EVENTS:
- 1915 – An International Railway trolley with an extreme overload of 157 passengers crashes near Queenston, Ontario, killing 15.
- 1930 – Industrialist Henry J. Kaiser begins construction of the Boulder Dam (now known as Hoover Dam).
- 1946 – Howard Hughes nearly dies when his XF-11 reconnaissance aircraft prototype crashes in a Beverly Hills neighborhood.
- 1978 – The Solomon Islands becomes independent from the United Kingdom
- 2005 – A series of four explosions occurs on London’s transport system killing 56 people including four alleged suicide bombers and injuring over 700 others.
- 2012 – At least 172 people are killed in a flash flood in the Krasnodar Krai region of Russia.
- 2013 – A De Havilland Otter air taxi crashes in Soldotna, Alaska, killing ten people.
- 2016 – Former U.S. Army soldier Micah Xavier Johnson shoots fourteen policemen during an anti-police protest in downtown Dallas, Texas, killing five of them. He is subsequently killed by a robot-delivered bomb.
- 2019 – The United States women’s national soccer team defeated the Netherlands 2–0 at the 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup Final in Lyon, France.
- 2022 – Boris Johnson announces his resignation as leader of the Conservative Party following days of pressure from the Members of Parliament (MPs) during the July 2022 United Kingdom government crisis.
BIRTHS:
- 1843 – Camillo Golgi, Italian physician, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1926)
- 1880 – Otto Frederick Rohwedder, American engineer, invented sliced bread (d. 1960)
- 1930 – John Little, Scottish footballer
- 1976 – Dominic Foley, Irish footballer
- 1981 – Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Indian cricketer
- 1983 – Justin Davies, Australian footballer
- 1984 – Mohammad Ashraful, Bangladeshi cricketer
- 1987 – Carly Telford, English footballer
- 1990 – Pascal Stöger, Austrian footballer
- 1999 – Moussa Diaby, French footballer
HOLIDAYS and OBSERVANCES:
- Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Solomon Islands from the United Kingdom in 1978.
- Saba Saba Day (Tanzania)
- Tanabata (Japan)
- World Chocolate Day
