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What happened in history on this day: July 1?
On July 1 in ...
- 1958 - The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation links television broadcasting across Canada via microwave.
- 1998 - Buena Vista releases the film Armageddon to theaters.
- 2009 - Fox releases the film Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs to theaters.
- 2010 - China's state news agency Xinhua launches the CNC World 24-hour global news television channel in English.
Births on July 1
- 1899 - Birth of Charles Laughton in England; actor (Mutiny on the Bounty).
- 1902 - Birth of Billy Wyler; director (Mrs Miniver).
- 1925 - Birth of Farley Granger; actor (Arnold, Rope).
- 1931 - Birth of Leslie Caron in Boulogne-Biliancourt, France; actress (Lili, Father Goose).
- 1934 - Birth of Jamie Farr in Toledo, Ohio, USA; actor (Klinger - M*A*S*H, AfterMASH).
- 1934 - Birth of Jean Marsh in London, England; actress (Dark Places, The Eagle has Landed).
- 1942 - Birth of Genevieve Bujold in Montréal, Quebec, Canada; actress (King of Hearts, Choose Me).
- 1942 - Birth of Karen Black in Park Ridge, Illinois, USA; actress (Five Easy Pieces, Trilogy of Horror, Pyx).
- 1945 - Birth of Deborah Harry; rocker (Blondie - "Heart of Glass"), actor (Videodrome, Hairspray).
- 1951 - Birth of Daryl Anderson in Seattle, Washington, USA; actor (Animal - Lou Grant).
- 1951 - Birth of Trevor Eve in Wales; actor (Shadow Chasers).
- 1952 - Birth of Dan Aykroyd in Ottawa, Canada; comedian/actor (Saturday Night Live, Dragnet).
- 1956 - Birth of Lorna Patterson in Whittier, California, USA; actress (Airplane!, Private Benjamin).
- 1967 - Birth of Pamela Anderson in Ladysmith, British Columbia, Canada; model, actress (Home Improvement).
Deaths on July 1
- 1979 - Richard Ward, actor (Beacon Hill), dies at age 64.
- 1981 - George Voskovec, actor (Fred - Nero Wolfe, Peter - Skag), dies at age 76.
- 1986 - Death of Roy Poole at age 62; actor (Winds of War).
- 1991 - Michael Landon, American actor (Bonanza, Little House on the Prairie), dies at age 54 from cancer (born 1936).
- 1997 - Death of Robert Mitchum of lung cancer and emphysema at age 79; actor (The Winds of War TV mini-series, War and Remembrance TV mini-series).
- 1999 - Death of Sylvia Sidney at age 88; actress (46 years of TV guest appearances, WKRP, Thirtysomething, Fantasy Island).
- 2000 - Death of Walter Matthau at age 79 from a heart attack; actor (The Odd Couple movie).
- 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.
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