On July 7
On July 7, 2 pivotal events are recorded in the Human Saga, including Second Sino-Japanese War and the Nanjing Massacre (1937).
On this day
Full-scale war between China and Japan erupted after the Marco Polo Bridge (Lugou Bridge) Incident near Beijing on 7 July 1937, when a clash between Japanese and Chinese troops escalated into a Japanese invasion of the Chinese heartland.
On 17 January 1893 a Committee of Safety dominated by American and European business interests, backed by the landing of US Marines from the USS Boston ordered by minister John L.
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On 4 July 1776 the Second Continental Congress, meeting in Philadelphia, adopted the Declaration of Independence, severing the political bonds between the thirteen colonies and Great Britain.
On 6 July 1885 the French chemist Louis Pasteur, with physicians Jacques-Joseph Grancher and Alfred Vulpian, administered an experimental rabies vaccine to nine-year-old Joseph Meister, who had been severely bitten by a rabid dog days…
On 5 July 1996, scientists at the Roslin Institute near Edinburgh, Scotland, produced Dolly, the first mammal cloned from an adult somatic cell.
The African Union (AU) was formally launched on 9 July 2002 in Durban, South Africa, succeeding the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) that had been founded in 1963.
On 10 July 2008 Apple opened the App Store with around 500 applications, providing a single, curated platform where outside developers could distribute software directly to iPhone users and share in the revenue.
On 6 July 2018 the United States imposed 25% tariffs on 34 billion US dollars of Chinese imports, the first phase of a broader package, and China retaliated immediately with equivalent duties on American goods such as soybeans, pork and…
The United Kingdom's general election delivered a landslide majority to Keir Starmer's Labour Party, ending fourteen years of Conservative government.