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July 7 Events in History

July 7, 1998 69th All Star Baseball Game: at Coors Field, Denver
July 7, 1997 Tiger Woods wins golf's Western Open
July 7, 1997 Tower Minnesota temps dip to 24 degrees F
July 7, 1996 110th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: R Krajicek beats M Washington (63 64 63)
July 7, 1996 17th U.S. Seniors Golf Open: Dave Stockton
July 7, 1996 Joan Pitcock wins LPGA Jamie Farr Kroger Golf Classic
July 7, 1996 Space Shuttle STS 78, Columbia 20, lands
July 7, 1995 Memphis Mad Dogs 1st CFL home game vs, BC Lions
July 7, 1995 Space shuttle STS-71, Atlantis 14, lands
July 7, 1994 "Les Miserables," opens at Imperial Theatre, Tokyo
July 7, 1994 Actress Diane Lane files for divorce from Christopher Lambert
July 7, 1994 North Yemenite troops occupy Aden
July 7, 1993 Guntis Ulmanis elected president of Latvia
July 7, 1993 New York Met Anthony Young, loses his 26th straight game, goes to 27
July 7, 1993 Philadelphia Phillies beat San Francisco Giants 7-6 in 20 innings
July 7, 1993 Prodigy announces it will offer Cox newspapers
July 7, 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
July 7, 1991 105th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Michael Stich beats B Becker (64 76 64)
July 7, 1991 Alice Miller wins LPGA Jamie Farr Toledo Golf Classic
July 7, 1991 Nolan Ryan possible 8th no-hitter ends in the 8th inning
July 7, 1990 97th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: M Navratilova beats Z Garrison (64 61)
July 7, 1990 New Jersey Devils sign Russians Viacheslav Fetisov and Sergei Starikov
July 7, 1988 Soviet Union launches Phobos 1 to probe Martian moon (unsuccessful)
July 7, 1988 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
July 7, 1987 Alan and Colin Wells make 303* partnership for Sussex vs. Kent
July 7, 1987 Kiwanis Clubs end men-only tradition, vote to admit women
July 7, 1987 Oliver North began public testimony at Iran-Contra hearing
July 7, 1987 Yanks trailing by 7 score 7 in 7th on 7/7 and 5 in 8th-Beat Twins 12-7
July 7, 1986 IBM-PC DOS Version 3.2 (updated) released
July 7, 1986 It is reported Boy George is being treated for heroin addiction
July 7, 1986 Jordan government shuts al-Fatah offices
July 7, 1986 Supreme Court struck down Gramm-Rudman deficit-reduction law
July 7, 1986 U.S. actress Deborah Hunter marries actor Michael Tylo
July 7, 1985 92nd Wimbledon Womens Tennis: M Navratilova beats C Evert (46 63 62)
July 7, 1985 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Mazda Hall of Fame Golf Championship
July 7, 1984 5 die in a train crash in Williston, Vermont
July 7, 1984 91st Wimbledon Womens Tennis: M Navratilova beats Chris Evert (76 62)
July 7, 1984 Frankie Valli marries Randy Clohessy
July 7, 1983 11 year old Samantha Smith of Manchester, Maine, leaves for U.S.S.R.
July 7, 1982 David Moorcroft of U.K. sets record for 5000 m, 13:00.41
July 7, 1982 Steve Scott of U.S. runs mile in a record 3:47.69
July 7, 1981 1st solar-powered aircraft, Solar Challenger, crosses English Channel
July 7, 1981 Ben Plucknett of U.S. throws discus 72.34 m, but throw is disqualified
July 7, 1981 Sandra Day O'Connor nominated for the Supreme Court
July 7, 1980 1st solar-powered aircraft crosses English Channel
July 7, 1980 Jim King completes riding Miracle Strip Roller coaster 368 hours
July 7, 1980 Larry Holmes TKOs Scott LeDoux in 7 for heavyweight boxing title
July 7, 1980 Shawn Weatherly, of USA, crowned 29th Miss Universe
July 7, 1980 Jineane Ford, (AZ) replaces S Weatherly (Miss Univ) as 29th Miss USA
July 7, 1979 93rd Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Bjorn Borg beats R Tanner (67 61 36 63 64)
July 7, 1979 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R.
July 7, 1978 85th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: M Navratilova beats C Evert (26 64 75)
July 7, 1978 Solomon Islands declares independence from U.K.
