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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