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On This Day, July 7
- 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.
- 2021: Haitian crisis: Haitian President Jovenel Moïse is assassinated in his residence in the capital of Port-au-Prince.
- 2019: The United States defeated the Netherlands 2–0 at the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup final in Lyon, France.
- 2017: The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons was adopted with 122 countries voting in favour.
- 2016: Ex-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.