July 7, 1977 12,000 police occupy university in Mexico City
July 7, 1976 E. Henry Knoche, becomes deputy director of CIA
July 7, 1976 Vernon A. Walters, USA, ends term as deputy director of CIA
July 7, 1976 Viking 2 goes into orbit around Mars
July 7, 1975 TV soap opera "Ryan's Hope" premieres
July 7, 1974 Brewer Don Money sets record of consec errorless games at 3rd, 78
July 7, 1974 Sue Roberts wins LPGA Niagara Frontier Golf Classic
July 7, 1974 West Germany beats Netherlands 2-1 for soccer's 10th World Cup in Munich
July 7, 1973 78 drown as flash flood sweeps a bus into a river, India
July 7, 1973 80th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Billie Jean King beats C Evert, 60 75
July 7, 1973 87th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Jan Kodes beats Alex Metreveli, 61 98 63
July 7, 1973 All women board of directors takes control of ABA's Kentucky Colonels
July 7, 1973 Baltimore Orioles pull their 4th triple play, 5-4-3 vs Oakland
July 7, 1973 Glenda Reiser, Canada, sets record women's mile, 4:34.9
July 7, 1973 Shoelace Park in the Bronx named
July 7, 1973 1st all - U.S. women's Wimbledon, Billie Jean King beats Chris Evert
July 7, 1972 1st women FBI members sworn in (Susan Lynn Roley and Joanne E Pierce)
July 7, 1972 79th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Billie Jean King beats Goolagong (63 63)
July 7, 1972 Dutch Minister of Agt decides to ignore soft drug usage
July 7, 1969 Canada's House of Commons approves equality of French-English lang
July 7, 1969 Der Spiegel reveals Munich's Bishop Defregger is a war criminal
July 7, 1968 23rd U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Susie Maxwell Berning
July 7, 1968 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
July 7, 1968 Rock group "Yardbirds" disband
July 7, 1967 81st Wimbledon Mens Tennis: John Newcombe beats W Bungert (63 61 61)
July 7, 1967 Beatles' "All You Need is Love" is released
July 7, 1967 Doors' "Light My Fire" hits #1
July 7, 1965 Otis Redding records "Respect"
July 7, 1964 35th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 7-4 at Shea Stadium, New York
July 7, 1964 All star MVP: John Callison, Philadelphia Phillies
July 7, 1963 Shirley Englehorn wins LPGA Lady Carling Eastern Golf Open
July 7, 1962 69th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Karen Susman beats Vera Sukova (64 64)
July 7, 1962 Bill Hartack becomes 8th jockey to win 3,000 horse races
July 7, 1962 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
July 7, 1961 75th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Rod Laver beats Chuck McKinley (63 61 64)
July 7, 1961 James R. Hoffa elected chairman of Teamsters
July 7, 1960 Neth - U.S. cemetery Margraten official opens
July 7, 1960 U.S.S.R. shoots down a U.S. aircraft over Barents sea
July 7, 1959 26th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 5-4 at Forbes Field, Pittsburgh
July 7, 1958 C A Milton scores 104* on Test Cricket debut, England vs. NZ Headingley
July 7, 1958 President Eisenhower signed a bill approving Alaskan statehood
July 7, 1958 William Shea outlines plans for a $12M stadium at Flushing Meadows New York
July 7, 1957 Heavy storm ravages Belgian coast
July 7, 1956 63rd Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Shirley Fry beats Angela Buxton (63 61)
July 7, 1956 Douglas Moore/John Latouche' opera "Ballad of Baby Doe," premieres
July 7, 1956 7 Army trucks loaded with dynamite explode in middle of Cali, Columbia killing 1,100-1,200, destroying 2,000 buildings
July 7, 1955 1st LPGA Championship won by Beverly Hanson
July 7, 1954 T.A.N.U. party forms in Tanzania
July 7, 1953 35th PGA Championship: Walter Burkemo at Birmingham CC Mich
July 7, 1952 SS United States cross Atlantic in record 82:40
July 7, 1951 58th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Doris Hart beats Shirley Fry (61 60)
July 7, 1950 1st Farnborough airshow held
July 7, 1950 64th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Budge Patty beats Sedgman (61 8-10 62 63)
July 7, 1950 79th British Golf Open: Bobby Locke shoots a 279 at Royal Troon
July 7, 1949 "Cabatgata (A Night in Spain)" opens at Broadway New York City for 76 performances
July 7, 1949 "Dragnet" premieres on NBC radio; also a TV series in 1951 and 1967
July 7, 1948 6 female reservists become 1st women sworn into regular U.S. Navy
July 7, 1948 Cleveland Indians sign Leroy "Satchel" Paige at 42
July 7, 1946 Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini canonized as 1st American saint
