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The terms '7th July', 'July 7th', and '7/7' (pronounced "'Seven-seven'") have been widely used in the Western media as a shorthand for the 7 July 2005 bombings on London's transport system. In China, this term is used to denote the Battle of Lugou Bridge started on July 7, 1937, marking the beginning of the Second Sino-Japanese War.

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Events

Births

Deaths

Holidays, Feasts, and Observances

External links

Events

★ 1456 - A retrial verdict acquits Joan of Arc of heresy 25 years after her death.

★ 1534 - European colonization of the Americas: First known exchange between Europeans and natives of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, in New Brunswick.

★ 1543 - French troops invade Luxembourg.

★ 1585 - Peace of Nemours abolishes tolerance to Protestants in France.

★ 1668 - Isaac Newton received an MA from Trinity College, Cambridge.

★ 1777 - American Revolutionary War: Battle of Hubbardton

★ 1798 - Quasi-War: The U.S. Congress rescinds treaties with France sparking the 'war.'

★ 1799 - Ranjit Singh's men take up their positions outside Lahore.

★ 1807 - Napoleonic Wars: Peace of Tilsit between France, Prussia and Russia ends the Fourth Coalition.

★ 1846 - Mexican-American War: American troops occupy Monterey and Yerba Buena, thus beginning the United States annexation of California.

★ 1863 - United States begins first military draft; exemptions cost $100

★ 1865 - American Civil War: Four conspirators in the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln were hanged.

★ 1898 - History of United States overseas expansion: President William McKinley signs the Newlands Resolution annexing Hawaii as a territory of the United States.

★ 1915 - World War I: End of First Battle of the Isonzo.

★ 1915 - A Great Gorge and International Railway trolley with an extreme overload of 157 passengers crashed near Queenston, Ontario, killing 15.

★ 1917 - Russian Revolution: Prince Georgy Yevgenyevich Lvov forms Provisional Government in Russia after the deposing of the Tsar Nicholas II.

★ 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 Germany.

★ 1941 - World War II: Beirut is occupied by Free France and British troops.

★ 1946 - Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini becomes the first American to be canonized.

★ 1946 - Howard Hughes nearly dies when his XF-11 spy plane prototype crashes in a Beverly Hills neighborhood.

★ 1947 - Alleged and disputed Roswell UFO incident.

★ 1954 - Formation of the TANU in Tanzania

★ 1956 - Fritz Moravec reaches the peak of Gasherbrum II (8,035 m).

★ 1958 - President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the Alaska Statehood Act into United States law.

★ 1959 - 14:28 UT Venus occults the star Regulus. This rare event was used to determine the diameter of Venus and the structure of the Venusian atmosphere.

★ 1967 - Beginning of the civil war in Biafra.

★ 1969 - In Canada, the Official Languages Act is adopted making the French language equal to the English language throughout the Federal government.

★ 1974 - West Germany wins 1974 FIFA World Cup.

★ 1978 - The Solomon Islands become independent from the United Kingdom.

★ 1980 - Institution of sharia in Iran.

★ 1980 - Last concert by rock band Led Zeppelin.

★ 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 first unseeded player, the youngest male (at the time), and the first German to win the Wimbledon tennis singles title, at age of 17 years, 7 months.

★ 1987 - First videogame in Hideo Kojima's prolific Metal Gear series released in Japan.

★ 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 secured by troops from North Yemen, completing the reunification of Yemen.

★ 1996 - Richard Krajicek becomes the first Dutch tennis player to win the Wimbledon single title.

★ 2002 - A scandal broke out in the United Kingdom when news reports alleged MI6 of sheltering Abu Qatada, the supposed European Al Qaeda leader.

★ 2003 - The United Communist Party of Armenia was formed.

★ 2004 - The last patent on the LZW compression algorithm (in Canada) expired.

★ 2005 - A series of four terrorist explosions occur on London's transport system killing 52 people, plus four suicide bombers.

★ 2005 - Influenced by Live 8, the G8 leaders pledged to double 2004 levels of aid to Africa from US$25 to US$50 billion by the year 2010.

★ 2007 - Pope Benedict XVI issues the ''Summorum Pontificum'', removing restrictions on celebrating the old Latin Mass.

★ 2007 - A series of Live Earth concerts take place all over the world.

★ 2007 - Following a privately organized popularity poll, the New Seven Wonders of the World are announced in Lisbon, Portugal.

