What Happened On July 7

What Happened On Jul 7 Events

1294 Jul 7 Pietro Angelerio (Celestine V) elected Pope
Pope Saint Celestine V (c. 1215 – 19 May 1296), born Pietro Angelerio (according to some sources Angelario, Angelieri, Angelliero, or Angeleri), also known as Pietro da Morrone, was elect...
1777 Jul 7 Battle Of Hubbardton
The Battle of Hubbardton was an engagement in the Saratoga campaign of the American Revolutionary War fought in the village of Hubbardton, then in the disputed New Hampshire Grants territ...
1846 Jul 7 Battle Of Monterey
The Battle of Monterey, at Monterey, California (sometimes confused with the Battle of Monterrey, in Nuevo León), was waged on July 7, 1846, during the Mexican-American War. United States...
1846 Jul 7 John Drake Sloat Orders His Forces To Occupy Yerba Buena
Commodore John Drake Sloat, upon hearing of imminent war and the revolt in Sonoma, ordered his naval and marine forces to occupy Yerba Buena (present-day San Francisco) on July 7 and rais...
1846 Jul 7 Mexican-American War Is Officially Declared
Mariano Paredes y Arrillaga (circa 7 January 1797 – 7 September 1849) was a conservative Mexican general and president. He took power in a coup d'etat in 1846. He was the president at the...
1862 Jul 7 Battle of Cotton Plant
The Battle of Cotton Plant (also known as the Battle of Hill's Plantation or the Battle of Cache River) occurred on July 7, 1862 in Woodruff County, Arkansas, during the American Civil Wa...
1906 Jul 7 Leroy Robert "Satchel" Paige Is Born
Leroy Robert "Satchel" Paige, perhaps baseball's greatest pitcher ever, was born on July 7, ca. 1906, in Mobile, Alabama. Paige earned his nickname, Satchel, as a young boy carrying bags ...
1912 Jul 7 Houdini Performs Overboard Box Escape
Another one of Houdini's most famous publicity stunts (Dalton) was to escape from a nailed and roped packing crate after it had been lowered into the water. Houdini first performed the es...
1927 Jul 7 'Pomes Penyeach' is Published
Published in 1927, Pomes Penyeach is a collection of 13 poems, a gathering of works written while Joyce was busy working on Ulysses. The collection is so named for its price – one shillin...
1937 Jul 7 "Easy Living" Is Released
Easy Living (1937) is a screwball comedy film, directed by Mitchell Leisen, written by Preston Sturges from a story by Vera Caspary, and starring Jean Arthur, Edward Arnold, and Ray Milla...
1937 Jul 7
to 1937 Jul 9
 Marco Polo Bridge Incident (Battle of Lugou Bridge)
From June 1937, Japanese troops carried out intensive military training maneuvers in the vicinity of the western end of the Marco Polo Bridge. These were held every night (other foreign g...
1937 Jul 7
to 1945 Sep 9
 Second Sino-Japanese War
The Second Sino-Japanese War (July 7, 1937 – September 9, 1945) was a military conflict fought between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan. From 1937 to 1941, China fought alone...
1946 Jul 7 Jimmy Carter Marries Rosalynn Smith
The Smith family had been close to the Carters for years and she was good friends with Jimmy's sister, Ruth. Rosalynn always claimed that she had had a crush on Ruth's brother for years b...
1960 Jul 7 "Elmer Gantry" Is Released
Elmer Gantry is a 1960 drama film about a con man and a female evangelist selling religion to small town America. Adapted by director Richard Brooks, the film is based on the 1927 novel b...
1964 Jul 7 Ronald Reagan Appears as Jack Browning in "The Killers"
Supposedly based on the short story by Ernest Hemingway. In this film noir, two hitmen want to find out why their latest victim (a race car driver!) "just stood there and took it" when th...
1966 Jul 7
to 1966 Jul 25
 Operation Hastings
Operation Hastings was an American military operation in the Vietnam War. Having been threatened by numerous encounters with enemy troops in the Cam Lo area, on July 7, 1966, United St...
