July 7

This day in history:

• 1907 – Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. staged his first Follies on the roof of the New York Theater in New York City.
• 2003 – NASA Opportunity rover, MER-B or Mars Exploration Rover–B, was launched into space aboard a Delta II rocket.
• 1981 – US President Ronald Reagan nominates Sandra Day O'Connor to become the first female member of the Supreme Court of the United States.
• 2012 – At least 172 people are killed in a flash flood in the Krasnodar Krai region of Russia.

Births:

• 1941 – John Fru Ndi, Cameroonian politician (died 2023)
• 1893 – Miroslav Krleža, Croatian author, poet, and playwright (died 1981)
• 1941 – Michael Howard, Welsh lawyer and politician

Deaths:

• 1593 – Mohammed Bagayogo, Malian scholar and academic (born 1523)
• 1978 – Francisco Mendes, Guinea-Bissau lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Guinea-Bissau (born 1933)
• 1790 – François Hemsterhuis, Dutch philosopher and author (born 1721)

Holidays:

• Saba Saba Day (Tanzania)
• Tanabata (Japan)
• World Chocolate Day

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