July 7

Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened throughout history on July 7. From 1900 until now. July 7 is under the sign of Cancer. Famous birthdays on this day include Ringo Starr (1940), Julien Doré (1982) and Vincent Peillon (1960). Several movies were released around July 7 over the years, such as Dunkirk in 2017 directed by Christopher Nolan and The Pride of the Yankees in 1942 directed by Sam Wood.
But much more happened on July 7 over the years: find out below

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Holidays

Russia and Ukraine - Ivan Kupala
United Kingdom - July 7th Bombings remembrance day
Bhutan - Guru Rinpoche
Roman Empire - Nonae Caprotinae festival in honor of Juno
Tanzania - Saba Saba Day (or Peasants' Day, founding of the TANU party, 1954)
Solomon Islands - Independence Day (1978)
Spain - San Fermfn festival or running of the bulls, in Pamplona, Navarre.
Worldwide - Bungie Day
United States - Bonza bottler day
Japan - Tanabata
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Events

2019 War in Afghanistan, 2019 Ghazni bombing: Fourteen people are killed and nearly 200 are injured in a suicide car bombing by the Taliban in Ghazni, Afghanistan. (Al Jazeera)
2018 2018 Phuket boat capsizing: The death toll from a tourist boat accident off the coast of Thailand's Phuket Island climbs to 41, with 15 people still missing. (Reuters)
2017 Sinai insurgency: Masked militants attack an Egyptian Army checkpoint in a village south of Rafah, North Sinai Governorate, killing at least 23 soldiers, including a high-ranking special forces colonel. The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria later claims responsibility. The attack included VBIED and signal jamming. (The Guardian)
2016 Terrorism in Bangladesh: A group of radical Islamists hurl homemade bombs at police officers in the Kishoreganj District in central Bangladesh killing at least one officer and injuring several others. (AP via ABC News)
2015 Boko Haram insurgency, Timeline of Boko Haram insurgency: A bomb attack has killed at least 25 people and wounded 32 others in northern Nigeria's Zaria. (BBC)
2014 2014 pro-Russian conflict in Ukraine: Minister of Defense of Ukraine Valeriy Heletey says that special forces have retaken the city of Kostiantynivka, Donetsk from armed insurgents. (Presidential administration)Ukrainian forces retake Artemivsk and Druzhkivka from pro-Russian armed separatists. (BBC)
2013 A serial blast injures 5 people near Mahabodhi temple at Bodh Gaya, in the Indian state of Bihar. (TOI)
2012 The Lebanese army in Wadi Khaled is placed on alert after rockets from Syria kill two people in its territory. (Now Lebanon) (Lebanese News Agency)
2011 The world's first artificial organ transplant is achieved, using an artificial windpipe coated with stem cells.
2010 Australia celebrates indigenous culture for NAIDOC Week with the 2010 theme 'Unsung Heroes - Closing the Gap by Leading Their Way'.(ABC)(NAIDOC)
2009 A public memorial service is held for musician Michael Jackson. It is regarded as one of the most prominent funerals of all time.ref name=Allen
2008 Austrian People's Party leader Wilhelm Molterer pulls his party out of the ruling grand coalition, forcing a snap general election. (BBC News)
2007 Pope Benedict XVI removes restrictions on celebrating the old Latin Mass, reviving an ancient Roman Rite Mass liturgy that was essentially abolished after the Second Vatican Council. (Wahington Post via ''AP'')
2006 Disney releases the film Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest to theaters in the USA. Opening weekend gross revenue: US$135.6 million, a new record.
2005 A series of four explosions occurs on London's transport system killing 56 people including four alleged suicide bombers and injuring over 700 others.
2004 Kenneth Lay, the former Chairman of Enron, is indicted by a grand jury in Houston, Texas. Enron filed for bankruptcy on December 2, 2001, after investigators discovered that it had hidden more than in debt and inflated profits. (CNN) (BBC) (Democracy Now!)
2003 MSNBC fires conservative talk show host Michael Savage for making several anti-gay remarks towards a prank caller posing as a homosexual. Savage, who was angered by aggressive personal attacks made by ampquotEast Coast Bobampquot, the prank caller, stated that the caller ampquotshould only get AIDS and dieampquot. Gay rights group GLAAD applauds the decision to fire Savage.
2002 A scandal breaks out in the United Kingdom when news reports accuse MI6 of sheltering Abu Qatada, the supposed European Al Qaeda leader.
2001 Dale Earnhardt Jr. wins the Pepsi 400 in the first NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series race at the Daytona International Speedway since the death of Dale Earnhardt. Teammate Michael Waltrip ran second, blocking for Jr., an exact mirror of the Daytona 500 where Jr. blocked for Waltrip en route to his first '500 win.
1998 69th All Star Baseball Game: at Coors Field, Denver
