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Events

• 1930 (96 years ago) The Finnish far-right Lapua Movement organises the Peasant March demonstration in Helsinki to put pressure on the government to prohibit communist activities.
• 1944 (82 years ago) World War II: Largest Banzai charge of the Pacific War at the Battle of Saipan.
• 1953 (73 years ago) Ernesto "Che" Guevara sets out on a trip through Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, and El Salvador.
• 1980 (46 years ago) Institution of sharia law in Iran.
• 1981 (45 years ago) US President Ronald Reagan nominates Sandra Day O'Connor to become the first female member of the Supreme Court of the United States.
• 1983 (43 years ago) Cold War: Samantha Smith, a United States schoolgirl, flies to the Soviet Union at the invitation of Secretary General Yuri Andropov.
• 1991 (35 years ago) Yugoslav Wars: The Brioni Agreement ends the ten-day independence war in Slovenia against the rest of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
• 2012 (14 years ago) At least 172 people are killed in a flash flood in the Krasnodar Krai region of Russia.

Births

• 1843 (183 years ago) Camillo Golgi, Italian physician and pathologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1926)
• 1860 (166 years ago) Gustav Mahler, Austrian composer and conductor (died 1911)
• 1882 (144 years ago) Yanka Kupala, Belarusian poet and writer (died 1941)
• 1899 (127 years ago) George Cukor, American director and producer (died 1983)
• 1901 (125 years ago) Vittorio De Sica, Italian actor and director (died 1974)
• 1907 (119 years ago) Robert A. Heinlein, American science fiction writer and screenwriter (died 1988)
• 1940 (86 years ago) Ringo Starr, English singer-songwriter, drummer, and actor
• 1949 (77 years ago) Shelley Duvall, American actress, writer, and producer (died 2024)

Deaths

• 1304 (722 years ago) Benedict XI, pope of the Catholic Church (born 1240)
• 1307 (719 years ago) Edward I, king of England (born 1239)
• 1901 (125 years ago) Johanna Spyri, Swiss author (born 1827)
• 1930 (96 years ago) Arthur Conan Doyle, British writer, creator of Sherlock Holmes (born 1859)
• 2006 (20 years ago) Syd Barrett, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1946)
• 2014 (12 years ago) Eduard Shevardnadze, Georgian general and politician, 2nd President of Georgia (born 1928)
• 2014 (12 years ago) Alfredo Di Stéfano, Argentinian-Spanish footballer and coach (born 1926)
• 2021 (5 years ago) Jovenel Moïse, Haitian entrepreneur and politician, President of Haiti (born 1968)

All 351 events, births and deaths of July 7