July 7 Historical Events

The following events took place on July 7. The list is arranged in chronological order.

Found 52 events. Showing 31 - 52.

• 1946
  Howard Hughes nearly dies when his XF-11 reconnaissance aircraft prototype crashes in a Beverly Hills neighborhood.
• 1947
  The Roswell incident, the (supposed) crash of an alien spaceship near Roswell in New Mexico.
• 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.
• 1953
  Ernesto “Che” Guevara sets out on a trip through Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, and El Salvador.
• 1954
  Elvis Presley makes his radio debut when WHBQ Memphis played his first recording for Sun Records, “That’s All Right.”
• 1956
  Fritz Moravec and two other Austrian mountaineers make the first ascent of Gasherbrum II (8,035 m).
• 1958
  U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the Alaska Statehood Act into law.
• 1959
  Venus occults the star Regulus. This rare event is used to determine the diameter of Venus and the structure of the Venusian atmosphere.
• 1963
  Buddhist crisis: The police of Ngô Đình Nhu, brother and chief political adviser of President Ngô Đình Diệm, attacked a group of American journalists who were covering a protest.
• 1978
  The Solomon Islands becomes independent from the United Kingdom
• 1980
  Institution of sharia in Iran.

• 1980
  During the Lebanese Civil War, 83 Tiger militants are killed during what will be known as the Safra massacre.
• 1981
  U.S. President Ronald Reagan appoints Sandra Day O'Connor to become the first female member of the Supreme Court of the United States.
• 1983
  Cold War: Samantha Smith, a U.S. schoolgirl, flies to the Soviet Union at the invitation of Secretary General Yuri Andropov.
• 1985
  Boris Becker becomes the youngest player ever to win Wimbledon at age 17
• 1991
  Yugoslav Wars: The Brioni Agreement ends the ten-day independence war in Slovenia against the rest of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
• 1997
  The Turkish Armed Forces withdraw from northern Iraq after assisting the Kurdistan Democratic Party in the Iraqi Kurdish Civil War.
• 2003
  NASA Opportunity rover, MER-B or Mars Exploration Rover–B, was launched into space aboard a Delta II rocket.
• 2005
  A series of four explosions occurs on London’s transport system killing 56 people including four suicide bombers and injuring over 700 others.
• 2007
  The first Live Earth benefit concert was held in 11 locations around the world.
• 2012
  At least 172 people are killed in a flash flood in the Krasnodar Krai region of Russia.
• 2013
  A De Havilland Otter air taxi crashes in Soldotna, Alaska, killing ten people.