On This Day — July 7

Here are some of the most significant historical events that happened on July 7.

• 2022: 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.
• 2021: Haitian crisis: Haitian President Jovenel Moïse is assassinated in his residence in the capital of Port-au-Prince.
• 2019: The United States defeated the Netherlands 2–0 at the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup final in Lyon, France.
• 2017: The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons was adopted with 122 countries voting in favour.
• 2016: 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.

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