On this day: July 7

July 7: Tanabata in Japan; Independence Day in the Solomon Islands (1978)

• 1456 – Twenty-five years after her death, Joan of Arc was declared innocent of heresy in a posthumous retrial.
• 1834 – In New York City, four nights of rioting against abolitionists began, fueled by rumors that they were encouraging miscegenation.
• 1915 – Sinhalese army officer Henry Pedris was wrongly executed by British authorities for allegedly inciting race riots, hastening the Sri Lankan independence movement.
• 1994 – Troops from the former North Yemen captured Aden, ending the Yemeni civil war.
• 2005 – Suicide bombers killed 52 people in a series of four explosions on London's public transport system (emergency responders pictured).

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