July 7

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

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Contents

1 Events

2 Births

3 Deaths

4 Holidays and observances

5 External links

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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 forms 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.
1947 - Downed UFO believed to be found in the Roswell UFO incident.
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.

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Births

1752 - Joseph-Marie Jacquard, French inventor (d. 1834)
1855 - Ludwig Ganghofer, writer (d. 1920)
1860 - Gustav Mahler, Austrian composer (d. 1911)
1884 - Lion Feuchtwanger, German dramatist and narrator (d. 1958)
1887 - Marc Chagall, Russian-born painter (d. 1985)
1893 - Miroslav Krleža, Croatian writer (d. 1981)
1899 - George Cukor, American director (d. 1983)
1901 - Vittorio De Sica, Italian director (d. 1974)
1901 - Gustav Knuth, actor (d. 1978)
1901 - Sam Katzman, American film producer (d. 1973)
1906 - William Feller, Croatian mathematician (d.1970)
1906 - Leroy Satchel Paige, baseball player (d. 1982)
1907 - Robert Heinlein, American science fiction writer (d. 1988)
1911 - Gian Carlo Menotti, Italian-born composer
1915 - Yul Brynner, Russian-born actor (d. 1985)
1919 - Jon Pertwee, British actor (d. 1996)
1922 - Pierre Cardin, French fashion designer
1927 - Doc Severinsen, American composer and musician
1933 - Murray Halberg, New Zealand runner
1937 - Tung Chee-Hwa, first chief executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China
1940 - Ringo Starr, English drummer and singer (The Beatles)
1941 - Bill Oddie, English comedian and ornithologist
1942 - Carmen Duncan, Australian actress
1945 - Michael Ancram, British politician
1947 - Howard Rheingold American author
1949 - Shelley Duvall, American actress
1959 - Ben Linder, American engineer (murdered) (d. 1987)
1966 - Gundula Krause, German folk violinist
1967 - Jackie Neal, American blues singer
1969 - Joe Sakic, Canadian hockey player
1974 - Karlis Skrastins, Latvian-born hockey player
1975 - Michael Voss, Australian Rules footballer
1980 - Michelle Kwan, American figure skater
1980 - Deidre Downs, Miss America