July 7: Day of the Week
July 7, 2022 is the 188th day of the year 2022 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 177 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Thursday.
If you are trying to learn Japanese then this day of the week in Japanese is Mokuyōbi.
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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.
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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)
- 1846Mexican-American War: American troops occupy Monterey and Yerba Buena, thus beginning the U.S. acquisition of California.
- 1911The United States, Great Britain, Japan, and Russia sign the North Pacific Fur Seal Convention of 1911 banning open-water seal hunting, the first international treaty to address wildlife preservation issues.
- 1930Industrialist Henry J. Kaiser begins construction of the Boulder Dam (now known as Hoover Dam).
- 1937Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Lugou Bridge – Japanese forces invade Beijing, China.
- 1941World War II: U.S. forces land in Iceland, taking over from an earlier British occupation.
- 1944World War II: Largest Banzai charge of the Pacific War at the Battle of Saipan.
- 1956Fritz Moravec and two other Austrian mountaineers make the first ascent of Gasherbrum II (8,035 m).
- 1959Venus occults the star Regulus. This rare event is used to determine the diameter of Venus and the structure of the Venusian atmosphere.
- 1991Yugoslav Wars: the Brioni Agreement ends the ten-day independence war in Slovenia against the rest of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
- 2002A 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?
- 1528Archduchess Anna of Austria, daughter of Ferdinand I (d. 1590)
- 1887Marc Chagall, Russian painter (d. 1985)
- 1899George Cukor, American director (d. 1983)
- 1907Robert A. Heinlein, American writer (d. 1988)
- 1921Adolf von Thadden, German politician (d. 1996)
- 1952Mando Guerrero, Mexican professional wrestler
- 1969Joe Sakic, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1973Troy Garity, American actor
- 1979Anastasios Gousis, Greek sprinter
- 1980Deidre Downs, American beauty queen
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