SomeFacts | July 7

On this day - July 7

1124 — The city of Tyre falls to the Venetian Crusade after a siege ...

1456 — A retrial verdict acquits Joan of Arc of heresy 25 years after ...

1520 — Spanish conquistadores defeat a larger Aztec army at the ...

1534 — Jacques Cartier makes his first contact with aboriginal ...

1575 — The Raid of the Redeswire is the last major battle between ...

1585 — The Treaty of Nemours abolishes tolerance to Protestants in ...

1667 — An English fleet completes the destruction of a French ...

1770 — The Battle of Larga between the Russian Empire and the Ottoman ...

1777 — American forces retreating from Fort Ticonderoga are defeated ...

1798 — As a result of the XYZ Affair, the US Congress rescinds the ...

1807 — The first Treaty of Tilsit between France and Russia is ...

1834 — In New York City, four nights of rioting against abolitionists ...

1846 — US troops occupy Monterey and Yerba Buena, thus beginning the ...

1863 — The United States begins its first military draft; exemptions ...

1865 — Four conspirators in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln are ...

1892 — The Katipunan is established, the discovery of which by ...

1898 — US president William McKinley signs the Newlands Resolution, ...

1900 — The luxury raching yacht Idler capsizes and sinks on Lake Erie ...

1907 — Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. staged his first Follies on the roof of ...

1911 — The United States, UK, Japan, and Russia sign the North ...

1915 — Colombo Town Guard officer Henry Pedris is executed in British ...

1915 — The First Battle of the Isonzo comes to an end.

1916 — The New Zealand Labour Party was founded in Wellington.

1928 — Sliced bread is sold for the first time (on the ...

1930 — The Finnish far-right Lapua Movement organises the Peasant ...

1930 — Industrialist Henry J. Kaiser begins construction of Boulder ...

1937 — The Peel Commission Report recommends the partition of ...

1937 — The Marco Polo Bridge Incident (Lugou Bridge) provides the ...

1941 — The US occupation of Iceland replaces the UK's occupation.

1944 — World War II: Largest Banzai charge of the Pacific War at the ...

1946 — Howard Hughes nearly dies when his XF-11 reconnaissance ...

1946 — Mother Francesca S. Cabrini becomes the first American to be ...

1952 — The ocean liner SS United States passes Bishop Rock on her ...

1953 — Ernesto "Che" Guevara sets out on a trip through ...

1958 — US President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the Alaska Statehood ...

1959 — Venus occults the star Regulus. This rare event is used to ...

1962 — Alitalia Flight 771 crashes in Junnar, Maharashtra, India, ...

1963 — Buddhist crisis: Police commanded by Ngô Đình Nhu, brother and ...

1978 — The Solomon Islands becomes independent from the United ...

1980 — During the Lebanese Civil War, 83 Tiger militants are killed ...

1980 — Institution of sharia law in Iran.

1981 — US President Ronald Reagan nominates Sandra Day O'Connor ...

1983 — Cold War: Samantha Smith, a US schoolgirl, flies to the Soviet ...

1985 — Boris Becker becomes the youngest male player ever to win ...

1991 — Yugoslav Wars: The Brioni Agreement ends the ten-day ...

1992 — The New York Court of Appeals rules that women have the same ...

1997 — The Turkish Armed Forces withdraw from northern Iraq after ...

2003 — NASA Opportunity rover, MER-B or Mars Exploration Rover–B, was ...

2005 — A series of four explosions occurs on London's transport ...

2006 — A shootout happens in Spiritwood, Canada, killing 2 Royal ...

2007 — The first Live Earth benefit concert was held in 11 locations ...

2011 — A man goes on a killing spree in Grand Rapids, Michigan, ...

2012 — At least 172 people are killed in a flash flood in the ...

2013 — A De Havilland Otter air taxi crashes in Soldotna, Alaska, ...

2016 — Ex-US Army soldier Micah Xavier Johnson shoots fourteen ...

2017 — The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons was adopted ...

2019 — The United States defeated the Netherlands 2–0 at the 2019 ...

2021 — Haitian crisis: Haitian President Jovenel Moïse is ...

2022 — Boris Johnson announces his resignation as leader of the ...