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History Events on July 07

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History Events on July 07

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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.

#Ocean_liner

In 1952

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

#Henry_J._Kaiser

In 1930

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

#Che_Guevara

In 1953

The First Battle of the Isonzo comes to an end.

#First_Battle_of_the_Isonzo

In 1915

Tyre falls to the Crusaders.

#Tyre,_Lebanon

In 1124

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

#Occupation_of_Iceland

In 1941

The Peace of Tilsit between France, Prussia and Russia ends the War of the Fourth Coalition.

#Treaties_of_Tilsit

In 1807

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

#NASA

In 2003

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

#Peel_Commission

In 1937

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

#Yugoslav_Wars

In 1991

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

#Howard_Hughes

In 1946

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

#Lebanese_Civil_War

In 1980

American forces retreating from Fort Ticonderoga are defeated in the Battle of Hubbardton.

#Continental_Army

In 1777

World War II: German submarine U-701 destroyed off Cape Hatteras.

#German_submarine_U-701

In 1942

Elvis Presley makes his radio debut when WHBQ Memphis played his first recording for Sun Records, "That's All Right".

#Elvis_Presley

In 1954

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

#Boris_Becker

In 1985

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

#Venus

In 1959

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

#Banzai_charge

In 1944

As a result of the XYZ Affair, the US Congress rescinds the Treaty of Alliance with France sparking the "Quasi-War".

#XYZ_Affair

In 1798

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

#Jacques_Cartier

In 1534

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

#Cold_War

In 1983

The Marco Polo Bridge Incident provides the Imperial Japanese Army with a pretext for starting the Second Sino-Japanese War.

#Marco_Polo_Bridge_Incident

In 1937

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

#Conscription

In 1863

US troops occupy Monterey and Yerba Buena, thus beginning the US conquest of California.

#Monterey,_California

In 1846

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

#President_of_the_United_States

In 1981

The 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.

#North_Pacific_Fur_Seal_Convention_of_1911

In 1911

US President William McKinley signs the Newlands Resolution annexing Hawaii as a territory of the United States.

#President_of_the_United_States

In 1898

Ex-US Army soldier Micah Xavier Johnson shoots fourteen policemen during an anti-police protest in downtown Dallas, Texas, killing five of them. He is subsequently killed by a robot-delivered bomb.

#2016_shooting_of_Dallas_police_officers

In 2016

The Solomon Islands becomes independent from the United Kingdom.

#Solomon_Islands

In 1978

Buddhist crisis: The police of Ngô ?ình Nhu, brother and chief political adviser of President Ngô ?ình Di?m, attacked a group of American journalists who were covering a protest.

#Buddhist_crisis

In 1963

World War II: Beirut is occupied by Free France and British troops.

#Beirut

In 1941

Four conspirators in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln are hanged.

#Assassination_of_Abraham_Lincoln

In 1865

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

#Dwight_D._Eisenhower

In 1958

Spanish conquistadores defeat a larger Aztec army at the Battle of Otumba.

#Conquistador

In 1520

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

#New_York_Court_of_Appeals

In 1992

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

#Sliced_bread

In 1928

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

#7_July_2005_London_bombings

In 2005

The Katipunan is established, the discovery of which by Spanish authorities initiated the Philippine Revolution.

#Katipunan

In 1892

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

In 2013

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

In 2012

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

In 2007

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

In 1997

Institution of sharia law in Iran.

In 1980

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

In 1946

The New Zealand Labour Party was founded in Wellington.

In 1916

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

In 1915

Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr. staged his first Follies on the roof of the New York Theater in New York City.

In 1907

In New York City, four nights of rioting against abolitionists began.

In 1834

The Battle of Larga between the Russian Empire and the Ottoman Empire takes place.

In 1770

The Treaty of Nemours abolishes tolerance to Protestants in France.

In 1585

The Raid of the Redeswire is the last major battle between England and Scotland.

In 1575

A retrial verdict acquits Joan of Arc of heresy 25 years after her death.

In 1456

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