Historical Events on July 7

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• 1124 Tyrus surrenders to Crusaders
• 1438 King Charles VII issues the Pragmatic Sanction of Bourges stating that a General Church Council with superior power to the Pope must be held every 10 years

• 1495 King Ferdinand II returns to Naples
• 1498 Emperor Maximilian I establishes choir of Imperial Chapel

• 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
• 1550 Traditional date Chocolate thought to have been introduced to Europe
• 1585 King Henri III and Duke De Guise signs Treaty of Nemours: French Huguenots lose all freedoms
• 1647 People's uprising against high prices and Spanish rule in Naples

• 1753 British Museum founded by an Act of Parliament (opens in 1759)
• 1753 British parliament grants Jews citizenship
• 1754 Kings College in NYC opens (renamed Columbia College)


• 1768 Firm of Johann Buddenbrook founded, in Thomas Mann's novel
• 1777 American Revolutionary War: Battle of Hubbardton
• 1798 Quasi-War: the U.S. Congress rescinds treaties with France sparking the 'war'
• 1799 Ranjit Singh's men take up their positions outside Lahore
• 1801 Toussaint L'Ouverture declares Haitian independence
• 1802 1st comic book "The Wasp" is published in Hudson, New York criticizing Republican politicians

• 1814 Walter Scott's "Waverley" published
• 1838 Central American federation is dissolved
• 1850 Scottish explorer Edward Eyre reaches Albany, Western Australia
• 1861 Battle of Laurel Hill, Virginia
• 1862 Land Grant Act endows state colleges with federal land
• 1863 1st military draft by US (exemptions cost $100)

• 1868 Ed Pooley takes 12 dismissals as keeper in match Surrey v Sussex
• 1874 27th Postmaster General: James W Marshall of NJ takes office

• 1878 Social-Democratic United forms in Amsterdam
• 1887 Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Lottie Dod becomes youngest ever Wimbledon champion (15 years, 285 days), beats Blanche Bingley 6-2, 6-0
• 1887 Wimbledon Men's Tennis: 3-time runner-up Herbert Lawford wins his only Wimbledon title beating Ernest Renshaw 1-6, 6-3, 3-6, 6-4, 6-4
• 1890 Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Irishman Willoughby Hamilton wins his only Wimbledon title beating 7-time champion William Renshaw 6-8, 6-2, 3-6, 6-1, 6-1
• 1890 Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Lena Rice becomes the only Irish female to win at Wimbledon beating May Jacks 6-4, 6-1
• 1891 Marcellus F. Berry, an American Express employee is granted four copyrights for what he called "the travelers cheque"
• 1892 Katipunan: the Revolutionary Philippine Brotherhood is established leading to the fall of the Spanish Empire in Asia
• 1892 Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Lottie Dod beats Blanche Bingley-Hillyard for a 4th time in a Wimbledon final 6-1, 6-1


• 1892 Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Defending champion Wilfred Baddeley beats Joshua Pim 4-6, 6-3, 6-3, 6-2
• 1898 US President McKinley signs the Organic Act to annex Hawaii
• 1900 Boston Beaneaters pitcher Kid Nichols notches his 300th career MLB victory with an 11-4 win over Chicago Orphans
• 1905 127°F (53°C), Parker Ariz (state record)

• 1915 A Great Gorge and International Railway trolley with an extreme overload of 157 passengers crashes near Queenston, Ontario, killing 15
• 1916 The New Zealand Labour party is formed
• 1919 Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Suzanne Lenglen of France beats Dorothea Chambers 10-8, 4-6, 9-7 for the first of 6 Wimbledon singles titles
• 1919 Philadelphia Phillies tie MLB record of 8 steals in an innings (9th) in a 10-5 loss vs NY Giants
• 1919 Wimbledon Men's Tennis: In the first all-Australian final Gerald Patterson beats Norman Brookes 6-3, 7-5, 6-2
• 1923 Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Suzanne Lenglen of France beats Kitty McKane 6-2, 6-2 for her 5th straight Wimbledon singles title
• 1923 Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Bill Johnston beats fellow American Frank Hunter 6-0, 6-3, 6-1 for his only Wimbledon title
• 1923 Cleveland Indians set an AL record 27 runs including 13 in the 6th in 27-3 win v Boston Red Sox
• 1923 University of Delaware invents "junior year abroad" (at Sorbonne)
• 1924 American Robert LeGendre sets then long jump world record at 25' 5½" in Paris, France
• 1928 American Edward Hamm sets then long jump world record at 25' 11" at Cambridge, Massachusetts