Births

★ 1053 - Emperor Shirakawa of Japan (d. 1129)

★ 1119 - Emperor Sutoku of Japan (d. 1164)

★ 1528 - Anna of Austria, Duchess of Bavaria, daughter of Ferdinand I (d. 1590)

★ 1586 - Thomas Howard, 21st Earl of Arundel, English statesman (d. 1646)

★ 1656 - Guru Har Krishan, 8th Guru of Sikhism (d. 1664)

★ 1746 - Giuseppe Piazzi, Italian astronomer (d. 1826)

★ 1752 - Joseph-Marie Jacquard, French inventor (d. 1834)

★ 1766 - Guillaume Philibert Duhesme, French general (d. 1815)

★ 1843 - Camillo Golgi, Italian physician and Nobel laureate (d. 1926)

★ 1848 - Francisco de Paula Rodrigues Alves, Brazilian politician (d. 1919)

★ 1855 - Ludwig Ganghofer, German writer (d. 1920)

★ 1860 - Gustav Mahler, Austrian composer (d. 1911)

★ 1874 - Erwin Bumke, German jurist (d. 1945)

★ 1884 - Lion Feuchtwanger, German dramatist (d. 1958)

★ 1887 - Marc Chagall, Russian painter (d. 1985)

★ 1893 - Miroslav Krleža, Croatian writer (d. 1981)

★ 1899 - George Cukor, American director (d. 1983)

★ 1900 - Earle E. Partridge, American military officer (d. 1990)

★ 1901 - Vittorio De Sica, Italian director (d. 1974)

★ 1901 - Sam Katzman, American film producer (d. 1973)

★ 1901 - Eiji Tsuburaya, Japanese film producer (d. 1970)

★ 1902 - Ted "Double Duty" Radcliffe, American baseball player (d. 2005)

★ 1904 - Simone Beck, French chef (d. 1991)

★ 1906 - William Feller, Croatian mathematician (d. 1970)

★ 1906 - Satchel Paige, American baseball player (d. 1982)

★ 1906 - Anton Karas, Viennese musician (d. 1985)

★ 1907 - Robert A. Heinlein, American writer (d. 1988)

★ 1908 - Revilo P. Oliver, American professor (d. 1994)

★ 1911 - Gian Carlo Menotti, Italian-born composer (d. 2007)

★ 1917 - Fidel Sánchez Hernández, Salvadorian politician (d. 2003)

★ 1919 - Jon Pertwee, British actor (d. 1996)

★ 1921 - Adolf von Thadden, German politician (d. 1996)

★ 1921 - Ezzard Charles, American boxer (d. 1975)

★ 1922 - Pierre Cardin, French fashion designer

★ 1924 - Mary Ford, American singer (d. 1977)

★ 1929 - Hasan Abidi, Pakistani journalist and poet (d. 2005)

★ 1927 - Doc Severinsen, American composer and musician

★ 1931 - David Eddings, American author

★ 1932 - Josef Zawinul, Austrian composer and musician

★ 1933 - Murray Halberg, New Zealand runner

★ 1933 - David McCullough, American historian and author

★ 1936 - Nikos Xilouris, Greek singer (d. 1980)

★ 1937 - Tung Chee-Hwa, Hong Kong administrator

★ 1940 - Ringo Starr, English drummer and singer (The Beatles)

★ 1941 - Michael Howard, British politician

★ 1941 - Bill Oddie, English comedian and ornithologist

★ 1942 - Carmen Duncan, Australian actress

★ 1943 - Toto Cutugno, Italian singer

★ 1943 - Joel Siegel, American film critic (d. 2007)

★ 1945 - Michael Ancram, British politician

★ 1947 - Howard Rheingold, American author

★ 1947 - Rob Townsend, English drummer (Family)

★ 1948 - Jean Leclerc, French-Canadian actor

★ 1949 - Shelley Duvall, American actress

★ 1955 - Len Barker, American baseball player

★ 1959 - Jessica Hahn, American model

★ 1959 - Ben Linder, American engineer (d. 1987)

★ 1960 - Kevin A. Ford, American astronaut

★ 1963 - Vonda Shepard, American singer

★ 1965 - Paula Devicq, Canadian actress

★ 1965 - Mo Collins, American actress

★ 1965 - Jeremy Kyle, English television presenter

★ 1966 - Gundula Krause, German folk violinist

★ 1967 - Jackie Neal, American singer (d. 2005)

★ 1968 - Jorja Fox, American actress

★ 1968 - Jeff VanderMeer, American writer

★ 1969 - Sylke Otto, German luger

★ 1969 - Joe Sakic, Canadian ice hockey player

★ 1969 - Nathalie Simard, French Canadian singer

★ 1969 - Cree Summer, Canadian voice actress

★ 1969 - Robin Weigert, American actress

★ 1970 - Wayne McCullough, Irish boxer

★ 1970 - Erik Zabel, German cyclist

★ 1970 - Robia LaMorte, American actress and dancer

★ 1971 - Alistair Potts, British rower

★ 1972 - Lisa Leslie, American basketball player

★ 1972 - Manfred Stohl, Austrian rally driver

★ 1973 - José Jiménez, Dominican baseball player

★ 1974 - Kārlis Skrastiņš, Latvian ice hockey player

★ 1974 - Patrick Lalime, Canadian ice hockey player

★ 1975 - Tony Benshoof, American luger

★ 1975 - Michael Voss, Australian rules footballer

★ 1979 - Anastasios Gousis, Greek sprinter

★ 1979 - Carl Breeze, British racing driver

★ 1980 - Deidre Downs, American beauty queen

★ 1980 - Michelle Kwan, American figure skater

★ 1981 - Synyster Gates, American musician (Avenged Sevenfold)

