What are the important events that happened on July 7? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
July 7: Facts & Myths About This Day
July 7 is the 189th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 177 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is June 24, 2024 – a Sunday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 477,864 hours has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘hectaoctacontaenneagon’ day.
Cancer is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Ruby is the modern birthstone for this month. Ruby is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 206 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,216 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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July 7: This Day In History
The terms 7th July, July 7th, and 7/7 (pronounced “Seven-seven”) have been widely used in the Western media as a shorthand for the 7 July 2005 bombings on London’s transport system. In China, this term is used to denote the Battle of Lugou Bridge started on July 7, 1937, marking the beginning of the Second Sino-Japanese War.
July 7 Historical Events
1456 –
A retrial verdict acquits Joan of Arc of heresy 25 years after her death.
1543 –
French troops invade Luxembourg.
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.
1807 –
Napoleonic Wars: the Peace of Tilsit between France, Prussia and Russia ends the Fourth Coalition.
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.
1930 –
Industrialist Henry J. Kaiser begins construction of the Boulder Dam (now known as Hoover Dam).
1953 –
Ernesto “Che” Guevara sets out on a trip through Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, and El Salvador.
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.
Who were born on July 7?
1891 –
Virginia Rappe, American actress (d. 1921)
1899 –
George Cukor, American director (d. 1983)
1902 –
Ted Radcliffe, American baseball player and centenarian (d. 2005)
1911 –
Gretchen Franklin, English actress (d. 2005)
1936 –
Nikos Xilouris, Greek singer (d. 1980)
1941 –
Bill Oddie, English comedian and ornithologist
1970 –
Robia LaMorte, American actress and dancer
1970 –
Wayne McCullough, Irish boxer
1973 –
José Jiménez, Dominican baseball player
1975 –
Michael Voss, Australian rules footballer
Who died on July 7?
1663 –
Thomas Baltzar, German violinist
1865 –
Mary Surratt, American conspirator in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln and the first woman ever executed in the USA (b. 1823)
1927 –
Gösta Mittag-Leffler, Swedish mathematician (b. 1846)
1930 –
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Scottish writer (b. 1859)
1932 –
Alexander Grin, Russian novelist (b. 1880)
1932 –
Henry Eyster Jacobs, American Lutheran theologian (b. 1844)
1942 –
Thomas Xenakis, Greek gymnast (b. 1875)
1954 –
Idabelle Smith Firestone, American composer and songwriter (b. 1874)
1993 –
Mia Zapata, American singer (The Gits) (b. 1965)
1998 –
M. K. O. Abiola, Nigerian industrialist and politician (b. 1937)
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