7 July
Notable Births
Moussa Diaby
b. 1999
French association football player (born 1999)
James Marriott
b. 1997
British musician and YouTuber (born 1997)
Yoon Chae-kyung
b. 1996
South Korean actress (born 1996)
Nigina Abduraimova
b. 1994
Uzbekistani tennis player (born 1994)
Timothy Cathcart
b. 1994
Northern Ireland rally driver (1994–2024)
Ashton Irwin
b. 1994
Australian drummer
Dominik Furman
b. 1992
Polish footballer (born 1992)
Alesso
b. 1991
Swedish DJ and producer (born 1991)
Lee Addy
b. 1990
Ghanaian footballer (born 1985)
Landon Cassill
b. 1989
American racing driver (born 1989)
Karl-August Tiirmaa
b. 1989
Estonian Nordic combined skier
Kaci Brown
b. 1988
American singer and songwriter
Lukas Rosenthal
b. 1988
German rugby union player
Ana Kasparian
b. 1986
American political commentator (born 1986)
Sevyn Streeter
b. 1986
American R&B singer
Marc Stein (footballer)
b. 1985
German footballer
Alberto Aquilani
b. 1984
Italian football manager (born 1984)
Mohammad Ashraful
b. 1984
Bangladeshi cricketer (born 1984)
Erik Zabel
b. 1970
German cyclist
Joe Sakic
b. 1969
Canadian ice hockey player and executive (born 1969)
Notable Deaths
Roman Starovoyt
d. 2025
Russian politician (1972–2025)
Norman Tebbit
d. 2025
British politician (1931–2025)
Jane McAlevey
d. 2024
American labor organizer and author (1964–2024)
Robert Downey Sr.
d. 2021
American filmmaker and actor (1936–2021)
Dilip Kumar
d. 2021
Indian actor (1922–2021)
Jovenel Moïse
d. 2021
President of Haiti from 2017 to 2021
Maria Barroso
d. 2015
First Lady of Portugal from 1986 to 1996
Alfredo Di Stéfano
d. 2014
Argentine footballer (1926–2014)
Eduard Shevardnadze
d. 2014
Georgian politician and diplomat (1928–2014)
Peter Underwood
d. 2014
Australian jurist and Governor of Tasmania (1937–2014)
Artur Hajzer
d. 2013
Polish mountaineer (1962–2013)
Robert Hamerton-Kelly
d. 2013
South African-American theologian (1938–2013)
Donald J. Irwin
d. 2013
American politician
Ben Pucci
d. 2013
American football player (1925–2013)
Ronaldo Cunha Lima
d. 2012
Brazilian poet and politician
Doris Neal
d. 2012
American baseball player (1928–2012)
Jerry Norman (sinologist)
d. 2012
American sinologist and linguist (1936–2012)
Leon Schlumpf
d. 2012
Swiss politician (1925–2012)
Dick Williams
d. 2011
American baseball player and manager (1929–2011)
Arthur Conan Doyle
d. 1930
British writer and physician (1859–1930)
On This Day in History
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2022
Boris Johnson announces his resignation as leader of the Conservative Party following days of pressure from the Members of Parliament (MPs) during the July 2022 United Kingdom government crisis.
Boris Johnson
2021
Haitian crisis: Haitian President Jovenel Moïse is assassinated in his residence in the capital of Port-au-Prince.
Haitian crisis (2018–present)
2019
The United States defeated the Netherlands 2–0 at the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup final in Lyon, France.
United States women's national soccer team
2017
The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons was adopted with 122 countries voting in favour.
Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons
2016
Ex-US Army soldier Micah Xavier Johnson shoots fourteen policemen, killing five of them, in downtown Dallas, Texas at the end of a protest of recent police killings of Black men. He is subsequently killed by a robot-delivered bomb.
2016 shooting of Dallas police officers
2013
A De Havilland Otter air taxi crashes in Soldotna, Alaska, killing ten people.
De Havilland Canada DHC-3 Otter
2012
At least 172 people are killed in a flash flood in the Krasnodar Krai region of Russia.
2012 Krasnodar Krai floods
2011
A man goes on a killing spree in Grand Rapids, Michigan, killing 7 and wounding 2 before killing himself.
2011 Grand Rapids shootings
2007
The first Live Earth benefit concert was held in 11 locations around the world.
Live Earth (2007 concert)
2006
A shootout happens in Spiritwood, Canada, killing 2 Royal Canadian Mounted Police and wounding a 3rd officer.
Spiritwood Incident
2005
A series of four explosions occurs on London's transport system, killing 56 people, including four suicide bombers, and injuring over 700 others.
7 July 2005 London bombings
2003
NASA Opportunity rover, MER-B or Mars Exploration Rover–B, was launched into space aboard a Delta II rocket.
NASA
1997
The Turkish Armed Forces withdraw from northern Iraq after assisting the Kurdistan Democratic Party in the Iraqi Kurdish Civil War.
Turkish Armed Forces
1992
The New York Court of Appeals rules that women have the same right as men to go topless in public.
New York Court of Appeals
1991
Yugoslav Wars: The Brioni Agreement ends the ten-day independence war in Slovenia against the rest of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
Yugoslav Wars
1985
Boris Becker becomes the youngest male player ever to win Wimbledon at age 17.
Boris Becker
1983
Cold War: Samantha Smith, a US schoolgirl, flies to the Soviet Union at the invitation of Secretary General Yuri Andropov.
Cold War
1981
US President Ronald Reagan nominates Sandra Day O'Connor to become the first female member of the Supreme Court of the United States.
President of the United States
1980
Institution of sharia law in Iran.
Sharia
1980
During the Lebanese Civil War, 83 Tiger militants are killed during what will be known as the Safra massacre.
Lebanese Civil War