On This Day in History for 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
• 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
• 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
• 1898 US President McKinley signs the Organic Act to annex Hawaii
• 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


• 1923 University of Delaware invents "junior year abroad" (at Sorbonne)

• 1929 Romania & Vatican sign concord

• 1937 Japanese and Chinese troops clash at the Marco Polo Bridge, beginning of Second Sino-Japanese War
• 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
• 1950 Korean War: UN Security Council establishes the United Nations Command to combat North Korean forces
• 1950 1st Farnborough airshow held
• 1952 SS United States cross Atlantic in record 82:40

• 1954 Formation of the TANU party (Tanganyika African National Union ) in Tanzania
• 1956 Fritz Moravec reaches the peak of Gasherbrum II (8,035 m).
• 1957 Heavy storm ravages Belgian coast

• 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 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• 1965 Otis Redding records "Respect"
• 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 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 All women board of directors takes control of ABA's Kentucky Colonels
• 1973 Shoelace Park in the Bronx named
• 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 Solomon Islands declares independence from UK
• 1979 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
• 1980 Jim King completes riding Miracle Strip Roller coaster 368 hours
• 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
• 1983 11 year old Samantha Smith of Manchester, Maine, leaves for USSR
• 1984 5 die in a train crash in Williston, Vermont
• 1986 IBM-PC DOS Version 3.2 (updated) released

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• 1053 Emperor Shirakawa of Japan (d. 1129)
• 1119 Emperor Sutoku of Japan (d. 1164)
• 1528 Anna of Austria, Duchess of Bavaria, daughter of Ferdinand I (d. 1590)
• 1586 Thomas Howard, 21st Earl of Arundel, English statesman (d. 1646)
• 1656 Guru Har Krishan, 8th Guru of Sikhism (d. 1664)
• 1752 Joseph-Marie Jacquard, invented programmable loom
• 1806 Michele Amari, Italian historian/minister of Education
• 1813 William Scott Ketchum, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Norwalk, Connecticut (d. 1871)
• 1816 Isaac Fitzgerald Shepard, American General (Union Army), born in Natick, Massachusetts on (d. 1889)
• 1824 Alfred Pleasonton, American Major General (Union Army), born in Washington, D.C. (d. 1897)
• 1827 James Murrell Shackelford, American lawyer, judge, and Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Lincoln County, Kentucky (d. 1909)
• 1827 William Montague Browne, Brigadier General (Confederate Army)

• 1851 Lillien Jane Martin, psychologist, found gerontology clinic
• 1853 Albert Vandal, French earl/historian (Le Pacha Bonneval)
• 1855 Ludwig Ganghofer, German writer (d. 1920)
• 1874 Erwin Bumke, German jurist (d. 1945)

