Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/February 7
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February 7: Independence Day in Grenada (1974); Sapporo Snow Festival in Japan begins (2011)
- 1795 – The Eleventh Amendment to the United States Constitution, limiting the ability of U.S. citizens and foreign nationals to sue U.S. states in federal courts, was ratified in order to overrule the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Chisholm v. Georgia.
- 1907 – Over 3,000 women trudged through the cold and the rutty streets of London in the Mud March, the first large procession organized by the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies, to advocate for women's suffrage.
- 1943 – World War II: Japan successfully withdrew its troops from Guadalcanal.
- 1948 – Neil Harvey became the youngest Australian to score a century in Test cricket.
- 2009 – A series of 400 individual bushfires ignited across the Australian state of Victoria on Black Saturday (satellite image of smoke pictured), eventually resulting in 173 total deaths, the highest ever loss of life from a bushfire in Australia.