TODAY IN HISTORY

On July 7, 1865, four people were hanged in Washington, D.C. for conspiring with John Wilkes Booth to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln: Lewis Powell (a.k.a. Lewis Payne), David Herold, George Atzerodt and Mary Surratt, the first woman to be executed by the federal government.

Also on this date In 1846,

U.S. annexation of California was proclaimed at Monterey after the surrender of a Mexican garrison.

In 1898,

Hawaii.

In 1937,

the Second Sino-Japanese War erupted into full-scale conflict as Japanese forces attacked the Marco Polo Bridge in Beijing.

U.S. forces took up positions in Iceland, Trinidad and British Guiana to forestall any Nazi invasion, even though the United States had not yet entered the Second World War.

six female U.S. Navy reservists became the first women to be sworn in to the regular Navy.

Elvis Presley made his radio debut as Memphis, Tennessee, station WHBQ played his first recording for Sun Records, “That’s All Right.”

the United States Military Academy included female cadets for the first time as 119 women joined the Class of 1980.

President Ronald Reagan announced he was nominating Arizona Judge Sandra Day O’Connor to become the first female justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.

In 2005,

the United States annexed

In 1941,

In 1948,

In 1954,

In 1976,

In 1981,

terrorist bombings in three Underground stations and a double-decker bus killed 52 victims and four bombers in the worst attack on London since World War II.

In 2009,

about 20,000 people gathered inside Staples Center in Los Angeles for a memorial service honoring the late Michael Jackson.

In Philadelphia, a disabled sightseeing “duck boat” adrift in the Delaware River was struck by a barge and capsized; two tourists died.

Subway said it had agreed with Jared Fogle to suspend their relationship after the home of the sandwich chain’s longtime pitchman was raided by federal and state investigators. (Fogle later pleaded guilty to distributing and receiving child porn and traveling to engage in illicit sexual conduct with a child, and was sentenced to more than 15 years in prison.)

The Navy announced that Adm. William Moran, who had been set to become the Navy’s top officer, would instead retire, a move prompted by what Navy Secretary Richard Spencer described as poor judgment regarding a professional relationship.

Associated Press

GETTY IMAGES An injured commuter is helped after several bomb blasts ripped across London’s underground network on July 7, 2005.