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UPI Almanac for Tuesday, July 7, 2015

Terrorists attack in London, Murray triumphs at Wimbledon, pope apologizes for "grave crimes" of "a sacrilegious cult" ... on this date in history.

By United Press International
Andy Murray serves in his championship match at Wimbledon in London July 7, 2013. Murray defeated Novak Djokovic to become the first British player in 77 years to win the Wimbledon men's singles title . File Photo by Hugo Philpott/UPI
1 of 9 | Andy Murray serves in his championship match at Wimbledon in London July 7, 2013. Murray defeated Novak Djokovic to become the first British player in 77 years to win the Wimbledon men's singles title . File Photo by Hugo Philpott/UPI | License Photo

Today is Tuesday, July 7, the 188th day of 2015 with 177 to follow.

The moon is waning. Morning stars are Mars, Mercury, Nepune and Uranus. Evening stars are Jupiter, Saturn and Venus.

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Those born on this date are under the sign of Cancer. They include Austrian composer Gustav Mahler in 1860; Russian-born painter Marc Chagall in 1887; film director George Cukor in 1899; film director Vittorio De Sica in 1901; baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Leroy "Satchel" Paige in 1906; zither player Anton Karas ("The Third Man") in 1906; science fiction author Robert Heinlein in 1907; composer Gian Carlo Menotti in 1911; Chicago 7 defense lawyer William Kunstler in 1919; Ezzard Charles, heavyweight boxing champion, in 1921; French fashion designer Pierre Cardin in 1922 (age 93); bandleader Doc Severinsen in 1927 (age 88); singer Mary Ford in 1924; historian David McCullough in 1933 (age 82); former Beatle Ringo Starr in 1940 (age 75); film critic Joel Siegel in 1943; actor Joe Spano in 1946 (age 69); actor Shelley Duvall in 1949 (age 66); actor Billy Campbell in 1959 (age 56); figure skater Michelle Kwan in 1980 (age 35).

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On this date in history:

In 1846, U.S. Navy Commodore J.D. Sloat proclaimed the annexation of California by the United States.

In 1865, four people convicted of conspiring with John Wilkes Booth in the assassination of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln were hanged in Washington.

In 1898, U.S. President William McKinley signed a joint resolution of Congress authorizing the annexation of Hawaii by the United States.

In 1946, Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini (1850-1917) became the first American to be canonized a saint in the Roman Catholic Church.

In 1981, Sandra Day O'Connor was chosen by U.S. President Ronald Reagan to become the first woman on the U.S. Supreme Court. (She was unanimously approved by the Senate.)

In 1999, a Miami-Dade County jury held the leading tobacco companies liable for various illnesses of Florida smokers. The class-action lawsuit, filed in 1994, was the first of its kind to reach trial.

In 2003, actor and dancer Buddy Ebsen, known to millions of TV fans as Jed Clampett of the "Beverly Hillbillies" and detective Barnaby Jones, died in Southern California. He was 95.

In 2005, terrorists struck the London transit system, setting off explosions in three subway cars and a double-decker bus in coordinated rush-hour attacks. Fifty-two people were killed and more than 700 injured.

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In 2009, thousands of figures from the worlds of entertainment, politics, sports and activism jammed into Los Angeles' Staples Center and about 250,000 others gathered outside the building for a public memorial service for pop icon Michael Jackson.

In 2010, a Paris court sentenced former Panama ruler Manuel Noriega to seven years in prison for money laundering. He was convicted of funneling about $3 million of Colombian drug money into French bank accounts.

In 2011, a federal appeals court barred further enforcement of the U.S. military's ban on openly gay service members, with the "don't ask, don't tell" policy scheduled to end on repeal in September.

In 2012, U.S. Rep. Barney Frank of Massachusetts married his longtime partner, Jim Ready, in a ceremony officiated by Gov. Deval Patrick.

In 2013, Andy Murray became the first British player in 77 years to win the men's singles title at Wimbledon, defeating Serb Novak Djokovic in straight sets in the championship match.

In 2014, Pope Francis met at the Vatican with six people -- two each from Britain, Germany and Ireland -- who were sexually abused by Catholic priests. The pope expressed his sorrow and apologized to the victims. He said priests who abuse children are like members "of a sacrilegious cult" who commit "sins and grave crimes."

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A thought for the day: Benjamin Franklin wrote, "We are all born ignorant but one must work hard to remain stupid."

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