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Events

• 1917 (109 years ago) Chinese General Zhang Xun seizes control of Beijing and restores the monarchy, installing Puyi, last emperor of the Qing dynasty, to the throne. The restoration is reversed just shy of two weeks later, when Republican troops regain control of the capital.
• 1942 (84 years ago) World War II: start of the First Battle of El Alamein.
• 1943 (83 years ago) The City of Tokyo and the Prefecture of Tokyo are both replaced by the Tokyo Metropolis.
• 1960 (66 years ago) Ghana becomes a republic and Kwame Nkrumah becomes its first President as Queen Elizabeth II ceases to be its head of state.
• 1962 (64 years ago) Independence of Rwanda and Burundi.
• 1968 (58 years ago) The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons is signed in Washington, D.C., London and Moscow by sixty-two countries.
• 1983 (43 years ago) A North Korean Ilyushin Il-62M jet en route to Conakry Airport in Guinea crashes into the Fouta Djallon mountains in Guinea-Bissau, killing all 23 people on board.
• 2013 (13 years ago) Croatia becomes the 28th member of the European Union.

Births

• 1646 (380 years ago) Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, German mathematician and philosopher (died 1716)
• 1742 (284 years ago) Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, German physicist and academic (died 1799)
• 1804 (222 years ago) George Sand, French author and playwright (died 1876)
• 1916 (110 years ago) Olivia de Havilland, British-American actress (died 2020)
• 1955 (71 years ago) Li Keqiang, Chinese economist and politician, 7th Premier of the People's Republic of China (died 2023)
• 1961 (65 years ago) Diana, Princess of Wales (died 1997)
• 1967 (59 years ago) Pamela Anderson, Canadian-American model and actress
• 1977 (49 years ago) Liv Tyler, American actress

Deaths

• 1896 (130 years ago) Harriet Beecher Stowe, American author and activist (born 1811)
• 1925 (101 years ago) Erik Satie, French pianist and composer (born 1866)
• 1961 (65 years ago) Louis-Ferdinand Céline, French physician and author (born 1894)
• 1971 (55 years ago) William Lawrence Bragg, Australian-English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1890)
• 1974 (52 years ago) Juan Perón, Argentinian general and politician, President of Argentina (born 1895)
• 1983 (43 years ago) Buckminster Fuller, American architect, designed the Montreal Biosphère (born 1895)
• 2004 (22 years ago) Marlon Brando, American actor and director (born 1924)
• 2024 (2 years ago) Ismail Kadare, Albanian novelist (born 1936)

All 477 events, births and deaths of July 1