Sunday July 7, 2024
A date scroll with Latin text from “The Extremes of Good and Evil” by Cicero, written in 45 BC.

July 7: Day of the Week

July 7, 2024 was the 189th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 177 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Sunday.

If you are trying to learn Spanish then this day of the week in Spanish is domingo.

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Here’s the July calendar. You can also browse the full year monthly calendar.

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Zodiac & Birthstone

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 Event(s)

1543
French troops invade Luxembourg.
1770
The Battle of Larga between the Russian Empire and the Ottoman Empire takes place.
1798
Quasi-War: the U.S. Congress rescinds treaties with France sparking the “war”.
1863
United States begins its first military draft; exemptions cost $300.
1928
Sliced bread is sold for the first time by the Chillicothe Baking Company of Chillicothe, Missouri.
1956
Fritz Moravec and two other Austrian mountaineers make the first ascent of Gasherbrum II (8,035 m).
1980
Institution of sharia in Iran.
1981
U.S. President Ronald Reagan appoints Sandra Day O'Connor to become the first female member of the Supreme Court of the United States.
1997
The Turkish Armed Forces withdraw from northern Iraq after assisting the Kurdistan Democratic Party in the Iraqi Kurdish Civil War.
2002
A scandal breaks out in the United Kingdom when news reports accuse MI6 of sheltering Abu Qatada, the supposed European Al Qaeda leader.

Who were born on July 7?

1528
Archduchess Anna of Austria, daughter of Ferdinand I (d. 1590)
1766
Guillaume Philibert Duhesme, French general (d. 1815)
1843
Camillo Golgi, Italian physician, Nobel laureate (d. 1926)
1904
Simone Beck, French chef (d. 1991)
1911
Gretchen Franklin, English actress (d. 2005)
1927
Doc Severinsen, American composer and jazz trumpeter
1942
Carmen Duncan, Australian actress
1959
Billy Campbell, American actor
1969
Nathalie Simard, French Canadian singer
1986
Udo Schwarz, German rugby player

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