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Maine Fast Fact: In the legislative branch of the Maine state government, the Maine House of Representatives has 151 members and the Maine Senate has 35 members, which is responsible for introducing and passing laws.
Births:
- 1933: David McCullough, American author and historian
- 1940: Ringo Starr, English musician, singer and drummer for group The Beatles
- 1943: Joel Siegel, American film critic
- 1947: David Hodo, American musician, singer for the group The Village People
- 1949: Shelley Duvall, American actress
- 1960: Kevin A. Ford, American astronaut
- 1968: Jorja Fox, American actress, known for her work on the show CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
- 1972: Lisa Leslie, American basketball player for the WNBA
- 1980: Michelle Kwan, American figure skater; Dan Whitesides, American musician, drummer for the group The Used
Deaths:
- 1890: Henri Nestlé, German founder of the food and beverage company Nestlé, one of the first creators of milk chocolate
- 1967: Vivien Leigh, English actress, known for her roles as Scarlett O’Hara in Gone with the Wind and Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire
- 1990: Bill Cullen, American radio and television personality, hosted the original The Price is Right, The $25,000 Pyramid and Blockbusters
- 2006: Syd Barrett, English singer/songwriter, artist, guitarist and a founding member of the group Pink Floyd
- 2008: Dorian Leigh, American supermodel, one of the first fashion icons and supermodels
History:
- 1456: A retrial held by Pope Callixtus III acquits Joan of Arc of heresy that she was burned at the stake for 25 years earlier.
- 1846: American troops occupy Monterey and Yerba Buena during the Mexican-American War and the United States begins the conquest of California.
- 1863: The first military draft begins in the U.S. and exemptions cost $300.
- 1865: Four conspirators in President Abraham Lincoln’s assassination are hanged.
- 1898: President William McKinley signs the Newlands Resolution to make Hawaii a territory of the United States.
- 1928: Chillicothe Baking Company in Chillicothe, Missouri, sells the first loaves of sliced bread.
- 1941: U.S. forces land in Iceland to prevent an invasion in the country by Germany during World War II.
- 1946: Howard Hughes nearly dies when he crashes in a Beverly Hills neighborhood while flying his XF-11 spy plane
prototype. - 1954: Elvis Presley makes his radio debut when WHBQ, a radio station in Memphis, Tennessee, plays “That’s All Right,” Presley’s first record for Sun Records.
- 1958: President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the Alaska Statehood Act into law, admitting Alaska as a state in the U.S.
- 1969: The Official Languages Act is adopted into law by the Parliament in Canada, giving the French and English languages equal status in the Canadian government.
- 1978: The Solomon Islands declare its independence from the United Kingdom.
- 1981: President Ronald Reagan announces he is nominating Arizona Judge Sandra Day O’Connor to be the first female justice on the United States Supreme Court.
- 2003: The United Communist Party of Armenia is formed.
- 2005: Four terrorist bombings occur on London’s transport system, killing 56 people, including the four alleged suicide bombers.
- 2006: The Western Black Rhinoceros is declared extinct because of poaching.
July 7 is Independence Day in the Solomon Islands, celebrating the day the country gained its independence from the United Kingdom in 1978.
Today is also the fourth anniversary of the bombings on London’s public transport system. Four British Muslim men coordinated the suicide bomb attacks during the morning rush hour with three bombs exploding on three London Underground trains and the fourth exploding on a bus. The bombing killed 56 people, including the four bombers, injured 700 people and was the largest and deadliest terrorist attack on London’s transit system in history.
[photo: President Eisenhower (right) poses with two Alaskans after admitting Alaska as a state, www.eisenhower.archives.gov]
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