07 July History
- 1742 - A Spanish force invading Georgia runs headlong into the colony's British defenders.The battle decides the fate of a colony.
- 1777 - American troops give up Fort Ticonderoga, on Lake Champlain, to the British.
- 1791 - Benjamin Rush, Richard Allen and Absalom Jones found the Non-denominational African Church.
- 1795 - Thomas Paine defends the principal of universal suffrage at the Constitutional Convention in Paris.
- 1798 - Napoleon Bonaparte's army begins its march towards Cairo from Alexandria.
- 1807 - Czar Alexander meets with Napoleon Bonaparte.
- 1814 - Sir Walter Scott's novel Waverly is published anonymously so as not to damage his reputation as a poet.
- 1815 - After defeating Napoleon at Waterloo, the victorious Allies march into Paris.
- 1853 - Japan opens its ports to trade with the West after 250 years of isolation.
- 1863 - Confederate General Robert E. Lee, in Hagerstown, Maryland, reports his defeat at Gettysburg to President Jefferson Davis.
- 1925 - Afrikaans is recognized as one of the official languages of South Africa, along with English and Dutch.
- 1927 - Christopher Stone becomes the first British 'disc jockey' when he plays records for the BBC.
- 1941 - Although a neutral country, the United States sends troops to occupy Iceland to keep it out of Germany's hands.
- 1943 - Adolf Hitler makes the V-2 missile program a top priority in armament planning.
- 1966 - The U.S. Marine Corps launches Operation Hasting to drive the North Vietnamese Army back across the Demilitarized Zone in Vietnam.
- 1969 - The first U.S. units to withdraw from South Vietnam leave Saigon.
- 1981 - Sandra Day O'Connor becomes the first woman to serve on the Supreme Court.
07 July Birthdays
- 1752 - Joseph-Marie Jacquard, French inventor, textile industry pioneer.
- 1860 - Gustav Mahler, composer and conductor.
- 1887 - Marc Chagall, French painter and designer.
- 1906 - Leroy "Satchel" Page, baseball pitcher.
- 1940 - Ringo Starr, musician, one of the Beatles.