Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/July 7

July 7: Independence Day in the Solomon Islands (1978); Tanabata in Japan; Running of the bulls in Pamplona, Navarre, Spain

Flag of the Solomon Islands

• 1456 - Joan of Arc was acquitted posthumously.
• 1846 - American forces led by Commodore John D. Sloat occupied Monterey and Yerba Buena, beginning the annexation of California.
• 1898 - The Newlands Resolution, an act of the Congress of the United States to annex the Republic of Hawai'i, was signed.
• 1937 - The Marco Polo Bridge Incident marked the beginning of the Second Sino-Japanese War.
• 1946 - Mother Cabrini, the first U.S. saint, was canonized.

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