Meetings:  Sizzler, 371 East 400 South, SLC 11:45 – 1:00 pm, Meeting Room (Northwest corner of Restaurant.) Round Table Meetings, Same Time & Location except in the Atrium.

** Board meeting is the 1st Tuesday of every month at the Pagoda, 5^th East and 1^st North in Salt Lake City.   5:30 pm with dinner afterwards.
                                                    

July 1^st in History ….

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

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

1898 - Theodore Roosevelt and his Rough Riders fought the battle of San Juan Hill in the Spanish-American War.

1943 - Income tax withholding began in the United States.

1962 - Burundi and Rwanda achieved independence.

1963 - The U.S. Post Office inaugurated its five-digit ZIP (Zone Improvement Plan) codes.

1968 - The United States, Britain, the Soviet Union, and 58 other nations signed the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.

1994 - Yasir Arafat returned to Palestinian land after 27 years in exile.

1997 - After 156 years of British colonial rule, Hong Kong was returned to China.

2000 - The Confederate flag was removed from the South Carolina statehouse.

In 1911 …

• First use of aircraft as offensive weapon occurs in Turkish-Italian War. Italy defeats Turks and annexes Libya.

• Chinese Republic proclaimed after revolution overthrows Manchu dynasty. Sun Yat-sen named president. Background: Chinese Dynasties.

• Mexican Revolution: Porfirio Diaz, president since 1877, replaced by Francisco Madero.

• Roald Amundsen becomes first man to reach South Pole. Quiz: Explorers & Adventurers

• U.S. explorer Hiram Bingham discovers Incan city of Machu Picchu.

President: William H. Taft

Vice President: James S. Sherman

Population: 93,863,000