7th July – What Happened Today In History?

What Happened Today In History?

Find out what happened on 7th July in History. There are a lot many happenings which had taken place on this date in the pages of Indian History, here we have listed some of the very important events occurred on 7th July.
Famous Birthdays in History on this day:

Mahendra Singh Dhoni pronunciation (help·info) (born 7 July 1981) is an Indian cricketer and the current captain of the Indian national cricket team and the Chennai Super Kings cricket team. He made his One Day International (ODI) debut in December 2004 against Bangladesh, and a year later played his first Test, this time against Sri Lanka.
Kailash Kher (born 7 July 1973) is an Indian pop-rock singer with a music style influenced by Indian folk music. He has sung in 18 languages for regional films, and over now 300 songs for the Bollywood. He was inspired by the Qawwali singer Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and the classical musician Pandit Kumar Gandharva. They remain his inspirations.
Manjot Singh (born July 7, 1992) is a Indian Bollywood actor, most famous for his role in the 2008 film Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye! as the young Lucky. Manjot Singh was born in a Sikh family. His father is a doctor and mother is in government service. Manjot’s father came to know that Paramjot Singh and his team were in Delhi scouting for actors and asked his son if he wanted to try it out.

Death anniversaries on 7th July:

Raghu Raj Bahadur (30 April 1924 – 7 July 1997) was an Indian-American mathematical statistician considered by peers to be “one of the architects of the modern theory of mathematical statistics”. He published numerous papers and is best known for the concept of “Bahadur Efficiency”. The Anderson-Bahadur algorithm is used in statistics and engineering for solving binary classification problems.
Rasika Joshi (12 September 1972 – 7 July 2011) was a noted Marathi and Hindi film actress. A celebrated Marathi theatre and Indian television actress, she was known for Maharashtrian roleplays in Bollywood movies. Rasika was born in a Marathi Brahmin family in Mumbai. She began her career with A Marathi play by Lata Narvekar. Her last movie wasRam Gopal Verma names Not A Love Story.
Captain Vikram Batra PVC (September 9, 1974 – July 7, 1999) was an officer of the Indian Army, posthumously awarded the Param Vir Chakra, India’s highest award for valour, for his actions during the 1999 Kargil War in Kashmir between India and Pakistan. Vikram Batra was born on September 9, 1974 in Ghuggar village near Palampur, Himachal Pradesh, to Mr. G.L. Batra and Mrs. Jai Kamal Batra.

Notable Events:
1763 – Britishers declared Mir Jafer as Nawab of Bengal.
1799 – Ranjit Singh captured Lahore in Punjab from Sikh rulers.
1855 – As many as 30,000, people went to Calcutta along with weapons to fight the British army.
1896 – The premier show of the ‘Marvel of the Century’, first cinema show India, arranged by the Representatives of French Lumiere brothers- Louis and August Lumiere, was held at Watson Hotel in Bombay