July 01

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1	1770	Lexell's Comet passed closer to the Earth than any other comet in recorded history, approaching to a distance of 0.0146 a.u.	Peter Hammill	The Comet, the Course, the Tail	In Camera
2	1837	A system of the civil registration of births, marriages and deaths is established in England and Wales.	Exclaim	Dedicated to All Records	Critical Exploder
3	1858	Joint reading of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace's papers on evolution to the Linnean Society.	I Am Robot and Proud	Read and Re-read	The Catch
4	1863	American Civil War: the Battle of Gettysburg begins.	Dave Greenslade	Gettysburg	Cactus Choir
5	1870	The United States Department of Justice formally comes into existence.	The Constantines	Justice	The Constantines
6	1874	The Sholes and Glidden typewriter, the first commercially successful typewriter, goes on sale.	Braid	American Typewriter	Age of Octeen
7	1881	The world's first international telephone call is made between St. Stephen, New Brunswick, Canada, and Calais, Maine, United States.	Doves	Where We're Calling From	The Last Broadcast
8	1935	Grant Park Music Festival begins its tradition of free summer symphonic music concert series in Chicago's Grant Park, which continues as the United States' only annual free outdoor classical music concert series.	Dungen	Festival	Ta Det Lugnt
9	1943	Tokyo City merges with Tokyo Prefecture and is dissolved. Since then, no city in Japan has had the name "Tokyo" (present-day Tokyo is not officially a city).	Tokyo Police Club	Boots of Danger (Boys Like Us Remix)	Boots of Danger (Boys Like Us Remix)
10	1959	Specific values for the international yard, avoirdupois pound and derived units (e.g. inch, mile and ounce) are adopted after agreement between the U.S.A., the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth countries.	Moving Units	Until She Says (We are Enfant Terrible Remix)	Tension War
11	1963	ZIP Codes are introduced for United States mail.	Bob B Soxx & the Blue Jeans	Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah	Back to Mono (1958-1969)
12	1979	Sony introduces the Walkman.	The Walkmen	We've Been Had	The Walkmen

(Historical facts about July 01 are from Wikipedia.)