Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/July 7

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 * 1575 – A dispute between Sir John Forster and Sir John Carmichael led to a Scottish raid on Northumberland, England, in which 27 men were killed.
 * 1777 – American Revolutionary War: British forces caught up with American troops withdrawing from Ticonderoga, capturing more than 200 men at the Battle of Hubbardton.
 * 1911 – Four countries signed the North Pacific Fur Seal Convention, which banned the hunting of seals in the pelagic zone.
 * 1937 – The Peel Commission published a report stating that the League of Nations' Mandate for Palestine had become unworkable and recommended the partition of British-administered Mandatory Palestine into two states.
 * 1983 – After writing a letter to Soviet premier Yuri Andropov, American schoolgirl Samantha Smith (pictured) visited the Soviet Union as Andropov's personal guest, becoming known as "America's Youngest Ambassador".
 * 2016 – A U.S. Army Reserve veteran ambushed and shot at police officers in Dallas, Texas, killing five of them and injuring nine others, before being killed by a bomb attached to a police robot.
 * Born/died this day: | Momchil |d|1345| Guru Har Krishan |b|1656| Jane Elizabeth Conklin |b|1831| Camillo Golgi |b|1843| Keanolani|b|1847| Gustav Mahler |b|1860| Mary Surratt |d|1865| Fernande Sadler |b|1869|Eiji Tsuburaya |b|1901| Marie-Louise Dubreil-Jacotin |b|1905| Whitney North Seymour Jr.|b|1923| Arthur Conan Doyle |d|1930| Joe Sakic|b|1969| Francis Hagai |d|1974| Germaine Thyssens-Valentin |d|1987| Anne McLaren and Donald Michie |d|2007| Eduard Shevardnadze |d|2014| Peter Underwood |d|2014|