Notable Historical Events on July 7th
July 7th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1124 |
Tyrus surrenders to Crusaders |
1438 |
French church/King Charles VII release Pragmatieke Sanctie of Bourges |
1456 |
A retrial verdict acquits Joan of Arc of heresy 25 years after her death |
1495 |
King Ferdinand II returns to Naples |
1498 |
Emperor Maximilian I establishes choir of Imperial Chapel |
1520 |
Battle of Otumba Mexico: Hernán Cortés and the Tlaxcalans defeat a numerically superior Aztec force |
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 |
1550 |
Traditional date Chocolate thought to have been introduced to Europe |
1585 |
King Henri III & Duke De Guise signs Treaty of Nemours: French Huguenots lose all freedoms |
1647 |
People's uprising against high prices & Spanish rule in Naples |
1668 |
Isaac Newton receives MA from Trinity College, Cambridge |
1713 |
1st performance of George F Handel's "Te Deum" & "Jubilate" |
1753 |
British Museum founded by an Act of Parliament (opens in 1759) |
1753 |
British parliament grants Jews citizenship |
1754 |
Kings College in NYC opens (renamed Columbia College) |
1768 |
Firm of Johann Buddenbrook founded, in Thomas Mann's novel |
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. |
1801 |
Toussaint L'Ouverture declares Haitian independence |
1802 |
1st comic book "The Wasp" is published |
1807 |
France, Russia & Prussia sign Peace of Tilsit |
1814 |
Walter Scott's "Waverley" published |
1829 |
Royal Military Chapel forms |
1838 |
Central American federation is dissolved |
1846 |
US annexs California |
1850 |
Scottish explorer Edward Eyre reaches Albany, W-Australia |
1861 |
Battle of Laurel Hill, VA |
1862 |
Land Grant Act endows state colleges with federal land |
1863 |
1st military draft by US (exemptions cost $100) |
1863 |
Orders barring Jews from serving under US General Ulysses S. Grant are revoked |
1864 |
S Middleton, MD -Early's Washington Raid- |
1868 |
Ed Pooley takes 12 dismissals as keeper in match Surrey v Sussex |
1874 |
27th Postmaster General: James W Marshall of NJ takes office |
1875 |
Jesse James robs train in Otterville Missouri |
1878 |
Social-Democratic United forms in Amsterdam |
1887 |
11th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Herbert Lawford beats E Renshaw (1-6 6-3 3-6 6-4 6-4) |
1891 |
Travelers checks patents |
1892 |
Katipunan: the Revolutionary Philippine Brotherhood is established leading to the fall of the Spanish Empire in Asia. |
1892 |
9th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Lottie Dod beats B Hillyard (6-1 6-1) |
1892 |
16th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Wilfred Baddeley beats Joshua Pim (4-6 6-3 6-3 6-2) |
1898 |
US annexes Hawaii |
1900 |
Boston hurler Kid Nichols notches his 300th career victory |
1905 |
127°F (53°C), Parker Ariz (state record) |
1908 |
Great White Fleet leaves SF Bay |
1908 |
The Democratic Party meets in Denver at the start of their convention; William Jennings Bryan is nominated as presidential nominee |
1911 |
28th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: D Chambers beats D Boothby (6-0 6-0) |
1911 |
Dorothea Lambert Chambers beats Dora Boothby 6-0, 6-0 in a record |
1914 |
Balt Orioles' (IL) owner Jack Dunn offers Babe Ruth, Ernie Shore & Ben Egan for $10,000 to Connie Mack, who refuses, pleading poverty |
1915 |
A Great Gorge and International Railway trolley with an extreme overload of 157 passengers crashes near Queenston, Ontario, killing 15. |
1916 |
The New Zealand Labour party is formed |
1919 |
Phillies tie major league record of 8 steals in 9 inn game |
1919 |
39th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Gerald Patterson beats N Brookes (6-3 7-5 6-2) |
1923 |
43rd Wimbledon Mens Tennis: William Johnston beats F Hunter (60 63 61) |
1923 |
Cleve Indians beat Boston Red Sox 27-3 with 13 runs in 6th inning |
1923 |
University of Delaware invents "junior year abroad" (at Sorbonne) |
1924 |
Robert LeGendre of US, sets then long jump record at 25' 5½" |
1928 |
