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7 July
- 🇮🇳 In India
- 1758 Raja Martanda Verma, the creator of modern Travancore, died.
- 1799 Maharaja Ranjit Singh captured Lahore.
- 1896 Cinema's entry into India. The Lumière brothers performed films for the first time at Mumbai's Watson Hotel.
- 1974 Captain Vikram Batra, officer of the Indian Army, was born. He was posthumously awarded the Param Vir Chakra, the highest military decoration of the Republic of India, for his actions during the 1999 Kargil War.
- 1981 Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Indian professional cricketer, was born. He was captain of the Indian national cricket team in limited-overs formats from 2007 to 2017 and in Test cricket from 2008 to 2014.
- 2007 A global poll picked the Great Wall of China, Rome's Colosseum, India's Taj Mahal, Peru’s Macchu Picchu, Jordan’s Petra, Brazil's Statue of Christ Redeemer and Mexico's Chichen Itza pyramid as the new seven wonders of the world. The campaign to name the new wonders was launched in 1999 by the Swiss adventurer Bernard Weber.
- 🌎 Elsewhere
- 1815 After defeating Napoleon at Waterloo, the victorious Allies march into Paris.
- 1925 Afrikaans is recognized as one of the official languages of South Africa, along with English and Dutch.
- 1930 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, British writer and physician, died. He created the character Sherlock Holmes in 1887 for A Study in Scarlet, the first of four novels and fifty-six short stories about Holmes and Dr. Watson. The Sherlock Holmes stories are milestones in the field of crime fiction.
- 1978 The Solomon Islands became an independent nation.
- 1985 Boris Becker became the youngest person to win Wimbledon at age 17 after beating American Kevin Curren.
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