This Day in History July 1

July 1

1690 Army of England's Protestant King William III defeats Roman Catholic King James II in Battle of the Boyne in Ireland Now celebrated on July 12 as "The Battle of the Orange"
[color=blue:ee6b45e03a]1776 1st vote on the Declaration of Independence[/color:ee6b45e03a]
1823 United Provinces of Central America gain independence from Mexico
1847 1st US postage stamps go on sale, 5 Franklin & 10 Washington, NYC
1862 Day 7 of the 7 Days-Battle of Malvern Hill
1862 Lincoln appoints Isaac Newton sec of agriculture-no kidding!
1863 Battle of Gettysburg, Pa; Lee's northward advance halted
[color=red:ee6b45e03a]1867 Dominion of Canada formed (New Bruns, Nova Scotia, Ontario & Quebec)[/color:ee6b45e03a]
1869 US mint at Carson City, Nevada opens
1873 Prince Edward Island becomes 7th Canadian province
1874 1st US kidnapping for ransom, 4-year-old Charles Ross, $20,000
1875 Universal Postal Union established
1881 1st international telephone conversation, Calais, ME-St Stephen, NB
1898 Teddy Roosevelt & his Rough Riders charge up San Juan Hill
1899 SF City Hall turned over to city, after 29 years of building
1910 Chicago's Comiskey Park opens
1915 Australia begins Commonwealth Lighthouse Service
1924 Through regular transcontinental airmail service established, NYC-SF
1934 1st x-ray photo of entire body, Rochester, NY
1941 1st coml TV licenses granted-W2XBS-WNBT (NBC) & WCBW (CBS), NYC
1944 Bretton Woods Conference starts, establishing IMF & World Bank
1946 US drops atom bomb on Bikini atoll (4th atomic explosion)
1949 Bao Dai's Republic of Vietnam gains independence from France
1961 Haleakala National Park established in Hawaii
1963 US postal service institutes the (Zone Improvement Plan) zip code
1966 Medicare goes into effect
1968 US, Britain, USSR & 58 nations sign Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty
1971 Golden Gate Bridge paid for (so why is there still a toll?)
1974 Monmouthshire renamed Gwent & becomes part of Wales
1978 Northern Territory of Australia becomes self-governing
1990 In Victoria, Australia, helmetless bike riding becomes illegal

On why there is still a toll on the Golden Gate Bridge, probably to pay for upkeep. On upkeep, I have seen pictures of what that requires in terms of human effort. Count me out, thanks anyway. I'd go hungry before I'd work on that thing or any other bridge of the sort.

It was Kettle Hill, not San Juan.