July 7, 1944 Bomber Command drop 2,572 tons of bombs on Caen, France
July 7, 1944 Heavy Japanese counter offensive on Saipan
July 7, 1943 Japanese premier Hideki Tojo visits Java
July 7, 1943 3rd day of battle at Kursk: Germans occupy Dubrova
July 7, 1943 Erich Hartmann shoots 7 Russian aircraft at Kursk
July 7, 1943 Liberator bombers sinks U-517
July 7, 1942 Germany troop march into Woronezj
July 7, 1942 Milt all star team (including Bob Feller) losts to AL all stars 5-0
July 7, 1941 Nazis executed 5,000 Jews in Kovono, Lithuania
July 7, 1941 U.S. forces land in Iceland to forestall Nazi invasion
July 7, 1939 52nd Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Alice Marble beats Kay Stammers (62 60)
July 7, 1937 5th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 8-3 at Griffith Stadium, Wash
July 7, 1937 Japanese and Chinese troops clash, (Marco Polo Bridge), becomes WW II
July 7, 1936 4th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 4-3 at Braves Field, Boston
July 7, 1934 Elizabeth Ryan wins her 12th Wimbledon doubles championship
July 7, 1932 Bradman scores a cricket double century in Montreal
July 7, 1930 Construction begins on Boulder Dam
July 7, 1929 Romania and Vatican sign concord
July 7, 1928 41st Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Helen Moody beats L de Alvarez (62 63)
July 7, 1928 Edward Hamm of U.S., sets then long jump record at 25' 11"
July 7, 1924 Robert LeGendre of U.S., sets then long jump record at 25' 5 "
July 7, 1923 43rd Wimbledon Mens Tennis: William Johnston beats F Hunter (60 63 61)
July 7, 1923 Cleveland Indians beat Boston Red Sox 27-3 with 13 runs in 6th inning
July 7, 1923 University of Delaware invents "junior year abroad" (at Sorbonne)
July 7, 1919 Phillies tie major league record of 8 steals in 9 inn game
July 7, 1914 Baltimore Orioles' (IL) owner Jack Dunn offers Babe Ruth, Ernie Shore and Ben Egan for $10,000 to Connie Mack, who refuses, pleading poverty
July 7, 1913 British House of Commons accepts Home-Rule Law
July 7, 1911 28th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: D Chambers beats D Boothby (60 60)
July 7, 1911 Dorothea Lambert Chambers beats Dora Boothby 6-0, 6-0 in a record
July 7, 1908 Great White Fleet leaves San Francisco Bay
July 7, 1905 127 degrees F (53 degrees C), Parker Ariz (state record)
July 7, 1900 Boston hurler Kid Nichols notches his 300th career victory
July 7, 1898 U.S. annexes Hawaii
July 7, 1891 Travelers checks patents
July 7, 1878 Social-Democratic United forms in Amsterdam
July 7, 1875 Jesse James robs train in Otterville, Missouri
July 7, 1874 27th Postmaster General: James W. Marshall of New Jersey takes office
July 7, 1868 Ed Pooley takes 12 dismissals as keeper in match Surrey vs. Sussex
July 7, 1864 S Middleton, MD -Early's Washington Raid-
July 7, 1863 1st military draft by U.S., exemptions cost $100
July 7, 1863 Orders barring Jews from serving under U.S. Grant are revoked
July 7, 1862 Land Grant Act endows state colleges with federal land
July 7, 1861 Battle of Laurel Hill, Virginia
July 7, 1850 Scottish explorer Edward Eyre reaches Albany, W-Australia
July 7, 1846 U.S. annexs California
July 7, 1838 Central American federation is dissolved
July 7, 1829 Royal Military Chapel forms
July 7, 1814 Walter Scott's "Waverley" published
July 7, 1807 France, Russia and Prussia sign Peace of Tilsit
July 7, 1802 1st comic book "The Wasp," is published
July 7, 1801 Toussaint L'Ouverture declares Haitian independence
July 7, 1768 Firm of Johann Buddenbrook founded, in Thomas Mann's novel
July 7, 1754 Kings College in New York City opens (renamed Columbia College)
July 7, 1753 English parliament grants Jewish English citizenship
July 7, 1713 1st performance of Georg F Handel's "To Deum" and "Jubilate"
July 7, 1668 Isaac Newton receives MA from Trinity College, Cambridge
July 7, 1647 People's uprising against high prices and Spanish rule in Naples
July 7, 1607 "God Save the King" is 1st sung
July 7, 1585 King Henri III and Duke De Guise signs Treaty of Nemours: French Huguenots loose all freedoms
July 7, 1550 Chocolate introduced
July 7, 1543 French troops invade Luxembourg
July 7, 1498 Emperor Maximilian I establishes choir of Imperial Chapel
July 7, 1495 King Ferdinand II returns to Naples
July 7, 1456 Though she had already been executed, Joan of Arc is acquitted
July 7, 1438 French church/King Charles VII release Pragmatieke Sanctie of Bourges
July 7, 1124 Tyrus surrenders to Crusaders