How Many Days Until July 7?

This day in history: July 7

1. 1911

   Four countries signed the North Pacific Fur Seal Convention, which banned the hunting of seals in the pelagic zone.

2. 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.

3. 1963

   The secret police of Ngô Đình Nhu, brother and chief political adviser of South Vietnamese president Ngô Đình Diệm, attacked a group of American journalists who were covering a protest during the Buddhist crisis.

4. 1974

   West Germany won the FIFA World Cup final against the Netherlands at the Munich Olympiastadion.

5. 1983

   After writing a letter to Soviet premier Yuri Andropov, American schoolgirl Samantha Smith visited the Soviet Union as Andropov's personal guest, becoming known as "America's Youngest Ambassador".

6. 1991

   Yugoslav Wars: The signing of the Brioni Agreement ended the Ten-Day War between SFR Yugoslavia and Slovenia.

7. 2016

   A U.S. Army Reserve veteran ambushed and shot at police officers in Dallas, killing five of them and injuring nine others, before being killed by a bomb attached to a police robot.

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