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July 1st
1646 ~ Birthday of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Mathematician & Philosopher.
1863 ~ Battle of Gettysburg in the American Civil War began.
1872 ~ Birthday of Louis Blériot, first man to fly across the English Channel.
1881 ~ World's first international telephone call, between St. Stephen, New Brunswick and Calais, Maine
1916 ~ First day of the First Battle of the Somme. On this first day, 20,000 soldiers of the British Army were killed, and 40,000 wounded.
1925 ~ Death of Erik Satie, Composer.
1961 ~ Birthday of Diana, Princess of Wales.
1962 ~ Independence of Rwanda and Burundi.
2000 ~ Death of Walter Matthau, Actor.
2004 ~ Saturn Orbit Insertion of Cassini-Huygens begins at 01:12 UT and ends at 02:48 UT.
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