WHAT HAPPENED ON 1. JULY
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The United States Department of Justice formally comes into existence. (1. July 1870)

Prince Edward Island joins the Canadian Confederation. (1. July 1873)

The Sholes and Glidden typewriter, the first commercially successful typewriter, goes on sale. (1. July 1874)

Canada joins the Universal Postal Union. (1. July 1878)

Charles Taze Russell publishes the first edition of the religious magazine The Watchtower. (1. July 1879)

The world's first international telephone call is made between St. Stephen, New Brunswick, Canada, and Calais, Maine, United States. (1. July 1881)

General Order 70, the culmination of the Cardwell and Childers reforms of the British Army, comes into effect. (1. July 1881)

The United States terminates reciprocity and fishery agreement with Canada. (1. July 1885)

Canada and Bermuda are linked by telegraph cable. (1. July 1890)

Spanish–American War: the Battle of San Juan Hill is fought in Santiago de Cuba. (1. July 1898)

Start of first Tour de France bicycle race. (1. July 1903)

SOS is adopted as the international distress signal. (1. July 1908)

Germany despatched the gunship Panther to Morocco, sparking the Agadir Crisis. (1. July 1911)

Lieutenant Kurt Wintgens achieves the first known aerial victory with a synchronized machine-gun armed fighter plane, the Fokker M.5K/MG Eindecker. (1. July 1915)

World War I: First day on the Somme – On the first day of the Battle of the Somme 19,000 soldiers of the British Army are killed and 40,000 wounded. (1. July 1916)

The Communist Party of China is founded. (1. July 1921)

The Great Railroad Strike of 1922 begins in the United States. (1. July 1922)

The Canadian Parliament suspends all Chinese immigration. (1. July 1923)

United Airlines begins service (as Boeing Air Transport). (1. July 1931)

Regina, Saskatchewan police and Royal Canadian Mounted Police ambush strikers participating in On-to-Ottawa Trek. (1. July 1935)