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07 July, 2005
A series of four terrorist explosions occur on Londons transport system killing 52 people, plus four suicide bombers. Influenced by Live 8, the G8 leaders pledged to double 2004 levels of aid to Africa from US$25 to US$50 billion by the year 2010.
07 July, 2004
The last patent on the LZW compression algorithm (in Canada) expired.
07 July, 2003
The United Communist Party of Armenia was formed.
07 July, 2002
A scandal broke out in the United Kingdom when news reports alleged MI6 of sheltering Abu Qatada, the supposed European Al Qaeda leader.
07 July, 1994
Aden is occupied by troops from North Yemen, completing the reunification of Yemen.
07 July, 1991
Yugoslav Wars: Brioni Agreement ended ten-day independence war in Slovenia against the rest of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
07 July, 1985
Boris Becker becomes the first unseeded player, the youngest male (at the time), and the first German to win the Wimbledon tennis singles title, at age of 17 years, 7 months.
07 July, 1983
Cold War: Samantha Smith, a U.S. schoolgirl, flies to the Soviet Union at the invitation of Secretary General Yuri Andropov.
07 July, 1980
Institution of sharia in Iran. Last concert by rock band Led Zeppelin.
07 July, 1978
The Solomon Islands become independent from the United Kingdom.
07 July, 1974
West Germany wins 1974 FIFA World Cup.
07 July, 1969
In Canada, the Official Languages Act is adopted making the French language equal to the English language throughout the Federal government.
07 July, 1967
Beginning of the civil war in Biafra.
07 July, 1959
14:28 UT Venus occults the star Regulus. This rare event was used to determine the diameter of Venus and the structure of the Venusian atmosphere.
07 July, 1958
President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the Alaska Statehood Act into United States law.
07 July, 1956
Fritz Moravec reaches the peak of Gasherbrum II (8,035 m).
07 July, 1954
Formation of the TANU in Tanzania
07 July, 1947
Downed UFO believed to be found in the Roswell UFO incident.
07 July, 1946
Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini becomes the first American to be canonized. Howard Hughes nearly dies when his XF-11 spy plane prototype crashes in a Beverly Hills neighborhood.
07 July, 1941
World War II: American forces land in Iceland to forestall an invasion by Germany. Beirut is occupied by Free France and British troops.
07 July, 1937
Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Lugou Bridge - Japanese forces invade Beijing, China.
07 July, 1930
Industrialist Henry J. Kaiser begins construction of the Boulder Dam (now known as Hoover Dam).
07 July, 1917
Russian Revolution: Prince Georgy Yevgenyevich Lvov forms Provisional Government in Russia after the deposing of the Tsar Nicholas II.
07 July, 1915
World War I: End of First Battle of the Isonzo. A Great Gorge and International Railway trolley with an extreme overload of 157 passengers crashed near Queenston, Ontario, killing 15.
07 July, 1898
History of United States overseas expansion: President William McKinley signs the Newlands Resolution annexing Hawaii as a territory of the United States.
07 July, 1865
American Civil War: Four conspirators in the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln were hanged.
07 July, 1863
United States begins first military draft; exemptions cost $100
07 July, 1854
Georg Ohm, German physicist, died.
07 July, 1846
Mexican-American War: American troops occupy Monterey and Yerba Buena, thus beginning the United States annexation of California.
07 July, 1807
Napoleonic Wars: Peace of Tilsit between France, Prussia and Russia ends the Fourth Coalition.
07 July, 1799
Ranjit Singhs men take up their positions outside Lahore.
07 July, 1798
Quasi-War: The U.S. Congress rescinds treaties with France sparking the war.
07 July, 1777
American Revolutionary War: Battle of Hubbardton
07 July, 1668
Isaac Newton received an MA from Trinity College, Cambridge.
07 July, 1585
Peace of Nemours abolishes tolerance to Protestants in France.
07 July, 1543
French troops invade Luxembourg.
07 July, 1534
European colonization of the Americas: First known exchange between Europeans and natives of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, in New Brunswick.
07 July, 1456
A retrial verdict acquits Joan of Arc of heresy 25 years after her death.
07 July, 175
Commodus is proclaimed emperor.

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