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July 1st
1646 ~ Birthday of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, German Mathematician & Philosopher.
1858 ~ The joint reading of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace's papers on evolution.
1872 ~ Birthday of Louis Blériot, French aviation pioneer.
1873 ~ Prince Edward Island joined the Canadian Confederation.
1906 ~ Birthday of Estée Lauder, Cosmetics Pioneer.
1916 ~ On the first day of the Battle of the Somme 20,000 British soldiers were killed, and 40,000 wounded.
1925 ~ Death of Erik Satie, French Composer.
1963 ~ The British Government admitted that former diplomat Kim Philby had worked as a Soviet agent.
2000 ~ Death of Walter Matthau, Actor.
2000 ~ Vermont's civil unions law went into effect.
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