July 7
Today is the 188th day of 2021; there are 177 days left in the year.
1456 - Twenty-five years after her execution, Pope Calixtus III annulled the heresy charges brought against Joan of Arc.
1797 - William Blount of Tennessee became the first U.S. senator to be impeached.
1846 - Commodore John D. Sloat occupied Monterey and declared California annexed to the United States.
1865 - Four people were hanged in Washington, D.C., after being convicted of conspiring with John Wilkes Booth to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln.
1898 - The United States annexed Hawaii and made it a U.S. territory.
1919 - The first Transcontinental Motor Convoy, in which a U.S. Army convoy of motorized vehicles crossed the United States, departed Washington, D.C. (The trip ended in San Francisco on Sept. 6, 1919.)
1930 - Construction began on Boulder Dam on the Colorado River.
1946 - Future U.S. President Jimmy Carter, age 21, married Rosalynn Smith, age 18, in Plains, Georgia.
1946 - Italian-born Mother Frances Xaiver Cabrini was canonized, becoming the first American saint.
1948 - Six female U.S. Navy reservists became the first women to be sworn in to the regular Navy.
1954 - Elvis Presley made his radio debut when Memphis, Tenn., station WHBQ played his first recording for Sun Records, "That's All Right."
1958 - President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the Alaska statehood bill.
1976 - The United States Military Academy at West Point included female cadets for the first time as 119 women joined the Class of 1980.
1981 - President Ronald Reagan announced his nomination of Sandra Day O'Connor to become the first female justice on the United States 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 his public testimony at the Iran-Contra hearing, telling Congress that he had "never carried out a single act, not one" without authorization.
2003 - A federal judge approved a settlement fining WorldCom $750 million for its $11 billion accounting scandal.
2005 - Fifty-two people were killed and hundreds injured in London when terrorists bombed subways and a bus.
2005 - Terrorist bombings in three Underground stations and a double-decker bus killed 52 victims and four suicide bombers in the worst attack on London since World War II.
2009 - Some 20,000 people gathered inside Staples Center in Los Angeles for a memorial service honoring the late Michael Jackson, who was tearfully described by his 11-year-old daughter, Paris-Michael, as “the best father you could ever imagine.”
2010 - Los Angeles police charged Lonnie Franklin Jr. in the city’s “Grim Sleeper” serial killings. (Franklin, who was sentenced to death for the killings of nine women and a teenage girl, died in prison in March 2020 at the age of 67.)
2011 - "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2," the final movie based on the wizard fantasy books, debuted in London.
2011 - Rupert Murdoch’s media empire unexpectedly jettisoned News of the World, Britain’s best-selling Sunday newspaper, after a public backlash over claims it had used phone hacking and other illegal tactics to expose the rich and famous, royals and ordinary citizens.
2016 - Micah Johnson, a Black Army veteran who served in Afghanistan, opened fire on Dallas police, killing five officers in an act of vengeance for the fatal police shootings of Black men; the attack ended with Johnson being killed by a bomb delivered by a police robot.
Birthdays
25 - Alyssa Lynch (actress)
26 - Maddie Marlow (country singer)
27 - Ashton Irwin (musician)
28 - Holly Hagan (reality star)
28 - Ally Hernandez (singer)
30 - Anna Vakili (reality star)
31 - Luke Null (actor/comedian)
34 - Sevyn Streeter (singer)
35 - Brittanya Razavi (reality star)
37 - Ross Malinger (actor)
39 - Gabbie Nolen (country singer)
39 - Cassidy (rapper)
41 - Michelle Kwan (figure skater)
45 - Hamish Linklater (actor)
45 - Berenice Bejo (actress)
48 - Troy Garity (actor)
49 - Kirsten Vangsness (actress)
52 - Robin Weigert (actress)
52 - Cree Summer (actress)
53 - Jorja Fox (actress)
53 - Amy Carlson (actress)
55 - Jim Gaffigan (actor/comedian)
58 - Vonda Shepard (singer)
62 - Billy Campbell (actor)
72 - Shelley Duvall (actress)
74 - Linda Williams (country singer)
75 - Joe Spano (actor)
80 - Bill Oddie (comedian)
81 - Ringo Starr (singer/musician)
94 - Doc Severinsen (conductor)
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Today in Sports History - July 7
1912 - Jim Thorpe wins four of five events to win the Olympic gold medal in the pentathlon at the Olympic Games in Stockholm, Sweden. (He had his medal stripped in 1913 for having played professional baseball; the medal was reinstated in 1982.)
