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Events on the 7th of July in history

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07 Jul 1124 Tyrus surrenders to Crusaders
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07 Jul 1124 Tyre falls to the Crusaders.
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07 Jul 1438 French church / King Charles VII release Pragmatieke Sanctie of Bourges
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07 Jul 1456 Though she had already been executed, Joan of Arc is acquitted
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07 Jul 1456 A retrial verdict acquits Joan of Arc of heresy 25 years after her death.
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07 Jul 1495 King Ferdinand II returns to Naples
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07 Jul 1498 Emperor Maximilian I establishes choir of Imperial Chapel
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07 Jul 1520 Spanish conquistadores defeat a larger Aztec army at the Battle of Otumba.
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07 Jul 1534 European colonization of the Americas: first known exchange between Europeans and natives of the Gulf of St. Lawrence in New Brunswick.
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07 Jul 1543 French troops invade Luxembourg.
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07 Jul 1550 Chocolate introduced
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07 Jul 1575 Raid of the Redeswire, the last major battle between England and Scotland.
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07 Jul 1585 King Henri III and Duke De Guise signs Treaty of Nemours: French Huguenots loose all freedoms
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07 Jul 1585 The Treaty of Nemours abolishes tolerance to Protestants in France.
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07 Jul 1607 "God Save the King" is 1st sung
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07 Jul 1668 Isaac Newton receives MA from Trinity College, Cambridge
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07 Jul 1753 English parliament grants Jewish English citizenship
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07 Jul 1754 Kings College in NYC opens (renamed Columbia College)
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07 Jul 1770 The Battle of Larga between the Russian Empire and the Ottoman Empire takes place.
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07 Jul 1777 American Revolutionary War: American forces retreating from Fort Ticonderoga are defeated in the Battle of Hubbardton.
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07 Jul 1798 As a result of the XYZ Affair, the U.S. Congress rescinds the Treaty of Alliance with France sparking the "Quasi-War".
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07 Jul 1802 1st comic book "The Wasp, " is published
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07 Jul 1807 France, Russia and Prussia sign Peace of Tilsit
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07 Jul 1807 Napoleonic Wars: the Peace of Tilsit between France, Prussia and Russia ends the War of the Fourth Coalition.
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07 Jul 1829 Royal Military Chapel forms
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07 Jul 1834 In New York City, four nights of rioting against abolitionists began.
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07 Jul 1838 Central American federation is dissolved
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07 Jul 1846 Mexican–American War: American troops occupy Monterey and Yerba Buena, thus beginning the U.S. acquisition of California.
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07 Jul 1850 Scottish explorer Edward Eyre reaches Albany, W-Australia
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07 Jul 1861 Battle of Laurel Hill, Virginia
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07 Jul 1862 Land Grant Act endows state colleges with federal land
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07 Jul 1863 1st military draft by US (exemptions cost $100)
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07 Jul 1863 Orders barring Jews from serving under US Grant are revoked
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07 Jul 1863 United States begins its first military draft; exemptions cost $300.
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07 Jul 1865 American Civil War: four conspirators in the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln are hanged.
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07 Jul 1868 Ed Pooley takes 12 dismissals as keeper in match Surrey vs. Sussex
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07 Jul 1874 27th Postmaster General: James W Marshall of New Jersey takes office
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07 Jul 1875 Jesse James robs train in Otterville, Missouri
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07 Jul 1878 Social-Democratic United forms in Amsterdam
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07 Jul 1891 Travelers checks patents
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07 Jul 1892 Katipunan: the Revolutionary Philippine Brotherhood is established, contributing to the fall of the Spanish Empire in Asia.
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07 Jul 1898 US annexes Hawaii
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07 Jul 1898 U.S. President William McKinley signs the Newlands Resolution annexing Hawaii as a territory of the United States.
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07 Jul 1900 Boston hurler Kid Nichols notches his 300th career victory
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07 Jul 1907 Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr. staged his first Follies on the roof of the New York Theater in New York City.
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07 Jul 1908 Great White Fleet leaves SF Bay
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07 Jul 1911 28th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: D Chambers beats D Boothby (60 60)
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07 Jul 1911 Dorothea Lambert Chambers beats Dora Boothby 6-0, 6-0 in a record
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07 Jul 1911 The United States, Great Britain, Japan, and Russia sign the North Pacific Fur Seal Convention of 1911 banning open-water seal hunting, the first international treaty to address wildlife preservation issues.
