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July 7 in History
Historical Events on July 7
1124
Tyre falls to the Crusaders.
1456
A retrial verdict acquits Joan of Arc of heresy 25 years after her death.
1520
Spanish conquistadores defeat a larger Aztec army at the Battle of Otumba.
1534
Jacques Cartier makes his first contact with aboriginal peoples in what is now Canada.
1575
The Raid of the Redeswire is the last major battle between England and Scotland.
1585
The Treaty of Nemours abolishes tolerance to Protestants in France.
1770
The Battle of Larga between the Russian Empire and the Ottoman Empire takes place.
1777
American forces retreating from Fort Ticonderoga are defeated in the Battle of Hubbardton.
1798
As a result of the XYZ Affair, the U.S. Congress rescinds the Treaty of Alliance with France sparking the "Quasi-War".
1807
The Peace of Tilsit between France, Prussia and Russia ends the War of the Fourth Coalition.
1834
In New York City, four nights of rioting against abolitionists began.
1846
American troops occupy Monterey and Yerba Buena, thus beginning the conquest of California.
1863
The United States begins its first military draft; exemptions cost $300.
1865
Four conspirators in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln are hanged.
1892
The Katipunan is established, the discovery of which by Spanish authorities initiated the Philippine Revolution.
1898
U.S. President William McKinley signs the Newlands Resolution annexing Hawaii as a territory of the United States.
1907
Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr. staged his first Follies on the roof of the New York Theater in New York City.
1911
The United States, Great Britain, Japan, and Russia sign the North Pacific Fur Seal Convention of 1911 banning open-water seal hunting, the first international treaty to address wildlife preservation issues.
1915
The First Battle of the Isonzo comes to an end.
1915
An International Railway trolley with an extreme overload of 157 passengers crashes near Queenston, Ontario, killing 15.
1915
Colombo Town Guard officer Henry Pedris is executed in British Ceylon for allegedly inciting persecution of Muslims.
1916
The New Zealand Labour Party was founded in Wellington.
1928
Sliced bread is sold for the first time (on the inventor's 48th birthday) by the Chillicothe Baking Company of Chillicothe, Missouri.
1930
Industrialist Henry J. Kaiser begins construction of Boulder Dam (now known as Hoover Dam).
1930
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes, dies.
1937
The Marco Polo Bridge Incident provides the Imperial Japanese Army with a pretext for starting the Second Sino-Japanese War.
1937
The Peel Commission Report recommends the partition of Palestine - the first formal recommendation for partition in the history of Palestine
1941
The American occupation of Iceland replaces the British occupation.
1941
World War II: Beirut is occupied by Free France and British troops.
1944
World War II: Largest Banzai charge of the Pacific War at the Battle of Saipan.
1946
Mother Francesca S. Cabrini becomes the first American to be canonized.
1946
Howard Hughes nearly dies when his XF-11 reconnaissance aircraft prototype crashes in a Beverly Hills neighborhood.
1952
The ocean liner SS United States passes Bishop Rock on her maiden voyage, breaking the transatlantic speed record to become the fastest passenger ship in the world.
1953
Ernesto "Che" Guevara sets out on a trip through Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, and El Salvador.
1954
Elvis Presley makes his radio debut when WHBQ Memphis played his first recording for Sun Records, "That's All Right".
1958
U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the Alaska Statehood Act into law.
1959
Venus occults the star Regulus. This rare event is used to determine the diameter of Venus and the structure of the Venusian atmosphere.
1963
Buddhist crisis: The police of Ngô Đình Nhu, brother and chief political adviser of President Ngô Đình Diệm, attacked a group of American journalists who were covering a protest.
1978
The Solomon Islands becomes independent from the United Kingdom
1980
Institution of sharia law in Iran.
1980
During the Lebanese Civil War, 83 Tiger militants are killed during what will be known as the Safra massacre.
1981
U.S. President Ronald Reagan appoints Sandra Day O'Connor to become the first female member of the Supreme Court of the United States.
1983
Cold War: Samantha Smith, a U.S. schoolgirl, flies to the Soviet Union at the invitation of Secretary General Yuri Andropov.
1985
Boris Becker becomes the youngest player ever to win Wimbledon at age 17.
1991
Yugoslav Wars: The Brioni Agreement ends the ten-day independence war in Slovenia against the rest of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
1992
The New York Court of Appeals rules that women have the same right as men to go topless in public.
1997
The Turkish Armed Forces withdraw from northern Iraq after assisting the Kurdistan Democratic Party in the Iraqi Kurdish Civil War.
2003
NASA Opportunity rover, MER-B or Mars Exploration Rover-B, was launched into space aboard a Delta II rocket.
2005
A series of four explosions occurs on London's transport system, killing 56 people, including four suicide bombers, and injuring over 700 others.
2007
The first Live Earth benefit concert was held in 11 locations around the world.
2012
At least 172 people are killed in a flash flood in the Krasnodar Krai region of Russia.
2013
A De Havilland Otter air taxi crashes in Soldotna, Alaska, killing ten people.
2016
Former U.S. Army soldier Micah Xavier Johnson shoots fourteen policemen during an anti-police protest in downtown Dallas, Texas, killing five of them. He is subsequently killed by a robot-delivered bomb.
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