Portal:United States/On this day/July 7
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Events
- 1777 - American Revolutionary War: Battle of Hubbardton
- 1798 - Quasi-War: The U.S. Congress rescinds treaties with France sparking the 'war.'
- 1846 - Mexican-American War: American troops occupy Monterey and Yerba Buena, thus beginning the United States conquest of California.
- 1863 - United States begins first military draft; exemptions cost $100.
- 1865 - American Civil War: Four conspirators in the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln were hanged.
- 1898 - President William McKinley signs the Newlands Resolution annexing Hawaii as a territory of the United States.
- 1930 - Industrialist Henry J. Kaiser begins construction of the Boulder Dam (now known as Hoover Dam).
- 1941 - World War II: American forces land in Iceland to forestall an invasion by Germany.
- 1946 - Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini becomes the first American to be canonized.
- 1946 - Howard Hughes nearly dies when his XF-11 spy plane prototype crashes in a Beverly Hills neighborhood.
- 1947 - Alleged and disputed Roswell UFO incident.
- 1958 - President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the Alaska Statehood Act into United States law.
- 1983 - Cold War: Samantha Smith, a U.S. schoolgirl, flies to the Soviet Union at the invitation of Secretary General Yuri Andropov.