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07 Jul 1913 British House of Commons accepts Home-Rule Law
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07 Jul 1915 World War I: end of First Battle of the Isonzo.
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07 Jul 1915 An International Railway trolley with an extreme overload of 157 passengers crashes near Queenston, Ontario, killing 15.
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07 Jul 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.
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07 Jul 1919 Phillies tie major league record of 8 steals in 9 inn game
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07 Jul 1923 43rd Wimbledon Mens Tennis: William Johnston beats F Hunter (60 63 61)
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07 Jul 1923 Cleveland Indians beat Boston Red Sox 27-3 with 13 runs in 6th inning
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07 Jul 1923 University of Delaware invents "junior year abroad" (at Sorbonne)
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07 Jul 1928 41st Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Helen Moody beats L de Alvarez (62 63)
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07 Jul 1928 Sliced bread is sold for the first time (on the inventor's 48th birthday) by the Chillicothe Baking Company of Chillicothe, Missouri.
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07 Jul 1929 Romania and Vatican sign concord
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07 Jul 1930 Construction begins on Boulder (Hoover) Dam
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07 Jul 1930 Industrialist Henry J. Kaiser begins construction of the Boulder Dam (now known as Hoover Dam).
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07 Jul 1934 Elizabeth Ryan wins her 12th Wimbledon doubles championship
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07 Jul 1936 4th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 4-3 at Braves Field, Boston
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07 Jul 1937 5th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 8-3 at Griffith Stadium, Washington
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07 Jul 1937 Japanese and Chinese troops clash, (Marco Polo Bridge), becomes WWII
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07 Jul 1937 Second Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Lugou Bridge – Japanese forces invade Beijing, China.
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07 Jul 1939 52nd Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Alice Marble beats Kay Stammers (62 60)
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07 Jul 1941 Nazis executed 5,000 Jews in Kovono Lithuania
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07 Jul 1941 US forces land in Iceland to forestall Nazi invasion
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07 Jul 1941 World War II: U.S. forces land in Iceland, taking over from an earlier British occupation.
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07 Jul 1941 World War II: Beirut is occupied by Free France and British troops.
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07 Jul 1942 Germany troop march into Woronezj
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07 Jul 1942 Military all star team (including Bob Feller) losts to AL all stars 5-0
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07 Jul 1943 3rd day of battle at Kursk: Germans occupy Dubrova
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07 Jul 1943 Erich Hartmann shoots 7 Russian aircraft at Kursk
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07 Jul 1943 Liberator bombers sinks U-517
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07 Jul 1943 U-951 sunk
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07 Jul 1944 Bomber Command drop 2,572 tons of bombs on Caen, France
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07 Jul 1944 Heavy Japanese counter offensive on Saipan
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07 Jul 1944 World War II: Largest Banzai charge of the Pacific War at the Battle of Saipan.
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07 Jul 1946 Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini canonized as 1st American Saint
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07 Jul 1946 Mother Francesca S. Cabrini becomes the first American to be canonized.
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07 Jul 1946 Howard Hughes nearly dies when his XF-11 reconnaissance aircraft prototype crashes in a Beverly Hills neighborhood.
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07 Jul 1947 The Roswell incident, the (supposed) crash of an alien spaceship near Roswell in New Mexico.
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07 Jul 1948 6 female reservists become 1st women sworn into regular US Navy
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07 Jul 1948 Cleveland Indians sign Leroy "Satchel" Paige
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07 Jul 1948 Indians sign Satchel Paige at 42
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07 Jul 1949 "Cabatgata (A Night in Spain)" opens at Broadway NYC for 76 performances
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07 Jul 1949 "Dragnet" premieres on NBC radio; also a TV series in 1951 and 1967
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07 Jul 1950 1st Farnborough airshow held
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07 Jul 1950 64th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Budge Patty beats Sedgman (61 8-10 62 63)
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07 Jul 1950 79th British Golf Open: Bobby Locke shoots a 279 at Royal Troon
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07 Jul 1951 58th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Doris Hart beats Shirley Fry (61 60)
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07 Jul 1952 SS United States cross Atlantic in record 82:40
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07 Jul 1952 The ocean liner SS United States passes Bishop Rock on her maiden voyage, breaking the transatlantic speed record to become the fastest passenger ship in the world.
