Editing July 7 (section)

===1901–present===
*[[1907]] &ndash; [[Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.]] staged his first [[Ziegfeld Follies|Follies]] on the roof of the [[Bowery Theatre|New York Theater]] in New York City.
*[[1911]] &ndash; 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.
*[[1915]] &ndash; The [[First Battle of the Isonzo]] comes to an end.
*  1915   &ndash; [[Colombo Town Guard]] officer [[Henry Pedris]] is executed in [[British Ceylon]] for allegedly inciting [[persecution of Muslims]].
*[[1916]] &ndash; The [[New Zealand Labour Party]] was founded in [[Wellington]].
*[[1928]] &ndash; [[Sliced bread]] is sold for the first time (on [[Otto Frederick Rohwedder|the inventor's]] [[July 7#Births|48th birthday]]) by the Chillicothe Baking Company of [[Chillicothe, Missouri]].
*[[1930]] &ndash; Industrialist [[Henry J. Kaiser]] begins construction of Boulder Dam (now known as [[Hoover Dam]]).
*  1930   &ndash; The Finnish far-right [[Lapua Movement]] organises the [[Peasant March]] demonstration in [[Helsinki]] to put pressure on the government to prohibit communist activities.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://yle.fi/aihe/artikkeli/2006/09/08/talonpoikaismarssi|title=Talonpoikaismarssin tarkoituksena oli osoittaa, miten valkoista Suomea piti hallita|trans-title=The purpose of the Peasant March was to show how the White Finland should be governed|first=Reijo|last=Perälä|work=[[Yle]]|date=8 September 2006|access-date=7 July 2024|language=fi}}</ref>
*[[1937]] &ndash; 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).
*  1937   &ndash; The [[Peel Commission]] Report recommends the partition of Palestine, which was the first formal recommendation for partition in the history of Palestine.
*[[1941]] &ndash; The US [[occupation of Iceland]] replaces the UK's occupation.
*[[1944]] &ndash; [[World War II]]: Largest [[Banzai charge]] of the [[Pacific War]] at the [[Battle of Saipan]].
*[[1946]] &ndash; Mother [[Francesca S. Cabrini]] becomes the first American to be canonized.
*  1946   &ndash; [[Howard Hughes]] nearly dies when his [[Hughes XF-11|XF-11]] [[reconnaissance aircraft]] prototype crashes in a [[Beverly Hills, California|Beverly Hills]] neighborhood.
*[[1952]] &ndash; The [[ocean liner]] {{SS|United States}} passes [[Bishop Rock, Isles of Scilly|Bishop Rock]] on her maiden voyage, breaking the [[Blue Riband|transatlantic speed record]] to become the fastest passenger ship in the world.
*[[1953]] &ndash; [[Che Guevara|Ernesto "Che" Guevara]] sets out on a trip through [[Bolivia]], [[Peru]], [[Ecuador]], [[Panama]], [[Costa Rica]], [[Nicaragua]], [[Honduras]], and [[El Salvador]].
*[[1958]] &ndash; US President [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]] signs the [[Alaska Statehood Act]] into [[Law of the United States|law]].
*[[1959]] &ndash; [[Venus]] [[Occultation|occults]] the star [[Regulus]]. This rare event is used to determine the diameter of Venus and the structure of the Venusian atmosphere.
*[[1962]] &ndash; [[Alitalia Flight 771]] crashes in [[Junnar]], [[Maharashtra]], [[India]], killing 94 people.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ranter |first=Harro |title=ASN Aircraft accident Douglas DC-8-43 I-DIWD Junnar |url=https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19620707-1 |access-date=2022-07-06 |website=aviation-safety.net |publisher=[[Aviation Safety Network]]}}</ref>
*[[1963]] &ndash; [[Buddhist crisis]]: Police commanded by [[Ngô Đình Nhu]], brother and chief political adviser of [[South Vietnam]] President [[Ngo Dinh Diem]], [[Double Seven Day scuffle|attacked]] a group of American journalists who were covering a protest.
*[[1978]] &ndash; The [[Solomon Islands]] becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
*[[1980]] &ndash; Institution of [[sharia law]] in [[Iran]].
