July
7
Independence
Day
Solomon Islands : July 7 1978
Events
July
7
1456 – A
retrial verdict acquits Joan of Arc of heresy 25 years after
her death.
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.
1575 – Raid of the Redeswire, the last major battle between
England and Scotland.
1585 – The Treaty of Nemours abolishes tolerance to Protestants
in France.
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.
1846 – Mexican-American War: American troops occupy Monterey
and Yerba Buena, thus beginning the U.S. acquisition of California.
1863 – United States begins its first military draft; exemptions
cost $300.
1865 – American Civil War: four conspirators in the assassination
of President Abraham Lincoln are hanged.
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.
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 – World War I: end of First Battle of the Isonzo.
1915 – An International Railway trolley with an extreme overload
of 157 passengers crashes near Queenston, Ontario, killing 15.
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.
1928 – Sliced bread is sold for the first time by the Chillicothe
Baking Company of Chillicothe, Missouri.
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: U.S. forces land in Iceland, taking over
from an earlier British occupation.
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.
1946 – Howard Hughes nearly dies when his XF-11 spy plane prototype
crashes in a Beverly Hills neighborhood.
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.
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."
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.
1978 – The Solomon Islands become independent from the United
Kingdom.
1980 – Institution of sharia in Iran.
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.
1983 – Cold War: Samantha Smith, a U.S. schoolgirl, flies to
the Soviet Union at the invitation of Secretary General Yuri
Andropov.
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.
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.
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.
Holidays
and observances
Christian
Feast Day:
Æthelburg of Faremoutiers
Illidius
Job of Maniava (Ukrainian Orthodox Church)
Willibald (Roman Catholic Church)
July 7 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Solomon Islands
from the United Kingdom in 1978.
Ivan Kupala Day (Belarus, Poland, Russia, Ukraine)
Saba Saba Day (Tanzania)
Tanabata (Japan)
Unity Factory Day (Yemen)
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