July 7
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. They were Lewis Powell, David Herold, George Atzerodt and Mary Surratt, the first woman to be executed by the federal government.
1898 - The United States annexed Hawaii.
1930 - Construction began on the Boulder Dam (now Hoover Dam) on the Colorado River.
1946 - Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini, who directed the establishment of hospitals, orphanages, nurseries and schools in the U.S. and Latin America, became the first U.S. citizen to be canonized.
1946 - Future U.S. president Jimmy Carter, age 21, married Rosalynn Smith, age 18, in Plains, Georgia.
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, Tennessee, station WHBQ played his first recording for Sun Records, "That's All Right."
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 nominated Arizona Judge Sandra Day O'Connor to become the first female justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.
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.
1990 - The first "Three Tenors" concert took place as opera stars Luciano Pavarotti, Placido Domingo and Jose Carreras performed amid the brick ruins of Rome's Baths of Caracalla on the eve of the World Cup soccer championship.
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, the worst terrorist attack on London since World War II.
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.
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.
2017 - A federal appeals court dismissed Hawaii’s attempt to challenge Trump administration rules for a travel ban on citizens from six majority-Muslim countries, saying it didn’t have jurisdiction to address the issue.
2021 - A squad of gunmen assassinated Haitian President Jovenel Moïse and wounded his wife in an overnight raid on their home. (More than 40 suspects have been arrested, including at least 18 Colombian soldiers and 20 Haitian police officers.)
2021 - Former President Donald Trump sued Facebook, Twitter and Google’s YouTube, claiming that he and other conservatives had been wrongfully censored.
Birthdays
23 - Summer Madison (actress)
27 - Maddie Font (singer)
27 - Alyssa Lynch (actress)
28 - Ashton Irwin (musician)
29 - Ally Hernandez (singer)
29 - Ally Brooke (singer)
30 - Holly Hagan (reality star)
32 - Luke Null (actor/comedian)
36 - Sevyn Streeter (singer)
37 - Brittanya Razavi (reality star)
38 - Ross Malinger (actor)
40 - Gabbie Nolen (singer)
40 - Cassidy (rapper)
42 - Michelle Kwan (figure skater)
46 - Hamish Linklater (actor)
46 - Bernice Bejo (actress)
49 - Troy Garity (actor)
50 - Kirsten Vangsness (actress)
53 - Robin Weigert (actress)
53 - Cree Summer (actress)
54 - Jorja Fox (actress)
54 - Amy Carlson (actress)
56 - Jim Gaffigan (actor/comedian)
59 - Vonda Shepard (singer)
63 - Billy Campbell (actor)
71 - Roz Ryan (actress)
73 - Shelley Duvall (actress)
75 - Linda Williams (singer)
75 - David Hodo (singer)
76 - Joe Spano (actor)
81 - Bill Oddie (comedian)
82 - Ringo Starr (singer)
89 - David McCullough (author)
95 - Doc Severinsen (musician/conductor)
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Today in Sports History - July 7
1912 - American athlete Jim Thorpe wins four of five events to win the gold medal in the pentathlon at the Summer Olympic Games in Stockholm, Sweden. (Thorpe would have his medal stripped in 1913 for having played professional baseball; the medal was restored to him posthumously in 1982.)
1948 - The Cleveland Indians sign 42-year-old pitcher Satchel Paige from the Negro League.
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 defeats Chris Evert in the Wimbledon final for her 10th career Grand Slam singles crown.
1974 - West Germany defeats the Netherlands 2-1 in Munich to win the World Cup.
1978 - 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 he later moves 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.
2001 - In his first appearance at Daytona since the death of his father Dale Earnhardt Sr., Dale Jr. wins the Pepsi 400 coming from 7th with nine laps remaining to beat teammate Michael Waltrip.
2006 - Cleveland Indians first baseman Travis Hafner becomes first player in MLB history to hit five grand slams before the All-Star break when he homers off Baltimore's Kris Benson.
2007 - Sprint-Nextel and NASCAR announce that the NASCAR Nextel Cup Series will be renamed the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series in 2008.
2012 - Serena Williams beat Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland 6-1, 5-7, 6-2 to win a fifth Wimbledon singles championship; about five hours later, she and sister Venus were back on Centre Court to win the doubles final.
2013 - Andy Murray became the first British man in 77 years to win the Wimbledon title, defeating Novak Djokovic in the final.
2019 - The United States women's national soccer team wins a record fourth Women's World Cup title, defeating the Netherlands 2-0.
2021 - The Tampa Bay Lightning won the Stanley Cup for the second consecutive season, beating the Montreal Canadiens 1-0 to wrap up the series four games to one.
