July 7th, 2005
"[-----1-----]. I looked around, the whole top of the bus and the back of it. It has come off."
In London, [-----2-----] strike three underground stations and a double decker bus. The blasts kill 52 victims and 4 bombers in the worst attack on the British capital since WWII.

1865
In Washington, four people are hanged for conspiring with John Wilkes Booth to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln.

1987
"I came here to tell you the truth, to tell you and this committee and the American people the truth..."
Also in Washington, Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North begins his [-----3-----] on the Iran-Contra affair. The former Reagan White House aide at the heart of the arms–for-hostages scandal says he never carried out a single act without [-----4-----].

1981
President Ronal Reagan nominates Sandra Day O'Connor, an Arizona Judge, to be the first female justice on the US Supreme Court.

1907
Robert Heinlein, the science fiction writer whose works include Stranger in a Stranger Land, is born in Butler, Missouri.

And 1940
Musician Ringo Starr, the [-----5-----] in the rock band the Beatles is born Richard Starkey in Liverpool, England.

Today in History, July7th, Mike Gracia, the Associated Press.