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- 1853
- The Bellefontaine Railway opens for service in Ohio.
- 1867
- The North German Confederation, later becoming the German Empire, is established.
- 1879
- In Michigan, Belle Isle is purchased by the city of Detroit.
- 1920
- The Free State of Coburg unites with the Free State of Bavaria.
- 1964
- U.S. Route 66 is truncated to Pasadena in a renumbering of all state highways in California.
- 1977
- The Washington Metro's McPherson Square station opens for service in Washington, D.C.
- 1997
- The United Kingdom transfers sovereignty of Hong Kong to the People's Republic of China, which designates it a Special Administrative Region.
- 2012
- The Sejong Special Self-Governing City is created as South Korea's de facto administrative capital.
This is a selection of establishments and disestablishments on July 1, based on OpenHistoricalMap data, that automatically appears on the OpenHistoricalMap page on July 1 of each year. This list highlights important changes in the world, as well as more mundane events that demonstrate the project's ambitious tendency toward micromapping history.
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