| July 7 is the 188th day of the year (189th in leap years) in the
Gregorian Calendar, with 177 days remaining.
Events
- 1456 - Joan of Arc is acquitted of
heresy (but she had already been executed).
- 1534 - European colonization of the Americas: First known exchange between Europeans and natives of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, in New Brunswick.
- 1798 - Quasi-War: The U.S. Congress rescinds treaties with France sparking the 'war.'
- 1799 - Ranjit Singh's men had
taken their positions outside Lahore.
- 1807 - Napoleonic Wars:
Peace of Tilsit between France, Kingdom of Prussia and Russia ends the Fourth
Coalition.
- 1846 - Mexican War: Acting on
instructions from Washington, DC, Commodore John Drake Sloat orders his troops to occupy Monterey and Yerba Buena, thus beginning the United States
annexation of California.
- 1865 - Civil War: 4 conspirators in the
assassination of President Lincoln are hanged; Mary E. Surratt, Lewis T. Powell, David E. Herold, and George A. Atzerodt.
- 1898 - History of United States imperialism: President of the United States William McKinley signs the Newlands
Resolution annexing Hawaii as a territory of the United States.
- 1917 - Russian
Revolution: Prince Georgy
Yevgenyevich Lvov forms Provisional Government in Russia after the
deposing of the tsar.
- 1930 - Industrialist Henry J.
Kaiser begins construction of the Boulder Dam (now known as Hoover
Dam).
- 1937 - Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Lugou Bridge - Japanese forces invade Beijing, China.
- 1941 - World War II: American forces land in Iceland to
forestall an invasion by the Nazis.
- 1946 - Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini becomes the first American saint to be canonized.
- 1954 - In Memphis,
Tennessee, WHBQ becomes the first radio station to air an Elvis Presley
record.
- 1958 - President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the Alaska Statehood Act into
United States law.
- 1959 - 14:28 UT Venus occulted the star
Regulus. The rare event which will next occur on October 1, 2044 was used for determining the Venus diametre and the
structure of Venus' atmospherer.
- 1969 - French is made equal
to English throughout the Canadian national government.
- 1978 - The Solomon Islands
become independent from the United Kingdom.
- 1983 - Cold War: Samantha Smith, a U.S. schoolgirl, flies
to the Soviet Union at the invitation of Premier Yuri Andropov
- 1991 - Yugoslav Wars: Brioni Agreement ended ten-day independence war in Slovenia against the rest of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
- 1994 - Aden is occupied by troops from North Yemen, completing the reunification of Yemen.
- 2004 - The last patent on the LZW compression algorithm (in Canada) expires.
Births
- 1752 - Joseph-Marie
Jacquard, inventor of the programmable Jacquard loom (d. 1834)
- 1855 - Ludwig Ganghofer, writer (d. 1920)
- 1860 - Gustav Mahler, Austrian
composer (d. 1911)
- 1884 - Lion
Feuchtwanger, dramatist and narrator (d. 1958)
- 1887 - Marc Chagall, painter (d.
1985)
- 1893 - Miroslav
Krleža,Croat writer (d. 1981)
- 1899 - George Cukor, director (d.
1983)
- 1901 - Vittorio De Sica,
director (d. 1974)
- 1901 - Gustav Knuth, actor (d.
1978)
- 1906 - William Feller,
Croat mathematician (d.1970)
- 1906 - Leroy Satchel Paige, baseball player (d. 1982)
- 1907 - Robert Heinlein,
science fiction writer (d. 1988)
- 1911 - Gian Carlo
Menotti, composer
- 1915 - Yul Brynner, actor (d.
1985)
- 1922 - Pierre Cardin, fashion
designer
- 1927 - Doc Severinsen (Carl
H. Severinsen), composer, musician
- 1933 - Murray Halberg,
New Zealand runner
- 1937 - Tung Chee-Hwa, first
Chief executive of Hong
Kong Special Administrative Region, China
- 1940 - Ringo Starr (born "Richard
Starkey"), drummer and singer (The Beatles)
- 1941 - Bill Oddie, comedian and
ornithologist (The Goodies)
- 1942 - Carmen Duncan, actress
(character actress on Australian soap operas; Iris Cory Wheeler on the American soap Another World)
- 1945 - Michael Ancram
(Michael Kerr, Earl of Ancram), British politician
- 1947 - Howard Rheingold
author, technology visionary
- 1949 - Shelley Duvall,
actress: Nashville, The Shining, McCabe and Mrs. Miller
- 1959 - Ben Linder, American engineer murdered in Nicaragua (d. 1987)
- 1966 - Gundula Krause, folk
violinist
- 1967 - Jackie Neal, Blues
Singer
- 1969 - Joe Sakic, NHL hockey
player
- 1974 - Karlis Skrastins,
NHL hockey player
- 1980 - Michelle Kwan, figure skater
Deaths
- 1129 - Emperor Shirakawa of Japan
- 1304 - Pope Benedict XI,
(possibly poisoned)
- 1307 - King Edward I of
England
- 1572 - Sigismund
II Augustus, king of Poland
- 1816 - Richard Brinsley Sheridan, playwright and politician (b. 1751)
- 1880 - Lydia Child, novelist and
abolitionist (b. 1802)
- 1901 - Johanna Spyri, author
(Heidi)
- 1930 - Arthur Conan
Doyle, writer (Sherlock Holmes)
- 1949 - Bunk Johnson, jazz musician (b. 1879 or 1889)
- 1964 - Lillian Copeland,
American athlete
- 1965 - Moshe Sharett, second
Prime Minister of Israel
- 1967 - Vivien Leigh, actress
(Gone with the Wind)
- 1971 - Claude Gauvreau,
Quebec playwright, poet and polemist
- 1971 - Ub Iwerks, artist, director, cartoonist (drew first Mickey Mouse cartoon)
- 1972 - King Talal, King of Jordan
- 1972 - Athenagoras, Patriarch of Constantinople
- 1973 - Veronica Lake,
actress
- 1973 - Max Horkheimer, philosopher and sociologist (b. 1895)
- 1973 - Wilfred Rhodes,
Yorkshire and England cricketer and highest first-class wicket taker (b. 1877)
- 1980 - Dore Schary, film producer,
writer
- 1990 - Bill Cullen, game show host
- 2003 - Izhak Graziani,
conductor
Holidays and observances
External links
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