• 1884 Lion Feuchtwanger, German dramatist (d. 1958)
• 1887 Dirk Koster, literary (New Noises)
• 1893 Miroslav Krleža, Croatian writer (d. 1981)
• 1900 Earle E. Partridge, United States Air Force general (d. 1990)
• 1904 Simone Beck, French chef (d. 1991)
• 1906 Harry Von Zell, sidekick (George Burns Show)
• 1906 William Feller, Croatian mathematician (d. 1970)
• 1907 Helene Johnson, American Harlem Renaissance poet, born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 1995)
• 1907 Robert A[nson] Heinlein, American sci-fi author (4 Hugos, Red Planet)
• 1908 Evert W Beth, Dutch mathematician/philosopher
• 1908 Harriette Arnow, Wayne Co, Ky, novelist (Dollmaker)
• 1908 Revilo P. Oliver, American professor (d. 1994)
• 1915 Margaret Walker Alexander, poet/novelist (For My People)
• 1916 Luc Peire, Flemish painter and graphic artist
• 1917 Lawrence F O'Brien, (Watergate conspirators broke into his office)
• 1917 Fidel Sánchez Hernández, Salvadoran politician (d. 2003)
• 1919 William Moses Kunstler, defense attorney (Chicago 8)
• 1921 Adolf von Thadden, German politician (d. 1996)
• 1923 Richard Lumley, English insurance magnate/multi-millionaire
• 1925 Yvonne Mitchell, writer (Johnny Nobody, Genghis Khan), born in London, England
• 1925 Wally Phillips, American radio personality (d. 2008)
• 1927 Alan J Dixon, (Sen-D-IL, 1981- )
• 1928 Colleen Summers, vocal overdubber, born in Pasadena, California
• 1929 Marcel Liebman, Belgian historian
• 1929 Reinhard Baumgart, German writer and critic, born in Breslau, Silesia (d. 2003)
• 1929 Hasan Abidi, Pakistani journalist and poet (d. 2005)
• 1931 David Eddings, American sci-fi author (Belgariad, Malloreon)
• 1934 Robert McNeill Alexander, British zoologist (estimated speed of dinosaurs, born in Lisburn, Northern Ireland (d. 2016)
• 1937 Carroll Hubbard Jr, American politician (Rep-D-KY, 1975-93), born in Murray, Kentuckey
• 1940 Richard K Armey, (Rep-R-Texas, 1985- )
• 1941 Michael Howard, British politician
• 1945 Matti Salminen, Turku Finland, bass player (King Philipp-Don Carlos)
• 1945 Michael Ancram, British politician
• 1947 Felix Standaert, Belgian diplomat
• 1947 Howard Rheingold, American author
• 1947 Gyanendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev, King of Nepal
• 1954 Steve Gilchrist, Canadian politician (Cabinet Minister and Member of Provincial Parliament, in Ontario), born in Toronto, Ontario
• 1959 Ben Linder, American engineer (d. 1987)
• 1960 Kevin A. Ford, American astronaut
• 1962 Shawn Paddock, rocker (Red Rockers)
• 1966 Neil Tobin, American magician
• 1967 Jason R Rich, writer (Celebrity Teen Talk), born in Irvington, New York
• 1968 Jeff VanderMeer, American writer
• 1971 Alistair Potts, British rower
• 1973 Natsuki Takaya, Japanese manga-ka
• 1975 Michael Voss, Australian rules footballer
• 1977 Felix Vasquez, New York City Housing Authority employee
• 1983 Justin Davies, Australian rules footballer

• 2006 Three-time "Survivor" contestant Stephanie LaGrossa (26) weds Michael Ward in Seaside Heights, New Jersey
• 2007 Celebrity chef Wolfgang Puck (57) weds handbag designer Gelila Assefa (38) in a three-day celebration on the Italian island of Capri
• 2012 "The Office" Ellie Kemper (32) weds former "Conan O'Brien" writer Michael Koman at the Blessed Sacrament Roman Catholic Church in New York City
• 2016 "Million Dollar Listing New York" realtor Ryan Serhant (32) weds lawyer Emilia Bechrakis on the island of Corfu in Greece

• 1129 Shirakawa, emperor of Japan (1072-86)/budhist monk, dies at 76
• 1304 Benedict XI, [Niccolo Boccasini], Pope (1303-04), dies
• 1307 Edward I, King of England (1272-1307), dies at 68
• 1348 John Andreae, Italian canonist, dies
• 1537 Madeleine de Valois, queen of James V of Scotland (b. 1520)
• 1572 Sigismund II Augustus, King of Poland (1548-72), dies at 51
• 1573 Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola, Italian architect, dies at 65
• 1647 Thomas Hooker, American colonial clergyman (known as "the father of Connecticut"), dies at 61
• 1694 Dokusho, Zen teacher, Obaku line, dies
• 1701 William Stoughton, American judge at the Salem witch trials (b. 1631)
• 1713 Henry Compton, Bishop of Oxford and privy councillor (b. 1632)
• 1764 William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath, English politician (b. 1683)
• 1771 Thomas Gray, English poet (Elegy), dies at 54
• 1773 Cornelis Douwes, Dutch mathematician and astronomer, dies at 60
• 1776 Jeremiah Markland, English classical scholar (b. 1693)
• 1790 Franciscus "Frans" Hemsterhuis, Frisian philosopher, dies at 68
• 1799 William Curtis, English botanist (Botanical Magazine), dies at 53
• 1814 Robert Jasper van der Capellen, Dutch politician, dies at 71
• 1816 Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Irish playwright (The Rivals, The School for Scandal) and Whig MP, dies at 64
• 1855 Konstantin Batyushkov, Russian poet (b. 1787)
• 1861 John Willis Ellis, US governor of NC (1858-61), dies
• 1865 Mary Surratt, & 3 other Lincoln conspirators, hanged
• 1865 Lewis Paine, Lincoln conspirator (b. 1844)
• 1865 David Herold, Lincoln conspirator (b. 1842)
• 1878 Yegor Ivanovich Zolotarev, Russian mathematician (b. 1847)

