July 7

July 7 is the 188th day of the year (189th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 177 days remaining.

Events

• 1124 - The crusaders conquer Tyre.
• 1456 - Joan of Arc acquitted (but she had already been executed).
• 1607 - God Save the King is first sung.
• 1798 - The United States Congress rescinds treaties with France; Quasi-War begins
• 1801 - Haiti declares independence.
• 1802 - The Wasp, by Robert Rusticoat[?], is the first comic book to be published.
• 1807 - Peace of Tilsit[?] between France, Prussia and Russia.
• 1846 - The United States annex California.
• 1850 - Explorer Edward Eyre[?] reaches Albany[?], Western Australia, over land from South Australia.
• 1863 - First military draft in the United States.
• 1898 - The United States annex Hawaii.
• 1917 - Aleksandr Kerensky forms a provisional government in Russia after the deposing of the czar.
• 1930 - Building of the Boulder Dam (now known as Hoover Dam) is started.
• 1937 - Japanese forces invade China, Battle of Lugou Bridge.
• 1941 - 5,000 Jews are killed in Kovono[?], Lithuania.
• 1941 - American forces land in Iceland to forestall an invasion by the Nazis.
• 1942 - The Germans conquer Woronezh[?].
• 1946 - Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini[?] is the first American saint to be canonized.
• 1954 - An Elvis Presley record is played on the radio for the first time.
• 1958 - President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the Alaska Statehood Act into United States law.
• 1969 - French is made equal to English throughout the Canadian national government.
• 1972 - The Dutch decide to no longer prosecute use of soft drugs[?].
• 1976 - Viking 2 goes into orbit around Mars.
• 1978 - The Solomon Islands become independent from Great Britain.
• 1979 - 1st launch of the european spatial launcher Ariane
• 1983 - Samantha Smith, a U.S. schoolgirl, flies to the Soviet Union at the invitation of Premier Yuri Andropov
• 1986 - The government of Jordan shuts down offices of al-Fatah.
• 1994 - Aden is occupied by troops from North Yemen.
• 2004 - The last patent on the LZW compression algorithm (in Canada) expires.

Births

• 1855 - Ludwig Ganghofer[?], writer (+ 1920)
• 1860 - Gustav Mahler, composer (+ 1911)
• 1884 - Lion Féuchtwanger[?], dramatist and narrator (+ 1958)
• 1887 - Marc Chagall, painter (+ 1985)
• 1899 - George Cukor, director (+ 1983)
• 1901 - Vittorio De Sica, director
• 1901 - Gustav Knuth[?], actor (+ 1978)
• 1906 - Leroy Satchel Paige, baseball player (+ 1982)
• 1907 - Robert Heinlein, science fiction writer (+ 1988)
• 1911 - Gian Carlo Menotti[?], composer
• 1915 - Yul Brynner, actor (+ 1985)
• 1922 - Pierre Cardin[?], fashion designer
• 1927 - Doc Severinsen[?] (Carl H. Severinsen), composer, musician
• 1940 - Ringo Starr (born "Richard Starkey"), drummer and singer (The Beatles)
• 1948 - Luc Bondy[?], film and theatre director
• 1949 - Shelley Duvall[?], actress: Nashville, The Shining, McCabe and Mrs. Miller
• 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 August[?], king of Poland
• 1901 - Johanna Spyri, author, Heidi
• 1930 - Arthur Conan Doyle, writer (Sherlock Holmes)
• 1967 - Vivian Leigh[?], actress (Gone with the Wind)
• 1971 - Ub Iwerks, artist, director, cartoonist (drew first Mickey Mouse cartoon)
• 1972 - Athenagoras[?], patriarch of Constantinople
• 1973 - Veronica Lake[?], actress
• 1980 - Dore Schary[?], film producer, writer

Holidays and observances

• Bhutan - Guru Rinbochy[?]
• China - Chih Nu[?] (Feast of the Milky way[?])
• San Fermín festival or running of the bulls in Pamplona, Navarre, Spain.
• Solomon Islands - Independece Day[?] (1978)
• Tanzania - Saba Saba Day[?] (or Peasants' Day, founding of the TANU[?] party, 1954)
• Yemen - Unity Factory Day[?]
• Roman Empire - Nonae Caprotinae[?] festival in honor of Juno

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