History Events on July 07

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.

#Ocean_liner

Industrialist Henry J. Kaiser begins construction of Boulder Dam (now known as Hoover Dam).

#Henry_J._Kaiser

Ernesto "Che" Guevara sets out on a trip through Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, and El Salvador.

#Che_Guevara

The First Battle of the Isonzo comes to an end.

#First_Battle_of_the_Isonzo

Tyre falls to the Crusaders.

#Tyre,_Lebanon

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

#Occupation_of_Iceland

The Peace of Tilsit between France, Prussia and Russia ends the War of the Fourth Coalition.

#Treaties_of_Tilsit

NASA Opportunity rover, MER-B or Mars Exploration Rover-B, was launched into space aboard a Delta II rocket.

#NASA

The Peel Commission Report recommends the partition of Palestine, which was the first formal recommendation for partition in the history of Palestine.

#Peel_Commission

Yugoslav Wars: The Brioni Agreement ends the ten-day independence war in Slovenia against the rest of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

#Yugoslav_Wars

Howard Hughes nearly dies when his XF-11 reconnaissance aircraft prototype crashes in a Beverly Hills neighborhood.

#Howard_Hughes

During the Lebanese Civil War, 83 Tiger militants are killed during what will be known as the Safra massacre.

#Lebanese_Civil_War

American forces retreating from Fort Ticonderoga are defeated in the Battle of Hubbardton.

#Continental_Army

World War II: German submarine U-701 destroyed off Cape Hatteras.

#German_submarine_U-701

Elvis Presley makes his radio debut when WHBQ Memphis played his first recording for Sun Records, "That's All Right".

#Elvis_Presley

Boris Becker becomes the youngest player ever to win Wimbledon at age 17.

#Boris_Becker

Venus occults the star Regulus. This rare event is used to determine the diameter of Venus and the structure of the Venusian atmosphere.

#Venus

World War II: Largest Banzai charge of the Pacific War at the Battle of Saipan.

#Banzai_charge

As a result of the XYZ Affair, the US Congress rescinds the Treaty of Alliance with France sparking the "Quasi-War".

#XYZ_Affair

Jacques Cartier makes his first contact with aboriginal peoples in what is now Canada.

#Jacques_Cartier

Cold War: Samantha Smith, a US schoolgirl, flies to the Soviet Union at the invitation of Secretary General Yuri Andropov.

#Cold_War

The Marco Polo Bridge Incident provides the Imperial Japanese Army with a pretext for starting the Second Sino-Japanese War.

#Marco_Polo_Bridge_Incident

The United States begins its first military draft; exemptions cost $300.

#Conscription

US troops occupy Monterey and Yerba Buena, thus beginning the US conquest of California.

#Monterey,_California

US President Ronald Reagan appoints Sandra Day O'Connor to become the first female member of the Supreme Court of the United States.

#President_of_the_United_States

The United States, UK, 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.

#North_Pacific_Fur_Seal_Convention_of_1911

US President William McKinley signs the Newlands Resolution annexing Hawaii as a territory of the United States.

#President_of_the_United_States

Ex-US Army soldier Micah Xavier Johnson shoots fourteen policemen during an anti-police protest in downtown Dallas, Texas, killing five of them. He is subsequently killed by a robot-delivered bomb.

#2016_shooting_of_Dallas_police_officers

The Solomon Islands becomes independent from the United Kingdom.

#Solomon_Islands

Buddhist crisis: The police of Ngô ?ình Nhu, brother and chief political adviser of President Ngô ?ình Di?m, attacked a group of American journalists who were covering a protest.

#Buddhist_crisis

World War II: Beirut is occupied by Free France and British troops.

#Beirut

Four conspirators in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln are hanged.

#Assassination_of_Abraham_Lincoln

US President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the Alaska Statehood Act into law.

#Dwight_D._Eisenhower

Spanish conquistadores defeat a larger Aztec army at the Battle of Otumba.

#Conquistador

The New York Court of Appeals rules that women have the same right as men to go topless in public.

#New_York_Court_of_Appeals

Sliced bread is sold for the first time (on the inventor's 48th birthday) by the Chillicothe Baking Company of Chillicothe, Missouri.

#Sliced_bread

A series of four explosions occurs on London's transport system, killing 56 people, including four suicide bombers, and injuring over 700 others.

#7_July_2005_London_bombings

The Katipunan is established, the discovery of which by Spanish authorities initiated the Philippine Revolution.

#Katipunan

A De Havilland Otter air taxi crashes in Soldotna, Alaska, killing ten people.

At least 172 people are killed in a flash flood in the Krasnodar Krai region of Russia.

The first Live Earth benefit concert was held in 11 locations around the world.

The Turkish Armed Forces withdraw from northern Iraq after assisting the Kurdistan Democratic Party in the Iraqi Kurdish Civil War.

Institution of sharia law in Iran.

Mother Francesca S. Cabrini becomes the first American to be canonized.

The New Zealand Labour Party was founded in Wellington.

Colombo Town Guard officer Henry Pedris is executed in British Ceylon for allegedly inciting persecution of Muslims.

Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr. staged his first Follies on the roof of the New York Theater in New York City.

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

The Battle of Larga between the Russian Empire and the Ottoman Empire takes place.

The Treaty of Nemours abolishes tolerance to Protestants in France.

The Raid of the Redeswire is the last major battle between England and Scotland.

A retrial verdict acquits Joan of Arc of heresy 25 years after her death.