1916
Jul 1, Olivia DeHavilland (Academy Award-winning actress: To Each His Own [1946], The Heiress [1949]; Gone with the Wind), was born.

1933
Jul 1, German Nazi regime decreed married women should not work.

1942
Jul 1, Genevieve Bujold, actress (King of Hearts, Choose Me, Coma), was born in Montreal.

1946
Jul 1, Deborah Harry (singer: group: Blondie: The Tide is High, Rapture, Heart of Glass, Sunday Girl), was born.

1961
Jul 1, Diana Frances Spencer, the princess of Wales, was born near Sandringham, England. She died August, 1997, in a car crash in Paris at age 36.

1996
Jul 1, Actress Margaux Hemingway was found dead in her Santa Monica, California, apartment; she was 41.

1997
Jul 1, Two Israeli soldiers were injured by a pipe bomb and 15 Palestinians were wounded by rubber bullets in Hebron in disturbances after an Israeli woman, Tatiana Susskin (25), distributed leaflets with the Prophet Mohammed depicted as a pig stomping on the Koran.

2005
Jul 1, Sandra Day O'Connor, the first woman on the US Supreme Court and a swing vote on abortion as well as other contentious issues, announced her retirement.

2009
Jul 1, British actress Mollie Sugden (86), best-known for her role as Mrs. Slocombe in the television comedy series "Are You Being Served?" (1972-1985), died.

2009
Jul 1, In Germany Marwa al-Sherbini (31), a pregnant Muslim woman from Egypt, was stabbed to death in a Dresden courtroom as her young son (3) watched. She was involved in a court case against her neighbor for calling her a terrorist and was set to testify against him when Alex Wiens (28) stabbed her at least 16 times inside the courtroom. Her husband, Elwy Okaz, who was in Germany on a research fellowship, came to her aid and was also stabbed by Wiens and shot in the leg by a security guard who initially mistook him for the attacker. On Nov 11 Wiens was sentenced to life in prison.

2011
Jul 1, A US federal judge blocked Kansas from enforcing new abortion regulations that would have prevented two of the state’s three abortion providers from continuing to terminate pregnancies.

2011
Jul 1, In Wisconsin a fierce thunderstorm left an 11-year-old girl dead and over 3 dozen people injured in Burnett County.

2012
Jul 1, Senegal voted for new lawmakers in an election set to put more women in the national assembly thanks to a new law which requires an equal gender balance on party lists. President Macky Sall's coalition won a landslide majority in legislative polls, swooping up 119 of 150 seats in the national assembly.