What happend on 1st July

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1979

Sony introduces the Walkman.

1972

Andreas Baader, Jan-Carl Raspe and Holger Meins of the Red Army Faction are captured in Frankfurt after a shootout with the police.

1969

Rock group The Band release their influential debut Music From Big Pink.

1968

Formal separation of the United Auto Workers from the AFL-CIO.

1968

The Nuclear non-proliferation treaty signed by about sixty countries in Geneva, Switzerland.

1968

The CIA's Phoenix Program is officially established.

1967

The European Community is formally created out of a merger with the Common Market, the European Coal and Steel Community, and the European Atomic Energy Commission.

1966

First colour television transmission in Canada, from Toronto.

1963

The British Government admits that former diplomat Kim Philby had worked as a Soviet agent.

1963

U.S President John F. Kennedy arrives in Rome