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Here are the historical events that occurred on July 7th throughout history:

1648: The Treaty of Westphalia is signed, marking the end of the Thirty Years' War and the beginning of the modern system of sovereign nation-states.

1863: The 54th Massachusetts Infantry, the first formal unit of the Union Army during the American Civil War, is mustered into federal service.

1915: The SS Lusitania, a British passenger liner, is torpedoed and sunk by a German U-boat off the coast of Ireland, killing over 1,000 people, including 128 Americans.

1940: The Battle of Britain begins, as the German air force (Luftwaffe) launches a massive air campaign against the Royal Air Force (RAF) and the British Isles.

1969: The Apollo 11 spacecraft, carrying astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins, enters into lunar orbit.

1981: The first mobile phone call is made by Martin Cooper, an engineer at Motorola, to his rival, Joel S. Engel, at AT&T's Bell Labs.

2005: The London bombings occur, as a series of coordinated terrorist attacks on the London public transportation system kill 52 people and injure over 700.

These are just a few of the many historical events that have occurred on July 7th.