Today is Friday, July 1, the 182nd day of 2011. There are 183 days left in the year.
1535 ― Sir Thomas More went on trial in England charged with treason
1867 ― Dominion of Canada formed (New Bruns, Nova Scotia, Ontario and Quebec)
1881 ― First international telephone conversation, Calais, ME.-St. Stephen, N.B.
1944 ― Bretton Woods Conference starts, establishing IMF and World Bank
1949 ― Bao Dai's Republic of Vietnam gains independence from France
1966 ― Medicare goes into effect
1967 ― Beatles' ``Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band," goes No. 1 for 15 weeks
1968 ― U.S., Britain, USSR & 58 nations sign Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty
1982 ― 2,100 Unification Church couples marry at Madison Square Garden, NYC
1997 ― China regains sovereignty of Hong Kong