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1124Jul 7Tyre [Tyrus] surrendered to the Crusaders.
1307Jul 7Edward I (b.1239), King (Longshanks) of England (1272-1307), died.
1456Jul 7Joan of Arc was acquitted, even though she had already been burnt at the stake on May 30, 1431.
1550Jul 7Chocolate was introduced (Europe).
1585Jul 7King Henri III & Duke De Guise signed the Treaty of Nemours: French Huguenots lost all freedoms.
1607Jul 7“God Save the King” was 1st sung.
1690Jul 7Johann Tobias Krebs, composer, was born.
1713Jul 7The 1st performance of Georg F Handel’s “To Deum” & “Jubilate.”
1753Jul 7English parliament granted Jews English citizenship.
1754Jul 7King’s College in New York City opened. The school was renamed Columbia College 30 years later.
1752Jul 7Joseph Marie Jacquard, inventor of the first loom that could weave patterns, was born.
1777Jul 7American troops gave up Fort Ticonderoga, on Lake Champlain, to the British.
1791Jul 7Benjamin Rush, Richard Allen and Absalom Jones founded the Non-denominational African Church.
1795Jul 7Thomas Paine defended the principal of universal suffrage at the Constitutional Convention in Paris.
1798Jul 7Napoleon Bonaparte’s army began its march towards Cairo, Egypt, from Alexandria.
1801Jul 7A new constitution, drafted by a committee appointed by Toussaint Louverture (L’Ouverture), went into effect and declared the independence of Hispaniola. The constitution made him governor general for life with near absolute powers.
1802Jul 7The first comic book was published in Hudson, NY. “The Wasp” was created by Robert Rusticoat.
1807Jul 7Napoleon I of France and Czar Alexander I of Russia signed a treaty at Tilsit ending war between their empires. It divided Europe among themselves and isolated Britain.
1814Jul 7Sir Walter Scott’s novel Waverly was published anonymously so as not to damage his reputation as a poet.
1815Jul 7After defeating Napoleon at Waterloo, the victorious Allies marched into Paris.
1846Jul 7U.S. annexation of California was proclaimed at Monterey after Commodore Sloat reached Monterey and claimed California for the US.
1860Jul 7Gustav Mahler, conductor of the Vienna State Opera House, was born in Kalischat, Bohemia, Austria.
1863Jul 7The 1st military draft was called by the US. It allowed exemptions for $100.
1875Jul 7Jesse James robbed a train in Otterville, Missouri.
1879Jul 7George Caleb Bingham (b.1811), artist and legislator, died in Kansas City, Mo. His paintings included “The Jolly Flatboatmen,” which became a best-seller in 1846 after it was chosen by the American Art Union for its annual engraving.
1884Jul 7Lion Feuchtwanger, German philosopher, writer (Jud Suss), was born.
1893Jul 7Guy de Maupassant (42), writer, died.
1898Jul 7The United States annexed Hawaii.
1899Jul 7George Cukor (d.1983), film director, was born in New York City.
1906Jul 7Leroy “Satchel” Page, baseball pitcher for the Negro Leagues and the Major League, was born.
1907Jul 7Robert Heinlein (d.1988), science-fiction author, was born in Butler, Miss. “Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.”
1908Jul 7The Democratic National Convention opened in Denver.
1911Jul 7Gian-Carlo Menotti, composer (Amahl & Night Visitors), was born in Italy.
1913Jul 7British House of Commons accepted Home-Rule Law.
1919Jul 7William Moses Kunstler, defense attorney (Chicago 8), was born.
1920Jul 7A device known as the radio compass was used for the first time on a U.S. Navy airplane.
1922Jul 7Pierre Cardin, fashion designer (Unisex), was born in Paris, France.
1925Jul 7Afrikaans was recognized as one of the official languages of South Africa, along with English and Dutch.
1927Jul 7Christopher Stone became the first British ”˜disc jockey’ when he played records for the BBC.
1937Jul 7A conflict between troops of China and Japan came to be known as the Marco Polo Bridge Incident. The incident occurred near the Marco Polo Bridge outside of Beijing and eventually escalated into warfare between the two countries and was the prelude to the Pacific side of World War II.
1940Jul 7Ringo Starr, drummer for the Beatles, was born. He went on to a solo career and acting.
1941Jul 7Nazis executed 5,000 Jews in Kovno, Lithuania.
1943Jul 7Adolf Hitler made the V-2 missile program a top priority in armament planning.
1944Jul 7Bomber Command dropped 2,572 tons of bombs on Caen, France.
1945Jul 7Matti Salminen, operatic basso (King Philip-Don Carlos), was born in Turku, Finland.
1946Jul 7William Durkin (1916-2006) rescued Howard Hughes (1905-1976) from the fiery wreckage of an XF-11 reconnaissance plane that Hughes was testing over Beverly Hills.
1947Jul 7A made-up photo in Life magazine featured a biker in Hollister, Ca. In 1997 bikers returned to Hollister for a 50-year anniversary and began an annual tradition. [see Jul 4]
1948Jul 7Six female reservists became the first women to be sworn into the regular U.S. Navy.
1949Jul 7The police drama “Dragnet,” starring Jack Webb and Barton Yarborough, premiered on NBC radio. It became a TV series in 1951 and 1967.
1952Jul 7The American ocean liner SS United States, known as “the Big U,” crossed the Atlantic in record 82:40, while on her maiden voyage.
1956Jul 7The Douglas Moore and John Latouche opera “Ballad of Baby Doe,” premiered.
1954Jul 7Elvis Presley made his radio debut as Memphis, Tennessee, station WHBQ played his first recording for Sun Records, “That’s All Right (Mama).”
1958Jul 7President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the Alaska statehood bill. Alaska became the 49th state in January 1959.
1961Jul 7James R. Hoffa was elected president of Teamsters.
1962Jul 7Operation Sunbeam was a series of four nuclear tests conducted at the United States of America’s Nevada Test Site.
1965Jul 7Moshe Sharett, Israel’s 2nd prime minister (1954-1955), died.
1966Jul 7The U.S. Marine Corps launched Operation Hasting to drive the North Vietnamese Army back across the Demilitarized Zone in Vietnam.
1967Jul 7Beatles’ “All You Need is Love” was released.
1969Jul 7The first U.S. troops to withdraw from South Vietnam left Saigon.
1972Jul 7Athenagoras (b.1886), 268th patriarch of Constantinople, died.
   
