Thursday, July 01, 2021

History for July 1

History for July 1 - On-This-Day.com
Wally Amos, Jr. 1936 - Entrepreneur, created Famous Amos chocolate chip cookies
  • 1862 - The U.S. Congress established the Bureau of Internal Revenue.
  • 1863 - During the U.S. Civil War, the first day's fighting at Gettysburg began.
  • 1867 - Canada became an independent dominion.
  • 1898 - During the Spanish-American War, Theodore Roosevelt and his "Rough Riders" waged a victorious assault on San Juan Hill in Cuba.
  • 1943 - The U.S. Government began automatically withholding federal income tax from paychecks.
  • 1963 - The U.S. postmaster introduced the five-digit ZIP (Zoning Improvement Plan) code.
  • 1966 - The Medicare federal insurance program went into effect.
  • 1997 - The sovereignty over Hong Kong was transferred from Great Britain to China. Britain had controlled Hong Kong as a colony for 156 years.
  • 2003 - In Hong Kong, thousands of protesters marched to show their opposition to anti-subversion legislation.

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