Sunday 7 July 2019 Calendar with holidays, observances and special days

Holidays and observances

• Tanabata in Japan (たなばた or 七夕, meaning "Evening of the seventh")
• Youth Day in Singapore

Events

• 2007 – The first Live Earth benefit concert was held in 11 locations around the world.
• 1981 – U.S. President Ronald Reagan appoints Sandra Day O'Connor to become the first female member of the Supreme Court of the United States.
• 1963 – Buddhist crisis: The police of Ngô Đình Nhu, brother and chief political adviser of President Ngô Đình Diệm, attacked a group of American journalists who were covering a protest.
• 1954 – Elvis Presley makes his radio debut when WHBQ Memphis played his first recording for Sun Records, "That's All Right".
• 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.
• 1946 – Mother Francesca S. Cabrini becomes the first American to be canonized.
• 1941 – The American occupation of Iceland replaces the British occupation.
• 1937 – The Peel Commission Report recommends the partition of Palestine - the first formal recommendation for partition in the history of Palestine
• 1928 – Sliced bread is sold for the first time (on the inventor's 48th birthday) by the Chillicothe Baking Company of Chillicothe, Missouri.
• 1916 – The New Zealand Labour Party was founded in Wellington.
• 1915 – The First Battle of the Isonzo comes to an end.
• 1911 – The United States, Great Britain, 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.
• 1907 – Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr. staged his first Follies on the roof of the New York Theater in New York City.
• 1898 – U.S. President William McKinley signs the Newlands Resolution annexing Hawaii as a territory of the United States.
• 1892 – The Katipunan is established, the discovery of which by Spanish authorities initiated the Philippine Revolution.
• 1863 – The United States begins its first military draft; exemptions cost $300.
• 1846 – American troops occupy Monterey and Yerba Buena, thus beginning the conquest of California.
• 1777 – American forces retreating from Fort Ticonderoga are defeated in the Battle of Hubbardton.
• 1534 – Jacques Cartier makes his first contact with aboriginal peoples in what is now Canada.

Births

• 1989 – Landon Cassill, American race car driver
• 1988 – Kaci Brown, American singer-songwriter
• 1986 – Ana Kasparian, American journalist and producer
• 1980 – John Buck, American baseball player
• 1980 – Michelle Kwan, American figure skater
• 1978 – Chris Andersen, American basketball player
• 1975 – Adam Nelson, American shot putter
• 1975 – Tony Benshoof, American luger
• 1972 – Kirsten Vangsness, American actress and writer
• 1972 – Lisa Leslie, American basketball player and actress
• 1971 – Christian Camargo, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 1969 – Cree Summer, American-Canadian actress
• 1968 – Jeff VanderMeer, American author and educator
• 1968 – Jorja Fox, American actress
• 1966 – Jim Gaffigan, American comedian, actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 1965 – Mo Collins, American actress, comedian and screenwriter
• 1963 – Vonda Shepard, American singer-songwriter and actress
• 1960 – Kevin A. Ford, American colonel and astronaut
• 1960 – Ralph Sampson, American basketball player and coach
• 1959 – Billy Campbell, American actor
• 1957 – Jonathan Dayton, American director and producer
• 1955 – Len Barker, American baseball player and coach
• 1949 – Shelley Duvall, American actress, writer, and producer
• 1947 – Howard Rheingold, American author and critic
• 1945 – Adele Goldberg, American computer scientist and academic
• 1944 – Emanuel Steward, American boxer and trainer (d. 2012)
• 1944 – Warren Entner, American pop-rock singer-songwriter, organist, and guitarist
• 1943 – Joel Siegel, American journalist and critic (d. 2007)
• 1941 – Nancy Farmer, American author
• 1938 – James Montgomery Boice, American pastor and theologian (d. 2000)
• 1933 – David McCullough, American historian and author
• 1932 – T. J. Bass, American physician and author (d. 2011)
• 1931 – David Eddings, American author and academic (d. 2009)
• 1930 – Hank Mobley, American saxophonist and composer (d. 1986)
• 1930 – Theodore Edgar McCarrick, American cardinal
• 1927 – Alan J. Dixon, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 34th Illinois Secretary of State (d. 2014)
• 1927 – Charlie Louvin, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2011)
• 1927 – Doc Severinsen, American trumpet player and conductor
• 1925 – Wally Phillips, American radio host (d. 2008)
• 1924 – Mary Ford, American singer and guitarist (d. 1977)
• 1922 – Alan Armer, American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2010)
• 1921 – Ezzard Charles, American boxer and bassist (d. 1975)
• 1918 – Bob Vanatta, American head basketball coach (d. 2016)
• 1917 – Iva Withers, Canadian-American actress and singer (d. 2014)
• 1915 – Margaret Walker, American novelist and poet (d. 1998)
• 1913 – Pinetop Perkins, American singer and pianist (d. 2011)
• 1911 – Gian Carlo Menotti, Italian-American composer (d. 2007)
• 1908 – Revilo P. Oliver, American author and academic (d. 1994)
• 1907 – Robert A. Heinlein, American science fiction writer and screenwriter (d. 1988)
• 1906 – Satchel Paige, American baseball player and coach (d. 1982)
• 1906 – William Feller, Croatian-American mathematician and academic (d. 1970)
• 1902 – Ted Radcliffe, American baseball player and manager (d. 2005)
• 1901 – Sam Katzman, American director and producer (d. 1973)
• 1900 – Earle E. Partridge, American general (d. 1990)
• 1899 – George Cukor, American director and producer (d. 1983)
• 1898 – Arnold Horween, American football player and coach (d. 1985)
• 1893 – Herbert Feis, American historian and author (d. 1972)
• 1891 – Virginia Rappe, American model and actress (d. 1921)
• 1880 – Otto Frederick Rohwedder, American engineer, invented sliced bread (d. 1960)
• 1861 – Nettie Stevens, American geneticist (d. 1912)
• 1851 – Charles Albert Tindley, American minister and composer (d. 1933)
• 1831 – Jane Elizabeth Conklin, American poet and religious writer (d. 1914)
• 1752 – Joseph Marie Jacquard, French merchant, invented the Jacquard loom (d. 1834)

