About July 7
July 7, 2025 is the 188th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 177 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
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Cancer is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Ruby is the modern birthstone for this month. Ruby is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
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July 7: More About This Day
The terms 7th July, July 7th, and 7/7 (pronounced “Seven-seven”) have been widely used in the Western media as a shorthand for the 7 July 2005 bombings on London’s transport system. In China, this term is used to denote the Battle of Lugou Bridge started on July 7, 1937, marking the beginning of the Second Sino-Japanese War.
What Happened On July 7
- 1543 –French troops invade Luxembourg.
- 1770 –The Battle of Larga between the Russian Empire and the Ottoman Empire takes place.
- 1777 –American Revolutionary War: American forces retreating from Fort Ticonderoga are defeated in the Battle of Hubbardton.
- 1798 –Quasi-War: the U.S. Congress rescinds treaties with France sparking the “war”.
- 1807 –Napoleonic Wars: the Peace of Tilsit between France, Prussia and Russia ends the Fourth Coalition.
- 1834 –In New York City, four nights of rioting against abolitionists began.
- 1863 –United States begins its first military draft; exemptions cost $300.
- 1892 –Katipunan: the Revolutionary Philippine Brotherhood is established, contributing to the fall of the Spanish Empire in Asia.
- 1898 –U.S. President William McKinley signs the Newlands Resolution annexing Hawaii as a territory of the United States.
- 1915 –An International Railway trolley with an extreme overload of 157 passengers crashes near Queenston, Ontario, killing 15.
- 1928 –Sliced bread is sold for the first time by the Chillicothe Baking Company of Chillicothe, Missouri.
- 1944 –World War II: Largest Banzai charge of the Pacific War at the Battle of Saipan.
- 1946 –Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini becomes the first American to be canonized.
- 1952 –The ocean liner SS United States passes Bishop’s Rock on her maiden voyage, breaking the transatlantic speed record to become the fastest passenger ship in the world.
- 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.
- 1980 –Institution of sharia in Iran.
- 1997 –The Turkish Armed Forces withdraw from northern Iraq after assisting the Kurdistan Democratic Party in the Iraqi Kurdish Civil War.
- 2011 –Roof of a stand in De Grolsch Veste Stadium in Enschede which was under construction collapsed, one killed and 14 injured.
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