Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/June 7
This is a list of selected June 7 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
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Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| Sette Giugno in Malta; | refimprove section |
| Union Dissolution Day in Norway; | stub |
| 879 – Pope John VIII officially recognised Croatia as an independent state, and Branimir as its Duke. | lots of CN tags (4) relative to length |
| 1099 – Members of the First Crusade reached Jerusalem and began a five-week siege of the city against the Fatimids. | refimprove; lead too short |
| 1494 – Ferdinand II of Aragon and John II of Portugal signed the Treaty of Tordesillas, dividing the Americas and Africa between their two countries. | refimprove section |
| 1788 – Citizens of Grenoble threw roof tiles onto royal soldiers, an event sometimes recognised as the beginning of the French Revolution. | refimprove |
| 1880 – War of the Pacific: Chilean forces captured Morro de Arica from Peru. | refimprove |
| 1905 – Following growing dissatisfaction with the union between Sweden and Norway, the Norwegian parliament unanimously declared its dissolution. | Union: unreferenced section; Dissolution: refimprove |
| 1929 – Vatican City became a sovereign state after the Lateran Treaty came into effect. | refimprove section |
| 1938 – Second Sino-Japanese War: The Chinese Nationalist government destroyed dykes on the Yellow River in an attempt to halt the rapid advance of Japanese forces, causing a flood that killed hundreds of thousands of people. | no indication that it happened on or even mainly on this day |
| 1940 – World War II: King Haakon VII of Norway, Crown Prince Olav, and the Norwegian government left Tromsø for exile in London, following the German invasion. | refimprove |
| 1948 – Rather than sign the Ninth-of-May Constitution making his nation a Communist state, Edvard Beneš chose to resign as President of Czechoslovakia. | refimprove |
| 1982 – Graceland, Elvis Presley's mansion in Memphis, Tennessee, opened to the public as a museum of Presley's life. | refimprove sections |
| 2006 – Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of Al-Qaeda in Iraq, was killed when the United States Air Force bombed his safehouse near Baqubah. | lots of CN tags (12) |
| Pope Vigilius |d|555 | refimprove |
| Sette Giugno in Malta (1919) | Tagged for referencing |
| Journalist's Day in Argentina (1810) | 10 citation needed tags |
Eligible
- 1628 – The Petition of Right, a major English constitutional document that set out specific liberties of individuals, received royal assent from King Charles I.
- 1692 – An earthquake registering approximately 7.5 Mw caused Port Royal, Jamaica, to sink below sea level and killed approximately 5,000 people.
- 1776 – Virginia statesman Richard Henry Lee presented a resolution to the Second Continental Congress, calling for the Thirteen Colonies to declare independence from Great Britain.
- 1810 – Journalist Mariano Moreno published Argentina's first newspaper, the Gazeta de Buenos-Ayres.
- 1900 – American temperance activist Carrie Nation entered a saloon in Kiowa, Kansas, and destroyed its stock of alcoholic beverages with rocks.
- 1917 – First World War: The British Army detonated 19 ammonal mines under German lines, killing 10,000 in the deadliest non-nuclear man-made explosion in history.
- 1948 – Anti-Jewish riots broke out in the French protectorate in Morocco, during which 44 people were killed and 150 injured.
- 1965 – The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Griswold v. Connecticut that a Connecticut law prohibiting the use of contraceptives violated the "right to marital privacy".
- 1969 – The rock supergroup Blind Faith, featuring Eric Clapton, Steve Winwood and Ginger Baker, played their only UK show in London's Hyde Park in front of 100,000 fans.
- 1975 – The inaugural edition of the Cricket World Cup, the premier international championship of men's One Day International cricket, began in England.
- Born/died: | Roderigo Lopes |d|1594| Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire |b|1757| James Young Simpson |b|1811| Joseph von Fraunhofer |d|1826|Amelia Edwards |b|1831| Paul Gauguin |b|1848| Jean Harlow |d|1937| Louise Erdrich |b|1954| Robert Dover |b|1956| Prince |b|1958| Mike Pence |b|1959| Allen Iverson |b|1975
Notes
- Lateran Treaty appears on February 11, so Vatican City should not appear in the same year
- Hound Dog (song) appears on June 5, so Graceland should not appear in the same year
Mosaic of Aelia Eudocia
- 421 – Roman emperor Theodosius II married Aelia Eudocia (pictured), who later helped to protect Greek pagans and Jews from persecution.
- 1832 – The Reform Act, which is widely credited with launching modern democracy in the United Kingdom, received royal assent.
- 1892 – Homer Plessy, a mixed-race man from New Orleans, was arrested for refusing to leave his seat in the "whites-only" car of a train; he lost the resulting court case, Plessy v. Ferguson.
- 1981 – The Israeli Air Force attacked a nuclear reactor under the assumption that it was about to start producing plutonium to further an Iraqi nuclear-weapons program.
- 1998 – White supremacists murdered James Byrd Jr., an African American, by chaining him behind a pickup truck and dragging him along an asphalt road in Jasper, Texas.
- Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr (d. 1618)
- Chief Seattle (d. 1866)
- Knud Rasmussen (b. 1879)
- Alice Gray (b. 1914)