Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/July 7
July 7: Running of the bulls in Pamplona, Navarre, Spain.
- 1456 - Joan of Arc was acquitted posthumously.
- 1846 - Commodore John Drake Sloat occupied Monterey and Yerba Buena, beginning the United States annexation of California.
- 1898 - The U.S. annexed Hawaii.
- 1937 - The Marco Polo Bridge Incident marked the beginning of the 2nd Sino-Japanese War.
- 1946 - Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini became the first American saint to be canonized.