July 7th, 1979

Born on July 7th, 1979

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What happened on July 7th?

July 7th, 2016

A U.S. Army Reserve veteran ambushed and shot at police officers (memorial service pictured) in Dallas, Texas, killing five of them and injuring nine others, before being killed by a bomb attached to a police robot.

July 7th, 1991

Yugoslav Wars: The signing of the Brioni Agreement ended the Ten-Day War between SFR Yugoslavia and Slovenia.

July 7th, 1983

After writing a letter to Soviet premier Yuri Andropov, American schoolgirl Samantha Smith (pictured) visited the Soviet Union as Andropov's personal guest, becoming known as "America's Youngest Ambassador".

July 7th, 1963

The secret police of Ngô Đình Nhu, brother and chief political adviser of South Vietnamese president Ngô Đình Diệm, attacked a group of American journalists who were covering a protest during the Buddhist crisis.

July 7th, 1937

The Peel Commission published a report stating that the League of Nations' Mandate for Palestine had become unworkable and recommended the partition of British-administered Mandatory Palestine into two states.

July 7th, 1911

Four countries signed the North Pacific Fur Seal Convention, which banned the hunting of seals in the pelagic zone.

July 7th, 1907

Inspired by the Folies Bergère of Paris, American impresario Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. staged the first of his Ziegfeld Follies.

July 7th, 1798

Outraged by the XYZ Affair, the United States rescinded its treaties with France, resulting in the undeclared Quasi-War, fought entirely at sea.

July 7th, 1777

American Revolutionary War: British forces caught up with American troops withdrawing from Ticonderoga, capturing more than 200 men at the Battle of Hubbardton.

July 7th, 1456

Joan of Arc was declared innocent of heresy in a retrial twenty-five years after her death.

July 7th, 1898

US President William McKinley signs the Newlands Resolution annexing Hawaii as a territory of the United States.

July 7th, 1892

The Katipunan is established, the discovery of which by Spanish authorities initiated the Philippine Revolution.

July 7th, 1865

Four conspirators in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln are hanged.

July 7th, 1863

The United States begins its first military draft; exemptions cost $300.

July 7th, 1846

US troops occupy Monterey and Yerba Buena, thus beginning the US conquest of California.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on July 7th

Born on July 7th, 1979

44

Patricia Aulitzky

Austrian actress

*July 7th, 1979, Salzburg

44

Jan Hernych

Czech tennis player

*July 7th, 1979, Prague

44

Pat Barry

American martial artist

*July 7th, 1979, New Orleans

44

Mike McGuire

Member of the California State Senate

*July 7th, 1979, Healdsburg

44

Catalina Castaño

Colombian tennis player

*July 7th, 1979, Pereira

44

Mike Pride

American drummer

*July 7th, 1979, Portland

44

Joydeep Karmakar

Indian sport shooter

*July 7th, 1979, Kolkata

44

Grant Irons

American football player (born 1979)

*July 7th, 1979, Middleburg Heights

44

Chase Lambin

American baseball player

*July 7th, 1979, Houston

44

Carl Breeze

British racing driver.

*July 7th, 1979, King's Lynn

44

Abigail Ashley

Ghanaian television presenter and radio host

*July 7th, 1979, Prampram

44

Amanda Françozo

Brazilian model and television presenter

*July 7th, 1979, Ibaté

44

Shebly Niavarani

Swedish actor

*July 7th, 1979, Tehran

44

Douglas Hondo

Zimbabwean cricketer

*July 7th, 1979, Bulawayo

44

Gaspar Gálvez Burgos

Spanish footballer

*July 7th, 1979, Córdoba

35

Ibrahim Sulayman Muhammad Arbaysh

Suspected terrorist and leader of Al Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula

*July 7th, 1979, Buraidah †April 12th, 2015, Hadhramaut Governorate

44

Joel Dickinson

American musician

*July 7th, 1979, Des Moines

44

Tamara Holder

American lawyer

*July 7th, 1979, United States of America

44

Joílson Rodrigues Macedo

Brazilian footballer

*July 7th, 1979, Rio de Janeiro

44

Khreem Smith

Player of American and Canadian football

*July 7th, 1979, Saint James Parish

44

Hristo Telkiyski

Bulgarian footballer

*July 7th, 1979, Plovdiv

44

Isabelle Foerder

German paralympian

*July 7th, 1979, Zwickau

44

Durrell Richardson

American boxer

*July 7th, 1979, Youngstown

44

Alexandra Fouace

French archer

*July 7th, 1979, Cherbourg

44

Alexander Lugo

Colombian footballer

*July 7th, 1979, Cali

44

Aleksandr Zakhlestin

Russian footballer

*July 7th, 1979, Kirov

44

Matthew Bolton

Australian billiards and snooker player

*July 7th, 1979, Perth

44

Alexandre Barbier

Footballer

*July 7th, 1979, Le Chesnay

44

Loudy Wiggins

Australian diver

*July 7th, 1979, Haifa

44

Kelly Thomasson

American politician (1979-)

