July 7

Events

1456 - A retrial verdict acquits Joan of Arc of heresy 25 years after her death.
1863 - United States begins first military draft
1865 - American Civil War: Four conspirators in the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln were hanged.
1898 - President William McKinley signs the Newlands Resolution annexing Hawaii as a territory of the United States.
1941 - World War II: American forces invade Iceland
1946 - Howard Hughes nearly dies when his XF-11 spy plane prototype crashes in a Beverly Hills neighborhood.
1967 - Beginning of the civil war in Biafra.
1969 - In Canada, the Official Languages Act is adopted making the French language equal to the English language throughout the Federal government.
1978 - The Solomon Islands become independent from the United Kingdom.
2003 - The United Communist Party of Armenia was formed.
2005 - A series of four terrorist explosions occur on London's transport system killing 56 people, including four suicide bombers.

1908 - Revilo P. Oliver, White nationalist writer (d. 1994)
1921 - Adolf von Thadden, Far-Right German politician (d. 1996)
1927 - James Madole, American leader of the National Renaissance Party (d. 1979)
1941 - Michael Howard, British politician

1307 - King Edward I of England (b. 1239)
1865 - Mary Surratt, Lincoln conspirator (b. 1823)
1865 - Lewis Paine, Lincoln conspirator (b. 1844)
1865 - David Herold, Lincoln conspirator (b. 1842)
1865 - George Atzerodt, Lincoln conspirator (b. 1833)
1930 - Arthur Conan Doyle, Scottish writer (b. 1859)
1965 - Moshe Sharett, 2nd Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1894)
1981 - Mildred Lisette Norman a.k.a. Peace Pilgrim, American pacifist,activist and tax resister.
1994 - Friedrich August Freiherr von der Heydte, German Luftwaffe Officer (b. 1907)
2006 - Syd Barrett, original guitarist and vocalist of the band Pink Floyd (b. 1946)