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.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 225 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
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
- 1534 –European colonization of the Americas: first known exchange between Europeans and natives of the Gulf of St. Lawrence in New Brunswick.
- 1543 –French troops invade Luxembourg.
- 1798 –Quasi-War: the U.S. Congress rescinds treaties with France sparking the “war”.
- 1865 –American Civil War: four conspirators in the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln are hanged.
- 1898 –U.S. President William McKinley signs the Newlands Resolution annexing Hawaii as a territory of the United States.
- 1915 –Militia officer Henry Pedris executed by firing squad at Colombo, Ceylon - an act widely regarded as a miscarriage of justice by the British colonial authorities.
- 1915 –World War I: end of First Battle of the Isonzo.
- 1928 –Sliced bread is sold for the first time by the Chillicothe Baking Company of Chillicothe, Missouri.
- 1937 –Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Lugou Bridge – Japanese forces invade Beijing, China.
- 1941 –World War II: Beirut is occupied by Free France and British troops.
- 1941 –World War II: U.S. forces land in Iceland, taking over from an earlier British occupation.
- 1946 –Howard Hughes nearly dies when his XF-11 spy plane prototype crashes in a Beverly Hills neighborhood.
- 1946 –Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini becomes the first American to be canonized.
- 1953 –Ernesto “Che” Guevara sets out on a trip through Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, and El Salvador.
- 1954 –Elvis Presley made his radio debut when WHBQ Memphis played his first recording for Sun Records, “That’s All Right.”
- 1978 –The Solomon Islands become independent from the United Kingdom.
- 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.
- 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.
- 2002 –A scandal breaks out in the United Kingdom when news reports accuse MI6 of sheltering Abu Qatada, the supposed European Al Qaeda leader.
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