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This day in history: 7 July

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Key facts

348 historical events, births and deaths are listed for 7 July.
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2022: Boris 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.

Holidays and observances

Christian feast day: Æthelburh of Faremoutiers

Christian feast day: Blessed María Romero Meneses

Christian feast day: Blesseds Józef and Wiktoria Ulma with seven children (Catholic Church)

Christian feast day: Felix of Nantes

Christian feast day: Illidius

Christian feast day: Job of Manyava (Ukrainian Orthodox Church)

Christian feast day: July 7 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Christian feast day: Pantaenus

Christian feast day: Peter To Rot

Christian feast day: Willibald (Catholic Church)

Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Solomon Islands from the United Kingdom in 1978.

Ivan Kupala Day (Belarus, Poland, Russia, Ukraine)

Events

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.

2021Haitian crisis: Haitian President Jovenel Moïse is assassinated in his residence in the capital of Port-au-Prince.

2019The United States defeated the Netherlands 2–0 at the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup final in Lyon, France.

2017The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons was adopted with 122 countries voting in favour.

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.

2013A De Havilland Otter air taxi crashes in Soldotna, Alaska, killing ten people.

2012At least 172 people are killed in a flash flood in the Krasnodar Krai region of Russia.

2011A man goes on a killing spree in Grand Rapids, Michigan, killing seven and wounding two before killing himself.

2007The first Live Earth benefit concert was held in 11 locations around the world.

2006A shootout happens in Spiritwood, Canada, killing two Royal Canadian Mounted Police and wounding a third officer.

2005A series of four explosions occurs on London's transport system, killing 56 people, including four suicide bombers, and injuring over 700 others.

2003NASA Opportunity rover, MER-B or Mars Exploration Rover–B, was launched into space aboard a Delta II rocket.

1997The Turkish Armed Forces withdraw from northern Iraq after assisting the Kurdistan Democratic Party in the Iraqi Kurdish Civil War.

1992The New York Court of Appeals rules that women have the same right as men to go topless in public.

1991Yugoslav Wars: The Brioni Agreement ends the ten-day independence war in Slovenia against the rest of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

1985Boris Becker becomes the youngest male player ever to win Wimbledon at age 17.

1983Cold War: Samantha Smith, a United States schoolgirl, flies to the Soviet Union at the invitation of Secretary General Yuri Andropov.

1981US President Ronald Reagan nominates Sandra Day O'Connor to become the first female member of the Supreme Court of the United States.

1980During the Lebanese Civil War, 83 Tiger militants are killed during what will be known as the Safra massacre.

1980Institution of sharia law in Iran.

1978The Solomon Islands becomes independent from the United Kingdom.

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.

1962Alitalia Flight 771 crashes in Junnar, Maharashtra, India, killing 94 people.

1959Venus occults the star Regulus. This rare event is used to determine the diameter of Venus and the structure of the Venusian atmosphere.

1958US President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the Alaska Statehood Act into law.

1953Ernesto "Che" Guevara sets out on a trip through Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, and El Salvador.

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.

1946Howard Hughes nearly dies when his XF-11 reconnaissance aircraft prototype crashes in a Beverly Hills neighborhood.

1946Mother Francesca S. Cabrini becomes the first American to be canonized.

1944World War II: Largest Banzai charge of the Pacific War at the Battle of Saipan.

1941The US occupation of Iceland replaces the UK's occupation.

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).

1937The Peel Commission Report recommends the partition of Palestine, which was the first formal recommendation for partition in the history of Palestine.

1930Industrialist Henry J. Kaiser begins construction of Boulder Dam (now known as Hoover Dam).

1930The Finnish far-right Lapua Movement organises the Peasant March demonstration in Helsinki to put pressure on the government to prohibit communist activities.

1928Sliced bread is sold for the first time (on the inventor's 48th birthday) by the Chillicothe Baking Company of Chillicothe, Missouri.

1916The New Zealand Labour Party was founded in Wellington.

1915Colombo Town Guard officer Henry Pedris is executed in British Ceylon for allegedly inciting persecution of Muslims.

1915World War I: The First Battle of the Isonzo between Italy and Austria-Hungary comes to an end.