1997 The Great Flood begins in southern Poland.
1996 110th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: R Krajicek beats M Washington (63 64 63)
1995 Memphis Mad Dogs 1st CFL home game (vs. BC Lions)
1994 Actress Diane Lane files for divorce from Christopher Lambert
1993 Guntis Ulmanis elected President of Latvia
1991 105th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Michael Stich beats B Becker (64 76 64)
1990 97th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: M Navratilova beats Z Garrison (64 61)
1988 Soviet Union launches Phobos 1 to probe Martian moon (unsuccessful).
1987 Lt Col Oliver North began public testimony at Iran-Contra hearing
1986 IBM-PC DOS Version 3.2 (updated) released
1985 92nd Wimbledon Womens Tennis: M Navratilova beats C Evert (46 63 62)
1984 91st Wimbledon Womens Tennis: M Navratilova beats Chris Evert (76 62)
1983 11 year old Samantha Smith of Manchester, Maine, leaves for USSR
1982 David Moorcroft of United Kingdom sets record for 5000m, 13:00.41.
1981 1st solar-powered aircraft, Solar Challenger, crosses English Channel
1980 Jineane Ford, (AZ) replaces S Weatherly (Miss Universe) as 29th Miss USA
1978 85th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: M Navratilova beats C Evert (26 64 75)
1977 12,000 police occupy university in Mexico City
1976 E Henry Knoche, becomes Deputy Director of CIA
1975 Juneau, Alaska, reaches a record high temperature: 90 degrees F.
1974 Brewer Don Money sets record of consecutive errorless games at 3rd (78)
1973 80th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Billie Jean King beats C Evert (60 75)
1972 1st women FBI members sworn in (Susan Lynn Roley and Joanne E Pierce)
1969 In Canada, the Official Languages Act is adopted making the French language equal to the English language throughout the Federal government.
1968 Rock group "The Yardbirds" disband.
1967 81st Wimbledon Mens Tennis: John Newcombe beats W Bungert (63 61 61)
1966 A Warsaw Pact conference ends with a promise to support North Vietnam.
1965 Otis Redding records Respect
1964 35th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 7-4 at Shea Stadium, New York
1963 Shirley Englehorn wins LPGA Lady Carling Eastern Golf Open
1962 69th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Karen Susman beats Vera Sukova (64 64)
1961 75th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Rod Laver beats Chuck McKinley (63 61 64)
1960 Neth-US cemetery Margraten official opens
1959 26th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 5-4 at Forbes Field, Pittsburgh
1958 William Shea outlines plans for a $12M stadium at Flushing Meadows, New York
1957 Heavy storm ravages Belgian coast
1956 63rd Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Shirley Fry beats Angela Buxton (63 61)
1955 1st LPGA Championship won by Beverly Hanson
1954 T.A.N.U. party founded in Tanzania.
1953 35th PGA Championship: Walter Burkemo at Birmingham Country Club - Michigan
1952 SS United States cross Atlantic in record 82:40
1951 58th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Doris Hart beats Shirley Fry (61 60)
1950 1st Farnborough airshow held
1949 Cabatgata (A Night in Spain) opens at Broadway NYC for 76 performances
1948 Indians sign Satchel Paige at 42
1946 Howard Hughes nearly dies when his XF-11 spy plane prototype crashes in a Beverly Hills neighborhood.
1944 Bomber Command drop 2,572 tons of bombs on Caen, France
1943 3rd day of battle at Kursk: Germans occupy Dubrova
1942 Germany troop march into Woronezj
1941 Nazis executed 5,000 Jews in Kovono Lithuania
1939 52nd Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Alice Marble beats Kay Stammers (62 60)
1937 5th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 8-3 at Griffith Stadium, Washington
1936 4th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 4-3 at Braves Field, Boston
1934 Elizabeth Ryan wins her 12th Wimbeldon doubles championship.
1930 Construction of the Boulder Dam begins, in Boulder Canyon, Colorado.
1929 Romania and Vatican sign concord
1928 41st Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Helen Moody beats L de Alvarez (62 63)
1923 43rd Wimbledon Mens Tennis: William Johnston beats F Hunter (60 63 61)
1919 Phillies tie major league record of 8 steals in 9 inn game
1915 World War I: end of First Battle of the Isonzo.
1914 Austria-Hungary convenes a Council of Ministers, including Ministers for Foreign Affairs and War, the Chief of the General Staff and Naval Commander-in-Chief the Council lasts from 11.30 a.m. to 6.15 p.m.
1913 British House of Commons accepts Home-Rule Law
1911 28th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: D Chambers beats D Boothby (60 60)
1908 Great White Fleet leaves San Francisco Bay.
1905 127 degrees F (53 degrees C), Parker, Arizona (state record).
1903 The British take over the Fulani Empire.
1900 Boston hurler Kid Nichols notches his 300th career victory
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