# What happened on July 7 in history?

**Date:** July 7  
**Events recorded:** 61  
**Years spanned:** 1124 – 2022  
**Full page:** https://thisday.info/events/july/7/

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## Featured Event

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

[Read more on Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haitian_crisis_(2018%E2%80%93present))

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## Events on this date

- **1124** — The city of Tyre falls to the Venetian Crusade after a siege of nineteen weeks. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyre%2C_Lebanon))
- **1456** — A retrial verdict acquits Joan of Arc of heresy 25 years after her execution. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rehabilitation_trial_of_Joan_of_Arc))
- **1520** — Spanish conquistadores defeat a larger Aztec army at the Battle of Otumba. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conquistador))
- **1534** — Jacques Cartier makes his first contact with aboriginal peoples in what is now Canada. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Cartier))
- **1548** — Scotland and France conclude the treaty of Haddington in response to the "rough wooing". According to the treaty, the five-year old Mary, Queen of Scots, is to marry the Dauphin of France. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Scotland))
- **1575** — The Raid of the Redeswire is the last major battle between England and Scotland. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raid_of_the_Redeswire))
- **1585** — The Treaty of Nemours abolishes tolerance to Protestants in France. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Nemours))
- **1667** — An English fleet completes the destruction of a French merchant fleet off Fort St Pierre, Martinique during the Second Anglo-Dutch War. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint-Pierre%2C_Martinique))
- **1770** — The Battle of Larga between the Russian Empire and the Ottoman Empire takes place. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Larga))
- **1770** — After three days of battle around Chesma, the Russian fleet defeats the Ottoman Navy, inflicting one of the most severe naval defeats on the Ottoman Empire since Lepanto. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Chesma))
- **1777** — American forces retreating from Fort Ticonderoga are defeated in the Battle of Hubbardton. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continental_Army))
- **1798** — As a result of the XYZ Affair, the US Congress rescinds the Treaty of Alliance with France sparking the "Quasi-War". ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XYZ_Affair))
- **1807** — The first Treaty of Tilsit between France and Russia is signed, ending hostilities between the two countries in the War of the Fourth Coalition. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaties_of_Tilsit))
- **1834** — In New York City, four nights of rioting against abolitionists began. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_anti-abolitionist_riots_(1834)))
- **1846** — US troops occupy Monterey and Yerba Buena, thus beginning the US conquest of California. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monterey%2C_California))
- **1863** — The United States begins its first military draft; exemptions cost $300. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscription))
- **1865** — Four conspirators in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln are hanged. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Abraham_Lincoln))
- **1892** — The Katipunan is established, the discovery of which by Spanish authorities initiated the Philippine Revolution. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katipunan))
- **1898** — US president William McKinley signs the Newlands Resolution, annexing Hawaii as a territory of the United States. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_the_United_States))
- **1900** — The luxury raching yacht Idler capsizes and sinks on Lake Erie during a storm, drowning six of its seven passengers (all members of the family of Cleveland businessman James C. Corrigan). ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idler_(yacht)))
- **1907** — Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. staged his first Follies on the roof of the New York Theater in New York City. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florenz_Ziegfeld_Jr.))
- **1911** — 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. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Pacific_Fur_Seal_Convention_of_1911))
- **1915** — The First Battle of the Isonzo comes to an end. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Battle_of_the_Isonzo))
- **1915** — Colombo Town Guard officer Henry Pedris is executed in British Ceylon for allegedly inciting persecution of Muslims. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colombo_Town_Guard))
- **1916** — The New Zealand Labour Party was founded in Wellington. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand_Labour_Party))
- **1928** — Sliced bread is sold for the first time (on the inventor's 48th birthday) by the Chillicothe Baking Company of Chillicothe, Missouri. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sliced_bread))
- **1930** — Industrialist Henry J. Kaiser begins construction of Boulder Dam (now known as Hoover Dam). ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_J._Kaiser))
- **1930** — The Finnish far-right Lapua Movement organises the Peasant March demonstration in Helsinki to put pressure on the government to prohibit communist activities. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lapua_Movement))
- **1937** — The Marco Polo Bridge Incident (Lugou Bridge) provides the Imperial Japanese Army with a pretext for starting the Second Sino-Japanese War (China-Japan War). ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marco_Polo_Bridge_incident))
- **1937** — The Peel Commission Report recommends the partition of Palestine, which was the first formal recommendation for partition in the history of Palestine. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peel_Commission))
- **1941** — The US occupation of Iceland replaces the UK's occupation. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allied_occupation_of_Iceland))
- **1944** — World War II: Largest Banzai charge of the Pacific War at the Battle of Saipan. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II))
- **1946** — Mother Francesca S. Cabrini becomes the first American to be canonized. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Xavier_Cabrini))
- **1946** — Howard Hughes nearly dies when his XF-11 reconnaissance aircraft prototype crashes in a Beverly Hills neighborhood. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Hughes))
- **1952** — 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. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_liner))
- **1953** — Ernesto "Che" Guevara sets out on a trip through Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, and El Salvador. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Che_Guevara))
- **1958** — US President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the Alaska Statehood Act into law. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight_D._Eisenhower))
- **1959** — Venus occults the star Regulus. This rare event is used to determine the diameter of Venus and the structure of the Venusian atmosphere. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus))
- **1962** — Alitalia Flight 771 crashes in Junnar, Maharashtra, India, killing 94 people. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alitalia_Flight_771))
- **1963** — Buddhist 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. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhist_crisis))
- **1978** — The Solomon Islands becomes independent from the United Kingdom. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon_Islands))
- **1980** — Institution of sharia law in Iran. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharia))
- **1980** — During the Lebanese Civil War, 83 Tiger militants are killed during what will be known as the Safra massacre. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebanese_Civil_War))
- **1981** — US President Ronald Reagan nominates Sandra Day O'Connor to become the first female member of the Supreme Court of the United States. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_the_United_States))
- **1983** — Cold War: Samantha Smith, a US schoolgirl, flies to the Soviet Union at the invitation of Secretary General Yuri Andropov. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_War))
- **1985** — Boris Becker becomes the youngest male player ever to win Wimbledon at age 17. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Becker))
- **1991** — Yugoslav Wars: The Brioni Agreement ends the ten-day independence war in Slovenia against the rest of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yugoslav_Wars))
- **1992** — The New York Court of Appeals rules that women have the same right as men to go topless in public. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Court_of_Appeals))
- **1997** — The Turkish Armed Forces withdraw from northern Iraq after assisting the Kurdistan Democratic Party in the Iraqi Kurdish Civil War. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_Armed_Forces))
- **2003** — NASA Opportunity rover, MER-B or Mars Exploration Rover–B, was launched into space aboard a Delta II rocket. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA))
- **2005** — A series of four explosions occurs on London's transport system, killing 56 people, including four suicide bombers, and injuring over 700 others. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7_July_2005_London_bombings))
- **2006** — A shootout happens in Spiritwood, Canada, killing 2 Royal Canadian Mounted Police and wounding a 3rd officer. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiritwood_Incident))
- **2007** — The first Live Earth benefit concert was held in 11 locations around the world. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_Earth_(2007_concert)))
- **2011** — A man goes on a killing spree in Grand Rapids, Michigan, killing 7 and wounding 2 before killing himself. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Grand_Rapids_shootings))
- **2012** — At least 172 people are killed in a flash flood in the Krasnodar Krai region of Russia. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Krasnodar_Krai_floods))
- **2013** — A De Havilland Otter air taxi crashes in Soldotna, Alaska, killing ten people. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Havilland_Canada_DHC-3_Otter))
- **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. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_shooting_of_Dallas_police_officers))
- **2017** — The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons was adopted with 122 countries voting in favour. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_on_the_Prohibition_of_Nuclear_Weapons))
- **2019** — The United States defeated the Netherlands 2–0 at the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup final in Lyon, France. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_women's_national_soccer_team))
- **2021** — Haitian crisis: Haitian President Jovenel Moïse is assassinated in his residence in the capital of Port-au-Prince. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haitian_crisis_(2018%E2%80%93present)))
- **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. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Johnson))