• 1899 George Washington Julian, American politician, U.S. House of Representatives from Indiana, dies at 82
• 1901 Johanna Spyri, Swiss children's book author (Heidi), dies at 74
• 1913 Edward Burd Grubb, American Civil War Union Brevet Brigadier General, dies at 71
• 1919 Paul Deusen, German philosopher/CEO (Schopenhauer-Gesellschaft), dies
• 1922 Cathal Brugha, Chief of Staff of Irish Republican Army (b.1874)
• 1925 Clarence Hudson White American photographer (b.. 1871)
• 1927 Gösta Mittag-Leffler, Swedish mathematician (b. 1846)

• 1932 Alexander Grin, Russian novelist (Jessie and Morgiana), dies at 51
• 1932 Henry Eyster Jacobs, American Lutheran theologian, dies at 87
• 1933 John M Acket, literary (New Friends), dies at 70
• 1944 Erich Salomon, German photographer, dies at 58
• 1944 Georges Mandel [Louis Rothschild], French politician and resistance leader, is executed by the Milice at 59
• 1956 Gottfried Benn, German poet and essayist, dies at 70
• 1965 Moshe Sharett, 2nd Prime Minister of Israel (1954-55), dies at 70
• 1966 Carmelita Geraghty, dies of heart attack at 65
• 1970 Allen Lane, English publisher and founder of Penguin Books, dies at 67
• 1970 Dame Laura Knight, English impressionist artist, dies at 92
• 1971 Claude Gauvreau, Canadian writer (b. 1925)
• 1971 Ub Iwerks, American artist, director, and cartoonist (b1901)
• 1972 Athenagoras, 268th patriarch of Constantinople, dies
• 1972 King Talal of Jordan (b. 1909)
• 1973 Max Horkheimer, German philosopher and sociologist (Studies in prejudice), dies at 78
• 1975 Jacob Bjerknes, Norwegian-American meteorologist (USAF in London), dies at 77
• 1976 Gustav Heinemann, President of West Germany (1969-74), dies at 76
• 1981 Peace Pilgrim [Mildred Lisette Norman], American peace activist, dies at 72
• 1983 Herman Kahn, US futurist/nuclear strategist, dies at 71
• 1983 Vicki Morgan, mistress (Beautiful Bad Girl), murdered at 30
• 1990 Bill Cullen, game show host (Price is Right), dies at 70 of cancer
• 1990 Hugo Enomiya-Lassalle, Jes priest/apprentice Zen teacher, dies at 92
• 1992 Ruurd Faber, Dutch politician and Mayor of Aalten (1971-75), dies at 79
• 1994 Rosa Chacel, spanish Novelist, dies at 96
• 1994 Carlo Chiti, Italian race car engineer (b. 1924)
• 1995 Gabor Ormai, viola Player, dies at 40
• 1995 Geoffrey Freeman Allen, railway writer, dies at 73
• 1996 Albrecht Luitpold Ferdinand Michael, duke of Bavaria, dies at 91
• 1998 Brigadier Theuns Swanepoel, South African Security Police notorious for ordering the police to shoot at protesting school children in 1976, 70
• 1998 Moshood Abiola, 1993 Nigerian presidential election candidate and presumed winner of the inconclusive election, dies in detention at 60
• 1999 Captain Vikram Batra, Indian Army officer, awarded Param Vir Chakra (September 9,1974)
• 2000 Mary Armour, Scottish painter, dies at 80
• 2001 Edward Fiennes-Clinton, Australian-born 18th Earl of Lincoln, dies at 88
• 2002 Dhirubhai Ambani, Indian business tycoon (b. 1933)
• 2006 Juan de Ávalos, Spanish sculptor (b. 1911)
• 2006 John Money, Sexologist (b. 1921)
• 2007 Dame Anne McLaren, British biologist and leading researcher on human in vitro fertilisation (IVF), dies at 80
• 2008 Bruce Conner, American artist (b. 1933)
• 2013 Donald J. Irwin, American politician (32nd Mayor of Norwalk, Connecticut), dies from heart failure at 86
• 2014 Richard "Dick" Jones, American actor ("Pinocchio "- Pinocchio, The Frontiersman), dies at 87

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