On This Day in History

Big events happened in both our country and our neighbor to the North, Canada:

July 1, 1863: The Battle of Gettysburg, which marked the turning point in the Civil War, began.

July 1, 1867: Canada became a self-governing dominion of Great Britain under the British North America Act.

Another Canadian milestone as noted in my Homepage - July 1,1980: "O Canada" became Canada's national anthem!