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07 Jul 1953 35th PGA Championship: Walter Burkemo at Birmingham Country Club - Michigan
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07 Jul 1953 Ernesto "Che" Guevara sets out on a trip through Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, and El Salvador.
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07 Jul 1954 T.A.N.U. party forms in Tanzania
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07 Jul 1954 Elvis Presley makes his radio debut when WHBQ Memphis played his first recording for Sun Records, "That's All Right."
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07 Jul 1955 1st LPGA Championship won by Beverly Hanson
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07 Jul 1956 63rd Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Shirley Fry beats Angela Buxton (63 61)
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07 Jul 1956 7 Army trucks loaded with dynamite explode in middle of Cali, Columbia killing 1,100-1,200, destroying 2,000 buildings
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07 Jul 1956 Fritz Moravec and two other Austrian mountaineers make the first ascent of Gasherbrum II (8,035 m).
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07 Jul 1957 Heavy storm ravages Belgian coast
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07 Jul 1958 President Eisenhower signed a bill approving Alaskan statehood
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07 Jul 1958 William Shea outlines plans for a $12M stadium at Flushing Meadows, New York
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07 Jul 1958 U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the Alaska Statehood Act into law.
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07 Jul 1959 26th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 5-4 at Forbes Field, Pittsburgh
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07 Jul 1959 Venus occults the star Regulus. This rare event is used to determine the diameter of Venus and the structure of the Venusian atmosphere.
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07 Jul 1960 Neth-US cemetery Margraten official opens
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07 Jul 1960 USSR shoots down a US aircraft over Barents sea
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07 Jul 1961 75th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Rod Laver beats Chuck McKinley (63 61 64)
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07 Jul 1961 James R Hoffa elected Chairman of Teamsters
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07 Jul 1962 69th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Karen Susman beats Vera Sukova (64 64)
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07 Jul 1962 Bill Hartack becomes 8th jockey to win 3,000 horse races
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07 Jul 1963 Shirley Englehorn wins LPGA Lady Carling Eastern Golf Open
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07 Jul 1963 Buddhist crisis: The police of Ngô Đình Nhu, brother and chief political adviser of President Ngô Đình Diệm, attacked a group of American journalists who were covering a protest.
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07 Jul 1964 35th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 7-4 at Shea Stadium, New York
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07 Jul 1964 All star MVP: John Callison (Philadelphia Phillies)
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07 Jul 1965 Otis Redding records "Respect"
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07 Jul 1967 81st Wimbledon Mens Tennis: John Newcombe beats W Bungert (63 61 61)
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07 Jul 1968 Rock group "Yardbirds" disband
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07 Jul 1972 1st women FBI members sworn in (Susan Lynn Roley and Joanne E Pierce)
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07 Jul 1972 79th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Billie Jean King beats Goolagong (63 63)
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07 Jul 1972 Dutch Minister of Agt decides to ignore soft drug usage
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07 Jul 1973 78 drown as flash flood sweeps a bus into a river (India)
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07 Jul 1973 80th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Billie Jean King beats C Evert (60 75)
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07 Jul 1973 87th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Jan Kodes beats Alex Metreveli (61 98 63)
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07 Jul 1973 Baltimore Orioles pull their 4th triple play (5-4-3 vs. Oakland)
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07 Jul 1973 Shoelace Park in the Bronx named
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07 Jul 1974 Brewer Don Money sets record of consecutive errorless games at 3rd (78)
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07 Jul 1974 Sue Roberts wins LPGA Niagara Frontier Golf Classic
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07 Jul 1976 E Henry Knoche, becomes Deputy Director of CIA
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07 Jul 1976 Lieutenant General Vernon A Walters, USA, ends term as Deputy Director of CIA
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07 Jul 1976 Viking 2 goes into orbit around Mars
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07 Jul 1977 12,000 police occupy university in Mexico City
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07 Jul 1978 Solomon Islands declares independence from the UK
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07 Jul 1978 The Solomon Islands becomes independent from the United Kingdom
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07 Jul 1980 Jim King completes riding Miracle Strip Roller coaster 368 hours
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07 Jul 1980 Jineane Ford, (AZ) replaces S Weatherly (Miss Universe) as 29th Miss USA
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07 Jul 1980 Larry Holmes TKOs Scott LeDoux in 7 for heavyweight boxing title
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07 Jul 1980 Shawn Weatherly, of the USA, crowned 29th Miss Universe
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07 Jul 1980 Institution of sharia in Iran.
