On This Day - 1st July

1841 - Thomas Cook runs his first 'tour' - a train trip to a temperence meeting
1851 - The Australian Colony of Victoria is created from the southern part of New South- Wales
1899 - Charles Laughton born
1916 - Olivia DeHavilland born
1931 - Leslie Caron born
1934 - Jamie Farr and Jean Marsh born
1940 - Germans invade the Channel Islands
1941 - Twyla Tharp born
1942 - Karen Black and Genevieve Bujold born
1945 - Deborah Harry born
1952 - Dan Aykroyd born
1956 - Alan Ruck born
1960 - Ghana become a republic following the removal of British sovereignty.
1961 - Carl Lewis and Michelle Wright and Princess Diana born
1963 - Former Foreign Office official Harold Philby is confirmed as the "third man" in the Burgess and Maclean case.
1967 - The first colour television broadcast in Britain also Pamela Anderson born
1971 - Missy Elliott born
1976 - Ruud Van Nistelrooy born
1977 - Liv Tyler born
1979 – Long before Apple introduced the iPod, Sony’s Walkman became the first portable music player to hit stores.

1987 - One of the City's top investment bankers has received the first conviction for insider dealing since it became illegal in 1980.
Geoffrey Collier, former head of securities at Morgan Grenfell, was given a 12-month suspended sentence and was fined £25,000 with £7,000 costs at the High Court in London.
1990 – Cameroon’s surprising run at Italia ’90 finally came to an end. After becoming the first African nation in World Cup history to reach the quarter-finals. England won the match through two Gary Lineker penalties.
1994 - The chairman of the Palestinian Liberation Organisation, Yasser Arafat, returns to the Gaza Strip after 27 years in exile.

1997 - Hong Kong is handed back to the Chinese authorities - ending more than 150 years of British control.
2000 - Millionaire novelist Ken Follett levels scathing personal criticism at Prime Minister Tony Blair.
2004 - International space probe Cassini-Huygens reaches Saturn and sends back the closest photographs yet of the planet's rings.

2006 - England are knocked out of the World Cup by Portugal at the quarter final stage. This was their third exit through penalties out of the previous four finals they had reached.