Deaths

• 2015 – Bob MacKinnon, American basketball player and coach (b. 1927)
• 2013 – Ben Pucci, American football player and sportscaster (b. 1925)
• 2013 – Donald J. Irwin, American lawyer and politician, 32nd Mayor of Norwalk, Connecticut (b. 1926)
• 2013 – Robert Hamerton-Kelly, South African-American pastor, theologian, and author (b. 1938)
• 2012 – Dennis Flemion, American drummer (b. 1955)
• 2012 – Doris Neal, American baseball player (b. 1928)
• 2012 – Jerry Norman, American sinologist and linguist (b. 1936)
• 2011 – Allan W. Eckert, American historian and author (b. 1931)
• 2011 – Dick Williams, American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1929)
• 2008 – Bruce Conner, American sculptor, painter, and photographer (b. 1933)
• 2008 – Dorian Leigh, American model (b. 1917)
• 2006 – John Money, New Zealand-American psychologist and author (b. 1921)
• 2001 – Fred Neil, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1936)
• 2000 – Kenny Irwin Jr., American race car driver (b. 1969)
• 1999 – Julie Campbell Tatham, American author (b. 1908)
• 1994 – Cameron Mitchell, American actor (b. 1918)
• 1990 – Bill Cullen, American television panelist and game show host (b. 1920)
• 1984 – George Oppen, American poet and author (b. 1908)
• 1980 – Dore Schary, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1905)
• 1976 – Walter Giesler, American soccer player and referee (b. 1910)
• 1973 – Veronica Lake, American actress (b. 1922)
• 1964 – Lillian Copeland, American discus thrower and shot putter (b. 1904)
• 1950 – Fats Navarro, American trumpet player and composer (b. 1923)
• 1939 – Deacon White, American baseball player and manager (b. 1847)
• 1932 – Henry Eyster Jacobs, American theologian and educator (b. 1844)
• 1925 – Clarence Hudson White, American photographer and educator (b. 1871)
• 1922 – Cathal Brugha, Irish revolutionary and politician, active in the Easter Rising, Irish War of Independence; first Ceann Comhairle and first President of Dáil Éireann (b. 1874)
• 1913 – Edward Burd Grubb, Jr., American general and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Spain (b. 1841)
• 1890 – Henri Nestlé, German businessman, founded Nestlé (b. 1814)
• 1701 – William Stoughton, American judge and politician, Governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay (b. 1631)
• 1647 – Thomas Hooker, English minister, founded the Colony of Connecticut (b. 1586)
• 1573 – Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola, Italian architect, designed the Church of the Gesù and Villa Farnese (b. 1507)