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.

Born on this day

2005Ron Holland, American basketball player

1999Moussa Diaby, French footballer

1997James Marriott, English musician and online content creator

1997Mizuho Habu, Japanese idol and model

1996Yoon Chae-kyung, South Korean singer and actress

1994Ashton Irwin, Australian musician

1994Nigina Abduraimova, Uzbekistani tennis player

1994Timothy Cathcart, Northern Irish race car driver (died 2014)

1992Dominik Furman, Polish footballer

1992Ellina Anissimova, Estonian hammer thrower

1991Alesso, Swedish DJ, record producer and musician

1990Lee Addy, Ghanaian footballer

1990Pascal Stöger, Austrian footballer

1989Karl-August Tiirmaa, Estonian skier

1989Landon Cassill, American race car driver

1989Miina Kallas, Estonian footballer

1988Kaci Brown, American singer-songwriter

1988Lukas Rosenthal, German rugby player

1986Ana Kasparian, American journalist and producer

1986Sevyn Streeter, American singer-songwriter

1986Udo Schwarz, German rugby player

1985Marc Stein, German footballer

1984Alberto Aquilani, Italian footballer

1984Minas Alozidis, Greek hurdler

1984Mohammad Ashraful, Bangladeshi cricketer

1983Justin Davies, Australian footballer

1982Asia O'Hara, American drag performer

1982George Owu, Ghanaian footballer

1982Jan Laštůvka, Czech footballer

1981Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Indian cricketer

1981Synyster Gates, American guitarist

1980John Buck, American baseball player

1980Michelle Kwan, American figure skater

1980Serdar Kulbilge, Turkish footballer

1979Anastasios Gousis, Greek sprinter

1979Douglas Hondo, Zimbabwean cricketer

1979Ibrahim Sulayman Muhammad Arbaysh, Saudi Arabian terrorist (died 2015)

1978Chris Andersen, American basketball player

1978Davor Kraljević, Croatian footballer

1976Bérénice Bejo, Argentinian-French actress

Died on this day

2025Norman Tebbit, English journalist and politician, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (born 1931)

2025Roman Starovoyt, Russian politician (born 1972)

2025Wayne Dobson, English magician (born 1957)

2024Jane McAlevey, American labor organizer and author (born 1964)

2021Dilip Kumar, Indian film actor (born 1922)

2021Jovenel Moïse, Haitian entrepreneur and politician, President of Haiti (born 1968)

2021Robert Downey Sr., American actor and director (born 1936)

2015Bob MacKinnon, American basketball player and coach (born 1927)

2015Maria Barroso, Portuguese actress and politician (born 1925)

2014Alfredo Di Stéfano, Argentinian-Spanish footballer and coach (born 1926)

2014Eduard Shevardnadze, Georgian general and politician, 2nd President of Georgia (born 1928)

2014Peter Underwood, Australian lawyer and politician, 27th Governor of Tasmania (born 1937)

2013Artur Hajzer, Polish mountaineer (born 1962)

2013Ben Pucci, American football player and sportscaster (born 1925)

2013Donald J. Irwin, American lawyer and politician, 32nd Mayor of Norwalk, Connecticut (born 1926)

2013Robert Hamerton-Kelly, South African-American pastor, theologian, and author (born 1938)

2012Dennis Flemion, American drummer (born 1955)

2012Doris Neal, American baseball player (born 1928)

2012Jerry Norman, American sinologist and linguist (born 1936)

2012Leon Schlumpf, Swiss politician (born 1927)

2012Ronaldo Cunha Lima, Brazilian poet and politician (born 1936)

2011Allan W. Eckert, American historian and author (born 1931)

2011Dick Williams, American baseball player, coach, and manager (born 1929)

2008Bruce Conner, American sculptor, painter, and photographer (born 1933)

2008Dorian Leigh, American model (born 1917)

2007Anne McLaren, British scientist (born 1927)

2007Donald Michie, British scientist (born 1923)

2006John Money, New Zealand-American psychologist and author (born 1921)

2006Juan de Ávalos, Spanish sculptor (born 1911)

2006Syd Barrett, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1946)

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“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”

Marcus Aurelius

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