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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Carrie Nation holding an axe in her left hand and a book in her right
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John II of Portugal
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Graceland -
Prudential Cup trophy of the Cricket World Cup
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Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
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| Sette Giugno in Malta; | refimprove section |
| Union Dissolution Day in Norway; | stub |
| 1099 – Members of the First Crusade reached Jerusalem and began a five-week siege of the city against the Fatimids. | refimprove |
| 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 |
| 1880 – War of the Pacific: Chilean forces captured Morro de Arica from Peru. | refimprove |
| 1892 – Homer Plessy, an "octoroon" from New Orleans, was arrested for refusing to leave the "whites-only" car on a train. | unreferenced section |
| 1905 – Following growing dissatisfaction with the union between Sweden and Norway, the Norwegian parliament unanimously declared its dissolution | unreferenced section |
| 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 |
| 1965 – The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Griswold v. Connecticut that a Connecticut law that prohibited the use of contraceptives violated the "right to marital privacy". | expansion |
| 1982 – Graceland, Elvis Presley's mansion in Memphis, Tennessee, opened to the public as a museum of Presley's life. | refimprove sections |
| 1998 – Three white supremacists murdered African American James Byrd Jr., by chaining him behind a pickup truck and dragging him along an asphalt road in Jasper, Texas. | refimprove section |
Eligible
- 1692 – An estimated 7.5 MW earthquake 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, which called for the Thirteen Colonies to declare independence from Great Britain.
- 1788 – Citizens of Grenoble threw roof tiles onto royal soldiers, an event sometimes credited as the beginning of the French Revolution.
- 1810 – Journalist Mariano Moreno published Argentina's first newspaper, the Gazeta de Buenos Ayres.
- 1899 – American temperance crusader Carrie Nation entered a saloon in Kiowa, Kansas, and proceeded to destroy all the alcoholic beverages with rocks.
- 1929 – Vatican City became a sovereign state after the Lateran Treaty came into effect.
- 1948 – Rather than sign the Ninth-of-May Constitution making his nation a Communist state, Edvard Beneš chose to resign as President of Czechoslovakia.
- 1975 – The inaugural Cricket World Cup, the premier international championship of men's One Day International cricket, began in England.
- 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.
- Born/died: Jean Harlow (d. 1937) · Nikki Giovanni (b. 1943) ·
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
June 7: Journalist Day in Argentina
- 421 – Roman emperor Theodosius II married Aelia Eudocia (pictured), who later helped protect Greek pagans and Jews from persecution.
- 1628 – The Petition of Right, a major English constitutional document that set out specific liberties of the subject, was granted royal assent by Charles I.
- 1917 – First World War: The British Army detonated 19 ammonal mines under the German lines, killing 10,000 in the deadliest non-nuclear man-made explosion in history.
- 1938 – Second Sino-Japanese War: The Chinese Nationalist government destroyed dikes holding the Yellow River in an attempt to halt the rapid advance of Japanese forces, causing a flood that killed at least 400,000 people.
- 1981 – The Israeli Air Force attacked and disabled the Osirak nuclear reactor, assuming it was producing plutonium to further an Iraqi nuclear weapons program.
Roderigo Lopez (d. 1594) · Paul Gauguin (b. 1848) · Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)