WHAT HAPPENED ON 7. JULY
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Militia officer Henry Pedris executed by firing squad at Colombo, Ceylon - an act widely regarded as a miscarriage of justice by the British colonial authorities. (7. July 1915)

Sliced bread is sold for the first time (on the inventor's 48th birthday) by the Chillicothe Baking Company of Chillicothe, Missouri. (7. July 1928)

Industrialist Henry J. Kaiser begins construction of the Boulder Dam (now known as Hoover Dam). (7. July 1930)

Second Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Lugou Bridge – Japanese forces invade Beijing, China. (7. July 1937)

World War II: U.S. forces land in Iceland, taking over from an earlier British occupation. (7. July 1941)

World War II: Beirut is occupied by Free France and British troops. (7. July 1941)

World War II: Largest Banzai charge of the Pacific War at the Battle of Saipan. (7. July 1944)

Mother Francesca S. Cabrini becomes the first American to be canonized. (7. July 1946)

Howard Hughes nearly dies when his XF-11 reconnaissance aircraft prototype crashes in a Beverly Hills neighborhood. (7. July 1946)

The Roswell incident, the (supposed) crash of an alien spaceship near Roswell in New Mexico. (7. July 1947)

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. (7. July 1952)

Ernesto "Che" Guevara sets out on a trip through Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, and El Salvador. (7. July 1953)

Elvis Presley makes his radio debut when WHBQ Memphis played his first recording for Sun Records, "That's All Right." (7. July 1954)

Fritz Moravec and two other Austrian mountaineers make the first ascent of Gasherbrum II (8,035 m). (7. July 1956)

U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the Alaska Statehood Act into law. (7. July 1958)

Venus occults the star Regulus. This rare event is used to determine the diameter of Venus and the structure of the Venusian atmosphere. (7. July 1959)

The Solomon Islands becomes independent from the United Kingdom (7. July 1978)

Institution of sharia in Iran. (7. July 1980)

During the Lebanese Civil War, 83 Tiger militants are killed during what will be known as the Safra massacre. (7. July 1980)

U.S. President Ronald Reagan appoints Sandra Day O'Connor to become the first female member of the Supreme Court of the United States. (7. July 1981)