★ 1981 - Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Indian cricketer

★ 1982 - Cassidy, American rapper

★ 1982 - Mike Glita, American bassist (Senses Fail)

★ 1983 - Justin Davies, Australian rules footballer

★ 1984 - Minas Alozidis, Greek hurdler

★ 1984 - Mohammad Ashraful, Bangladeshi cricketer

★ 1988 - Kaci Brown, American singer

★ 1989 - Giannoulis Fakinos, Greek footballer

★ 1995 - Chloe Greenfield, American actress

Deaths

★ 1304 - Pope Benedict XI (b. 1240)

★ 1307 - King Edward I of England (b. 1239)

★ 1537 - Madeleine de Valois, queen of James V of Scotland (b. 1520)

★ 1572 - King Sigismund II Augustus of Poland (b. 1520)

★ 1573 - Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola, Italian architect (b. 1507)

★ 1647 - Thomas Hooker, Connecticut colonist (b. 1586)

★ 1663 - Thomas Baltzar, German violinist

★ 1701 - William Stoughton, American judge at the Salem witch trials (b. 1631)

★ 1713 - Henry Compton, Bishop of Oxford and privy councillor (b. 1632)

★ 1764 - William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath, English politician (b. 1683)

★ 1776 - Jeremiah Markland, English classical scholar (b. 1693)

★ 1790 - François Hemsterhuis, Dutch philosopher (b. 1721)

★ 1816 - Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Irish playwright and politician (b. 1751)

★ 1855 - Konstantin Batyushkov, Russian poet (b. 1787)

★ 1865 - Mary Surratt, Lincoln conspirator (b. 1823)

★ 1865 - Lewis Paine, Lincoln conspirator (b. 1844)

★ 1865 - David Herold, Lincoln conspirator (b. 1842)

★ 1865 - George Atzerodt, Lincoln conspirator (b. 1833)

★ 1878 - Yegor Ivanovich Zolotarev, Russian mathematician (b. 1847)

★ 1890 - Henri Nestlé, Founder of Nestlé S.A. (b. 1814)

★ 1901 - Johanna Spyri, Swiss author (b. 1827)

★ 1913 - Edward Burd Grubb, American Civil War Union Brevet Brigadier General (b.1841)

★ 1922 - Cathal Brugha, Chief of Staff of Irish Republican Army (b.1874)

★ 1925 - Clarence Hudson White American photographer (b.. 1871)

★ 1927 - Gösta Mittag-Leffler, Swedish mathematician (b. 1846)

★ 1930 - Arthur Conan Doyle, Scottish writer (b. 1859)

★ 1932 - Alexander Grin, Russian novelist (b. 1880)

★ 1932 - Henry Eyster Jacobs, American Lutheran theologian (b. 1844)

★ 1949 - Bunk Johnson, American musician (b. 1879 or 1889)

★ 1956 - Gottfried Benn, German poet (b. 1886)

★ 1964 - Lillian Copeland, American athlete (b. 1904)

★ 1965 - Moshe Sharett, 2nd Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1894)

★ 1971 - Claude Gauvreau, Canadian writer (b. 1925)

★ 1971 - Ub Iwerks, American artist, director, and cartoonist (b1901)

★ 1972 - Athenagoras, Patriarch of Constantinople (b. 1886)

★ 1972 - King Talal of Jordan (b. 1909)

★ 1973 - Max Horkheimer, German philosopher and sociologist (b. 1895)

★ 1973 - Veronica Lake, American actress (b. 1919)

★ 1975 - Ruffian, American thoroughbred racehorse (b. 1972)

★ 1980 - Dore Schary, American film producer and writer (b. 1905)

★ 1984 - Carl Boenish, American father of BASE jumping (b. 1941)

★ 1990 - Bill Cullen, American game show host (b. 1920)

★ 1990 - Cazuza, Brazilian poet, singer and composer (b. 1958)

★ 1993 - Mia Zapata, American singer with The Gits (b. 1965)

★ 2000 - Kenny Irwin, Jr., American race car driver (b. 1969)

★ 2001 - Fred Neil, American singer-songwriter (b. 1936)

★ 2002 - Bison Dele, American basketball player (b. 1969)

★ 2003 - Izhak Graziani, Bulgarian-born conductor (b. 1924)

★ 2006 - Juan de Ávalos, Spanish sculptor (b. 1911)

★ 2006 - Syd Barrett, original guitarist and vocalist of the band Pink Floyd (b. 1946)

Holidays, Feasts, and Observances

★ Tanzania: Saba Saba Day

★ Japan: Tanabata

★ Saint Job of Maniava

★ Benedict XI; Claudius, Nicostratus & Companions; Ethelburga of Faremoutiers; Medran and Odran; Palladius of Ireland; Peregrinus, Lucian, Pompeius & Companions.

★ Russia, Ukraine: Ivan Kupala Day

External links

★ BBC: On This Day

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★ On This Day in Canada
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