On This Day: July 7th

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.