1948 - The Cleveland Indians sign 42-year-old Negro League veteran Satchel Paige.
1953 - The Brooklyn Dodgers set a major league record when they got a home run in their 24th consecutive game.
1971 - MLB Commissioner Bowie Kuhn announces that Negro League players elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame will be given full membership in the museum.
1973 - Billie Jean King wins her 10th career Grand Slam title after defeating Chris Evert at Wimbledon.
1974 - West Germany defeats the Netherlands 2-1 to win the World Cup in Munich.
1978 - Martina Navratilova defeats Chris Evert to win her first career Wimbledon and Grand Slam singles title.
1978 - The NBA approves a franchise swap: Buffalo Braves owners John Y. Brown and Harry Mangurian acquire the Boston Celtics, while Celtics owner Irv Levin gets the Braves (who later moved to San Diego to become the Clippers).
1985 - Boris Becker became the youngest, the first unseeded and the first German player to win the Wimbledon men's finals.
1990 - Martina Navratilova won a record ninth women's singles title at Wimbledon.
2006 - Cleveland Indians first baseman Travis Hafner becomes the first player in MLB history to hit five grand slams before the All-Star break.
2007 - Venus Williams (#20) defeats Marion Bartoli (#18) in a matchup of the lowest ever seeds to contest a Wimbledon championship final.
2019 - The U.S. Women's National Soccer Team wins a record fourth World Cup title after defeating Netherlands 2-0.
2007 - Sprint-Nextel and NASCAR announce the NASCAR Nextel Cup Series will be renamed the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series in 2008.
2011 - A Texas Rangers fan, 39-year-old Shannon Stone, died from a fatal fall when reaching out to grab a baseball tossed his way by outfielder Josh Hamilton during a Rangers game.
Today is the 188th day of 2021; there are 177 days left in the year.
1456 - Twenty-five years after her execution, Pope Calixtus III annulled the heresy charges brought against Joan of Arc.
1797 - William Blount of Tennessee became the first U.S. senator to be impeached.
1846 - Commodore John D. Sloat occupied Monterey and declared California annexed to the United States.
1865 - Four people were hanged in Washington, D.C., after being convicted of conspiring with John Wilkes Booth to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln.
1898 - The United States annexed Hawaii and made it a U.S. territory.
1919 - The first Transcontinental Motor Convoy, in which a U.S. Army convoy of motorized vehicles crossed the United States, departed Washington, D.C. (The trip ended in San Francisco on Sept. 6, 1919.)
1930 - Construction began on Boulder Dam on the Colorado River.
1946 - Future U.S. President Jimmy Carter, age 21, married Rosalynn Smith, age 18, in Plains, Georgia.
1946 - Italian-born Mother Frances Xaiver Cabrini was canonized, becoming the first American saint.
1948 - Six female U.S. Navy reservists became the first women to be sworn in to the regular Navy.
1954 - Elvis Presley made his radio debut when Memphis, Tenn., station WHBQ played his first recording for Sun Records, "That's All Right."
1958 - President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the Alaska statehood bill.
1976 - The United States Military Academy at West Point included female cadets for the first time as 119 women joined the Class of 1980.
1981 - President Ronald Reagan announced his nomination of Sandra Day O'Connor to become the first female justice on the United States 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 his public testimony at the Iran-Contra hearing, telling Congress that he had "never carried out a single act, not one" without authorization.
2003 - A federal judge approved a settlement fining WorldCom $750 million for its $11 billion accounting scandal.
2005 - Fifty-two people were killed and hundreds injured in London when terrorists bombed subways and a bus.
2005 - Terrorist bombings in three Underground stations and a double-decker bus killed 52 victims and four suicide bombers in the worst attack on London since World War II.
2009 - Some 20,000 people gathered inside Staples Center in Los Angeles for a memorial service honoring the late Michael Jackson, who was tearfully described by his 11-year-old daughter, Paris-Michael, as “the best father you could ever imagine.”
