About July 7
July 7, 2022 is the 188th day of the year 2022 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 177 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
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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 199 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
- 1456 –A retrial verdict acquits Joan of Arc of heresy 25 years after her death.
- 1585 –The Treaty of Nemours abolishes tolerance to Protestants in France.
- 1777 –American Revolutionary War: American forces retreating from Fort Ticonderoga are defeated in the Battle of Hubbardton.
- 1834 –In New York City, four nights of rioting against abolitionists began.
- 1846 –Mexican-American War: American troops occupy Monterey and Yerba Buena, thus beginning the U.S. acquisition of California.
- 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 –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.
- 1946 –Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini becomes the first American to be canonized.
- 1954 –Elvis Presley made his radio debut when WHBQ Memphis played his first recording for Sun Records, “That’s All Right.”
- 1956 –Fritz Moravec and two other Austrian mountaineers make the first ascent of Gasherbrum II (8,035 m).
- 1978 –The Solomon Islands become independent from the United Kingdom.
- 1980 –During the Lebanese civil war, 83 Tiger militants are killed during what will be known as the Safra massacre.
- 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.
- 1991 –Yugoslav Wars: the Brioni Agreement ends the ten-day independence war in Slovenia against the rest of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
- 2005 –A series of four explosions occurs on London’s transport system killing 56 people including four alleged suicide bombers and injuring over 700 others.
- 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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