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• Today is Tuesday, July 1, the 182nd day of 2014. There are 183 days left in the year. This is Canada Day.
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• Today's Highlight in History:
• On July 1, 1944, delegates from 44 countries began meeting at Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, where they agreed to establish the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.
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• On this date:
• In 1535, Sir Thomas More went on trial in England, charged with high treason for rejecting the Oath of Supremacy. (More was convicted, and executed.)
• In 1863, the pivotal, three-day Civil War Battle of Gettysburg, resulting in a Union victory, began in Pennsylvania.
• In 1867, Canada became a self-governing dominion of Great Britain as the British North America Act took effect.
• In 1912, aviator Harriet Quimby, 37, was killed along with her passenger, William Willard, when they were thrown out of Quimby's monoplane at the Third Annual Boston Aviation Meet.
• In 1934, Hollywood began enforcing its Production Code subjecting motion pictures to censorship review.
• In 1946, the United States exploded a 20-kiloton atomic bomb near Bikini Atoll in the Pacific.
• In 1963, the U.S. Post Office inaugurated its five-digit ZIP codes.
• In 1973, the Drug Enforcement Administration was established.
• In 1974, the president of Argentina, Juan Peron, died; he was succeeded by his wife, Isabel Martinez de Peron.
• In 1980, "O Canada" was proclaimed the national anthem of Canada.
• In 1984, the Motion Picture Association of America established the "PG-13" rating.
• In 1994, PLO chairman Yasser Arafat returned to Palestinian land after 27 years in exile as he drove from Egypt into Gaza.
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• Ten years ago: Legendary film and stage actor Marlon Brando died in Los An

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