History Of Today - 7th July

1900 - Boston hurler Kid Nichols notches his 300th career victory

1905 - 127°F (53°C), Parker Ariz (state record)

1908 - Great White Fleet leaves SF Bay

1911 - 28th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: D Chambers beats D Boothby (60 60)

1911 - Dorothea Lambert Chambers beats Dora Boothby 6-0, 6-0 in a record

1913 - British House of Commons accepts Home-Rule Law

1914 - Balt Orioles' (IL) owner Jack Dunn offers Babe Ruth, Ernie Shore & Ben Egan for $10,000 to Connie Mack, who refuses, pleading poverty

1915 - A Great Gorge and International Railway trolley with an extreme overload of 157 passengers crashes near Queenston, Ontario, killing 15.

1919 - Phillies tie major league record of 8 steals in 9 inn game

1923 - 43rd Wimbledon Mens Tennis: William Johnston beats F Hunter (60 63 61)

1923 - Cleve Indians beat Boston Red Sox 27-3 with 13 runs in 6th inning

1923 - University of Delaware invents "junior year abroad" (at Sorbonne)

1924 - Robert LeGendre of US, sets then long jump record at 25' 5½"

1928 - 41st Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Helen Moody beats L de Alvarez (62 63)

1928 - Edward Hamm of US, sets then long jump record at 25' 11"

1928 - Sliced bread is sold for the first time by the Chillicothe Baking Company of Chillicothe, Missouri. It is described as “the greatest forward step in the baking industry since bread was wrapped".

1929 - Romania & Vatican sign concord

1930 - Construction begins on Boulder (Hoover) Dam

1932 - Bradman scores a cricket double century in Montreal

1934 - Elizabeth Ryan wins her 12th Wimbledon doubles championship

1936 - 4th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 4-3 at Braves Field, Boston

1937 - 5th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 8-3 at Griffith Stadium, Wash

1937 - Japanese & Chinese troops clash, (Marco Polo Bridge), becomes WW II

1939 - 52nd Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Alice Marble beats Kay Stammers (62 60)

1941 - Nazis executed 5,000 Jews in Kovono Lithuania

1941 - US forces land in Iceland to forestall Nazi invasion

1941 - World War II: Beirut is occupied by Free France and British troops.

1942 - Germany troop march into Woronezj

1942 - Milt all star team (including Bob Feller) losts to AL all stars 5-0

1943 - -10] Japanese premier Hideki Tojo visits Java

1943 - 3rd day of battle at Kursk: Germans occupy Dubrova

1943 - Erich Hartmann shoots 7 Russian aircraft at Kursk

1943 - Liberator bombers sinks U-517

1943 - U-951 sunk

1944 - Bomber Command drop 2,572 tons of bombs on Caen, France

1944 - Heavy Japanese counter offensive on Saipan

1946 - Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini canonized as 1st American saint

1947 - Alleged and disputed Roswell UFO incident.

1948 - 6 female reservists become 1st women sworn into regular US Navy

1948 - Cleveland Indians sign Leroy "Satchel" Paige

1948 - Indians sign Satchel Paige at 42

1949 - "Cabatgata (A Night in Spain)" opens at Broadway NYC for 76 perfs

1949 - "Dragnet" premieres on NBC radio; also a TV series in 1951 & 1967

1950 - 1st Farnborough airshow held

1950 - 64th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Budge Patty beats Sedgman (61 8-10 62 63)

1950 - 79th British Golf Open: Bobby Locke shoots a 279 at Royal Troon

1951 - 58th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Doris Hart beats Shirley Fry (61 60)

1952 - SS United States cross Atlantic in record 82:40

1953 - 35th PGA Championship: Walter Burkemo at Birmingham CC Mich

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

1954 - T.A.N.U. party forms in Tanzania

1954 - Formation of the TANU in Tanzania

1955 - 1st LPGA Championship won by Beverly Hanson

1956 - 63rd Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Shirley Fry beats Angela Buxton (63 61)

1956 - Douglas Moore/John Latouche' opera "Ballad of Baby Doe," premieres

1956 - 7 Army trucks loaded with dynamite explode in middle of Cali, Columbia killing 1,100-1,200, destroying 2,000 buildings

1956 - Fritz Moravec reaches the peak of Gasherbrum II (8,035 m).

