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Today in History: July 1
0069 Vespasian, a Roman army leader, is hailed as a Roman emperor by the Egyptian legions.

1596 An English fleet under the Earl of Essex, Lord Howard of Effingham and Francis Vere capture and sack Cadiz, Spain.

1777 British troops depart from their base at the Bouquet River to head toward Ticonderoga, New York.

1862 Union artillery stops a Confederate attack at Malvern Hill, Virginia.

1863 In the first day's fighting at Gettysburg, Federal forces retreat through the town and dig in at Cemetery Ridge and Cemetery Hill.

1898 American troops take San Juan Hill and El Caney, Cuba, from the Spaniards.

1961 British troops land in Kuwait to aid against Iraqi threats.

1963 The U.S. postmaster introduces the ZIP code.

1979 Sony introduces the Walkman, first popular portable cassette player

2020 Australian state of Melbourne re-imposes a COVID-19 lockdown on 36 Melbourne suburbs affecting 300,000 people

2020 America confirms more than 50,000 new COVID-19 cases in one day for the 1st time

Born on July 1

1915 Sydney Pollack, film director (Tootsie, Out of Africa).

1961 Diana Frances Spencer, Princess of Wales.

JOTD
I thought getting a vasectomy would prevent my wife from getting pregnant...

But apparently it just changes the color of the baby