Historical timeline for July 7

Boris Johnson announces his resignation as leader of the Conservative Party following days of pressure from the Members of Parliament (MPs) during the July 2022 United Kingdom government crisis.

Haitian crisis: Haitian President Jovenel Moïse is assassinated in his residence in the capital of Port-au-Prince.

The United States defeated the Netherlands 2–0 at the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup final in Lyon, France.

The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons was adopted with 122 countries voting in favour.

Ex-US Army soldier Micah Xavier Johnson shoots fourteen policemen, killing five of them, in downtown Dallas, Texas at the end of a protest of recent police killings of Black men. He is subsequently killed by a robot-delivered bomb.

A De Havilland Otter air taxi crashes in Soldotna, Alaska, killing ten people.

At least 172 people are killed in a flash flood in the Krasnodar Krai region of Russia.

A man goes on a killing spree in Grand Rapids, Michigan, killing seven and wounding two before killing himself.

The first Live Earth benefit concert was held in 11 locations around the world.

A shootout happens in Spiritwood, Canada, killing two Royal Canadian Mounted Police and wounding a third officer.

A series of four explosions occurs on London's transport system, killing 56 people, including four suicide bombers, and injuring over 700 others.

NASA Opportunity rover, MER-B or Mars Exploration Rover–B, was launched into space aboard a Delta II rocket.

The Turkish Armed Forces withdraw from northern Iraq after assisting the Kurdistan Democratic Party in the Iraqi Kurdish Civil War.

The New York Court of Appeals rules that women have the same right as men to go topless in public.

Yugoslav Wars: The Brioni Agreement ends the ten-day independence war in Slovenia against the rest of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

Boris Becker becomes the youngest male player ever to win Wimbledon at age 17.

Cold War: Samantha Smith, a United States schoolgirl, flies to the Soviet Union at the invitation of Secretary General Yuri Andropov.

US President Ronald Reagan nominates Sandra Day O'Connor to become the first female member of the Supreme Court of the United States.

Institution of sharia law in Iran.

During the Lebanese Civil War, 83 Tiger militants are killed during what will be known as the Safra massacre.