July 7: Tanabata in Japan; Independence Day in the Solomon Islands (1978)
John D. Sloat
- 1456 – Twenty-five years after her death, Joan of Arc was declared innocent of heresy in a posthumous retrial.
- 1846 – Mexican–American War: American forces led by Commodore John D. Sloat (pictured) occupied Monterey, beginning the annexation of California.
- 1892 – The Philippine revolutionary secret society Katipunan was founded by anti-Spanish Filipinos in Manila.
- 1946 – Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini became the first American to be canonized as a saint.
- 2012 – The equivalent of five months of rain fell overnight in Krasnodar Krai, Russia, causing flash floods and killing 171 people.
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