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07 Jul 1980 During the Lebanese Civil War, 83 Tiger militants are killed during what will be known as the Safra massacre.
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07 Jul 1981 1st solar-powered aircraft, Solar Challenger, crosses English Channel
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07 Jul 1981 Ben Plucknett of US throws discus 72.34 m, but throw is disqualified
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07 Jul 1981 U.S. President Ronald Reagan appoints Sandra Day O'Connor to become the first female member of the Supreme Court of the United States.
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07 Jul 1982 David Moorcroft of the UK sets record for 5000 m, 13:00.41
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07 Jul 1982 Steve Scott of US runs mile in a record 3:47.69
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07 Jul 1983 11 year old Samantha Smith of Manchester, Maine, leaves for USSR
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07 Jul 1983 Cold War: Samantha Smith, a U.S. schoolgirl, flies to the Soviet Union at the invitation of Secretary General Yuri Andropov.
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07 Jul 1984 5 die in a train crash in Williston, Vermont
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07 Jul 1984 91st Wimbledon Womens Tennis: M Navratilova beats Chris Evert (76 62)
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07 Jul 1984 Frankie Valli marries Randy Clohessy
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07 Jul 1985 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Mazda Hall of Fame Golf Championship
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07 Jul 1985 Boris Becker becomes the youngest player ever to win Wimbledon at age 17
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07 Jul 1986 IBM-PC DOS Version 3.2 (updated) released
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07 Jul 1986 It is reported Boy George is being treated for heroin addiction
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07 Jul 1986 Jordan government shuts al-Fatah offices
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07 Jul 1986 Supreme Court struck down Gramm-Rudman deficit-reduction law
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07 Jul 1986 US actress Deborah Hunter marries actor Michael Tylo
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07 Jul 1987 Kiwanis Clubs end men-only tradition, vote to admit women
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07 Jul 1987 Lt Col Oliver North began public testimony at Iran-Contra hearing
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07 Jul 1987 Yanks trailing by 7 score 7 in 7th on 7 / 7 and 5 in 8th-Beat Twins 12-7
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07 Jul 1988 Soviet Union launches Phobos 1 to probe Martian moon (unsuccessful)
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07 Jul 1990 97th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: M Navratilova beats Z Garrison (64 61)
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07 Jul 1990 New Jersey Devils sign Russians Viacheslav Fetisov and Sergei Starikov
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07 Jul 1991 105th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Michael Stich beats B Becker (64 76 64)
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07 Jul 1991 Alice Miller wins LPGA Jamie Farr Toledo Golf Classic
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07 Jul 1991 Nolan Ryan possible 8th no-hitter ends in the 8th inning
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07 Jul 1991 Yugoslav Wars: the Brioni Agreement ends the ten-day independence war in Slovenia against the rest of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
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07 Jul 1993 Guntis Ulmanis elected President of Latvia
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07 Jul 1993 New York Met Anthony Young, loses his 26th straight game (goes to 27)
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07 Jul 1993 Philadelphia Phillies beat SF Giants 7-6 in 20 innings
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07 Jul 1993 Prodigy announces it will offer Cox newspapers
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07 Jul 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
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07 Jul 1994 Actress Diane Lane files for divorce from Christopher Lambert
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07 Jul 1994 North Yemenite troops occupy Aden
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07 Jul 1995 Memphis Mad Dogs 1st CFL home game (vs. BC Lions)
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07 Jul 1995 Space shuttle STS-71 (Atlantis 14), lands
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07 Jul 1996 110th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: R Krajicek beats M Washington (63 64 63)
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07 Jul 1996 17th US Seniors Golf Open: Dave Stockton
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07 Jul 1996 Joan Pitcock wins LPGA Jamie Farr Kroger Golf Classic
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07 Jul 1996 Space Shuttle STS 78 (Columbia 20), lands
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07 Jul 1997 The Turkish Armed Forces withdraw from northern Iraq after assisting the Kurdistan Democratic Party in the Iraqi Kurdish Civil War.
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07 Jul 1998 69th All Star Baseball Game: at Coors Field, Denver
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07 Jul 2003 NASA Opportunity rover, MER-B or Mars Exploration Rover – B, was launched into space aboard a Delta II rocket.
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07 Jul 2005 A series of four explosions occurs on London's transport system killing 56 people including four suicide bombers and injuring over 700 others.
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