41st Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Helen Moody beats L de Alvarez (6-2 6-3) |
1928 |
Edward Hamm of US, sets then long jump record at 25' 11" |
1928 |
Sliced bread is sold for the first time by the Chillicothe Baking Company of Chillicothe, Missouri. It is described as the greatest forward step in the baking industry since bread was wrapped". |
1929 |
Romania & Vatican sign concord |
1930 |
Construction begins on Boulder (Hoover) Dam |
1932 |
Bradman scores a cricket double century in Montreal |
1933 |
53rd Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Jack Crawford beats E Vines (4-6 11-9 6-2 2-6 6-4) |
1934 |
Elizabeth Ryan wins her 12th Wimbledon doubles championship |
1936 |
4th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 4-3 at Braves Field, Boston |
1937 |
5th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 8-3 at Griffith Stadium, Wash |
1937 |
Japanese & Chinese troops clash, (Marco Polo Bridge), beginning of Second Sino-Japanese War |
1939 |
52nd Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Alice Marble beats Kay Stammers (62 60) |
1939 |
74th British Golf Open: Dick Burton shoots a 290 at St Andrews |
1941 |
Nazis executed 5,000 Jews in Kovono, Lithuania |
1941 |
US forces land in Iceland to forestall Nazi invasion |
1941 |
World War II: Beirut is occupied by Free France and British troops. |
1942 |
Germany troop march into Woronezj |
1942 |
Milt all star team (including Bob Feller) losts to AL all stars 5-0 |
1943 |
-10] Japanese premier Hideki Tojo visits Java |
1943 |
3rd day of battle at Kursk: Germans occupy Dubrova |
1943 |
Erich Hartmann shoots 7 Russian aircraft at Kursk |
1943 |
Liberator bombers sinks U-517 |
1943 |
U-951 sunk |
1944 |
RAF Bomber Command drop 2,572 tons of bombs on Caen, France |
1944 |
Heavy Japanese counter offensive on Saipan |
1946 |
Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini canonized as 1st American saint |
1947 |
Alleged and disputed Roswell UFO incident. |
1948 |
6 female reservists become 1st women sworn into regular US Navy |
1948 |
Cleveland Indians sign Leroy "Satchel" Paige |
1948 |
Indians sign Satchel Paige at 42 |
1949 |
"Cabatgata (A Night in Spain)" opens at Broadway NYC for 76 perfs |
1949 |
"Dragnet" premieres on NBC radio; also a TV series in 1951 & 1967 |
1950 |
1st Farnborough airshow held |
1950 |
64th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Budge Patty beats Sedgman (6-1 8-10 6-2 6-3) |
1950 |
79th British Golf Open: Bobby Locke shoots a 279 at Royal Troon |
1951 |
58th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Doris Hart beats Shirley Fry (6-1 6-0) |
1952 |
SS United States cross Atlantic in record 82:40 |
1953 |
35th PGA Championship: Walter Burkemo at Birmingham CC Mich |
1953 |
Che Guevara sets out on a trip through Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, and El Salvador. |
1954 |
Formation of the TANU party (Tanganyika African National Union ) in Tanzania |
1955 |
1st LPGA Championship won by Beverly Hanson |
1956 |
63rd Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Shirley Fry beats Angela Buxton (63 61) |
1956 |
Douglas Moore/John Latouche' opera "Ballad of Baby Doe," premieres |
1956 |
Fritz Moravec reaches the peak of Gasherbrum II (8,035 m). |
1957 |
Heavy storm ravages Belgian coast |
1958 |
C A Milton scores 104* on Test Cricket debut, England v NZ Headingley |
1958 |
Pres Eisenhower signed a bill approving Alaskan statehood |
1958 |
William Shea outlines plans for a $12M stadium at Flushing Meadows NY |
1959 |
26th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 5-4 at Forbes Field, Pittsburgh |
1960 |
US cemetery officially opens at Margraten, Netherlands |
1960 |
USSR shoots down a US aircraft over Barents sea |
1961 |
75th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Rod Laver beats Chuck McKinley (63 61 64) |
1961 |
James R Hoffa elected chairman of Teamsters |
1962 |
69th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Karen Susman beats Vera Sukova (6-4 6-4) |
1962 |
Bill Hartack becomes 8th jockey to win 3,000 horse races |
1962 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1963 |