• 1929 Romania & Vatican sign concord

• 1933 Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Australian Jack Crawford wins his only Wimbledon singles title beating American Ellsworth Vines 4-6, 11-9, 6-2, 2-6, 6-4
• 1936 4th MLB All Star Game, Braves Field, Boston: After losing the first 3 AS Games, NL wins 4-3, 4 different Cubs players score the runs
• 1936 RCA shows 1st real TV program (dancing, film on locomotives, Bonwit Teller fashion show and monologue from Tobacco Road & comedy)

• 1937 Japanese and Chinese troops clash at the Marco Polo Bridge, beginning of Second Sino-Japanese War
• 1939 Wimbledon Women's Tennis: American Alice Marble wins her only Wimbledon singles title beating Kay Stammers of England 6-2, 6-0
• 1939 Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Bobby Riggs beats fellow American Elwood Cooke 2-6, 8-6, 3-6, 6-3, 6-2 for Wimbledon sweep, also won doubles & mixed doubles titles
• 1939 British Open Golf, St Andrews: In the last Open played for 7 years, due to WWII, England's Dick Burton wins by 2 strokes from American Johnny Bulla
• 1939 "The Rules of the Game", French film directed by Jean Renoir, starring Nora Gregor and Paulette Dubost, premieres in Paris
• 1941 Nazis execute 5,000 Jews in Kovono, Lithuania
• 1941 US forces land in Iceland to forestall Nazi invasion
• 1941 World War II: Beirut is occupied by Free France and British troops
• 1942 Germany troop march into Woronezj
• 1942 Milt all star team (including Bob Feller) losts to AL all stars 5-0

• 1943 3rd day of battle at Kursk: Germans occupy Dubrova
• 1943 Erich Hartmann shoots 7 Russian aircraft at Kursk
• 1943 Liberator bombers sinks U-517
• 1943 German Submarine U-951 sunk by depth charges, off Cape St. Vincent in the North Atlantic
• 1944 RAF Bomber Command drop 2,572 tons of bombs on Caen, France
• 1944 Heavy Japanese counter offensive on Saipan
• 1946 Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini canonized as 1st American saint
• 1947 Alleged and disputed Roswell UFO incident occured
• 1948 6 female reservists become 1st women sworn into regular US Navy
• 1948 Cleveland Indians stun MLB by signing 42 year old veteran Negro Leagues pitcher Satchel Paige
• 1949 "Cabatgata (A Night in Spain)" opens at Broadway NYC for 76 performances
• 1949 "Dragnet" premieres on NBC radio; also a TV series in 1951 & 1967
• 1950 Korean War: UN Security Council establishes the United Nations Command to combat North Korean forces
• 1950 1st Farnborough airshow held
• 1950 Wimbledon Men's Tennis: American Budge Patty wins his only Wimbledon singles title 6-1, 8-10, 6-2, 6-3 over Australian Frank Sedgman
• 1950 British Open Golf, Royal Troon: Bobby Locke of South Africa retains title by 2 strokes from Roberto De Vicenzo of Argentina
• 1950 Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Louise Brough beats fellow American Margaret Osborne duPont 6-1, 3-6, 6-1 for her 3rd straight Wimbledon singles title
• 1952 SS United States cross Atlantic in record 82:40
• 1953 PGA Championship, Birmingham CC: Walter Burkemo wins 2 & 1 from Felize Torza

• 1954 Formation of the TANU party (Tanganyika African National Union ) in Tanzania
• 1956 Douglas Moore/John Latouche' opera "Ballad of Baby Doe," premieres
• 1956 Fritz Moravec reaches the peak of Gasherbrum II (8,035 m).

