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. for conspiring with John Wilkes Booth to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln: Lewis Powell, David Herold, George Atzerodt and Mary Surratt, who was the first woman ever executed by the federal government.
1898 - The United States annexed Hawaii.
1930 - Construction began on the Boulder (now Hoover) Dam.
1946 - Future U.S. President Jimmy Carter, age 21, married Rosalynn Smith, age 18, in Plains, Georgia.
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.
1948 - Six female U.S. Navy reservists became the first women to be sworn into the regular U.S. Navy.
1954 - An Elvis Presley recording was played on the radio for the first time.
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 Sandra Day O'Connor to be the first female to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court.
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 soccer's World Cup tournament.
2005 - Fifty-two people were killed and hundreds injured in London when terrorists bombed subways and a bus.
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.)
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.
2018 - After two days of talks in North Korea's capital, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said he had commitments for new discussions on denuclearization, but North Korea said Pompeo's visit had been "regrettable" and that the United States was making "gangster-like" demands.
2022 - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced his resignation after droves of top government officials quit over the latest scandal to engulf him, marking an end to three tumultuous years in which he tried to bluster his way through one ethical lapse after another.
2022 - A federal judge sentenced Derek Chauvin to 21 years in prison for violating George Floyd's civil rights, telling the former Minneapolis police officer that what he did was "simply wrong" and "offensive."
Birthdays
28 - Maddie Tae (singer)
28 - Alyssa Lynch (actress)
30 - Ally Brooke (singer)
30 - Ally Hernandez (singer)
33 - Luke Null (actor/comedian)
39 - Ross Malinger (actor)
41 - Gabbie Nolen (singer)
41 - Cassidy (rapper)
43 - Michelle Kwan (figure skater)
47 - Berenice Bejo (actress)
50 - Troy Garity (actor)
51 - Kirsten Vangsness (actress)
54 - Cree Summer (actress)
55 - Jorja Fox (actress)
55 - Amy Carlson (actress)
57 - Jim Gaffigan (actor/comedian)
60 - Vonda Shepard (singer)
64 - Billy Campbell (actor)
74 - Shelley Duvall (actress)
76 - Linda Williams (singer)
77 - Joe Spano (actor)
83 - Ringo Starr (musician)
96 - 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 take the Olympic gold medal in the pentathlon at the Stockholm Summer Olympics. (The medal was stripped in 1913 for having played professional baseball but was reinstated posthumously in 1982.)
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.
1974 - West Germany defeats the Netherlands 2-1 to win the World Cup.
1978 - NBA owners approves franchise swap; Buffalo Braves owner John Y. Brown and Harry Mangurian acquire Boston Celtics, while the Celtics owner Irv Levin gets Braves, 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 Wimbledon women's singles title.
2006 - Cleveland Indians first baseman Travis Hafner becomes first player in MLB history to hit 5 grand slams before the All-Star break when he homers off Baltimore's Kris Benson.
2007 - Sprint-Nextel and NASCAR announce the NASCAR Nextel Cup Series to be renamed the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series in 2008.
2013 - Andy Murray became the first British man in 77 years to win the Wimbledon title, beating Novak Djokovic 6-4, 7-5, 6-4 in the final.
2019 - The United States wins a record fourth women's World Cup title, defeating Netherlands 2-0 in the final.
2021 - The Tampa Bay Lightning defeat the Montreal Canadiens in five games to win a second consecutive Stanley Cup.
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. for conspiring with John Wilkes Booth to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln: Lewis Powell, David Herold, George Atzerodt and Mary Surratt, who was the first woman ever executed by the federal government.
1898 - The United States annexed Hawaii.
1930 - Construction began on the Boulder (now Hoover) Dam.
1946 - Future U.S. President Jimmy Carter, age 21, married Rosalynn Smith, age 18, in Plains, Georgia.
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.
1948 - Six female U.S. Navy reservists became the first women to be sworn into the regular U.S. Navy.
1954 - An Elvis Presley recording was played on the radio for the first time.
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 Sandra Day O'Connor to be the first female to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court.
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 soccer's World Cup tournament.
2005 - Fifty-two people were killed and hundreds injured in London when terrorists bombed subways and a bus.
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.)
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.
2018 - After two days of talks in North Korea's capital, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said he had commitments for new discussions on denuclearization, but North Korea said Pompeo's visit had been "regrettable" and that the United States was making "gangster-like" demands.
2022 - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced his resignation after droves of top government officials quit over the latest scandal to engulf him, marking an end to three tumultuous years in which he tried to bluster his way through one ethical lapse after another.
2022 - A federal judge sentenced Derek Chauvin to 21 years in prison for violating George Floyd's civil rights, telling the former Minneapolis police officer that what he did was "simply wrong" and "offensive."
Birthdays
28 - Maddie Tae (singer)
28 - Alyssa Lynch (actress)
30 - Ally Brooke (singer)
30 - Ally Hernandez (singer)
33 - Luke Null (actor/comedian)
39 - Ross Malinger (actor)
41 - Gabbie Nolen (singer)
41 - Cassidy (rapper)
43 - Michelle Kwan (figure skater)
47 - Berenice Bejo (actress)
50 - Troy Garity (actor)
51 - Kirsten Vangsness (actress)
54 - Cree Summer (actress)
55 - Jorja Fox (actress)
55 - Amy Carlson (actress)
57 - Jim Gaffigan (actor/comedian)
60 - Vonda Shepard (singer)
64 - Billy Campbell (actor)
74 - Shelley Duvall (actress)
76 - Linda Williams (singer)
77 - Joe Spano (actor)
83 - Ringo Starr (musician)
96 - 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 take the Olympic gold medal in the pentathlon at the Stockholm Summer Olympics. (The medal was stripped in 1913 for having played professional baseball but was reinstated posthumously in 1982.)
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.
1974 - West Germany defeats the Netherlands 2-1 to win the World Cup.
1978 - NBA owners approves franchise swap; Buffalo Braves owner John Y. Brown and Harry Mangurian acquire Boston Celtics, while the Celtics owner Irv Levin gets Braves, 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 Wimbledon women's singles title.
2006 - Cleveland Indians first baseman Travis Hafner becomes first player in MLB history to hit 5 grand slams before the All-Star break when he homers off Baltimore's Kris Benson.
2007 - Sprint-Nextel and NASCAR announce the NASCAR Nextel Cup Series to be renamed the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series in 2008.
2013 - Andy Murray became the first British man in 77 years to win the Wimbledon title, beating Novak Djokovic 6-4, 7-5, 6-4 in the final.
2019 - The United States wins a record fourth women's World Cup title, defeating Netherlands 2-0 in the final.
2021 - The Tampa Bay Lightning defeat the Montreal Canadiens in five games to win a second consecutive Stanley Cup.
