WikiPedia:Selected anniversaries/July 7
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Missing image
Ingres_coronation_charles_vii.jpg
Joan of Arc
Ingres_coronation_charles_vii.jpg
Joan of Arc
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 Second Sino-Japanese War.
- 1946 - Canonization of Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini, the first U.S. saint.
