Overview
About the event
World Chocolate Day
National Dora Day
Global Forgiveness Day
World Kiswahili Language Day
Tell the Truth Day
International Peace & Love Day
World Change Day
Virgin Islands Day
Solomon Islands Independence Day
Caribbean Community Day �?? also known as CARICOM Day
George Town Heritage Day is celebrated on July 7 every year in Penang province, Malaysia
Heroes�?? Day in Zambia is observed on the first Monday of July every year
Mother�??sTanabata, or the Star Festival, is celebrated on July 7 each year Day in South Sudan is celebrated on the first Monday in July each year
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Birthday of Nettie Stevens (1861-1912) - Geneticist who discovered the X and Y chromosomes.
Birthday of Otto Rohwedder (1880-1960) - Inventor of sliced bread.
Birthday of Robert Heinlein (1907-1988) - Considered the "Dean of Science Fiction Writers".
Birthday of Helene Johnson (1907-1995) - Acclaimed Harlem Renaissance poet.
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1802 - The first comic book The Wasp is published in NY.
1863 - The first military draft begins in the U.S., exempting those who could pay a $300 fee.
1911 �?? 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.
1928 - Sliced bread is sold for the first time on the birthday of it's inventor Otto Rohwedder.
1930 �?? Industrialist Henry J. Kaiser begins construction of Boulder Dam (now known as Hoover Dam).
1936 - Henry Phillips receives patents for a new "cross-recessed" screw and screwdriver.
1946 - Mother Francesca S. Cabrini becomes the first American to be canonized.
1948 - Six female reservists become the first women sworn into the regular Navy.
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.
1953 �?? Ernesto "Che" Guevara sets out on a trip through Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, and El Salvador.
1959 �?? Venus occults the star Regulus. This rare event is used to determine the diameter of Venus and the structure of the Venusian atmosphere.
1972 - Susan Roley and Joanne Pierce become the first women sworn into the FBI.
1978 - Czech-born tennis player Martina Navratilova defeated Chris Evert to win her first of nine Wimbledon singles titles.
1980 �?? Institution of sharia law in Iran.
1981 �?? US President Ronald Reagan nominates Sandra Day O'Connor to become the first female member of the Supreme Court of the United States.
1983 �?? Cold War: Samantha Smith, a US schoolgirl, flies to the Soviet Union at the invitation of Secretary General Yuri Andropov.
1985 �?? Boris Becker becomes the youngest male player ever to win Wimbledon at age 17.
1992 �?? The New York Court of Appeals rules that women have the same right as men to go topless in public.
2017 �?? The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons was adopted with 122 countries voting in favour
Death Anniversary of ?�Vikram Batra, Param Vir Chakra, Indian Army personnel (1999)(born 1974)
Death Anniversary of Actor Dilip kumar (2021)
Death Anniversary of Kargil War Hero Vikram Batra (1999)
Birthday of M.S.Dhoni (1981)
