• Today is Monday, July 1, the 182nd day of 2013. There are 183 days left in the year. This is Canada Day.
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• Today's Highlight in History:
• On July 1, 1863, the pivotal, three-day Civil War Battle of Gettysburg, resulting in a Union victory, began in Pennsylvania.
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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 1862, President Abraham Lincoln signed the first Pacific Railroad Act.
• In 1867, Canada became a self-governing dominion of Great Britain as the British North America Act took effect.
• In 1903, the first Tour de France began. (It ended on July 19; the winner was Maurice Garin.)
• 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 1942, the First Battle of El Alamein began during World War II. Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra and vocalist Frank Sinatra recorded "There Are Such Things" in New York for Victor Records.
• In 1946, the United States exploded a 20-kiloton atomic bomb near Bikini Atoll in the Pacific.

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