Today is Monday, July 1, the 182nd day of 2013. There are 183 days left in the year.
1535 ― Sir Thomas More went on trial in England charged with treason
1776 ― First vote on the Declaration of Independence
1862 ― Lincoln appoints Isaac Newton sec of agriculture-no kidding!
1931 ― Ice vending machines introduced in L.A.
1944 ― Bretton Woods Conference starts, establishing IMF & World Bank
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 wed in NYC
1990 ― German Democratic Republic accepts the Deutsche Mark as its currency
1997 ― China regains sovereignty of Hong Kong