Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/April 7
This is a list of selected April 7 anniversaries that appears on 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 soon will be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only 5–6 events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is not generally posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled April 7, 2012 featured article or the April 7, 2012 featured picture.
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Flag of the Ba'ath Party
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The Yamato explodes (too small at 100px)
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Byzantine Emperor Justinian I (requires undeletion)
Ineligible
| Blurb | Why ineligible |
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| 529 – Byzantine Emperor Justinian I issued the first draft of the Corpus Juris Civilis, a collection of fundamental works in jurisprudence. | refimprove |
| 1868 – Thomas D'Arcy McGee, a Canadian Father of Confederation, was assassinated; to date, the only Canadian political assassination at the federal level. | refimprove |
| 1947 – The Arab Ba'th Party was founded in Damascus. | Need to verify date, unreferenced |
| 1948 – The United Nations established the World Health Organization to act as a coordinating authority on
international public health. |
refimprove |
| 1954 – Cold War: U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower introduced the domino theory, speculating that if one nation in a region came under the influence of communism, then its surrounding countries would follow in a domino effect. | unreferenced |
| 1956 – Spain relinquished its protectorate in Morocco. | refimprove |
| 1969 – The Internet was symbolically born with publication of RFC 1. | refimprove |
| 2010 - Thousands riot in the Kyrgyz capital of Bishkek resulting in the collapse of the Kurmanbek Bakiyev government. | multiple issues |
Eligible
- 1788 – American pioneers established the town of Marietta (in modern Ohio), the first permanent American settlement outside the original Thirteen Colonies.
- 1945 – World War II: American forces sank the Japanese battleship Yamato, the largest battleship in the world, during Operation Ten-Go.
- 1348 – King Charles of Bohemia issued a Golden Bull to establish Charles University in Prague, the first university in Central Europe.
- 1805 – German composer Ludwig van Beethoven premiered his Third Symphony, at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna.
- 1862 – American Civil War: Union forces defeated Confederates at the Battle of Shiloh in Hardin County, Tennessee.
- 1896 – An Arctic expedition led by Norwegian explorer Fridtjof Nansen reached 86°13.6'N, almost three degrees beyond the previous Farthest North mark.
- 1940 – Educator Booker T. Washington became the first African American to be featured on a U.S. postage stamp (pictured).
- 1995 – First Chechen War: Russian paramilitary troops began a massacre of at least 250 civilians in Samashki, Chechnya.