*July 7th, 1979, Henrico County

44

Jamie McKeever

Boxer

*July 7th, 1979, Birkenhead

44

Povilas Lukšys

Lithuanian footballer

*July 7th, 1979, Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic

44

Csaba Mérő

Hungarian Go player

*July 7th, 1979, Budapest

44

Benjamin Mitchell

New Zealand actor

*July 7th, 1979, New Zealand

44

Thugpun

Canadian rapper

*July 7th, 1979, Punjab

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42

MS Dhoni

Indian cricket player

*July 7th, 1981, Ranchi

39

Sony Dwi Kuncoro

Indonesian badminton player

*July 7th, 1984, Surabaya

43

Michelle Kwan

American figure skater and diplomat

*July 7th, 1980, Torrance

40

Li Li

Singaporean badminton player

*July 7th, 1983, People's Republic of China

47

Bérénice Bejo

Argentine-born French actress

*July 7th, 1976, Buenos Aires

37

Alamsyah Yunus

Badminton player

*July 7th, 1986, Jakarta

48

Daniela Ludwig

German politician (CSU)

*July 7th, 1975, Munich

32

Quebonafide

Polish rapper and singer-songwriter

*July 7th, 1991, Ciechanów

31

Kang Ji-wook

South Korean badminton player

*July 7th, 1992, Jeju

30

Tinn Isriyanet

Badminton player

*July 7th, 1993, Bangkok

30

Rusydina Antardayu Riodingin

Badminton player

*July 7th, 1993, Tangerang City

88

Søren Elung Jensen

Actor (1928-2017)

*July 7th, 1928, Odense †January 22nd, 2017, Hellerup

80

Wolfgang Clement

German politician

*July 7th, 1940, Bochum †September 27th, 2020, Bonn

30

Ally Brooke

American singer

*July 7th, 1993, San Antonio

54

Cree Summer

American actress

*July 7th, 1969, Los Angeles

43

Alejandra Benítez

Fencer

*July 7th, 1980, Caracas

83

Ringo Starr

British musician, drummer for the Beatles

*July 7th, 1940, Liverpool

45

Misia

Japanese singer

*July 7th, 1978, Tsushima

53

Erik Zabel

German cyclist

*July 7th, 1970, East Berlin

46

Sebastian Hartmann

German politician

*July 7th, 1977, Oberhausen

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45

Gao Ling

Chinese badminton player

*March 14th, 1979, Wuhan

45

Yang Wei

Chinese badminton player

*January 13th, 1979, Guangdong

44

Tine Baun

Danish badminton player

*July 21st, 1979, Hørsholm

44

Deborah Secco

Brazilian actress

*November 26th, 1979, Rio de Janeiro

45

Johan Harstad

Norwegian author

*February 10th, 1979, Stavanger Municipality

44

Saralee Thungthongkam

Badminton player

*June 13th, 1979, Bangkok

44

Anders Kristiansen

Badminton player

*September 7th, 1979, Frederikssund Municipality

44

Nikhil Kanetkar

Badminton player

*May 13th, 1979, Pune

44

Guf

Russian rapper

*September 23rd, 1979, Ivanteyevskaya Street

44

Ghayath Almadhoun

Swedish poet

*July 19th, 1979, Damascus

45

Dan Tangnes

Norwegian ice hockey player (1979-)

*March 8th, 1979, Oslo

44

Mia Audina

Indonesian badminton player

*August 22nd, 1979, Jakarta

44

Chen Hong

Badminton player

*November 28th, 1979, Changting County

45

Ingo Kindervater

Badminton player

*January 1st, 1979, Burgwedel

44

Britta Andersen

Badminton player

*December 19th, 1979, Aarhus

44

Vincent Kartheiser

American actor

*May 5th, 1979, Minneapolis

44

Aamir Ghaffar

Badminton player

*August 18th, 1979, Peshawar

44

Chris Pratt

American actor (born 1979)

*June 21st, 1979, Virginia

45

Lise Risom Olsen

Norwegian actress

*March 1st, 1979, Fredrikstad Municipality

44

Diego Forlán

Uruguayan association football player and manager

*May 19th, 1979, Montevideo

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No: With 365 days 1979 is a normal year and no leap year.

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