7 Julie

The **7t o Julie** is the 188t day o the year (189t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 177 days ti come.

## Events

* 1575 - Raid o the Redeswine: Last major battle atween Scotland an Ingland.
* 1846 - Californie is annexed bi the Unitit States.
* 1865 - Conspirators in the murther o Abraham Lincoln are executit.
* 1898 - Hawaii becomes a Unitit States territory.
* 1928 - Commercially-sliced breid is first sauld in Chillicothe, Missouri.
* 1937 - The Seicont Sino-Japanese War begins.
* 1941 - Warld War II: Unitit States forces land in Iceland.
* 1944 - Warld War II: Unitit States forces cairy oot an air raid ower Leipzig.
* 1956 - The Himalayan peak o Gasherbrum II is climbed for the first time.
* 1958 - US Preses Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the Alaska Statehood Act.
* 1974 - Wast Germany defeats the Netherlands 2-1 tae win the FIFA Warld Cup on hame soil.
* 1978 - The Solomon Islands gain unthirldom frae the Unitit Kinrick.
* 1985 - Tennis: Boris Becker, aged 17, wins his first title at the Wimbledon Championships.
* 2005 - 7 Julie 2005 Lunnon bombins: Coordinatit attacks on the tube an on a bus in Lunnon kill 52 fowk.
* 2007 - Live Yird concerts tak place warldwide.
* 2009 - A public funeral for pop starn Michael Jackson taks place in Los Angeles, Californie.
* 2013 - Tennis: Andy Murray wins his first Wimbledon singles title, defeatin Novak Djokovic in three sets.
* 2017 - A treaty on the prohibition o nuclear wappens is votit for bi 124 oot o 193 naitions.
* 2020 - COVID-19 pandemic: A renewed ootbrak o COVID-19 in Melbourne results in the mairch atween the states o New Sooth Wales an Victoria bein shut.
* 2020 - COVID-19 pandemic: Brazilian Preses Jair Bolsonaro tests positive for COVID-19; he haed been hivily creeticised for his response tae the virus.

## Births

* 1843 - Camillo Golgi, Italian medicinar (d. 1926)
* 1860 - Gustav Mahler, Austrick componer (d. 1911)
* 1860 - John Sinclair, 1st Baron Pentland, Scots politeecian (d. 1925)
* 1882 - Yanka Kupala, Belaroushie writer (d. 1942)
* 1899 - George Cukor, American film director (d. 1983)
* 1901 - Vittorio De Sica, Italian director an actor (d. 1974)
* 1907 - Robert A. Heinlein, American writer (d. 1988)
* 1919 - Jon Pertwee, Inglis actor (d. 1996)
* 1930 - Hamish MacInnes, Scots muntaneer
* 1934 - Charlie Dickson, Scots fitbawer (d. 2013)
* 1940 - Ringo Starr, Inglis drummer (The Beatles)
* 1941 - Michael Howard, Welsh politeecian
* 1945 - Michael Ancram, Scots politeecian
* 1947 - Gyanendra, last King o Nepal
* 1949 - Shelley Duvall, American actress
* 1963 - Alister Jack, Scots politeecian
* 1963 - Vonda Shepard, American actress
* 1965 - Jeremy Kyle, Inglis telly an radio presenter
* 1967 - Calum Murray, Scots fitbaw referee
* 1968 - Jorja Fox, American actress
* 1974 - Jennifer Jones, Canadian curler
* 1975 - Richard Arkless, Scots politeecian
* 1976 - Hamish Linklater, American actor
* 1991 - James Forrest, Scots fitbawer

## Daiths
* 1307 - Edward I o Ingland (b. 1239)
* 1537 - Madeleine o Valois, French-born Queen Consort o Scots (b. 1520)
* 1572 - Sigismund II Augustus, King o Poland an Grand Duke o Lithuanie (b. 1520)
* 1901 - Johanna Spyri, Swiss writer (b. 1827)
* 1930 - Arthur Conan Doyle, Scots writer (b. 1859)
* 1965 - Moshe Sharett, Prime meenister o Israel (b. 1894)
* 1967 - Vivien Leigh, Inglis actress (b. 1913)
* 1976 - Gustav Heinemann, Preses o West Germany (b. 1899)
* 2006 - Syd Barrett, Inglis muisicker (b. 1946)
* 2014 - Eduard Shevardnadze, Preses o Georgie (b. 1928)
* 2014 - Alfredo Di Stefano, Argentine-Spainyie fitbawer (b. 1926)

## Halidays

* Independence Day (Solomon Islands)
* Tanabata Matsuri (Japan)