Independence
day
Solomon Islands
UN
Day
World
Kiswahili language day
Events
of the day
1456 – A retrial verdict
acquits Joan of Arc of heresy 25 years after
her death.
1534 – European colonization of the Americas:
first known exchange between Europeans and
natives of the Gulf of St. Lawrence in New
Brunswick.
1543 – French troops invade Luxembourg.
1575 – Raid of the Redeswire, the last major
battle between England and Scotland.
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.
1777 – American Revolutionary War: American
forces retreating from Fort Ticonderoga
are defeated in the Battle of Hubbardton.
1798 – Quasi-War: the U.S. Congress rescinds
treaties with France sparking the "war".
1807 – Napoleonic Wars: the Peace of Tilsit
between France, Prussia and Russia ends
the Fourth Coalition.
1834 – In New York City, four nights of
rioting against abolitionists began.
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.
1865 – American Civil War: four conspirators
in the assassination of President Abraham
Lincoln are hanged.
1892 – Katipunan: the Revolutionary Philippine
Brotherhood is established, contributing
to the fall of the Spanish Empire in Asia.
1898 – U.S. President William McKinley signs
the Newlands Resolution annexing Hawaii
as a territory of the United States.
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.
1915 – World War I: end of First Battle
of the Isonzo.
1915 – An International Railway trolley
with an extreme overload of 157 passengers
crashes near Queenston, Ontario, killing
15.
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.
1928 – Sliced bread is sold for the first
time by the Chillicothe Baking Company of
Chillicothe, Missouri.
1930 – Industrialist Henry J. Kaiser begins
construction of the Boulder Dam (now known
as Hoover Dam).
1937 – Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Lugou
Bridge – Japanese forces invade Beijing,
China.
1941 – World War II: U.S. forces land in
Iceland, taking over from an earlier British
occupation.
1941 – World War II: Beirut is occupied
by Free France and British troops.
1944 – World War II: Largest Banzai charge
of the Pacific War at the Battle of Saipan.
1946 – Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini becomes
the first American to be canonized.
1946 – Howard Hughes nearly dies when his
XF-11 spy plane prototype crashes in a Beverly
Hills neighborhood.
1952 – The ocean liner SS United States
passes Bishop's Rock on her maiden voyage,
breaking the transatlantic speed record
to become the fastest passenger ship in
the world.
1953 – Ernesto "Che" Guevara sets
out on a trip through Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador,
Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras,
and El Salvador.
1954 – Elvis Presley made his radio debut
when WHBQ Memphis played his first recording
for Sun Records, "That's All Right."
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.
1959 – Venus occults the star Regulus. This
rare event is used to determine the diameter
of Venus and the structure of the Venusian
atmosphere.
1978 – The Solomon Islands become independent
from the United Kingdom.
1980 – Institution of sharia in Iran.
1980 – During the Lebanese civil war, 83
Tiger militants are killed during what will
be known as the Safra massacre.
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.
1983 – Cold War: Samantha Smith, a U.S.
schoolgirl, flies to the Soviet Union at
the invitation of Secretary General Yuri
Andropov.
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.
1997 – The Turkish Armed Forces withdraw
from northern Iraq after assisting the Kurdistan
Democratic Party in the Iraqi Kurdish Civil
War.
2002 – A scandal breaks out in the United
Kingdom when news reports accuse MI6 of
sheltering Abu Qatada, the supposed European
Al Qaeda leader.
2005 – A series of four explosions occurs
on London's transport system killing 56
people including four alleged suicide bombers
and injuring over 700 others.
2011 – Roof of a stand in De Grolsch Veste
Stadium in Enschede which was under construction
collapsed, one killed and 14 injured.
Holidays
and observances
Christian
Feast Day:
Æthelburg of Faremoutiers
Illidius
Job of Maniava (Ukrainian Orthodox Church)
Willibald (Roman Catholic Church)
July 7 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Independence Day, celebrates the independence
of Solomon Islands from the United Kingdom
in 1978.
Ivan Kupala Day (Belarus, Poland, Russia,
Ukraine)
Saba Saba Day (Tanzania)
Tanabata (Japan)
Unity Factory Day (Yemen)
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