About July 7
July 7, 2023 is the 188th day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 177 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
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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 218 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.
- 1575 –Raid of the Redeswire, the last major battle between England and Scotland.
- 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.
- 1898 –U.S. President William McKinley signs the Newlands Resolution annexing Hawaii as a territory of the United States.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1944 –World War II: Largest Banzai charge of the Pacific War at the Battle of Saipan.
- 1946 –Howard Hughes nearly dies when his XF-11 spy plane prototype crashes in a Beverly Hills neighborhood.
- 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).
- 1958 –U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the Alaska Statehood Act into law.
- 1978 –The Solomon Islands become independent from the United Kingdom.
- 1980 –Institution of sharia in Iran.
- 1985 –Boris Becker becomes the youngest player ever to win Wimbledon at age 17
- 1997 –The Turkish Armed Forces withdraw from northern Iraq after assisting the Kurdistan Democratic Party in the Iraqi Kurdish Civil War.
- 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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