July 7

2024 Calendar

July 7 is the 188th day of the year (189th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 177 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

Up to 1900

1456 – A retrial verdict clears Joan of Arc of heresy, 25 years after she was burnt to death at the stake.
1534 – The first exchange between Europeans and Native Americans takes place in present-day New Brunswick.
1543 - French troops invade Luxembourg.
1575 - Raid of the Redeswine, the last major battle between England and Scotland.
1585 - The Treaty of Nemours bans tolerance of Protestants in France.
1770 - The Battle of Larga between the Russian Empire and Ottoman Empire is fought.
1777 - American Revolutionary War: American forces retreating from Fort Ticonderoga are defeated at the Battle of Hubbardton.
1807 - Napoleonic Wars: The Peace of Tilsit between France, Russia and Prussia ends the War of the Fourth Coalition.
1846 – California is annexed by the United States.
1865 – The conspirators in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, are executed.
1881 - Pinocchio, written by Carlo Collodi, is published for the first time.
1898 – Hawaii becomes a United States Territory.

1901 – 2000

1911 - The United States, United Kingdom, France and Russia sign the North Pacific Fur Seal Convention of 1911, banning open-water seal hunting.
1915 - World War I: End of the First Battle of Isonzo.
1915 - An International Railway trolley overloaded with 157 passengers crashes near Queenston, Ontario, Canada, killing 15 people.
1928 – Commercially sliced bread is first sold in Chillicothe, Missouri.
1930 – Work on the Hoover Dam begins.
1937 – The Second Sino-Japanese War begins.
1941 – World War II: US forces land in Iceland.
1944 - World War II: American forces carry out an air raid over Leipzig, Germany.
1946 - Mother Francesca S. Cabrini becomes the first American to be canonized.
1947 - Roswell incident: Alleged crash of an alien spaceship in Roswell, New Mexico, United States.
1953 - Che Guevara starts out on a trip through Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras and El Salvador.
1956 - Fritz Moravec and two other Austrian mountaineers become the first people climb Gasherbrum II in the Himalayas.
1958 – Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the Alaska Statehood Act into law, allowing Alaska to become a State of the US on January 3, 1959.
1974 – West Germany beats the Netherlands 2-1 to win its second FIFA World Cup.
1978 – The Solomon Islands become independent.
1980 - Sharia law is installed in Iran.
1980 - During the Civil War in Lebanon, 83 Tiger militants are killed during what becomes known as the Safra massacre.
1981 - Ronald Reagan appoints Sandra Day O'Connor as the first female member of the United States Supreme Court.
1983 – US schoolgirl Samantha Smith visits the Soviet Union, after an invitation from Yuri Andropov. Samantha Smith had written him a letter, expressing her fears over a nuclear war.
1985 – Boris Becker wins his first Wimbledon tennis title, aged 17.
1991 - The Brioni Agreement ends the 10-day independence war in Slovenia against the rest of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

From 2001

2003 - NASA's Opportunity rover is launched into space on a Delta II rocket.
2003 - A Boeing 737 of Sudan Airways crashes in Port Sudan, Sudan, shortly after take-off, killing 116 people.
2005 – Four suicide bombers kill 52 people on London's public transport system. They are the first suicide bombers ever to strike in Europe.
2007 – Live Earth concerts take place worldwide, promoting protection of the Environment.
2009 - A public funeral service is held at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California, for Michael Jackson, who had died on June 25 aged 50.
2011 – Part of a roof at a football stadium in Enschede, the Netherlands, collapses, killing at least one person.
2011 - Adolf Hitler is removed as an honorary citizen in his birthplace of Braunau am Inn in Austria.
2013 - Andy Murray defeats Novak Djokovic to win the men's singles title at Wimbledon, becoming the first British player in 77 years (since Fred Perry) to win the men's title there.
2017 - A treaty banning nuclear weapons is voted for by 124 out of 193 countries.