1976Jul 7The US 94th Congress amended the Flag Code.
1977Jul 7Sir Michael Tippett (1905-1998), British composer, premiered his 4th opera “The Ice Break,” which featured a race riot and a psychedelic sequence.
1978Jul 7China cut off all aid to Albania after a dispute and left it completely isolated.
1983Jul 7Samantha Smith (11) of Manchester, Maine, left for a visit to the Soviet Union at the personal invitation of Soviet leader Yuri V. Andropov.
1986Jul 7The US Supreme Court struck down Gramm-Rudman deficit-reduction law.
1987Jul 7Lt. Col. Oliver North began his long-awaited public testimony at the Iran-Contra hearing, telling Congress that he had “never carried out a single act, not one,” without authorization.
   
1988Jul 7Russia’s PHOBOS 1 Mars Orbiter and lander was launched. Contact was lost on September 2, 1988.
1989Jul 7The US Labor Dept. reported that unemployment rose 0.1% in June to 5.2%.
1990Jul 7President Bush welcomed fellow leaders of the Group of Seven countries, who were gathering in Houston for their 16th annual economic summit.
1991Jul 7Michael Stich defeated Boris Becker, 6-4, 7-6, 6-4, to win the men’s singles title at Wimbledon.
1992Jul 7Group of Seven leaders meeting in Munich, Germany, condemned the carnage in former Yugoslavia and warned Serb-led troops that U.N. military force would be used if needed to keep relief operations going.
1993Jul 7The Group of Seven nations, on the first day of their economic summit in Tokyo, unveiled a long-sought agreement on world trade. Prior to the summit opening, President Clinton delivered a speech at Waseda University.
1994Jul 7President Clinton, visiting Poland, assured the parliament that the U.S. would “not let the Iron Curtain be replaced by a veil of indifference.”
1995Jul 7The space shuttle “Atlantis” landed at Cape Canaveral, Florida, bringing back American astronaut Norman Thagard, who’d spent three and a-half months aboard the Russian space station “Mir.”
1996Jul 7The average cost of a Big Mac in the US was $2.36. In Germany it was $3.22.
1997Jul 7Montgomery Wards, the nation’s largest privately owned retailer, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
   
1998Jul 7A jury in Santa Monica, Calif., convicted Mikail Markhasev of murdering Ennis Cosby, Bill Cosby’s only son, during a roadside robbery.
1999Jul 7In NYC “The Peony Pavilion,” a 22-hour Chinese opera, opened at the LaGuardia Theater.
2000Jul 7The 4th installment of the “Harry Potter” series, “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire,” by J.K. Rowling went on sale.
2001Jul 7Bolivia’s Pres. Banzer (75) was reported to be hospitalized in Washington DC with cancer in his lung and liver.
2002Jul 7Lleyton Hewitt crushed David Nalbandian in straight sets, 6-1, 6-3, 6-2, in the Wimbledon final to win his second Grand Slam title.
2003Jul 7Hilary Lunke won the U.S. Women’s Open.
2004Jul 7Former Enron chairman Kenneth Lay was indicted on criminal charges related to the energy company’s collapse.
2005Jul 7Gustaf Sobin (69), American-born writer and poet, died in France. His work included the 2000 novel “The Fly-Truffler.”
2006Jul 7The Arkansas state board barred Dr. Randeep Mann from prescribing narcotics after officials said 10 of his patients died from a lethal mix of drugs or an overdose of prescription medicines.
2007Jul 7The 24-hour Live Earth music marathon reached the Western Hemisphere with rappers, rockers and country stars taking the stage at Live Earth concerts to fight climate change.
2008Jul 7Tropical storm Bertha strengthened to become the first hurricane of the Atlantic season.
   
2009Jul 7British officials unveiled a memorial of 52 steel pillars in a London park, one for each victim of the July 7, 2005, attacks on the city’s transit system.
2010Jul 7At a US military tribunal Ibrahim Gitmo detainee Ahmed Mahmoud, a Sudanese man who was said to have worked in Afghanistan as Osama bin Laden’s bodyguard, driver, cook and paymaster, pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy and supporting terrorism.
2011Jul 7In Michigan Rodrick Shonte Dantzler (34) killed seven people in a bloody rampage that ended when he shot himself in the head during a hostage standoff with police. Police said Dantzler had targeted two former girlfriends.
   
2012Jul 7Thousands of visitors climbed aboard the USS Iowa as the storied WWII and Cold War battleship opened as a museum at the port of Los Angeles.
2013Jul 7In Alaska an air taxi crashed after takeoff from Soldotna killing the pilot and all 9 passengers.
2014Jul 7National Nude Recreation Week began in the US.
Source: Timelines of History

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