On This Day, July 1: U.S. points first postage stamps

July 1 (UPI) — On this date in history:

In 1847, the first U.S. postage stamps were issued.

In 1859, the first intercollegiate baseball sport turned into performed in Pittsfield, Mass., and it turned into a excessive-scoring contest. Amherst beat Williams, 66-32.

In 1867, Canada turned into granted its independence by Wide Britain. It consisted at the time of Nova Scotia, Fresh Brunswick and future provinces of Ontario and Quebec.

In 1874, the Philadelphia Zoological Society, the first U.S. zoo, opened to the public.

In 1898, Teddy Roosevelt and his Tough Riders led a charge up Cuba’s heavily fortified San Juan Hill in a key Spanish-American War battle.

In 1908, bigger than a thousand suffragettes in London attempted to rescue 28 of their fellow protesters who were arrested by police following an illustration in Parliament Sq..

In 1916, within the worst single day of casualties in British protection force history, 20,000 soldiers were killed and 40,000 injured in a huge offense in opposition to German forces in France’s Somme River spot one day of World War I.

In 1932, Democrats nominated Franklin Delano Roosevelt for president. FDR turned into elected to four consecutive phrases.

In 1941, NBC broadcast the first FCC-sanctioned TV industrial, a home for Bulova watches confirmed one day of a Dodgers-Phillies sport. It price Bulova $9.

In 1946, the United States conducted its first put up-war take a look at of the atomic bomb at Bikini Atoll within the Pacific.

In 1979, Sony launched the Walkman, most steadily known as the Soundabout, in U.S. stores. It supplied for roughly $200.

In 1984, the Motion Image Affiliation of The United States launched the PG-13 rating to warn folk that a movie might well maybe even very neatly be too violent for young folk below the age of 13. A top U.S. Catholic Conference legitimate stated the transfer turned into simply yet every other ability to exercise children.

In 1990, the West and East German economies were united, with the Deutsche Stamp replacing the mark as currency in East Germany.

In 1997, Hong Kong turned into returned to China after 156 years as a British territory. Britain’s Prince Charles, High Minister Tony Blair, Chinese President Jiang Zemin and U.S. Secretary Madeleine Albright attended the ceremony. Britain first occupied Hong Kong within the 1840s amid the First Opium War.

In 2002, in a rare excessive-altitude accident, a passenger airliner collided with a cargo airplane over Germany, killing all 71 folk on the two planes — 69 on the airliner and two on the cargo aircraft.

In 2013, Croatia grew to modified into the 28th member recount of the European Union.

In 2013, a year after Mohamed Morsi grew to modified into president of Egypt, hundreds and hundreds of protesters marched in cities one day of the nation, calling for him to step down. Morsi turned into ousted by the protection force two days later and died in June 2019.