Shirley Englehorn wins LPGA Lady Carling Eastern Golf Open |
1964 |
35th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 7-4 at Shea Stadium, New York |
1964 |
All star MVP: John Callison (Philadelphia Phillies) |
1965 |
Otis Redding records "Respect" |
1967 |
81st Wimbledon Mens Tennis: John Newcombe beats W Bungert (63 61 61) |
1967 |
Beatles' "All You Need is Love" is released |
1967 |
Doors' "Light My Fire" hits #1 |
1967 |
Beginning of the civil war in Biafra. |
1968 |
23rd US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Susie Maxwell Berning |
1968 |
France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
1968 |
Rock group "Yardbirds" disband |
1969 |
Canada's House of Commons approves equality of French-English lang |
1969 |
German newspaper Der Spiegel reveals Bishop Defregger of Munich is a war criminal |
1972 |
1st women FBI members sworn in (Susan Lynn Roley & Joanne E Pierce) |
1972 |
79th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Billie Jean King beats Goolagong (63 63) |
1972 |
Dutch Minister of Agt decides to ignore soft drug usage |
1972 |
Secret Talks Between IRA and British Government: Gerry Adams is part of a delegation to London for talks with the British Government |
1972 |
7 people are killed in separate incidents across Northern Ireland |
1973 |
78 drown as flash flood sweeps a bus into a river (India) |
1973 |
80th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Billie Jean King beats C Evert (60 75), 1st all-US women's 1st all-US women's Wimbledon final |
1973 |
87th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Jan Kodes beats Alex Metreveli (61 98 63) |
1973 |
All women board of directors takes control of ABA's Kentucky Colonels |
1973 |
Balt Orioles pull their 4th triple play (5-4-3 vs Oakland) |
1973 |
Glenda Reiser (Canada) sets record women's mile (4:34.9) |
1973 |
Shoelace Park in the Bronx named |
1974 |
Brewer Don Money sets record of consec errorless games at 3rd (78) |
1974 |
Sue Roberts wins LPGA Niagara Frontier Golf Classic |
1974 |
West Germany beats Neth 2-1 for soccer's 10th World Cup in Munich |
1974 |
New Zealand imposes a blanket ban on sports teams from South Africa |
1975 |
TV soap opera "Ryan's Hope" premieres |
1976 |
Lt General Vernon A Walters, USA, ends term as deputy director of CIA; succeeded by E Henry Knoche |
1976 |
Viking 2 goes into orbit around Mars |
1977 |
12,000 police occupy university in Mexico City |
1978 |
85th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: M Navratilova beats C Evert (26 64 75) |
1978 |
Solomon Islands declares independence from UK |
1979 |
93rd Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Bjorn Borg beats R Tanner (67 61 36 63 64) |
1979 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1980 |
Jim King completes riding Miracle Strip Roller coaster 368 hours |
1980 |
Larry Holmes TKOs Scott LeDoux in 7 for heavyweight boxing title |
1980 |
Shawn Weatherly, of USA, crowned 29th Miss Universe |
1980 |
Jineane Ford, (AZ) replaces S Weatherly (Miss Univ) as 29th Miss USA |
1980 |
Institution of sharia in Iran. |
1980 |
The Safra massacre in Lebanon. |
1981 |
The solar-powered aircraft, Solar Challenger, successfully completes a 163 mile flight across the English Channel |
1981 |
Ben Plucknett of US throws discus 72.34 m, but throw is disqualified |
1981 |
Sandra Day O'Connor nominated for the Supreme Court |
1982 |
David Moorcroft of UK sets record for 5000 m, 13:00.41 |
1982 |
Steve Scott of US runs mile in a record 3:47.69 |
1983 |
11 year old Samantha Smith of Manchester, Maine, leaves for USSR |
1984 |
5 die in a train crash in Williston, Vermont |
1984 |
91st Wimbledon Womens Tennis: M Navratilova beats Chris Evert (76 62) |
1985 |
92nd Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Martina Navratilova beats Chrissie Evert (46 63 62) |
1985 |
Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Mazda Hall of Fame Golf Championship |
1986 |
IBM-PC DOS Version 3.2 (updated) released |
1986 |
It is reported That Boy George is being treated for heroin addiction |
