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World Chocolate Day

National Dora Day

Global Forgiveness Day

World Kiswahili Language Day

Tell the Truth Day

International Peace & Love Day

World Change Day

Virgin Islands Day

Solomon Islands Independence Day

Caribbean Community Day — also known as CARICOM Day

George Town Heritage Day is celebrated on July 7 every year in Penang province, Malaysia

Heroes’ Day in Zambia is observed on the first Monday of July every year

Mother’sTanabata, or the Star Festival, is celebrated on July 7 each year Day in South Sudan is celebrated on the first Monday in July each year

Birthday of Nettie Stevens (1861-1912) - Geneticist who discovered the X and Y chromosomes.

Birthday of Otto Rohwedder (1880-1960) - Inventor of sliced bread.

Birthday of Robert Heinlein (1907-1988) - Considered the "Dean of Science Fiction Writers".

Birthday of Helene Johnson (1907-1995) - Acclaimed Harlem Renaissance poet.

1802 - The first comic book The Wasp is published in NY.

1863 - The first military draft begins in the U.S., exempting those who could pay a $300 fee.

1911 – 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.

1928 - Sliced bread is sold for the first time on the birthday of it's inventor Otto Rohwedder.

1930 – Industrialist Henry J. Kaiser begins construction of Boulder Dam (now known as Hoover Dam).

1936 - Henry Phillips receives patents for a new "cross-recessed" screw and screwdriver.

1946 - Mother Francesca S. Cabrini becomes the first American to be canonized.

1948 - Six female reservists become the first women sworn into the regular Navy.

1952 – 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.

1953 – Ernesto "Che" Guevara sets out on a trip through Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, and El Salvador.

1959 – Venus occults the star Regulus. This rare event is used to determine the diameter of Venus and the structure of the Venusian atmosphere.

1972 - Susan Roley and Joanne Pierce become the first women sworn into the FBI.

1978 - Czech-born tennis player Martina Navratilova defeated Chris Evert to win her first of nine Wimbledon singles titles.

1980 – Institution of sharia law in Iran.

1981 – US President Ronald Reagan nominates Sandra Day O'Connor to become the first female member of the Supreme Court of the United States.

1983 – Cold War: Samantha Smith, a US schoolgirl, flies to the Soviet Union at the invitation of Secretary General Yuri Andropov.

1985 – Boris Becker becomes the youngest male player ever to win Wimbledon at age 17.

1992 – The New York Court of Appeals rules that women have the same right as men to go topless in public.

2017 – The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons was adopted with 122 countries voting in favour

Death Anniversary of  Vikram Batra, Param Vir Chakra, Indian Army personnel (1999)(born 1974)

Death Anniversary of Actor Dilip kumar (2021)

Death Anniversary of Kargil War Hero Vikram Batra (1999)

Birthday of M.S.Dhoni (1981)