Today is Thursday, July 1, the 182nd day of 2010. There are 183 days left in the year. This is Canada Day.

On this date

In 1867, the provinces of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Quebec and Ontario officially become the Dominion of Canada. As a dominion, Canada still owed its allegiance to the Crown and didn't receive total independence until 1982.

In 1921, revolutionaries Mao Zedong and Chen Duxiu, who turned to Marxism after the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution victory in Russia, secretly meet in Shanghai and establish the Communist Party of China.

In 1997, Hong Kong reverted to Chinese rule after 156 years as a British colony.

QUOTE OF THE DAY

The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there — L.P. Hartley, British author