What Happened On July 7

10 odd things that happened on July 7

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  1863 First ever

  The United States begins its first military draft; exemptions cost $300.

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  1807 First ever

  The first Treaty of Tilsit between France and Russia is signed, ending hostilities between the two countries in the War of the Fourth Coalition.

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  1534 First ever

  Jacques Cartier makes his first contact with aboriginal peoples in what is now Canada.

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  1911 Oddly true

  Four countries signed the North Pacific Fur Seal Convention, which banned the hunting of seals in the pelagic zone.

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  1907 First ever

  Inspired by the Folies Bergère of Paris, American impresario Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. (pictured) staged the first of his Ziegfeld Follies.

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  2007 First ever

  The first Live Earth benefit concert was held in 11 locations around the world.

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  1981 First ever

  US President Ronald Reagan nominates Sandra Day O'Connor to become the first female member of the Supreme Court of the United States.

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  1952 Oddly true

  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.

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  1946 First ever

  Mother Francesca S. Cabrini becomes the first American to be canonized.

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  1937 First ever

  The Peel Commission Report recommends the partition of Palestine, which was the first formal recommendation for partition in the history of Palestine.

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Observed today

• Christian feast day: Æthelburh of Faremoutiers
• Christian feast day: Felix of Nantes
• Christian feast day: Illidius
• Christian feast day: Job of Manyava (Ukrainian Orthodox Church)
• Christian feast day: Blessed María Romero Meneses
• Christian feast day: Pantaenus
• Christian feast day: Peter To Rot
• Christian feast day: Blesseds Józef and Wiktoria Ulma with seven children (Catholic Church)
• Christian feast day: Willibald (Catholic Church)
• Christian feast day: July 7 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Solomon Islands from the United Kingdom in 1978.
• Ivan Kupala Day (Belarus, Poland, Russia, Ukraine)
• Saba Saba Day (Tanzania)
• Tanabata (Japan)
• World Chocolate Day

