Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/July 7
July 7: Independence Day in the Solomon Islands (1978); Tanabata in Japan; Ivan Kupala Day in Russia and Ukraine.
- 1456 - Joan of Arc was posthumously acquitted of heresy.
- 1846 - American forces led by Commodore John D. Sloat (pictured) occupied Monterey and Yerba Buena, beginning the annexation of California.
- 1937 - The Marco Polo Bridge Incident marked the beginning of the Second Sino-Japanese War.
- 1991 - The Slovenian War formally ended with the signing of the Brioni Agreement.
- 2005 - Four suicide bombers killed 52 people in a series of four explosions in London's public transport system.