About July 7
July 7, 2024 is the 189th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 177 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
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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 206 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
- 1543 –French troops invade Luxembourg.
- 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.
- 1865 –American Civil War: four conspirators in the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln are hanged.
- 1911 –The United States, Great Britain, Japan, and Russia sign the North Pacific Fur Seal Convention of 1911 banning open-water seal hunting, the first international treaty to address wildlife preservation issues.
- 1915 –An International Railway trolley with an extreme overload of 157 passengers crashes near Queenston, Ontario, killing 15.
- 1915 –World War I: end of First Battle of the Isonzo.
- 1930 –Industrialist Henry J. Kaiser begins construction of the Boulder Dam (now known as Hoover Dam).
- 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.
- 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.
- 1953 –Ernesto “Che” Guevara sets out on a trip through Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, and El Salvador.
- 1956 –Fritz Moravec and two other Austrian mountaineers make the first ascent of Gasherbrum II (8,035 m).
- 1959 –Venus occults the star Regulus. This rare event is used to determine the diameter of Venus and the structure of the Venusian atmosphere.
- 1978 –The Solomon Islands become independent from the United Kingdom.
- 1980 –Institution of sharia in Iran.
- 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
- 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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