Trevor Eve and Terrence Mann, rock singer Fred Schneider (B-52’s) and pop singer Victor Willis (Village People) are 68. Actorcomedian Dan Aykroyd is 67. Rhythm and blues singer Evelyn “Champagne” King is 59. Olympic gold medal track star Carl Lewis and country singer Michelle Wright are 58. Actors Andre Braugher and Dominic Keating are 57. Actress Pamela Anderson is 52. Hiphop artist Missy Elliott, and actresses Julianne Nicholson and Melissa Peterman are 48. Actress/writer Jill Kargman is 45. Rock musician Bryan Devendorf (The National) and singer/ songwriter Sufjan Stevens are 44. Actor Thomas Sadoski is 43. Actress Liv Tyler is 42. Actress Lea Seydoux is 34. Actress Storm Reid is 16.