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July 7: Day Of The Week

July 7, 2013 is the 188^th day of the year 2013 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 177 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.

If you are trying to learn Japanese then this day of the week in Japanese is Nichiyōbi.

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Cancer is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Ruby is the modern birthstone for this month. Ruby is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

July 7: This Day In History

The terms 7th July, July 7th, and 7/7 (pronounced “Seven-seven”) have been widely used in the Western media as a shorthand for the 7 July 2005 bombings on London’s transport system. In China, this term is used to denote the Battle of Lugou Bridge started on July 7, 1937, marking the beginning of the Second Sino-Japanese War.

July 7 Historical Events

• 1534 –
  European colonization of the Americas: first known exchange between Europeans and natives of the Gulf of St. Lawrence in New Brunswick.
• 1770 –
  The Battle of Larga between the Russian Empire and the Ottoman Empire takes place.
• 1930 –
  Industrialist Henry J. Kaiser begins construction of the Boulder Dam (now known as Hoover Dam).
• 1941 –
  World War II: Beirut is occupied by Free France and British troops.
• 1944 –
  World War II: Largest Banzai charge of the Pacific War at the Battle of Saipan.
• 1946 –
  Howard Hughes nearly dies when his XF-11 spy plane prototype crashes in a Beverly Hills neighborhood.
• 1958 –
  U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the Alaska Statehood Act into law.
• 1959 –
  Venus occults the star Regulus. This rare event is used to determine the diameter of Venus and the structure of the Venusian atmosphere.
• 1978 –
  The Solomon Islands become independent from the United Kingdom.
• 1997 –
  The Turkish Armed Forces withdraw from northern Iraq after assisting the Kurdistan Democratic Party in the Iraqi Kurdish Civil War.

Who were born on July 7?

• 1855 –
  Ludwig Ganghofer, German writer (d. 1920)
• 1907 –
  Robert A. Heinlein, American writer (d. 1988)
• 1919 –
  Jon Pertwee, English actor (d. 1996)
• 1959 –
  Jessica Hahn, American model
• 1976 –
  Dominic Foley, Irish footballer
• 1981 –
  Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Indian cricketer
• 1982 –
  Nick Karner, American filmmaker
• 1984 –
  Alberto Aquilani, Italian footballer
• 1986 –
  Udo Schwarz, German rugby player
• 1988 –
  Kaci Brown, American singer

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