July 7
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July 7 is the 188th day of the year (189th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 177 days remaining until the end of the year.
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Births [change]
- 1053 – Emperor Shirakawa of Japan (d. 1129)
- 1119 – Emperor Sutoku of Japan (d. 1164)
- 1528 – Archduchess Anna of Austria (d. 1590)
- 1752 – Joseph-Marie Jacquard, French inventor (d. 1834)
- 1843 – Camillo Golgi, Italian doctor, won the 1906 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, (d. 1926)
- 1860 – Gustav Mahler, Austrian composer (d. 1911)
- 1884 – Lion Feuchtwanger, German dramatist (d. 1958)
- 1887 – Marc Chagall, Belarussian-born painter (d. 1985)
- 1906 – Anton Karas, Austrian zither player (d. 1985)
- 1906 – Satchel Paige, American baseball player (d. 1982)
- 1907 – Robert A. Heinlein, American author (d. 1988)
- 1911 – Gian Carlo Menotti, Italian-born composer (d. 2007)
- 1911 – Gretchen Franklin, English actress (d. 2005)
- 1913 – Pinetop Perkins, American musician (d. 2011)
- 1919 – Jon Pertwee, British actor (d. 1996)
- 1922 – Pierre Cardin, French fashion designer
- 1931 – David Eddings, American author (d. 2009)
- 1937 – Tung Chee Hwa, Chinese politician
- 1940 – Ringo Starr, English drummer (in the Beatles)
- 1940 – Wolfgang Clement, German politician
- 1941 – Michael Howard, British politician
- 1941 – Bill Oddie, British comedian and ornithologist
- 1947 – Gyanendra, former King of Nepal
- 1949 – Shelley Duvall, American actress
- 1959 – Billy Campbell, American actor
- 1963 – Vonda Shepard, American singer-songwriter
- 1965 – Jeremy Guscott, English rugby player
- 1968 – Jorja Fox, American actress
- 1969 – Sylke Otto, German luger
- 1970 – Erik Zabel, German cyclist
- 1972 – Lisa Leslie, American basketball player
- 1975 – Nina Hoss, German actress
- 1980 – Michelle Kwan, American figure skater
- 1984 – Alberto Aquilani, Italian footballer
Deaths [change]
- 1162 – Haakon II of Norway (b. 1147)
- 1304 – Pope Benedict XI (b. 1240)
- 1307 – King Edward I of England (b. 1239)
- 1537 – Madeleine of Valois, French-born Queen Consort of James V of Scotland (b. 1520)
- 1819 – Sophie Blanchard, French balloonist (b. 1778)
- 1890 – Henri Nestle, German confectioner and businessman (b. 1814)
- 1901 – Johanna Spyri, Swiss writer (b. 1827)
- 1930 – Arthur Conan Doyle, British writer (b. 1859)
- 1965 – Moshe Sharett, Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1894)
- 1967 – Vivian Leigh, British actress (b. 1913)
- 1971 – Ub Iwerks, American artist, director, and cartoonist (b. 1901)
- 1972 – King Talal of Jordan (b. 1909)
- 1976 – Gustav Heinemann, President of Germany (b. 1899)
- 1983 – Herman Kahn, American futurologist (b. 1922)
- 1990 – Bill Cullen, American game show host (b. 1920)
- 2006 – Syd Barrett, British musician (b. 1946)
- 2006 – Rudi Carrell, Dutch singer and entertainer (b. 1934)
Events [change]
- 1456 – A retrial verdict clears Joan of Arc of heresy, 25 years after she was burnt to death at the stake.
- 1534 – The first exchange between Europeans and Native Americans takes place in present-day New Brunswick.
- 1846 – California is annexed by the United States.
- 1865 – The conspirators in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, are executed.
- 1898 – Hawaii becomes a United States Territory.
- 1928 – Commercially sliced bread is first sold in Chillicothe, Missouri.
- 1930 – Work on the Hoover Dam begins.
- 1937 – The Second Sino-Japanese War begins.
- 1941 – World War II: US forces land in Iceland.
- 1958 – Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the Alaska Statehood Act into law, allowing Alaska to become a State of the US on January 3, 1959.
- 1974 – West Germany beats the Netherlands 2-1 to win its second FIFA World Cup.
- 1978 – The Solomon Islands become independent.
- 1983 – US schoolgirl Samantha Smith visits the Soviet Union, after an invitation from Yuri Andropov. Samantha Smith had written him a letter, expressing her fears over a nuclear war.
- 1985 – Boris Becker wins his first Wimbledon tennis title, aged 17.
- 2005 – Four suicide bombers kill 52 people on London's public transport system. They are the first suicide bombers ever to strike in Europe.
- 2007 – Live Earth concerts take place worldwide, promoting protection of the Environment.
- 2011 – Part of a roof at a football stadium in Enschede, the Netherlands, collapses, killing at least one person.
Observances [change]
- National Holiday of the Solomon Islands
- San Fermin festival in Pamplona, northern Spain: the bull run takes place.
