| 1742 | A Spanish force invading Georgia runs headlong into the colony's British defenders. The battle decides the fate of a colony. | |
| 1777 | American troops give up Fort Ticonderoga, on Lake Champlain, to the British. | |
| 1791 | Benjamin Rush, Richard Allen and Absalom Jones found the Non-denominational African Church. | |
| 1795 | Thomas Paine defends the principal of universal suffrage at the Constitutional Convention in Paris. | |
| 1798 | Napoleon Bonaparte's army begins its march towards Cairo from Alexandria. | |
| 1807 | Czar Alexander meets with Napoleon Bonaparte. | |
| 1814 | Sir Walter Scott's novel Waverley is published anonymously so as not to damage his reputation as a poet. | |
| 1815 | After defeating Napoleon at Waterloo, the victorious Allies march into Paris. | |
| 1853 | Japan opens its ports to trade with the West after 250 years of isolation. | |
| 1863 | Confederate General Robert E. Lee, in Hagerstown, Maryland, reports his defeat at Gettysburg to President Jefferson Davis. | |
| 1925 | Afrikaans is recognized as one of the official languages of South Africa, along with English and Dutch. | |
| 1927 | Christopher Stone becomes the first British 'disc jockey' when he plays records for the BBC. | |
| 1941 | Although a neutral country, the United States sends troops to occupy Iceland to keep it out of Germany's hands. | |
| 1943 | Adolf Hitler makes the V-2 missile program a top priority in armament planning. | |
| 1966 | The U.S. Marine Corps launches Operation Hasting to drive the North Vietnamese Army back across the Demilitarized Zone in Vietnam. | |
| 1969 | The first U.S. units to withdraw from South Vietnam leave Saigon. | |
| 1981 | Sandra Day O'Connor becomes the first woman to serve on the Supreme Court. | |
| Born on July 7 | ||
| 1752 | Joseph-Marie Jacquard, French inventor, textile industry pioneer. | |
| 1860 | Gustav Mahler, composer and conductor. | |
| 1887 | Marc Chagall, French painter and designer. | |
| 1906 | Leroy "Satchel" Page, baseball pitcher. | |
| 1940 | Ringo Starr, musician, one of the Beatles. | |
