What happend on 1st July

30.06
02.07
1935

Regina, Saskatchewan police and Royal Canadian Mounted Police ambush strikers participating in On-to-Ottawa-Trek.

1931

Official opening of Milan Central Station.

1923

Canadian Parliament suspends all Chinese immigration.

1916

First day on the Somme: On the first day of the Battle of the Somme 20,000 soldiers of the British Army are killed and 40,000 wounded.

1904

Games of the III Olympiad open in Saint Louis, Missouri.

1890

Canada and Bermuda linked by telegraph cable.

1885

United States terminates reciprocity and fishery agreement with Canada.

1881

General Order 70, the culmination of the Cardwell-Childers reforms of the British Army's organisation, came into effect.

1881

World's first international telephone call takes place between St. Stephen, New Brunswick, Canada, and Calais, Maine, USA.

1878

Canada joins the Universal Postal Union.