2010 - Los Angeles police charged Lonnie Franklin Jr. in the city’s “Grim Sleeper” serial killings. (Franklin, who was sentenced to death for the killings of nine women and a teenage girl, died in prison in March 2020 at the age of 67.)
2011 - "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2," the final movie based on the wizard fantasy books, debuted in London.
2011 - Rupert Murdoch’s media empire unexpectedly jettisoned News of the World, Britain’s best-selling Sunday newspaper, after a public backlash over claims it had used phone hacking and other illegal tactics to expose the rich and famous, royals and ordinary citizens.
2016 - Micah Johnson, a Black Army veteran who served in Afghanistan, opened fire on Dallas police, killing five officers in an act of vengeance for the fatal police shootings of Black men; the attack ended with Johnson being killed by a bomb delivered by a police robot.
Birthdays
25 - Alyssa Lynch (actress)
26 - Maddie Marlow (country singer)
27 - Ashton Irwin (musician)
28 - Holly Hagan (reality star)
28 - Ally Hernandez (singer)
30 - Anna Vakili (reality star)
31 - Luke Null (actor/comedian)
34 - Sevyn Streeter (singer)
35 - Brittanya Razavi (reality star)
37 - Ross Malinger (actor)
39 - Gabbie Nolen (country singer)
39 - Cassidy (rapper)
41 - Michelle Kwan (figure skater)
45 - Hamish Linklater (actor)
45 - Berenice Bejo (actress)
48 - Troy Garity (actor)
49 - Kirsten Vangsness (actress)
52 - Robin Weigert (actress)
52 - Cree Summer (actress)
53 - Jorja Fox (actress)
53 - Amy Carlson (actress)
55 - Jim Gaffigan (actor/comedian)
58 - Vonda Shepard (singer)
62 - Billy Campbell (actor)
72 - Shelley Duvall (actress)
74 - Linda Williams (country singer)
75 - Joe Spano (actor)
80 - Bill Oddie (comedian)
81 - Ringo Starr (singer/musician)
94 - Doc Severinsen (conductor)
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Today in Sports History - July 7
1912 - Jim Thorpe wins four of five events to win the Olympic gold medal in the pentathlon at the Olympic Games in Stockholm, Sweden. (He had his medal stripped in 1913 for having played professional baseball; the medal was reinstated in 1982.)
1948 - The Cleveland Indians sign 42-year-old Negro League veteran Satchel Paige.
1953 - The Brooklyn Dodgers set a major league record when they got a home run in their 24th consecutive game.
1971 - MLB Commissioner Bowie Kuhn announces that Negro League players elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame will be given full membership in the museum.
1973 - Billie Jean King wins her 10th career Grand Slam title after defeating Chris Evert at Wimbledon.
1974 - West Germany defeats the Netherlands 2-1 to win the World Cup in Munich.
1978 - Martina Navratilova defeats Chris Evert to win her first career Wimbledon and Grand Slam singles title.
1978 - The NBA approves a franchise swap: Buffalo Braves owners John Y. Brown and Harry Mangurian acquire the Boston Celtics, while Celtics owner Irv Levin gets the Braves (who later moved to San Diego to become the Clippers).
1985 - Boris Becker became the youngest, the first unseeded and the first German player to win the Wimbledon men's finals.
1990 - Martina Navratilova won a record ninth women's singles title at Wimbledon.
2006 - Cleveland Indians first baseman Travis Hafner becomes the first player in MLB history to hit five grand slams before the All-Star break.
2007 - Venus Williams (#20) defeats Marion Bartoli (#18) in a matchup of the lowest ever seeds to contest a Wimbledon championship final.
2019 - The U.S. Women's National Soccer Team wins a record fourth World Cup title after defeating Netherlands 2-0.
2007 - Sprint-Nextel and NASCAR announce the NASCAR Nextel Cup Series will be renamed the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series in 2008.
2011 - A Texas Rangers fan, 39-year-old Shannon Stone, died from a fatal fall when reaching out to grab a baseball tossed his way by outfielder Josh Hamilton during a Rangers game.
