Today is July 7, the 188th day of 2026. On this day in history, President Ronald Reagan announced he was nominating Arizona Judge Sandra Day O’Connor to become the first female justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.
Historical Events
In 1865, four people were hanged in Washington, D.C., for conspiring with John Wilkes Booth to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln. In 1898, President William McKinley signed the Newlands Resolution, approving the annexation of the Republic of Hawaii.
In 1930, construction began on Boulder Dam, known today as Hoover Dam. In 1976, the United States Military Academy at West Point included female cadets for the first time as 119 women joined the Class of 1980.
In 1990, the first ‘Three Tenors’ concert took place as opera stars Luciano Pavarotti, Placido Domingo, and Jose Carreras performed amid the brick ruins of Rome’s Baths of Caracalla on the eve of the FIFA World Cup final.
In 2005, terrorist bombings in three Underground stations and a double-decker bus killed 52 people and four bombers in the worst attack on London since World War II.
Original reporting: Texarkana Gazette — read the source article.
