As we speak is Monday, July 7, the 188th day of 2024. There are 177 days left within the 12 months.
As we speak in historical past:
On July 7, 1981, President Ronald Reagan introduced he was nominating Arizona Decide Sandra Day O’Connor to change into the primary feminine justice on the U.S. Supreme Court docket.
Additionally on this date:
In 1865, 4 individuals have been hanged in Washington, D.C. for conspiring with John Wilkes Sales space to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln: Lewis Powell, David Herold, George Atzerodt and Mary Surratt, the primary lady to be executed by the federal authorities.
In 1898, President William McKinley signed the Newlands Decision, approving the annexation of the Republic of Hawaii.
In 1930, development started on Boulder Dam (recognized at present as Hoover Dam).
In 1976, the US Navy Academy at West Level included feminine cadets for the primary time as 119 ladies joined the Class of 1980.
In 1990, the primary “Three Tenors” live performance happened as opera stars Luciano Pavarotti, Placido Domingo and Jose Carreras carried out amid the brick ruins of Rome’s Baths of Caracalla on the eve of the FIFA World Cup ultimate.
In 2005, terrorist bombings in three Underground stations and a double-decker bus killed 52 individuals and 4 bombers within the worst assault on London since World Battle II.
In 2010, Los Angeles police arrested and charged Lonnie Franklin Jr. within the metropolis’s “Grim Sleeper” serial killings. (Franklin, who was sentenced to demise for the killings of 9 ladies and a teenage lady, died in jail in March 2020 on the age of 67.)
In 2013, Andy Murray turned the primary British man in 77 years to win the Wimbledon title, beating Novak Djokovic within the ultimate.
In 2016, Micah Johnson, a Black Military veteran who served in Afghanistan, opened hearth on Dallas police, killing 5 officers in an act of vengeance for the deadly police shootings of Black males; the assault ended with Johnson being killed by a bomb delivered by a police robotic.
In 2021, a squad of gunmen assassinated Haitian President Jovenel Moïse and wounded his spouse in an in a single day raid on their residence.
As we speak’s Birthdays:
- Musician-conductor Doc Severinsen is 98.
- Former Beatle Ringo Starr is 85.
- World Golf Corridor of Famer Tony Jacklin is 81.
- Actor Joe Spano is 79.
- Actor Roz Ryan is 74.
- Actor Billy Campbell is 66.
- Basketball Corridor of Famer Ralph Sampson is 65.
- Singer-songwriter Vonda Shepard is 62.
- Actor-comedian Jim Gaffigan is 59.
- Actor Amy Carlson is 57.
- Actor Jorja Fox is 57.
- Actor Robin Weigert is 56.
- Basketball Corridor of Famer Lisa Leslie is 53.
- Actor Kirsten Vangsness (“Criminal Minds”) is 53.
- Actor Berenice Bejo (BEH’-ruh-nees BAY’-hoh) (Movie: “The Artist”) is 49.
- Actor Hamish Linklater is 49.
- Olympic determine skating medalist Michelle Kwan is 45.
- Guitarist Synyster Gates (Avenged Sevenfold) is 44.
- Pop singer Ally Brooke (Fifth Concord) (TV: “The X Factor”) is 32.
- Pop musician Ashton Irwin (5 Seconds to Summer season) is 31.
- Nation singer Maddie Font (Maddie and Tae) is 30.
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