July 7

Today in History
• 1456 - A retrial verdict acquits Joan of Arc of heresy 25 years after her death
• 1498 - Emperor Maximilian I establishes choir of Imperial Chapel
• 1550 - Traditional date Chocolate thought to have been introduced to Europe
• 1585 - King Henri III signs Treaty of Nemours: French Huguenots loose all freedoms
• 1607 - "God Save the King" is 1st sung
• 1754 - Kings College in New York City opens (renamed Columbia College)
• 1802 - 1st comic book "The Wasp" is published in Hudson, New York
• 1863 - 1st military draft by US (exemptions cost $100)


Holidays - Traditional and Obscure
• Comic Sans Day
• George Town Heritage Day in Penang
• National Day of Rock ‘n’ Roll
• National Strawberry Sundae Day
• Saba Saba Day in Tanzania
• Solomon Islands Independence Day
• Tell the Truth Day
• World Chocolate Day

Birthdays
• 1053 - Shirakawa, 72nd Emperor of Japan (1072-87)
• 1119 - Sutoku, 75th Emperor of Japan (1123-42)
• 1540 - John Sigismund Zápolya, King of Hungary as John II (1540-51, 1556-70)
• 1586 - Thomas Howard, 21st Earl of Arundel, English statesman
• 1656 - Guru Har Krishan, 8th Guru of Sikhism
• 1752 - Joseph Marie Jacquard, weaver and merchant who invented the programmable loom
• 1843 - Camillo Golgi, Italy, physician, cytologist, Nobel 1906
• 1880 - Otto Frederick Rohwedder, (invented the bread-slicing machine)