Portal:United States/On this day/July 1
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Events
- 1782 - American privateers attack Lunenburg, Nova Scotia.
- 1862 - American Civil War: The Battle of Malvern Hill takes place, the final battle in the Seven Days Campaign, part of the George B. McClellan's Peninsula Campaign.
- 1863 - American Civil War: the Battle of Gettysburg begins.
- 1870 - The United States Department of Justice formally comes into existence.
- 1879 - Charles Taze Russell publishes the first edition of the religious magazine The Watchtower.
- 1885 - United States terminates reciprocity and fishery agreement with Canada.
- 1892 - The Homestead Strike, a strike by the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers against the Carnegie Steel Company, begins.
- 1898 - Spanish-American War: The Battle of San Juan Hill was fought in Santiago de Cuba.
- 1931 - United Airlines began service (as Boeing Air Transport)
- 1968 - The CIA's Phoenix Program is officially established.
- 1968 - Formal separation of the United Auto Workers from the AFL-CIO.
- 1984 - The PG-13 rating is introduced by the MPAA.
- 1987 - American radio station WFAN in New York City is launched as the world's first all-sports radio station.
- 2000 - Vermont's civil unions law goes into effect.