1974 Jul 7 West Germany Beats the Netherlands to Win the 1974 FIFA World Cup Final
The 1974 FIFA World Cup Final was the final match of the 1974 FIFA World Cup, the 10th FIFA World Cup, a competition to determine the best national men's football team over the previous f...
1977 Jul 7 Rainbow release On Stage
On Stage is a live album originally released by Rainbow in 1977 on Oyster - Polydor SPDLP6B (2657 016) . The album features a cover of a song from Blackmore's previous band Deep Purple: "...
1977 Jul 7 The Spy Who Loved Me (film) released
The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) is the tenth spy film in the James Bond series, and the third to star Roger Moore as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. It was directed by Lewis Gilbert and t...
1978 Jul 7 The Solomon Islands Becomes And Independent Nation
On July 7, 1978, the Solomon Islands, an archipelago of 992 islands northeast of Australia, became an independent nation, ending eighty years of British rule. The region was relatively is...
1981 Jul 7 Ronald Reagan Appoints Sandra Day O'Connor as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court
WASHINGTON, July 7 - President Reagan announced today that he would nominate Sandra Day O'Connor, a 51-year-old judge on the Arizona Court of Appeals, to the United States Supreme Court. ...
1987 Jul 7 Testament Releases "The Legacy"
Testament's first album, The Legacy, was released in 1987 on Megaforce Records. Testament received instant fame within thrash circles and were often compared with fellow Bay Area thrash p...
1991 Jul 7 "Beat the Boots" by Frank Zappa Is Released
Beat the Boots is a collection of bootleg recordings by Frank Zappa which were originally distributed illegally but were released officially by Rhino Entertainment in 1991. The recordings...
1992 Jul 7 Dream Theater releases Images and Words
Images and Words is the second studio album by influential American progressive metal band Dream Theater, released in 1992. It was recorded in late 1991 at BearTracks Studios in Suffern, ...
1993 Jul 7 Mia Zapata Dies
Mia Katherine Zapata (August 25, 1965 – July 7, 1993) was the lead singer for the Seattle punk band The Gits. In the fall of 1986, she helped co-found The Gits while attending Antioch ...
1999 Jul 7 South Park Episode 306 - "Sexual Harassment Panda"
Sexual Harassment Panda visits Mr. Garrison's class. Cartman Sues Stan for sexual harassment and Kyle's dad is getting rich. The boys go in search of "Sexual Harassment Panda" to stop the...
2001 Jul 7
to 2001 Jul 29
 Lance Armstrong wins the 88th Tour de France
The 2001 Tour de France was relatively difficult, with a number of heavy mountain stages, a team time trial and a climbing time trial. France was ridden 'clockwise', and thus the Alps wer...
2004 Jul 7 Boston Red Sox defeat Oakland Athletics, 11-3
The closest thing to Pedro Martinez last night at Fenway Park was a giant bobblehead doll in the Red Sox dugout. For the second straight year, Martinez returned home to the Dominican Repu...
2005 Jul 7 Baltimore Orioles defeat Boston Red Sox, 3-1
BALTIMORE -- The humane approach failed the Red Sox last night. Because of an all-night flight from Texas, manager Terry Francona went to great lengths to rest his weary players. But on a...
2005 Jul 7 London Bombings of July 2005
At least 38 people were killed yesterday and more than 700 injured as terrorists struck at the heart of London, causing the biggest loss of life in a terrorist attack on mainland Britain....
2006 Jul 7 Boston Red Sox defeat Chicago White Sox, 7-2
CHICAGO -- Ozzie's All-Stars proved no match last night for Big Papi and the Kid. The Chicago White Sox, a team stocked with seven All-Stars, including last night's starter, Mark Buehr...
2007 Jul 7 Detroit Tigers defeat Boston Red Sox, 3-2
DETROIT -- Tigers manager Jim Leyland wasn't breaking new ground when he ordered David Ortiz to be intentionally walked three times last night. There was a game in 1990 in which Andre ...
2007 Jul 7 Hannah Montana Season 2 Episode 11
When Miley's dad writes a new Hannah Montana song, not having a special guitar puts things off, so Miley looks for the song and isn't too happy when she finds it, causing her to sleepwalk...
