July 7
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 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 (b. 1053 ).
1304 - Pope Benedict XI , (possibly poisoned) (b. 1240 ).
1307 - King Edward I of England (b. 1239 ).
1537 - Madeleine de Valois , queen of James V of Scotland (b. 1520 )
1572 - Sigismund II Augustus , king of Poland (b. 1520 )
1816 - Richard Brinsley Sheridan , playwright and politician (b. 1751 )
1880 - Lydia Child , novelist and abolitionist (b. 1802 )
1901 - Johanna Spyri , author (Heidi 1827 ).
1930 - Arthur Conan Doyle , writer (Sherlock Holmes ) (b. 1859 ).
1949 - Bunk Johnson , jazz musician (b. 1879 or 1889 )
1956 - Gottfried Benn , German poet (b. 1886 )
1964 - Lillian Copeland , American athlete (b. 1904 ).
1965 - Moshe Sharett , second Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1894 ).
1967 - Vivien Leigh , actress (Gone with the Wind A Streetcar Named Desire 1913 ).
1971 - Claude Gauvreau , Quebec playwright, poet and polemist (b. 1925 ).
1971 - Ub Iwerks , artist, director, cartoonist (drew first Mickey Mouse cartoon) (b. 1901 ).
1972 - King Talal , King of Jordan (b. 1909 ).
1972 - Athenagoras , Patriarch of Constantinople (b. 1886 ).
1973 - Veronica Lake , actress (b. 1919 ).
1973 - Max Horkheimer , philosopher and sociologist (b. 1895 ).
1980 - Dore Schary , film producer, writer (b. 1905 ).
1990 - Bill Cullen , game show host (b. 1920 ).
2000 - Kenny Irwin, Jr. , NASCAR driver (b. 1969 ).
2003 - Izhak Graziani , conductor (b. 1924 ).
Holidays and observances
External links
July 6 - July 8 - June 7 - August 7 -- listing of all days
