What happend on 1st July

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02.07
1963

ZIP Codes are introduced for United States mail.

1962

Independence of Burundi.

1962

Independence of Rwanda.

1960

Independence of Somalia.

1959

The Party of the African Federation (PFA) holds its constitutive conference.

1958

Flooding of the St. Lawrence Seaway begins.

1958

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation links television broadcasting across Canada via microwave.

1957

The International Geophysical Year begins (until December 31, 1958).

1948

Official opening of New York International Airport (now known as John F. Kennedy International Airport) at Idlewild.

1947

The Australian real estate franchise L. J. Hooker lists on the Australian Stock Exchange