1957 - Heavy storm ravages Belgian coast

1958 - C A Milton scores 104* on Test Cricket debut, England v NZ Headingley

1958 - Pres Eisenhower signed a bill approving Alaskan statehood

1958 - William Shea outlines plans for a $12M stadium at Flushing Meadows NY

1959 - 26th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 5-4 at Forbes Field, Pittsburgh

1960 - Neth-US cemetery Margraten official opens

1960 - USSR shoots down a US aircraft over Barents sea

1961 - 75th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Rod Laver beats Chuck McKinley (63 61 64)

1961 - James R Hoffa elected chairman of Teamsters

1962 - 69th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Karen Susman beats Vera Sukova (64 64)

1962 - Bill Hartack becomes 8th jockey to win 3,000 horse races

1962 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1963 - Shirley Englehorn wins LPGA Lady Carling Eastern Golf Open

1964 - 35th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 7-4 at Shea Stadium, New York

1964 - All star MVP: John Callison (Phila Phillies)

1965 - Otis Redding records "Respect"

1967 - 81st Wimbledon Mens Tennis: John Newcombe beats W Bungert (63 61 61)

1967 - Beatles' "All You Need is Love" is released

1967 - Doors' "Light My Fire" hits #1

1967 - Beginning of the civil war in Biafra.

1968 - 23rd US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Susie Maxwell Berning

1968 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island

1968 - Rock group "Yardbirds" disband

1969 - Canada's House of Commons approves equality of French-English lang

1969 - Der Spiegel reveals Munich's Bishop Defregger is a war criminal

1972 - 1st women FBI members sworn in (Susan Lynn Roley & Joanne E Pierce)

1972 - 79th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Billie Jean King beats Goolagong (63 63)

1972 - Dutch Minister of Agt decides to ignore soft drug usage

1973 - 78 drown as flash flood sweeps a bus into a river (India)

1973 - 80th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Billie Jean King beats C Evert (60 75)

1973 - 87th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Jan Kodes beats Alex Metreveli (61 98 63)

1973 - All women board of directors takes control of ABA's Kentucky Colonels

1973 - Balt Orioles pull their 4th triple play (5-4-3 vs Oakland)

1973 - Glenda Reiser (Canada) sets record women's mile (4:34.9)

1973 - Shoelace Park in the Bronx named

1973 - 1st all-US women's Wimbledon, Billie Jean King beats Chris Evert

1974 - Brewer Don Money sets record of consec errorless games at 3rd (78)

1974 - Sue Roberts wins LPGA Niagara Frontier Golf Classic

1974 - West Germany beats Neth 2-1 for soccer's 10th World Cup in Munich

1975 - TV soap opera "Ryan's Hope" premieres

1976 - E Henry Knoche, becomes deputy director of CIA

1976 - Lt General Vernon A Walters, USA, ends term as deputy director of CIA

1976 - Viking 2 goes into orbit around Mars

1977 - 12,000 police occupy university in Mexico City

1978 - 85th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: M Navratilova beats C Evert (26 64 75)

1978 - Solomon Islands declares independence from UK

1979 - 93rd Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Bjorn Borg beats R Tanner (67 61 36 63 64)

1979 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR

1980 - 1st solar-powered aircraft crosses English Channel

1980 - Az Judge Sandra Day O'Connor 1st female nominated to Supreme Court

1980 - Jim King completes riding Miracle Strip Roller coaster 368 hours

1980 - Larry Holmes TKOs Scott LeDoux in 7 for heavyweight boxing title

1980 - Shawn Weatherly, of USA, crowned 29th Miss Universe

1980 - Jineane Ford, (AZ) replaces S Weatherly (Miss Univ) as 29th Miss USA

1980 - Institution of sharia in Iran.