*  1980 &ndash; During the [[Lebanese Civil War]], 83 [[Tigers Militia|Tiger]] militants are killed during what will be known as the [[Safra massacre]].
*[[1981]] &ndash; [[President of the United States|US President]] [[Ronald Reagan]] nominates [[Sandra Day O'Connor]] to become the first female member of the [[Supreme Court of the United States]].
*[[1983]] &ndash; [[Cold War]]: [[Samantha Smith]], a US schoolgirl, flies to the [[Soviet Union]] at the invitation of [[List of leaders of the Soviet Union|Secretary General]] [[Yuri Andropov]].
*[[1985]] &ndash; [[Boris Becker]] becomes the youngest male player ever to win [[The Championships, Wimbledon|Wimbledon]] at age 17.
*[[1991]] &ndash; [[Yugoslav Wars]]: The [[Brioni Agreement]] ends the [[Ten-Day War|ten-day independence war]] in [[Slovenia]] against the rest of the [[Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia]].
*[[1992]] &ndash; The [[New York Court of Appeals]] rules that women have the same right as men to go [[Toplessness|topless]] in public.
*[[1997]] &ndash; The [[Turkish Armed Forces]] withdraw from northern [[Ba'athist Iraq|Iraq]] after [[Operation Hammer (1997)|assisting]] the [[Kurdistan Democratic Party]] in the [[Iraqi Kurdish Civil War]].
*[[2003]] &ndash; [[NASA]] [[Opportunity rover]], MER-B or Mars Exploration Rover–B, was launched into space aboard a [[Delta II]] rocket.
*[[2005]] &ndash; A series of [[7 July 2005 London bombings|four explosions]] occurs on [[Transport in London|London's transport system]], killing 56 people, including four [[suicide bombers]], and injuring over 700 others.
*[[2006]] – A [[Spiritwood Incident|shootout]] happens in [[Spiritwood]], Canada, killing 2 [[Royal Canadian Mounted Police]] and wounding a 3rd officer.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-07-07 |title=Fallen RCMP remembered on 17th anniversary of Spiritwood shooting |url=https://www.sasktoday.ca/crime-cops-court/fallen-rcmp-remembered-on-17th-anniversary-of-spiritwood-shooting-7250133 |access-date=2025-05-03 |website=SaskToday.ca |language=en}}</ref>
*[[2007]] &ndash; The first [[Live Earth (2007 concert)|Live Earth]] benefit concert was held in 11 locations around the world.
*[[2012]] &ndash; At least 172 people are killed in a [[2012 Russian floods|flash flood]] in the [[Krasnodar Krai]] region of [[Russia]].
*[[2013]] &ndash; A [[De Havilland Canada DHC-3 Otter|De Havilland Otter]] [[air taxi]] [[2013 Rediske Air DHC-3 Otter crash|crashes]] in [[Soldotna, Alaska]], killing ten people.
*[[2016]] &ndash; Ex-US Army soldier Micah Xavier Johnson [[2016 shooting of Dallas police officers|shoots fourteen policemen]] during an anti-police protest in downtown [[Dallas|Dallas, Texas]], killing five of them. He is subsequently killed by a robot-delivered bomb.
*[[2017]] &ndash; The [[Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons]] was adopted with 122 countries voting in favour.<ref name=guardian>{{cite news|title= Treaty banning nuclear weapons approved at UN: Supporters hail step towards nuclear free world as treaty is backed by 122 countries |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jul/07/treaty-banning-nuclear-weapons-approved-un|work=The Guardian |date=July 7, 2017 |access-date=August 9, 2017 }}</ref>
*[[2019]] &ndash; The [[United States women's national soccer team]] defeated the [[Netherlands women's national football team|Netherlands]] 2–0 at the [[2019 FIFA Women's World Cup Final]] in [[Lyon]], France.
*[[2022]] &ndash; [[Boris Johnson]] announces his resignation as [[Leader of the Conservative Party (UK)|leader of the Conservative Party]] following days of pressure from the Members of Parliament (MPs) during the [[July 2022 United Kingdom government crisis]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-62076257|title=Boris Johnson resigns: It is painful to leave Downing Street, says PM|website=BBC News|date=7 July 2022}}</ref>