Historical Events on July 7

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• 1124 Tyrus surrenders to Crusaders
• 1438 French church/King Charles VII release Pragmatieke Sanctie of Bourges

• 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
• 1829 Royal Military Chapel forms
• 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 11th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Herbert Lawford beats E Renshaw (1-6 6-3 3-6 6-4 6-4)
• 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 9th Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Lottie Dod beats Blanche Bingley (6-1 6-1)
• 1892 16th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: 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 hurler Kid Nichols notches his 300th career victory
• 1905 127°F (53°C), Parker Ariz (state record)
• 1908 Great White Fleet leaves San Francisco Bay

• 1911 28th Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Dorothea Chambers beats Dora Boothby (6-0 6-0)
• 1911 Dorothea Lambert Chambers beats Dora Boothby 6-0, 6-0 in a 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 Phillies tie major league record of 8 steals in 9 inn game


• 1919 39th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Gerald Patterson beats N Brookes (6-3 7-5 6-2)
• 1923 43rd Wimbledon Men's Tennis: William Johnston beats F Hunter (60 63 61)
• 1923 Cleve Indians beat Boston Red Sox 27-3 with 13 runs in 6th inning
• 1923 University of Delaware invents "junior year abroad" (at Sorbonne)
• 1924 Robert LeGendre of US, sets then long jump record at 25' 5½"
• 1928 41st Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Helen Moody beats Lilí Álvarez (6-2 6-3)
• 1928 Edward Hamm of US, sets then long jump record at 25' 11"

• 1929 Romania & Vatican sign concord

• 1933 53rd Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Jack Crawford beats E Vines (4-6 11-9 6-2 2-6 6-4)

• 1936 4th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 4-3 at Braves Field, Boston
• 1937 5th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 8-3 at Griffith Stadium, Wash
• 1937 Japanese and Chinese troops clash at the Marco Polo Bridge, beginning of Second Sino-Japanese War

• 1939 74th British Golf Open: Dick Burton shoots a 290 at St Andrews
• 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 sign Leroy "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 64th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Budge Patty beats Sedgman (6-1 8-10 6-2 6-3)
• 1950 79th British Golf Open: Bobby Locke shoots a 279 at Royal Troon
• 1951 58th Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Doris Hart beats Shirley Fry (6-1 6-0)
• 1952 SS United States cross Atlantic in record 82:40
• 1953 35th PGA Championship: Walter Burkemo at Birmingham CC Mich

• 1954 Formation of the TANU party (Tanganyika African National Union ) in Tanzania
• 1955 1st LPGA Championship won by Beverly Hanson
• 1956 63rd Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Shirley Fry beats Angela Buxton (63 61)
• 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 C A Milton scores 104* on Test Cricket debut, England v NZ Headingley

