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What happened on July 1 in American history
July 1 is the 182nd day of the year (the 183rd in leap years). Patriot Compass has published 7 stories from July 1 spanning 1862 to 1968. Among them: in 1862, Lee sends wave after wave up Malvern Hill; 171 Union guns shatter each charge; and in 1863, Hill's men march on Gettysburg for supplies; Buford's cavalry is waiting on the ridges.
1862Member story · 1776 Club
Lee sends wave after wave up Malvern Hill; 171 Union guns shatter each charge
McClellan holds the 130-foot rise with artillery and James River gunboats, winning the field decisively even as his army prepares to fall back to Harrison's Landing.
1863
Hill's men march on Gettysburg for supplies; Buford's cavalry is waiting on the ridges
Trading ridge for ridge all morning, Union troopers hold long enough for infantry to arrive; Hancock picks Cemetery Hill as the ground to stand on.
1898
Roosevelt and the Buffalo Soldiers take Kettle Hill; San Juan Heights fall to the Fifth Corps
Outnumbered 16-to-1, Spanish defenders under Linares y Pombo inflict punishing losses before the heights are carried and the road to Santiago opens.
1946
Blandy detonates the bomb over Bikini; the target fleet survives, and the Navy claims vindication
Test Able misses its aim point by 2,130 feet, scattering results that disappoint the Navy's critics but settle nothing about the weapon's power at sea.
1948Member story · 1776 Club
New York's answer to LaGuardia takes flight; first commercial plane lifts off from Idlewild
Truman and Dewey share the ribbon at a 1,000-acre airport carved from Jamaica Bay marshland and a former golf course.
1963Member story · 1776 Club
Post Office rolls out five digits for every address in America
The Zone Improvement Plan assigns a unique ZIP code to each address nationwide, with the first digit narrowing a region and each that follows pointing closer to a single post office.
1968Member story · 1776 Club
Reuther pulls the UAW out of the AFL-CIO; American labor splits in two
After feuding with George Meany over policy and federation governance, Reuther walks away from the house of labor and takes 1.6 million autoworkers with him.
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