July 7 - What happened today?

Home What happened today in history? Blamepro's Almanac for July 7
In the headlines today:

2006	Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, second movie in the Disney trilogy, starring Johnny Depp and Orlando Bloom, makes its US and Canadian premiere.
2002	The sci-fi comedy Men in Black II, starring Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones, sets a record for the highest-grossing film ($90 million) ever to debut over a 4th of July weekend.
2000	Auto racer Kenny Irwin dies at age 30 after hitting the wall during practice at New Hampshire International Speedway.
1985	17-year-old German tennis player Boris Becker becomes the youngest player ever to win the men's Wimbledon single tennis title.
1981	US president Ronald Reagan nominates Sandra Day O'Connor to be the first female Supreme Court Justice.
1958		President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the Alaska statehood bill. (photo credit: Times Books)
1946	Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini becomes the first sainted US citizen.
1930	Construction begins on Hoover Dam in Nevada.
1930	Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, author of the Sherlock Holmes series, dies.
1898	Hawaii is annexed by the US.
1865	Four convicted conspirators of John Wilkes Booth are hanged for their part in the assassination of US president Abraham Lincoln
1846	Monterey, California, is captured and annexed to the US.