• 1957 Heavy storm ravages Belgian coast
• 1958 England cricket batsman Arthur Milton scores an unbeaten 104 in his Test debut, drawn 3rd Test v NZ at Headingley

• 1958 William Shea outlines plans for a $12M stadium at Flushing Meadows NY

• 1960 US cemetery officially opens at Margraten, Netherlands


• 1960 USSR shoots down a US aircraft over Barents sea
• 1961 James R Hoffa elected chairman of Teamsters
• 1962 Bill Hartack becomes 8th jockey to win 3,000 American thoroughbred races
• 1962 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• 1964 35th MLB All Star Game, Shea Stadium, New York: NL wins 7-4 on the back of Johnny Callison's 3-run 9th inning homer
• 1965 Otis Redding records "Respect"

• 1967 Wimbledon Men's Tennis: John Newcombe outclasses Wilhelm Bungert of Germany 6-3 ,6-1, 6-1 for his 1st of 3 Wimbledon singles titles
• 1967 Beatles' "All You Need is Love" is released
• 1967 Doors' "Light My Fire" hits #1
• 1967 Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Billie Jean King beats local favourite Anne Jones 6-3, 6-4 for the 2nd of 3 straight Wimbledon singles titles

• 1968 France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll
• 1968 Rock group "Yardbirds" disband
• 1969 Canada's House of Commons approves equality of French-English language
• 1969 German newspaper Der Spiegel reveals Bishop Defregger of Munich is a war criminal
• 1971 MLB Commissioner Bowie Kuhn announces that Negro League players elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame to be given full membership in the Museum
• 1972 1st women FBI members sworn in (Susan Lynn Roley & Joanne E Pierce)
• 1972 Dutch Minister of Agt decides to ignore soft drug usage
• 1972 Secret Talks Between IRA and British Government: Gerry Adams is part of a delegation to London for talks with the British Government
• 1972 7 people are killed in separate incidents across Northern Ireland
• 1973 78 drown as flash flood sweeps a bus into a river (India)
• 1973 Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Billie Jean King beats Chris Evert 6-0, 7-5 for her 10th career Grand Slam singles title
• 1973 All women board of directors takes control of ABA's Kentucky Colonels
• 1973 Shoelace Park in the Bronx named
• 1974 Milwaukee's Don Money sets MLB record for consecutive errorless games at 3rd base (78) in Brewers 8-5 win v Twins
• 1974 FIFA World Cup Final, Olympiastadion, Munich, Germany: Striker Gerd Müller scores 43rd minute winner as West Germany beats the Netherlands, 2-1
• 1974 New Zealand imposes a blanket ban on sports teams from South Africa
• 1975 TV soap opera "Ryan's Hope" premieres
• 1976 119 women joined the Corps of Cadets, establishing the first class of women in the US Military Academy at West Point
• 1976 Lt General Vernon A Walters, USA, ends term as deputy director of CIA; succeeded by E Henry Knoche
• 1977 12,000 police occupy university in Mexico City

• 1978 Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Martina Navratilova wins her first Grand Slam singles title beating Chris Evert 2-6, 6-4, 7-5
• 1978 Solomon Islands declares independence from UK
• 1978 NBA approves franchise swap; Buffalo Braves owner John Y. Brown and Harry Mangurian acquire Boston Celtics, while the Celtics owner Irv Levin gets Braves, later moved to San Diego to become the Clippers
• 1979 Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Björn Borg beats American Roscoe Tanner 6-7, 6-1, 3-6, 6-3, 6-4 for his 4th consecutive Wimbledon title
• 1979 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
• 1980 Jim King completes riding Miracle Strip Roller coaster 368 hours

• 1980 Shawn Weatherly, of USA, crowned 29th Miss Universe
• 1980 Jineane Ford of Arizona replaces Shawn Weatherly (Miss Universe) as the 29th Miss USA
• 1980 Institution of Sharia law in Iran
• 1980 The Safra massacre in Lebanon
• 1981 The solar-powered aircraft, Solar Challenger, successfully completes a 163 mile flight across the English Channel
• 1981 Sandra Day O'Connor nominated for the Supreme Court

