About July 7
July 7, 2025 is the 188th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 177 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
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July 7: More About This Day
The terms 7th July, July 7th, and 7/7 (pronounced “Seven-seven”) have been widely used in the Western media as a shorthand for the 7 July 2005 bombings on London’s transport system. In China, this term is used to denote the Battle of Lugou Bridge started on July 7, 1937, marking the beginning of the Second Sino-Japanese War.
What Happened On July 7
- 1534 –European colonization of the Americas: first known exchange between Europeans and natives of the Gulf of St. Lawrence in New Brunswick.
- 1575 –Raid of the Redeswire, the last major battle between England and Scotland.
- 1777 –American Revolutionary War: American forces retreating from Fort Ticonderoga are defeated in the Battle of Hubbardton.
- 1834 –In New York City, four nights of rioting against abolitionists began.
- 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.
- 1898 –U.S. President William McKinley signs the Newlands Resolution annexing Hawaii as a territory of the United States.
- 1915 –An International Railway trolley with an extreme overload of 157 passengers crashes near Queenston, Ontario, killing 15.
- 1915 –World War I: end of First Battle of the Isonzo.
- 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).
- 1944 –World War II: Largest Banzai charge of the Pacific War at the Battle of Saipan.
- 1946 –Howard Hughes nearly dies when his XF-11 spy plane prototype crashes in a Beverly Hills neighborhood.
- 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).
- 1980 –Institution of sharia in Iran.
- 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.
- 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.
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