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Here are some interesting facts ih history happened on 7 July.

1. Isaac Newton receives his M.Afrom Trinity College Cambridge.
2. Kings College in NYC opens. School later renamed Columbia College
3. Central American federation is dissolved.
4. US annexs Calif
5. 4 people hunged in Wash DC convicted of conspiring with John W Booth
6. Travelers cheque patented
7. US annexes Hawaii
8. Great White Fleet leaves SF Bay
9. Construction began on Boulder (Hoover) Dam
10. US forces land in Iceland to forestall Nazi invasion
11. Mother Frances X Cabrini canonized as 1st American saint
12. `Dragnet' premiers on NBC radio. A TV series in 1951 & in 1967
13. Pres Eisenhower signs Alaska statehood bill
14. Vivian Leigh dies at 53
15. Apollo 15 returned 12d /7 hr/11 min/53 sec.
16. Veronica Lake dies at 58
17. Solomon Is gains independence from Britain (National Day).
18. 1st solar-powered aircraft crosses English Channel.
19. Az Judge Sandra Day O'Connor 1 female nominated on Supreme Court
20. Supreme Court struck down Gramm-Rudman deficit-reduction law
21. Yanks trailing by 7 score 7 in 7th on 7/7 & 5 in 8th-Beat Twins 12-7
22. Kiwanis Clubs end men-only tradition vote to admit women

These famous people were born on 7 July.

1. 1752 - Joseph-Marie Jacquard, invented the programmable loom
2. 1843 - Camillo Golgi, Italian physician, cytologist (Nobel 1906).
3. 1860 - Gustav Mahler, Bohemian composer
4. 1887 - Marc Chagall, in Vitebsk Russia, artist
5. 1906 - Satchel Paige, never look back.
6. 1907 - Robert A Heinlein, Sci-Fi author
7. 1911 - Gian Carlo Menotti, composer (Amahl and the Night Visitors).
8. 1917 - Lawrence F. O'Brien, (Watergate conspirators broke into his office).
9. 1919 - William Kunstler, Attorney
10. 1921 - Ezzard Charles, world heavyweight boxing champion (1950-51).
11. 1922 - Pierre Cardin, Fashion designer
12. 1923 - Jean Kerr, novelist (Please Don't Eat the Daisies).
13. 1927 - Carl (Doc) Severinson, band leader, trumpet player.
14. 1927 - Alan Dixon, (Sen-D-Ill)
15. 1940 - Ringo Starr, Beatle.
16. 1946 - Joe Spano, (Hill St Blues-Det Goldblum)
17. 1947 - Joe LeClerc
18. 1948 - Fred Brown, Seattle SuperSonic.
19. 1949 - Shelley Duvall