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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.

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