July 7
Isac Newton
portrait by Kneller in 1702
National Portrait Gallery in London
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| 1124 Tyrus surrenders to Crusaders | ||
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1438 French church/King Charles VII release Pragmatieke Sanctie of Bourges | |
| 1456 Though she had already been executed, Joan of Arc is acquitted | Isac Newton
portrait by Kneller in 1702 |
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| 1495 King Ferdinand II returns to Naples | ||
| 1498 Emperor Maximilian I establishes choir of Imperial Chapel | ||
| 1543 French troops invade Luxembourg | ||
| 1550 Chocolate introduced | ||
| 1585 Huguenots loose all freedoms | ||
| 1585 King Henri III & Duke De Guise signs Treaty of Nemours: French | ||
| 1607 "God Save the King" is 1st sung | ||
| 1647 People's uprising against high prices & Spanish rule in Naples | ||
| 1668 Isaac Newton receives MA from Trinity College, Cambridge | ||
| 1753 English parliament grants Jewish English citizenship | ||
| 1754 Kings College in NYC opens (renamed Columbia College) | ||
| 1768 Firm of Johann Buddenbrook founded, in Thomas Mann's novel | ||
| 1801 Toussaint L'Ouverture declares Haitian independence | ||
| 1802 1st comic book "The Wasp," is published | ||
| 1807 France, Russia & Prussia sign Peace of Tilsit | ||
| 1814 Walter Scott's "Waverley" published | ||
| 1829 Royal Military Chapel forms | ||
| 1838 Central American federation is dissolved | ||
| 1843 Camillo Golgi, Italy, physician, cytologist (Nobel 1906) | ||
| 1846 The United States proclaimed annexation of California at Monterey after the surrender of a Mexican garrison | ||
| 1850 Scottish explorer Edward Eyre reaches Albany, W-Australia | ||
| 1865 Four people were hanged in Washington for conspiring with John Wilkes Booth to assassinate U.S. President Abraham Lincoln. | ||
| 1875 Jesse James robs train in Otterville Missouri | ||
| 1878 Social-Democratic United forms in Amsterdam | ||
| 1887 Marc Chagall, Vitebsk Russia, artist (I & The Village) was born | ||
| 1891 Travelers checks patents | ||
| 1896 the Democratic national convention opened in Chicago. | ||
| 1898 The United States annexed Hawaii | ||
| 1901 Vittorio de Sica, Italian actor/director (Fietsendieven) was born | ||
| 1913 British House of Commons accepts Home-Rule Law | ||
| 1922 Pierre Cardin, Paris France, fashion designer (Unisex) was born | ||
| 1929 Romania & Vatican sign concord | ||
| 1930 Construction began in the United States on Boulder Dam (later Hoover Dam). | ||
| 1937 Japanese & Chinese troops clash, (Marco Polo Bridge), becomes WW II | ||
| 1941 Nazis executed 5,000 Jews in Kovono Lithuania | ||
| 1941 US forces land in Iceland to forestall Nazi invasion | ||
| 1942 Germany troop march into Woronezj | ||
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1943 3rd day of battle at Kursk: Germans occupy Dubrova | |
| 1943 Erich Hartmann shoots 7 Russian aircraft at Kursk | ||
| 1944 Heavy Japanese counter offensive on Saipan | ||
| 1946 Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini canonized as 1st American saint | ||
| 1954 T.A.N.U. party forms in Tanzania | ||
| 1954 Elvis Presley made his radio debut as Memphis, Tennessee, station WHBQ played his first recording for Sun Records, "That's All Right (Mama)." | ||
| 1957 Heavy storm ravages Belgian coast | ||
| 1958 U.S. President Eisenhower signed the Alaska statehood bill. | ||
| 1960 USSR shoots down a US aircraft over Barents sea | ||
| 1969 Canada's House of Commons gave final approval to a measure making the French language equal to English throughout the national government. | ||
| 1978 Solomon Islands declares independence from UK | ||
| 1979 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR | ||
| 1980 1st solar-powered aircraft crosses English Channel | ||
| 1981 U.S. President Reagan announced he was nominating Arizona Judge Sandra Day O'Connor to become the first female justice on the U.S. Supreme Court. | ||
| 1983 11-year-old Samantha Smith of Manchester, Maine, left for a visit to the Soviet Union at the personal invitation of Soviet leader Yuri V. Andropov | ||
| 1987 Lt Col Oliver North began public testimony at Iran-Contra hearing | ||
| 1994 "Les Miserables," opens at Imperial Theatre, Tokyo | ||
| 1994 North Yemenite troops occupy Aden | ||