Every year since 2001 we have had stories to mark 010101, 020202, 030303, etc. Now we have 070707.
Yes, another day that appears only once in a lifetime is here. Whether you’re buying a can of 7 UP from the 7-Eleven store or naming the seven colors of the rainbow, the number seven appears repeatedly in everything from refreshments to religion.
As William Shakespeare said in As You Like It, a man’s life consists of seven age: infancy, childhood, adolescence, adulthood, middle age, old age and dotage. So, at some point in life, you’re bound to encounter the number SEVEN.
So let me start with some famous people born July 7
-Emperor Shirakawa of Japan (who died age 76 in 1129)
-Marc Chagall, Belorussian-born French painter, printmaker and designer (died age 097 in 1985)
-Michelle Kwan, 27, American figure skater
-Vonda Shepard, 44, singer/song writer for Ally Mcbeal
-Pierre Cardin, 85, French fashion designer
Today in history
1946 – Italian-born Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini was canonized as the first American saint
1978 – The Solomon Island become independent from the UK
1981 – President Reagan announced he was nominating Arizona Judge Sandra Day O’Connor to become the first female justice of the US Supreme Court
1990 – Martine Navratilova won a record ninth women’s singles title at Wimbledon, defeating Zina Garrison 6-4, 6-1
1999 – A jury in Miami held cigarette makers liability for making a defective product that causes emphysema, lung cancer and other illnesses
2004 – Former Enron chairman Kenneth Lay was indirect on criminal charges related to the energy company’s collapse
2005 – Terrorist bombings in there Underground station and double-decker bus killed 52 victims and four suicide bombers in the worst attack on London since World War II