• 2022Boris Johnson announces his resignation as leader of the Conservative Party following days of pressure from the Members of Parliament (MPs) during the July 2022 United Kingdom government crisis. Wikipedia →
• 2021Haitian crisis: Haitian President Jovenel Moïse is assassinated in his residence in the capital of Port-au-Prince. Wikipedia →
• 2019The United States defeated the Netherlands 2–0 at the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup final in Lyon, France. Wikipedia →
• 2017The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons was adopted with 122 countries voting in favour. Wikipedia →
• 2016Ex-US Army soldier Micah Xavier Johnson shoots fourteen policemen, killing five of them, in downtown Dallas, Texas at the end of a protest of recent police killings of Black men. He is subsequently killed by a robot-delivered bomb. Wikipedia →
• 2013A De Havilland Otter air taxi crashes in Soldotna, Alaska, killing ten people. Wikipedia →
• 2012At least 172 people are killed in a flash flood in the Krasnodar Krai region of Russia. Wikipedia →
• 2011A man goes on a killing spree in Grand Rapids, Michigan, killing seven and wounding two before killing himself. Wikipedia →
• 2007The first Live Earth benefit concert was held in 11 locations around the world. Wikipedia →
• 2006A shootout happens in Spiritwood, Canada, killing two Royal Canadian Mounted Police and wounding a third officer. Wikipedia →
• 2005A series of four explosions occurs on London's transport system, killing 56 people, including four suicide bombers, and injuring over 700 others. Wikipedia →
• 2003NASA Opportunity rover, MER-B or Mars Exploration Rover–B, was launched into space aboard a Delta II rocket. Wikipedia →
• 1997The Turkish Armed Forces withdraw from northern Iraq after assisting the Kurdistan Democratic Party in the Iraqi Kurdish Civil War. Wikipedia →
• 1992The New York Court of Appeals rules that women have the same right as men to go topless in public. Wikipedia →
• 1991Yugoslav Wars: The Brioni Agreement ends the ten-day independence war in Slovenia against the rest of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Wikipedia →
• 1985Boris Becker becomes the youngest male player ever to win Wimbledon at age 17. Wikipedia →
• 1983Cold War: Samantha Smith, a United States schoolgirl, flies to the Soviet Union at the invitation of Secretary General Yuri Andropov. Wikipedia →
• 1981US President Ronald Reagan nominates Sandra Day O'Connor to become the first female member of the Supreme Court of the United States. Wikipedia →
• 1980Institution of sharia law in Iran. Wikipedia →
• 1980During the Lebanese Civil War, 83 Tiger militants are killed during what will be known as the Safra massacre. Wikipedia →
• 1978The Solomon Islands becomes independent from the United Kingdom. Wikipedia →
• 1963Buddhist crisis: Police commanded by Ngô Đình Nhu, brother and chief political adviser of South Vietnam President Ngo Dinh Diem, attacked a group of American journalists who were covering a protest. Wikipedia →
• 1962Alitalia Flight 771 crashes in Junnar, Maharashtra, India, killing 94 people. Wikipedia →
• 1959Venus occults the star Regulus. This rare event is used to determine the diameter of Venus and the structure of the Venusian atmosphere. Wikipedia →
• 1958US President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the Alaska Statehood Act into law. Wikipedia →
• 1953Ernesto "Che" Guevara sets out on a trip through Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, and El Salvador. Wikipedia →
• 1952The 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. Wikipedia →
• 1946Mother Francesca S. Cabrini becomes the first American to be canonized. Wikipedia →
• 1946Howard Hughes nearly dies when his XF-11 reconnaissance aircraft prototype crashes in a Beverly Hills neighborhood. Wikipedia →
• 1944World War II: Largest Banzai charge of the Pacific War at the Battle of Saipan. Wikipedia →
• 1941The US occupation of Iceland replaces the UK's occupation. Wikipedia →
• 1937The Marco Polo Bridge Incident (Lugou Bridge) provides the Imperial Japanese Army with a pretext for starting the Second Sino-Japanese War (China-Japan War). Wikipedia →
• 1937The Peel Commission Report recommends the partition of Palestine, which was the first formal recommendation for partition in the history of Palestine. Wikipedia →
• 1930Industrialist Henry J. Kaiser begins construction of Boulder Dam (now known as Hoover Dam). Wikipedia →
• 1930The Finnish far-right Lapua Movement organises the Peasant March demonstration in Helsinki to put pressure on the government to prohibit communist activities. Wikipedia →
• 1928Sliced bread is sold for the first time (on the inventor's 48th birthday) by the Chillicothe Baking Company of Chillicothe, Missouri. Wikipedia →
• 1916The New Zealand Labour Party was founded in Wellington. Wikipedia →
• 1915World War I: The First Battle of the Isonzo between Italy and Austria-Hungary comes to an end. Wikipedia →
• 1915Colombo Town Guard officer Henry Pedris is executed in British Ceylon for allegedly inciting persecution of Muslims. Wikipedia →
• 1911The United States, UK, 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. Wikipedia →
• 1907Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. staged his first Follies on the roof of the New York Theater in New York City. Wikipedia →
• 1900The luxury racing yacht Idler capsizes and sinks on Lake Erie during a storm, drowning six of its seven passengers (all members of the family of Cleveland businessman James C. Corrigan). Wikipedia →
• 1898US president William McKinley signs the Newlands Resolution, annexing Hawaii as a territory of the United States. Wikipedia →
• 1892The Katipunan is established, the discovery of which by Spanish authorities initiated the Philippine Revolution. Wikipedia →
• 1865Four conspirators in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln are hanged. Wikipedia →
• 1863The United States begins its first military draft; exemptions cost $300. Wikipedia →
• 1846US troops occupy Monterey and Yerba Buena, thus beginning the US conquest of California. Wikipedia →
• 1834In New York City, four nights of rioting against abolitionists began. Wikipedia →
• 1807The first Treaty of Tilsit between France and Russia is signed, ending hostilities between the two countries in the War of the Fourth Coalition. Wikipedia →
• 1798As a result of the XYZ Affair, the US Congress rescinds the Treaty of Alliance with France sparking the "Quasi-War". Wikipedia →
• 1777American forces retreating from Fort Ticonderoga are defeated in the Battle of Hubbardton. Wikipedia →
• 1770The Battle of Larga between the Russian Empire and the Ottoman Empire takes place. Wikipedia →
• 1770After three days of battle around Chesma, the Russian fleet defeats the Ottoman Navy, inflicting one of the most severe naval defeats on the Ottoman Empire since Lepanto. Wikipedia →
• 1667An English fleet completes the destruction of a French merchant fleet off Fort St Pierre, Martinique during the Second Anglo-Dutch War. Wikipedia →
• 1585The Treaty of Nemours abolishes tolerance to Protestants in France. Wikipedia →
• 1575The Raid of the Redeswire is the last major battle between England and Scotland. Wikipedia →
• 1548Scotland and France conclude the Treaty of Haddington in response to the war known as the "Rough Wooing". According to the treaty, the five-year-old Mary, Queen of Scots, is to marry the Dauphin of France. Wikipedia →
• 1534Jacques Cartier makes his first contact with aboriginal peoples in what is now Canada. Wikipedia →
• 1520Spanish conquistadores defeat a larger Aztec army at the Battle of Otumba. Wikipedia →
• 1456A retrial verdict acquits Joan of Arc of heresy 25 years after her execution. Wikipedia →
• 1124The city of Tyre falls to the Venetian Crusade after a siege of 19 weeks. Wikipedia →