What are the important events that happened on July 7? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

July 7: Facts & Myths About This Day

July 7 is the 188^th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 177 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is June 24, 2025 – a Monday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 1,751,846,400 seconds has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.

Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘hectaoctacontaoctagon’ day.

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.

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 225 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,581 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

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

• 1456 –
  A retrial verdict acquits Joan of Arc of heresy 25 years after her death.
• 1798 –
  Quasi-War: the U.S. Congress rescinds treaties with France sparking the “war”.
• 1915 –
  An International Railway trolley with an extreme overload of 157 passengers crashes near Queenston, Ontario, killing 15.
• 1941 –
  World War II: U.S. forces land in Iceland, taking over from an earlier British occupation.
• 1953 –
  Ernesto “Che” Guevara sets out on a trip through Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, and El Salvador.
• 1980 –
  Institution of sharia in Iran.
• 1985 –
  Boris Becker becomes the youngest player ever to win Wimbledon at age 17
• 1991 –
  Yugoslav Wars: the Brioni Agreement ends the ten-day independence war in Slovenia against the rest of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
• 2002 –
  A scandal breaks out in the United Kingdom when news reports accuse MI6 of sheltering Abu Qatada, the supposed European Al Qaeda leader.
• 2005 –
  A series of four explosions occurs on London’s transport system killing 56 people including four alleged suicide bombers and injuring over 700 others.

Who were born on July 7?

• 1119 –
  Emperor Sutoku of Japan (d. 1164)
• 1887 –
  Marc Chagall, Russian painter (d. 1985)
• 1919 –
  Jon Pertwee, English actor (d. 1996)
• 1941 –
  Michael Howard, British politician
• 1947 –
  Gyanendra, deposed king of Nepal
• 1955 –
  Len Barker, American baseball player
• 1957 –
  Jonathan Dayton, American film director
• 1969 –
  Cree Summer, American voice actress
• 1970 –
  Erik Zabel, German cyclist
• 1983 –
  Ciara Newell, Irish singer (Bellefire)

Who died on July 7?

• 1764 –
  William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath, English politician (b. 1683)
• 1790 –
  François Hemsterhuis, Dutch philosopher (b. 1721)
• 1878 –
  Yegor Ivanovich Zolotarev, Russian mathematician (b. 1847)
• 1927 –
  Gösta Mittag-Leffler, Swedish mathematician (b. 1846)
• 1965 –
  Moshe Sharett, Ukraine-born 2nd Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1894)
• 1981 –
  Peace Pilgrim, American pacifist and activist (b. 1908)
• 1994 –
  Carlo Chiti, Italian race car engineer (b. 1924)
• 2003 –
  Izhak Graziani, Bulgarian-born conductor (b. 1924)
• 2006 –
  Syd Barrett, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Pink Floyd) (b. 1946)
• 2008 –
  Dorian Leigh, American supermodel (b. 1917)