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 188^th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 177 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is June 24, 2025 – a Monday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 486,624 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 ‘hectaoctacontaoctagon’ 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 225 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 4,581 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

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.
• 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.
• 1898 –
  U.S. President William McKinley signs the Newlands Resolution annexing Hawaii as a territory of the United States.
• 1930 –
  Industrialist Henry J. Kaiser begins construction of the Boulder Dam (now known as Hoover Dam).
• 1946 –
  Howard Hughes nearly dies when his XF-11 spy plane prototype crashes in a Beverly Hills neighborhood.
• 1958 –
  U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the Alaska Statehood Act into law.
• 1978 –
  The Solomon Islands become independent from the United Kingdom.
• 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.

Who were born on July 7?

• 1874 –
  Erwin Bumke, German jurist (d. 1945)
• 1900 –
  Earle E. Partridge, American military commander (d. 1990)
• 1902 –
  Ted Radcliffe, American baseball player and centenarian (d. 2005)
• 1906 –
  William Feller, Croatian-American mathematician/probabilist (d. 1970)
• 1911 –
  Gian Carlo Menotti, Italian composer (d. 2007)
• 1942 –
  Carmen Duncan, Australian actress
• 1943 –
  Toto Cutugno, Italian singer
• 1972 –
  Lisa Leslie, American basketball player
• 1973 –
  José Jiménez, Dominican baseball player
• 1977 –
  D-Loc, American rapper (Kottonmouth Kings)

Who died on July 7?

• 1647 –
  Thomas Hooker, English-born Connecticut colonist (b. 1586)
• 1790 –
  François Hemsterhuis, Dutch philosopher (b. 1721)
• 1878 –
  Yegor Ivanovich Zolotarev, Russian mathematician (b. 1847)
• 1913 –
  Edward Burd Grubb, Jr., American Civil War Union Brevet Brigadier General (b. 1841)
• 1925 –
  Clarence Hudson White American photographer (b. 1871)
• 1968 –
  Jo Schlesser, French race car driver (b. 1928)
• 1971 –
  Claude Gauvreau, Canadian writer (b. 1925)
• 1973 –
  Max Horkheimer, German philosopher and sociologist (b. 1895)
• 1994 –
  Friedrich August Freiherr von der Heydte, German Luftwaffe officer (b. 1907)
• 2008 –
  Bruce Conner, American sculptor, painter and photographer (b. 1933)