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Notable anniversaries in history for today: July 1
- 150th: 1874 - First US kidnapping for ransom, 4-year-old Charles Ross, $20,000.
- 100th: 1924 - Regular transcontinental airmail service established, New York City to San Francisco.
- 90th: 1934 - First x-ray photo of entire body, Rochester, New York.
- 90th: 1934 - Birth of Claude Berri in Paris, France; director (Le Sex Shop, L'Homme Blesse).
- 90th: 1934 - Birth of Jamie Farr in Toledo, Ohio, USA; actor (Klinger - M*A*S*H, AfterMASH).
- 90th: 1934 - Birth of Jean Marsh in London, England; actress (Dark Places, The Eagle has Landed).
- 90th: 1934 - Birth of Sydney Pollack; director (Tootsie, Presumed Innocent) (dies 2008).
- 80th: 1944 - Bretton Woods Conference starts, establishing International Monetary Fund and World Bank.
- 60th: 1964 - Birth of Poi Burton; rocker (Transvision Vamp - "Velveteen").
- 60th: 1964 - Heinrich Lübke (CDU) is reelected President of the Federal Republic of Germany.
- 50th: 1974 - Monmouthshire renamed Gwent and becomes part of Wales.
- 40th: 1984 - Death of Moshé Feldenkrais, Ukrainian founder of the Feldenkrais Method (born 1904).
- 30th: 1994 - Palestinian Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat arrives in Gaza.
- 25th: 1999 - Johannes Rau succeeds Roman Herzog as Germany's President (Bundespräsident).
- 25th: 1999 - Death of Sylvia Sidney at age 88; actress (46 years of TV guest appearances, WKRP, Thirtysomething, Fantasy Island).
- 20th: 2004 - The Cassini-Huygens spacecraft arrives at Saturn.
- 20th: 2004 - Death of Todor Skalovski, Macedonian composer (born 1909).
- 20th: 2004 - Horst Köhler is inaugurated as Germany's President (Bundespräsident).
- 15th: 2009 - Death of Karl Malden, Hollywood actor (How the West Was Won, Birdman of Alcatraz, Patton, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Streets of San Francisco), president of Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences (1989-92), at his Los Angeles home at age 97.
- 15th: 2009 - Death of Alexis Arguello, mayor of Managua, Nicaragua, former champion lightweight boxer, at age 57, of a gunshot.
- 15th: 2009 - Crabtree & Evelyn of Connecticut, USA files for bankruptcy protection.
- 15th: 2009 - Shares of American International Group drop 22 percent, following shareholder approval of a 1-for-20 reverse stock split, and after the New York Stock Exchange accidentally announced the suspension and delisting of the stock.
- 15th: 2009 - Thousands of casinos, slot-machine parlors, and betting halls shut down across Russia, under new law passed three years ago comes into effect, allowing gambling businesses only in four remote regions. An estimated 400,000 people are put out of work.
- 15th: 2009 - Sweden assumes the presidency of the European Union.
- 15th: 2009 - An Ariane 5 rocket launches from French Guiana, carrying TerreStar-1, the world's biggest commercial telecommunications satellite. The TerreStar Networks' satellite will provide voice, messaging and data connections to the North American market.
- 15th: 2009 - Fox releases the film Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs to theaters.
- 5th: 2019 - A fire on the Russian deep-diving submarine Losharik kills 14 crew members.
- 5th: 2019 - Japan resumes commercial whaling after a 30-year moratorium, following its withdrawal from the International Whaling Commission.
- 5th: 2019 - Japan announces tightening high-tech exports to South Korea.
- 5th: 2019 - The International Atomic Energy Agency confirms that Iran has breached the limit on its stockpile of enriched uranium.
- 5th: 2019 - During the annual July 1 protests that mark the anniversary of the British handover of the city to China, a group of a few hundred protesters storm the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, defacing various portraits and destroying furniture before being dispersed by police using tear gas.
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