1986 |
Jordan government shuts al-Fatah offices |
1986 |
Supreme Court struck down Gramm-Rudman deficit-reduction law |
1987 |
Alan & Colin Wells make 303* partnership for Sussex v Kent |
1987 |
Kiwanis Clubs end men-only tradition, vote to admit women |
1987 |
Lt Col Oliver North began public testimony at Iran-Contra hearing |
1987 |
Yanks trailing by 7 score 7 in 7th on 7/7 & 5 in 8th-Beat Twins 12-7 |
1988 |
Soviet Union launches Phobos 1 to probe Martian moon (unsuccessful) |
1988 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1988 |
Five prominent anti-apartheid activists are released in Cape Town, South Africa after being detained for up to two years under the Internal Security Act |
1990 |
97th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: M Navratilova beats Z Garrison (64 61) |
1990 |
NJ Devils sign Russians Viacheslav Fetisov & Sergei Starikov |
1990 |
Italy beats England in soccer's World Cup consolation game |
1991 |
105th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Michael Stich beats B Becker (64 76 64) |
1991 |
Alice Miller wins LPGA Jamie Farr Toledo Golf Classic |
1991 |
Nolan Ryan possible 8th no-hitter ends in the 8th inning |
1992 |
South Africa's national soccer team, Bafana Bafana, win South Africa's first ever FIFA sanctioned match |
1993 |
Guntis Ulmanis elected president of Latvia |
1993 |
NY Met Anthony Young, loses his 26th straight game (goes to 27) |
1993 |
Philadelphia Phillies beat SF Giants 7-6 in 20 innings |
1993 |
Prodigy announces it will offer Cox newspapers |
1993 |
Red Tom Browning decides to watch his team play at Wrigley Field from the roof of a building across Sheffield Ave, he is fined $500 |
1994 |
"Les Miserables" opens at Imperial Theatre, Tokyo |
1994 |
North Yemenite troops occupy Aden |
1995 |
Memphis Mad Dogs 1st CFL home game (vs BC Lions) |
1995 |
Space shuttle STS-71 (Atlantis 14), lands |
1996 |
110th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: R Krajicek beats M Washington (63 64 63) |
1996 |
17th US Seniors Golf Open: Dave Stockton |
1996 |
Joan Pitcock wins LPGA Jamie Farr Kroger Golf Classic |
1996 |
Space Shuttle STS 78 (Columbia 20), lands |
1996 |
Nelson Mandela steps down as President of South Africa |
1997 |
Tiger Woods wins golf's Western Open |
1997 |
Tower Minn temps dip to 24°F |
1998 |
69th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 13-8 at Coors Field, Denver |
2002 |
A scandal breaks out in the United Kingdom when news reports accuse MI6 of sheltering Abu Qatada, the supposed European Al Qaeda leader. |
2002 |
109th Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Serena Williams beats Venus Williams (7-6 6-3) |
2002 |
116th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Lleyton Hewitt beats D Nalbandian (6-1 6-3 6-2) |
2003 |
The United Communist Party of Armenia is formed. |
2005 |
Coordinated terrorist bomb blasts strike London's public transport system during the morning rush hour killing 52 and injuring 700 |
2005 |
Influenced by Live 8, the G8 leaders pledge 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 Apostolic Letter Summorum Pontificum, removing restrictions on celebrating the old Tridentine Mass. |
2007 |
Worldwide performances by charity event Live Earth. |
2011 |
Roof of a stand in De Grolsch Veste Stadium in Enschede which was under construction collapsed, one killed and 14 injured. |
2012 |
Floods in the Krasnodar region, Russia, kill 140 people |
2013 |
10 people are killed after an air taxi crashes in Soldotna, Alaska |
2013 |
127th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Andy Murray beats Novak Djokovic (6-4 7-5 6-4) becoming the first British man to win a Wimbledon tennis title since 1936 |
2016 |
Attorney General Accepts Recommendation Not to Charge Hillary Clinton |
2017 |
All eyes on Trump-Putin dynamics as they meet for first time at G20 |
2017 |
Japan, South Korea, US demand greater Chinese effort on N.Korea |
2018 |
UK police in protective suits investigate latest Novichok poisoning |
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