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July 7th
1846 ~ Commodore Sloat ordered his troops to occupy Monterey and Yerba Buena, beginning the U.S. annexation of California.
1860 ~ Birthday of Gustav Mahler, Austrian Composer.
1887 ~ Birthday of Marc Chagall, Russian-born Painter.
1898 ~ U.S. President William McKinley signs the Newlands Resolution which annexed Hawaii as a territory.
1907 ~ Birthday of Robert Heinlein, Science Fiction Writer.
1930 ~ Death of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Scottish Writer.
1940 ~ Birthday of Ringo Starr, Beatle.
1958 ~ U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower signed the Alaska Statehood Act.
1978 ~ The Solomon Islands gains independence from the U.K.
1994 ~ Aden was occupied by troops from North Yemen, completing the reunification of Yemen.
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