• 1958 William Shea outlines plans for a $12M stadium at Flushing Meadows NY
• 1959 26th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 5-4 at Forbes Field, Pittsburgh
• 1960 US cemetery officially opens at Margraten, Netherlands
• 1960 USSR shoots down a US aircraft over Barents sea
• 1961 75th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Rod Laver beats Chuck McKinley (63 61 64)
• 1961 James R Hoffa elected chairman of Teamsters
• 1962 69th Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Karen Susman beats Vera Sukova (6-4 6-4)
• 1962 Bill Hartack becomes 8th jockey to win 3,000 horse races
• 1962 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• 1963 Shirley Englehorn wins LPGA Lady Carling Eastern Golf Open
• 1964 35th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 7-4 at Shea Stadium, New York
• 1964 All star MVP: John Callison (Philadelphia Phillies)
• 1965 Otis Redding records "Respect"
• 1967 81st Wimbledon Men's Tennis: John Newcombe beats W Bungert (63 61 61)
• 1967 Beatles' "All You Need is Love" is released
• 1967 Doors' "Light My Fire" hits #1
• 1968 23rd US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Susie Maxwell Berning
• 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
• 1972 1st women FBI members sworn in (Susan Lynn Roley & Joanne E Pierce)
• 1972 79th Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Billie Jean King beats Goolagong (63 63)
• 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 80th Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Billie Jean King beats Chris Evert (60 75), 1st all-US women's 1st all-US women's Wimbledon final
• 1973 87th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Jan Kodes beats Alex Metreveli (61 98 63)
• 1973 All women board of directors takes control of ABA's Kentucky Colonels
• 1973 Balt Orioles pull their 4th triple play (5-4-3 vs Oakland)
• 1973 Glenda Reiser (Canada) sets record women's mile (4:34.9)
• 1973 Shoelace Park in the Bronx named
• 1974 Brewer Don Money sets record of consecutive errorless games at 3rd (78)
• 1974 Sue Roberts wins LPGA Niagara Frontier Golf Classic
• 1974 FIFA World Cup: West Germany beats the Netherlands 2-1 for football's 10th World Cup in Munich
• 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 85th Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Martina Navratilova beats Chris Evert (26 64 75)
• 1978 Solomon Islands declares independence from UK
• 1979 93rd Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Bjorn Borg beats R Tanner (67 61 36 63 64)
• 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, (AZ) replaces S Weatherly (Miss Univ) as 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 Ben Plucknett of US throws discus 72.34 m, but throw is disqualified
• 1981 Sandra Day O'Connor nominated for the Supreme Court
• 1982 David Moorcroft of UK sets record for 5000 m, 13:00.41
• 1982 Steve Scott of US runs mile in a record 3:47.69
• 1983 11 year old Samantha Smith of Manchester, Maine, leaves for USSR
• 1984 5 die in a train crash in Williston, Vermont
• 1984 91st Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Martina Navratilova beats Chris Evert (76 62)
• 1985 92nd Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Martina Navratilova beats Chris Evert (46 63 62)
• 1985 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Mazda Hall of Fame Golf Championship
• 1985 99th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Boris Becker beats K Curren (63 67 76 64)
• 1986 IBM-PC DOS Version 3.2 (updated) released
• 1986 It is reported that Boy George is being treated for heroin addiction
• 1986 Jordan government shuts al-Fatah offices
• 1986 Supreme Court struck down Gramm-Rudman deficit-reduction law
• 1987 Alan and Colin Wells make 303* partnership for Sussex v Kent
• 1987 Kiwanis Clubs end men-only tradition, vote to admit women
• 1987 Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North begins public testimony at Iran-Contra hearing
• 1987 Yanks trailing by 7 score 7 in 7th on 7/7 & 5 in 8th-Beat Twins 12-7
• 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 97th Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Martina Navratilova beats Z Garrison (64 61)
• 1990 NJ Devils sign Russians Viacheslav Fetisov & Sergei Starikov
• 1990 FIFA World Cup: Italy beats England 2-1 in football's World Cup Third Place game

• 1991 105th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Michael Stich beats Boris Becker (6-4 7-6 6-4)
• 1991 Alice Miller wins LPGA Jamie Farr Toledo Golf Classic

• 1992 South Africa's national soccer team, Bafana Bafana, win South Africa's first ever FIFA sanctioned match
• 1993 Guntis Ulmanis elected president of Latvia
• 1993 NY Met Anthony Young, loses his 26th straight game (goes to 27)
• 1993 Philadelphia Phillies beat SF Giants 7-6 in 20 innings
• 1993 Prodigy announces it will offer Cox newspapers
• 1993 Red Tom Browning decides to watch his team play at Wrigley Field from the roof of a building across Sheffield Ave, he is fined $500
• 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 110th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: R Krajicek beats M Washington (63 64 63)

• 1996 Joan Pitcock wins LPGA Jamie Farr Kroger Golf Classic
• 1996 Space Shuttle STS 78 (Columbia 20), lands

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