• 1982 English athlete David Moorcroft beats Kenyan Henry Rono's 5000m world record by nearly 5 seconds, 13:00.41 in Oslo, Norway
• 1983 11 year old Samantha Smith of Manchester, Maine, leaves for USSR
• 1984 5 die in a train crash in Williston, Vermont
• 1984 Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Martina Navratilova beats Chris Evert 7-6, 6-2 for her 26th Grand Slam title
• 1985 Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Boris Becker beats South African Kevin Curren 6-3, 6-7, 7-6, 6-4 to become the youngest man (17) to win a Wimbledon singles title
• 1986 IBM-PC DOS Version 3.2 (updated) released

• 1986 Jordan government shuts al-Fatah offices
• 1986 Supreme Court struck down Gramm-Rudman deficit-reduction law

• 1986 American athlete Jackie Joyner-Kersee sets world heptathlon record of 7,148 points in the inaugural Goodwill Games at Moscow
• 1987 Kiwanis Clubs end men-only tradition, vote to admit women
• 1987 Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North begins public testimony at Iran-Contra hearing
• 1988 Soviet Union launches Phobos 1 to probe Martian moon (unsuccessful)
• 1988 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• 1988 Five prominent anti-apartheid activists are released in Cape Town, South Africa after being detained for up to two years under the Internal Security Act
• 1990 Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Martina Navratilova wins her record 9th Wimbledon singles title beating American Zina Garrison 6-4, 6-1
• 1990 New Jersey Devils sign star Russian defensemen Viacheslav Fetisov & Sergei Starikov to NHL contracts despite criticism they are taking North American jobs

• 1991 Wimbledon Men's Tennis: In the first ever all-German final Michael Stich beats Boris Becker 6-4, 7-6, 6-4
• 1992 South Africa beats Cameroon 1-0 in Durban in first FIFA sanctioned match after nearly 20 years international isolation, apartheid

• 1993 Guntis Ulmanis elected president of Latvia
• 1993 Lenny Dykstra hits bases loaded 2-run double to end Phillies 7, LA Dodgers 6 in 20 innings in Philadelphia
• 1993 Prodigy announces it will offer Cox newspapers
• 1994 North Yemenite troops occupy Aden
• 1995 Memphis Mad Dogs 1st CFL home game (vs BC Lions)
• 1995 Space shuttle STS-71 (Atlantis 14), lands
• 1996 Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Richard Krajicek becomes first Dutchman to win a Grand Slam singles title beating American MaliVai Washington 6-3, 6-4, 6-3

• 1996 Space Shuttle STS 78 (Columbia 20), lands

• 1997 Tower, Minnesota temperature dips to 24°F
• 1998 69th MLB All Star Game, Coors Field, Denver: In the highest scoring AS Game in history, AL wins 13-8
• 2001 Australian cricketer Karen Rolton smashes an unbeaten 209 to set a new world record for highest score in a women's Test in Australia's 9 wicket win v England at Headingley
• 2001 In his first appearance at Daytona since the death of father Dale Earnhardt Sr., Dale Jr. wins Pepsi 400 coming from 7th with 9 laps remaining to beat teammate Michael Waltrip
• 2002 A scandal breaks out in the United Kingdom when news reports accuse MI6 of sheltering Abu Qatada, supposed European Al Qaeda leader
• 2002 Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Lleyton Hewitt of Australia wins his only Wimbledon singles title beating David Nalbandian of Argentina 6-1, 6-3, 6-2
• 2002 US Open Women's Golf, Prairie Dunes CC: Juli Inkster wins her second US title, 2 strokes ahead of runner-up Annika Sörenstam; Inkster's 7th and final major victory
• 2003 Tour de France: After 2nd stage, Australians are in possession of both yellow & green jerseys for the first time, Brad McGee overall leader & Robbie McEwen sprint leader
• 2003 The United Communist Party of Armenia is formed
• 2003 US Open Women's Golf, Pumpkin Ridge GC: Hilary Lunke wins in a playoff with Kelly Robbins & Angela Stanford for her only career LPGA tournament victory

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