1980 - The Safra massacre in Lebanon.

1981 - 1st solar-powered aircraft, Solar Challenger, crosses English Channel

1981 - Ben Plucknett of US throws discus 72.34 m, but throw is disqualified

1981 - Sandra Day O'Connor nominated for the Supreme Court

1982 - David Moorcroft of UK sets record for 5000 m, 13:00.41

1982 - Steve Scott of US runs mile in a record 3:47.69

1983 - 11 year old Samantha Smith of Manchester, Maine, leaves for USSR

1984 - 5 die in a train crash in Williston Vt

1984 - 91st Wimbledon Womens Tennis: M Navratilova beats Chris Evert (76 62)

1984 - Frankie Valli marries Randy Clohessy

1985 - 92nd Wimbledon Womens Tennis: M Navratilova beats C Evert (46 63 62)

1985 - Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Mazda Hall of Fame Golf Championship

1986 - IBM-PC DOS Version 3.2 (updated) released

1986 - It is reported Boy George is being treated for heroin addiction

1986 - Jordan government shuts al-Fatah offices

1986 - Supreme Court struck down Gramm-Rudman deficit-reduction law

1986 - US actress Deborah Hunter marries actor Michael Tylo

1987 - Alan & Colin Wells make 303* partnership for Sussex v Kent

1987 - Kiwanis Clubs end men-only tradition, vote to admit women

1987 - Lt Col Oliver North began public testimony at Iran-Contra hearing

1987 - Yanks trailing by 7 score 7 in 7th on 7/7 & 5 in 8th-Beat Twins 12-7

1988 - Soviet Union launches Phobos 1 to probe Martian moon (unsuccessful)

1988 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1990 - 97th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: M Navratilova beats Z Garrison (64 61)

1990 - NJ Devils sign Russians Viacheslav Fetisov & Sergei Starikov

1991 - 105th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Michael Stich beats B Becker (64 76 64)

1991 - Alice Miller wins LPGA Jamie Farr Toledo Golf Classic

1991 - Nolan Ryan possible 8th no-hitter ends in the 8th inning

1993 - Guntis Ulmanis elected president of Latvia

1993 - NY Met Anthony Young, loses his 26th straight game (goes to 27)

1993 - Phila Phillies beat SF Giants 7-6 in 20 innings

1993 - Prodigy announces it will offer Cox newspapers

1993 - Red Tom Browning decides to watch his team play at Wrigley Field from the roof of a building across Sheffield Ave, he is fined $500

1994 - "Les Miserables," opens at Imperial Theatre, Tokyo

1994 - Actress Diane Lane files for divorce from Christopher Lambert

1994 - North Yemenite troops occupy Aden

1995 - Memphis Mad Dogs 1st CFL home game (vs BC Lions)

1995 - Space shuttle STS-71 (Atlantis 14), lands

1996 - 110th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: R Krajicek beats M Washington (63 64 63)

1996 - 17th US Seniors Golf Open: Dave Stockton

1996 - Joan Pitcock wins LPGA Jamie Farr Kroger Golf Classic

1996 - Space Shuttle STS 78 (Columbia 20), lands

1997 - Tiger Woods wins golf's Western Open

1997 - Tower Minn temps dip to 24°F

1998 - 69th All Star Baseball Game: at Coors Field, Denver

2002 - A scandal breaks out in the United Kingdom when news reports accuse MI6 of sheltering Abu Qatada, the supposed European Al Qaeda leader.

2003 - The United Communist Party of Armenia is formed.

2005 - Coordinated terrorist bomb blasts strike London's public transport system during the morning rush hour killing 52 and injuring 700