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Events on July 7

• 1880 Konrad Duden's Complete Orthographic Dictionary of the German Language is published by Bibliographisches Institut in Leipzig.
• 1909 Kaiser Wilhelm II. appoints Theobald von Bethmann Holleng as the successor to the resigned Bernhard von Bülow to the office of Chancellor of the German Reich.
• 1927 The German Reichstag passes the Law on Job Placement and Unemployment Insurance.
• 1932 Kurt Stöpel wins the Yellow Jersey as the first German racing cyclist.
• 1944 A heavy American air raid strikes Leipzig.
• 1956 The German Bundestag passes the Conscription Act.
• 1974 Germany becomes football world champions for the second time with a 2:1 victory over the Netherlands in the final of the 1974 FIFA World Cup.
• 1976 The first German women's refuge opens in West Berlin.
• 1985 Boris Becker wins at Wimbledon as the first German, the first unseeded and the youngest tennis player.
• 1989 Die Fantastischen Vier give their first live performance on a stage they built themselves out of Euro pallets in a former kindergarten.
• 2005 Four terrorists detonate explosives on the London Underground near Edgware Road and Liverpool Street stations, between King’s Cross St. Pancras and Russell Square, as well as on a bus. 56 people are killed in the attack, and more than 700 are injured.
• 2017 The G20 summit in Hamburg, bringing together the group of the twenty most important industrial and emerging countries (G20) with a focus on free trade and environmental issues, begins in Hamburg. It is accompanied by serious acts of violence in the city center.

Born on July 7

• 1855 Ludwig Ganghofer, German writer
• 1860 Gustav Mahler, Austrian conductor and composer
• 1901 Vittorio De Sica, Italian actor and film director
• 1901 Gustav Knuth, German actor
• 1940 Wolfgang Clement, German politician
• 1940 Ringo Starr, British musician
• 1952 Ulli Potofski, German television presenter
• 1960 Jochen Behle, German cross-country skier and national team coach
• 1970 Erik Zabel, German racing cyclist
• 1992 Toni Garrn, German model

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „7. Juli“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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