July 7

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

Table of contents

1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths
4 Holidays and observances

Events

1456 - Joan of Arc acquitted (but she had already been executed).
1534 - First known exchange between Europeans and natives of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, in New Brunswick.
1798 - Quasi-War: The United States Congress rescinds treaties with France sparking the 'war.'
1807 - Peace of Tilsit between France, Kingdom of Prussia and Russia.
1846 - 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.
1898 - The United States annexes Hawaii.
1917 - Prince Georgy Yevgenyevich Lvov forms Provisional Government in Russia after the deposing of the tsar.
1930 - Building of the Boulder Dam (now known as Hoover Dam) is started.
1937 - Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Lugou Bridge - Japanese forces invade 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 - Samantha Smith, a U.S. schoolgirl, flies to the Soviet Union at the invitation of Premier Yuri Andropov
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 F�uchtwanger, dramatist and narrator († 1958)
1893 - Miroslav Krleza, Croatian, writer
1887 - Marc Chagall, painter († 1985)
1899 - George Cukor, director († 1983)
1901 - Vittorio De Sica, director († 1974)
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)
1945 - Michael Ancram (Michael Kerr, Earl of Ancram), British politician
1948 - Luc Bondy, film and theatre director
1949 - Shelley Duvall, actress: Nashville, The Shining, McCabe and Mrs. Miller
1959 - Ben Linder, American engineer murdered in Nicaragua († 1987)
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
1880 - Lydia Child, novelist and abolitionist (* 1802)
1901 - Johanna Spyri, author (Heidi)
1930 - Arthur Conan Doyle, writer (Sherlock Holmes)
1967 - Vivian Leigh, actress (Gone with the Wind)
1971 - Claude Gauvreau, Quebec playwright, poet and polemist
1971 - Ub Iwerks, artist, director, cartoonist (drew first Mickey Mouse cartoon)
1972 - King Talal, King of Jordan
1972 - Athenagoras, Patriarch of Constantinople
1973 - Veronica Lake, actress
1980 - Dore Schary, film producer, writer
1990 - Bill Cullen, game show host

Holidays and observances

Bhutan - Guru Rinbochy
China - Chih Nu (Feast of the Milky way)
Japan - Tanabata
Roman Empire - Nonae Caprotinae festival in honor of Juno
San Ferm�n festival or running of the bulls in Pamplona, Navarre, Spain.
Solomon Islands - Independence Day (1978)
Tanzania - Saba Saba Day (or Peasants' Day, founding of the TANU party, 1954)
Yemen - Unity Factory Day

See also:

July 6 - July 8 - June 7 - August 7 -- listing of all days

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