2007 Jul 7 Live Earth 2007
The first series of benefit concerts were held on July 7, 2007. The concerts brought together more than 150 musical acts in eleven locations around the world which were broadcast to a mas...
2007 Jul 7 miki
És una prova per que sí.
2007 Jul 7 UFC 73: Stacked
UFC 73: Stacked was a mixed martial arts (MMA) event held by the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). It took place on July 7, 2007 at the ARCO Arena in Sacramento, California and featur...
2008 Jul 7 Boston Red Sox defeat Minnesota Twins, 1-0
With chants of "Manny! Manny!" ringing in his ears, Manny Ramírez erased visions of his three-pitch strikeout against Mariano Rivera Sunday night with an RBI single to right field in the ...
2008 Jul 7
to 2008 Jul 9
 The 34th G8 Summit is Held in Tōyako, Hokkaidō, Japan
The 34th G8 summit took place in Tōyako (洞爺湖, Tōya-ko?, Lake Toya) on the northern island of Hokkaidō, Japan from July 7–9, 2008. The locations of previous summits to have been hosted by ...
2009 Jul 7 Al Franken sworn in as US Senator from Minnesota
Al Franken became a senator on Tuesday, July 7th, 2009, completing the transformation from comedian to politician. The Minnesota Democrat's swearing-in marked the end of an eight-month...
2009 Jul 7 Baltimore Orioles defeat Seattle Mariners, 12-4
One of the great things about a sports blog is that it gives the everyday fan an opportunity to react immediately to a game or a news event and publish that reaction for everyone who migh...
2009 Jul 7 Boston Red Sox defeat Oakland Athletics, 5-2
Josh Beckett took the ball on Opening Day for the first time in a Red Sox uniform this spring, and that meant something to him. Beckett was 25 when he pitched his first game with the Red ...
2009 Jul 7 Chinese Presdent Hu Jintao Leaves G8 Summit to Deal with Escalating Violence in Xinjiang Province
Chinese President Hu Jintao has left the G8 summit in Italy to return to Beijing amid an outbreak of violence in the northwestern Xinjiang province, China's state-run Xinhua news agency r...
2009 Jul 7 Florida Health Officials Announce Sixth H1N1 Flu-Related Death
Florida health officials said on Tuesday that a 19-year-old woman had died of the A/H1N1 flu in Orange County as the sixth victim of the virus in the state. "We continue to emphasi...
2009 Jul 7 Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Announces Plans to Address Iranian Nation
TEHRAN, Iran (CNN) -- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, whose re-election last month spurred massive protests, plans a televised speech Tuesday night to discuss domestic and foreign ...
2009 Jul 7 Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Vows Reform in New Iranian Government
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad vowed on Tuesday to change his team and show respect for Iran's youth as opposition leaders made a joint plea for the release of hundreds of people held in e...
2009 Jul 7 New York Yankees defeat Minnesota Twins, 10-2
MINNEAPOLIS - If there were any concerns about CC Sabathia after his last start, the big fella put them to rest Tuesday night. The massive lefthander tossed seven stellar innings against ...
2009 Jul 7 Public Memorial Held for Michael Jackson at Staples Center in Los Angeles
Michael Jackson's public memorial started out more spiritual than spectacular Tuesday, opening with a church choir singing as his golden casket was laid in front of the stage and a shaft ...
2009 Jul 7 Strategic Advisory Group of Experts (SAGE) on Immunization Holds Special Meeting to Discuss H1N1 Vaccine Recommendations
On 7 July 2009, the Strategic Advisory Group of Experts (SAGE) on Immunization held an extraordinary meeting in Geneva to discuss issues and make recommendations related to vaccine for t...
2010 Jul 7 BP Claims Well Could Be Capped Weeks Ahead of Schedule
The relief well that is supposed to finally stanch the oil flow from the Deepwater Horizon may be ready as early as July 27, BP is now telling the Wall Street Journal. That's weeks ahead ...
2010 Jul 7 Chicago Cubs defeat Arizona Diamondbacks, 8-3
PHOENIX - Look who finally got to the party. It may be a month or two past fashionably late, but say this for Aramis Ramirez: He knows how to make an entrance. The Cubs' All-Star th...