1967, 7 July
Federal troops are sent into Biafra, the oil rich eastern region of Nigeria, which declared its intent to secede on 30 May.
1976, 7 July
Dora Bloch, one of the elderly British hostages taken on hijacked Flight 139 (an Air France A-300B Airbus hijacked from Athens on 26 June) is reported as still missing. It is revealed later that she was evacuated to a Kampala hospital during the early days of the hijack, and was killed by Ugandan President Idi Amin Dada's forces as retaliation for the Israeli raid on 3 July.
