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 United States annexation of California .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 Russia after the deposing of the tsar .1930 - Industrialist Henry J. Kaiser begins construction of the Boulder Dam (now known as Hoover Dam ).1937 - 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 .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 , composer1915 - Yul Brynner , actor (d. 1985 )1922 - Pierre Cardin , fashion designer1927 - Doc Severinsen (Carl H. Severinsen), composer, musician1933 - Murray Halberg , New Zealand runner1937 - 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 politician1949 - Shelley Duvall , actress: Nashville , The Shining , McCabe and Mrs. Miller 1959 - Ben Linder , American engineer murdered in Nicaragua (d. 1987 )1966 - Gundula Krause , folk violinist1969 - Joe Sakic , NHL hockey player1974 - Karlis Skrastins , NHL hockey player1980 - 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 athlete1965 - Moshe Sharett , second Prime Minister of Israel 1967 - Vivien Leigh , actress (Gone with the Wind 1971 - Claude Gauvreau , Quebec playwright, poet and polemist1971 - Ub Iwerks , artist, director, cartoonist (drew first Mickey Mouse cartoon) 1972 - King Talal , King of Jordan 1972 - Athenagoras , Patriarch of Constantinople 1973 - Veronica Lake , actress1973 - Max Horkheimer , philosopher and sociologist (b. 1895 ) 1980 - Dore Schary , film producer, writer1990 - Bill Cullen , game show host2003 - Izhak Graziani , conductor
Holidays and observances
July 6 - July 8 - June 7 - August 7 -- listing of all days
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7 July 2005 London bombings - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (6374 words)
The 7 July 2005 London bombings were a series of coordinated suicide bombings that struck London's public transport system during the morning rush hour. On July 12 the BBC reported that Deputy Assistant Commissioner Peter Clarke, Metropolitan Police counter-terrorism chief, had said that the property of one of the bombers had been found at both the Aldgate and Edgware Road blasts. Rolling news coverage of the attacks were broadcast throughout 7 July , by both BBC One and ITV1 uninterrupted until 7pm.
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