July 7 Memorial service for the shot Dallas police officers 1777 – American Revolutionary War: British forces caught up with American troops withdrawing from Ticonderoga, capturing more than 200

July 7 Memorial service for the shot Dallas police officers 1777 – American Revolutionary War: British forces caught up with American troops withdrawing from Ticonderoga, capturing more than 200 men at the Battle of Hubbardton. 1898 – US president William McKinley signed the Newlands Resolution, annexing Hawaii as a territory of the United States. 1911 – Four countries signed the North Pacific Fur Seal Convention, which banned the hunting of seals in the pelagic zone. 1974 – West Germany won the FIFA World Cup final against the Netherlands at the Munich Olympiastadion. 2016 – A U.S. Army Reserve veteran ambushed and shot at police officers (memorial service pictured) in Dallas, killing five of them and injuring nine others, before being killed by a bomb attached to a police robot. Fernande Sadler (b. 1869)Henri Nestlé (d. 1890)Maks Levin (b. 1981) More anniversaries: July 6 July 7 July 8 Archive By email List of days of the year About