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. They were Lewis Powell, David Herold, George Atzerodt and Mary Surratt, the first woman to be executed by the federal government.
1898 - The United States annexed Hawaii.
1930 - Construction began on the Boulder Dam (now Hoover Dam) on the Colorado River.
1946 - Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini, who directed the establishment of hospitals, orphanages, nurseries and schools in the U.S. and Latin America, became the first U.S. citizen to be canonized.
1946 - Future U.S. president Jimmy Carter, age 21, married Rosalynn Smith, age 18, in Plains, Georgia.
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, Tennessee, station WHBQ played his first recording for Sun Records, "That's All Right."
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 nominated Arizona Judge Sandra Day O'Connor to become the first female justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.
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.
1990 - The first "Three Tenors" concert took place as opera stars Luciano Pavarotti, Placido Domingo and Jose Carreras performed amid the brick ruins of Rome's Baths of Caracalla on the eve of the World Cup soccer championship.
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, the worst terrorist attack on London since World War II.
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.
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.
2017 - A federal appeals court dismissed Hawaii’s attempt to challenge Trump administration rules for a travel ban on citizens from six majority-Muslim countries, saying it didn’t have jurisdiction to address the issue.
2021 - A squad of gunmen assassinated Haitian President Jovenel Moïse and wounded his wife in an overnight raid on their home. (More than 40 suspects have been arrested, including at least 18 Colombian soldiers and 20 Haitian police officers.)
2021 - Former President Donald Trump sued Facebook, Twitter and Google’s YouTube, claiming that he and other conservatives had been wrongfully censored.
Birthdays
23 - Summer Madison (actress)
27 - Maddie Font (singer)
27 - Alyssa Lynch (actress)
28 - Ashton Irwin (musician)
29 - Ally Hernandez (singer)
29 - Ally Brooke (singer)
30 - Holly Hagan (reality star)
32 - Luke Null (actor/comedian)
36 - Sevyn Streeter (singer)
37 - Brittanya Razavi (reality star)
38 - Ross Malinger (actor)
40 - Gabbie Nolen (singer)
40 - Cassidy (rapper)
42 - Michelle Kwan (figure skater)
46 - Hamish Linklater (actor)
46 - Bernice Bejo (actress)
49 - Troy Garity (actor)
50 - Kirsten Vangsness (actress)
53 - Robin Weigert (actress)
53 - Cree Summer (actress)
54 - Jorja Fox (actress)
54 - Amy Carlson (actress)
56 - Jim Gaffigan (actor/comedian)
59 - Vonda Shepard (singer)
63 - Billy Campbell (actor)
71 - Roz Ryan (actress)
73 - Shelley Duvall (actress)
75 - Linda Williams (singer)
75 - David Hodo (singer)
76 - Joe Spano (actor)
81 - Bill Oddie (comedian)
82 - Ringo Starr (singer)
89 - David McCullough (author)
95 - Doc Severinsen (musician/conductor)
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Today in Sports History - July 7
1912 - American athlete Jim Thorpe wins four of five events to win the gold medal in the pentathlon at the Summer Olympic Games in Stockholm, Sweden. (Thorpe would have his medal stripped in 1913 for having played professional baseball; the medal was restored to him posthumously in 1982.)
1948 - The Cleveland Indians sign 42-year-old pitcher Satchel Paige from the Negro League.
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 defeats Chris Evert in the Wimbledon final for her 10th career Grand Slam singles crown.
1974 - West Germany defeats the Netherlands 2-1 in Munich to win the World Cup.
1978 - 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 he later moves 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.
2001 - In his first appearance at Daytona since the death of his father Dale Earnhardt Sr., Dale Jr. wins the Pepsi 400 coming from 7th with nine laps remaining to beat teammate Michael Waltrip.
2006 - Cleveland Indians first baseman Travis Hafner becomes first player in MLB history to hit five grand slams before the All-Star break when he homers off Baltimore's Kris Benson.
2007 - Sprint-Nextel and NASCAR announce that the NASCAR Nextel Cup Series will be renamed the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series in 2008.
2012 - Serena Williams beat Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland 6-1, 5-7, 6-2 to win a fifth Wimbledon singles championship; about five hours later, she and sister Venus were back on Centre Court to win the doubles final.
2013 - Andy Murray became the first British man in 77 years to win the Wimbledon title, defeating Novak Djokovic in the final.
2019 - The United States women's national soccer team wins a record fourth Women's World Cup title, defeating the Netherlands 2-0.
2021 - The Tampa Bay Lightning won the Stanley Cup for the second consecutive season, beating the Montreal Canadiens 1-0 to wrap up the series four games to one.
