July 7 in history — What Happened Today in History

The Turkish Armed Forces withdraw from northern Iraq after assisting the Kurdistan Democratic Party in the Iraqi Kurdish Civil War.

The New York Court of Appeals rules that women have the same right as men to go topless in public.

Yugoslav Wars: The Brioni Agreement ends the ten-day independence war in Slovenia against the rest of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

Boris Becker becomes the youngest male player ever to win Wimbledon at age 17.

Cold War: Samantha Smith, a United States schoolgirl, flies to the Soviet Union at the invitation of Secretary General Yuri Andropov.

US President Ronald Reagan nominates Sandra Day O'Connor to become the first female member of the Supreme Court of the United States.

Institution of sharia law in Iran.

During the Lebanese Civil War, 83 Tiger militants are killed during what will be known as the Safra massacre.

The Solomon Islands becomes independent from the United Kingdom.

Buddhist crisis: Police commanded by Ngô Đình Nhu, brother and chief political adviser of South Vietnam President Ngo Dinh Diem, attacked a group of American journalists who were covering a protest.

Alitalia Flight 771 crashes in Junnar, Maharashtra, India, killing 94 people.

Venus occults the star Regulus. This rare event is used to determine the diameter of Venus and the structure of the Venusian atmosphere.

US President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the Alaska Statehood Act into law.

Ernesto "Che" Guevara sets out on a trip through Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, and El Salvador.

The ocean liner SS United States passes Bishop Rock on her maiden voyage, breaking the transatlantic speed record to become the fastest passenger ship in the world.

Mother Francesca S. Cabrini becomes the first American to be canonized.

Howard Hughes nearly dies when his XF-11 reconnaissance aircraft prototype crashes in a Beverly Hills neighborhood.

World War II: Largest Banzai charge of the Pacific War at the Battle of Saipan.

The US occupation of Iceland replaces the UK's occupation.

The Marco Polo Bridge Incident (Lugou Bridge) provides the Imperial Japanese Army with a pretext for starting the Second Sino-Japanese War (China-Japan War).

The Peel Commission Report recommends the partition of Palestine, which was the first formal recommendation for partition in the history of Palestine.

Industrialist Henry J. Kaiser begins construction of Boulder Dam (now known as Hoover Dam).

The Finnish far-right Lapua Movement organises the Peasant March demonstration in Helsinki to put pressure on the government to prohibit communist activities.

Sliced bread is sold for the first time (on the inventor's 48th birthday) by the Chillicothe Baking Company of Chillicothe, Missouri.

The New Zealand Labour Party was founded in Wellington.

World War I: The First Battle of the Isonzo between Italy and Austria-Hungary comes to an end.

Colombo Town Guard officer Henry Pedris is executed in British Ceylon for allegedly inciting persecution of Muslims.

The United States, UK, 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.

Pascal Stöger, Austrian footballer

Landon Cassill, American race car driver

Miina Kallas, Estonian footballer

Karl-August Tiirmaa, Estonian skier

Kaci Brown, American singer-songwriter

Lukas Rosenthal, German rugby player

Ana Kasparian, American journalist and producer

Udo Schwarz, German rugby player

Sevyn Streeter, American singer-songwriter

Marc Stein, German footballer

Minas Alozidis, Greek hurdler

Alberto Aquilani, Italian footballer

Mohammad Ashraful, Bangladeshi cricketer

Artur Hajzer, Polish mountaineer (born 1962)

Robert Hamerton-Kelly, South African-American pastor, theologian, and author (born 1938)

Donald J. Irwin, American lawyer and politician, 32nd Mayor of Norwalk, Connecticut (born 1926)

Ben Pucci, American football player and sportscaster (born 1925)

Dennis Flemion, American drummer (born 1955)

Ronaldo Cunha Lima, Brazilian poet and politician (born 1936)

Doris Neal, American baseball player (born 1928)

Jerry Norman, American sinologist and linguist (born 1936)

Leon Schlumpf, Swiss politician (born 1927)

Allan W. Eckert, American historian and author (born 1931)

Dick Williams, American baseball player, coach, and manager (born 1929)

Bruce Conner, American sculptor, painter, and photographer (born 1933)

Dorian Leigh, American model (born 1917)