AP Highlight in History: On July 7, 1981, President Ronald Reagan announced he was nominating Sandra Day O'Connor to become the first female justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.
U.S. annexation of California was proclaimed at Monterey after the surrender of a Mexican garrison.
1865
Four people were hanged in Washington, D.C., after being convicted of conspiring with John Wilkes Booth to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln.
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1898
The United States annexed Hawaii.
1930
Construction began on Boulder Dam on the Colorado River.
1954
Elvis Presley made his radio debut when Memphis, Tenn., station WHBQ played his first recording for Sun Records, "That's All Right."
1958
President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the Alaska statehood bill.
1987
Lt. Col. Oliver North began his public testimony at the Iran-Contra hearing, telling Congress that he had "never carried out a single act, not one" without authorization. Read the original AP story
1990
Martina Navratilova won a record ninth women's singles title at Wimbledon.
2003
A federal judge approved a settlement fining WorldCom $750 million for its $11 billion accounting scandal.
2005
Terrorist bombings in three Underground stations and a double-decker bus killed 52 victims and four suicide bombers in the worst attack on London since World War II.