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## Notable births on July 7

- **1999** — **Moussa Diaby** — French footballer ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moussa_Diaby))
- **1997** — **Mizuho Habu** — Japanese idol and model ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mizuho_Habu))
- **1997** — **James Marriott** — English musician and online content creator ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Marriott))
- **1996** — **Yoon Chae-kyung** — South Korean singer and actress ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoon_Chae-kyung))
- **1994** — **Nigina Abduraimova** — Uzbekistani tennis player ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigina_Abduraimova))
- **1994** — **Timothy Cathcart** — Northern Irish race car driver (died 2014) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Cathcart))
- **1994** — **Ashton Irwin** — Australian musician ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashton_Irwin))
- **1992** — **Ellina Anissimova** — Estonian hammer thrower ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellina_Anissimova))
- **1992** — **Dominik Furman** — Polish footballer ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominik_Furman))
- **1991** — **Alesso** — Swedish DJ, record producer and musician ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alesso))

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## Notable deaths on July 7

- **2025** — **Wayne Dobson** — English magician (born 1957) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Dobson))
- **2025** — **Roman Starovoyt** — Russian politician (born 1972) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Starovoyt))
- **2025** — **Norman Tebbit** — English journalist and politician, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (born 1931) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Tebbit))
- **2024** — **Jane McAlevey** — American labor organizer and author (born 1964) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_McAlevey))
- **2021** — **Robert Downey Sr.** — American actor and director (born 1936) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Downey_Sr.))
- **2021** — **Dilip Kumar** — Indian film actor (born 1922) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilip_Kumar))
- **2021** — **Jovenel Moïse** — Haitian entrepreneur and politician, President of Haiti (born 1968) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jovenel_Mo%C3%AFse))
- **2015** — **Maria Barroso** — Portuguese actress and politician (born 1925) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Barroso))
- **2015** — **Bob MacKinnon** — American basketball player and coach (born 1927) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_MacKinnon))
- **2014** — **Alfredo Di Stéfano** — Argentinian-Spanish footballer and coach (born 1926) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfredo_Di_St%C3%A9fano))

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