Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/February 7

This is a list of selected February 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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  Ramzi Yousef
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  Badge of the Prince of Wales
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  Plume of smoke caused by Black Saturday bushfires
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  Jean-Claude Duvalier
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  Bust of Leo I
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  Charlie Chaplin as "The Tramp"
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  Steve Jobs
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  Michael Jordan in training
  with the Scottsdale Scorpions
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  Happisburgh footprints

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
Independence Day in Grenada (1974);	lots of CN tags, holiday not mentioned
1807 – Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Eylau began between the French Empire, and Russian and Prussian forces of the Fourth Coalition near Preußisch Eylau, East Prussia.	refimprove
1863 – In New Zealand's worst maritime tragedy, HMS Orpheus of the British Royal Navy sank off the coast of Auckland, killing 189 crew out of the ship's complement of 259.	refimprove
1894 – The Western Federation of Miners began a five-month strike in Cripple Creek, Colorado, the only strike action in U.S. history where the state militia was called to support the strikers.	featured on June 6
1904 – The Great Baltimore Fire in Maryland began, and destroyed over 1,500 buildings in 30 hours.	refimprove section
1971 – In Switzerland, voters approved a constitutional amendment introducing women's suffrage in federal elections and referenda.	refimprove
2009 – A series of 400 individual bushfires ignited across the Australian state of Victoria, Australia, on Black Saturday, eventually resulting in 173 total deaths.	refimprove section
2012 – Several months of political crisis in the Maldives culminated in the resignation of President Mohamed Nasheed.	both: refimprove
Lü Bu |d|199|	Orange "popular culture" banner

Eligible

• 457 – Leo I (pictured), who ruled for nearly 20 years, was crowned Byzantine emperor.
• 1783 – American Revolutionary War: After three years and seven months, Spain and France abandoned their attempt to capture Gibraltar from the British.
• 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.
• 1813 – Napoleonic Wars: Two evenly matched French and British frigates fought for four hours at the Îles de Los off the Guinean coast, resulting in a stalemate.
• 1900 – A Chinese immigrant in San Francisco fell ill with the bubonic plague in the first epidemic of the disease in the continental United States.
• 1914 – Kid Auto Races at Venice, featuring the first appearance of comedy actor Charlie Chaplin's character the Tramp, was released.
• 1940 – Walt Disney's Pinocchio, the first animated feature to win a competitive Academy Award, debuted at the Center Theatre in New York City.
• 1941 – Soviet border guards opened fire on civilians attempting to cross the border from the Soviet Union to Romania near Lunca, killing several hundred people.
• 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.
• 1986 – President of Haiti Jean-Claude Duvalier fled the country after a popular uprising, ending 28 years of one-family rule in the nation.
• 1991 – The Troubles: The Provisional Irish Republican Army shelled 10 Downing Street with mortars in a failed attempt to assassinate British prime minister John Major.
• 1992 – The Maastricht Treaty, which led to the formation of the European Union, was signed by the member states of the European Communities.
• 1994 – Having retired four months earlier, American basketball player Michael Jordan signed a contract with the Chicago White Sox to play baseball.
• 1995 – Ramzi Yousef, one of the main perpetrators of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and the bombing of Philippine Airlines Flight 434, was arrested in Islamabad, Pakistan.
• 1997 – Steve Jobs returned to Apple Inc. as a consultant after the company's acquisition of his technology startup NeXT.
• 1999 – Abdullah II became the reigning King of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan following the death of his father King Hussein.
• 2014 – Researchers announced the discovery of the Happisburgh footprints (pictured) in Norfolk, England, the oldest known hominid footprints outside Africa at more than 800,000 years old.
• Born/died this day: | Alfonsina Orsini |d|1520| Azar Bigdeli |b|1722| Margaret Fownes-Luttrell |b|1726| Henry Fuseli |b|1741| Louisa Jane Hall |b|1802| Alfred Worden|b|1932| Herman Vandenburg Ames |d|1935| Eddie Izzard |b|1962| Juwan Howard |b|1973| Anne Morrow Lindbergh |d|2001

Notes

• 15th and 16th Amendments appear on February 3, so 11th Amendment should not appear in the same year
• Pixar appears on February 3, so NeXT should not appear in the same year
• Bill Ponsford appears on February 5, so Neil Harvey should not appear in the same year
• 2004 Haitian coup d'état also appears on February 5 so Jean-Claude Duvalier should not appear in the same year
• Black Thursday bushfires appears on February 6, so Black Saturday should not appear in the same year

February 7

Bruce McCandless II untethered in space

• 1497 – Supporters of the Dominican preacher Girolamo Savonarola collected and publicly burned thousands of vanity items such as cosmetics, art and books in Florence, Italy.
• 1865 – The trustees of Seattle enact an ordinance expelling Native Americans from the newly-incorporated town.
• 1984 – During the Space Shuttle Challenger mission STS-41-B, astronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart performed the first untethered spacewalk (pictured).
• 2005 – President Ilham Aliyev issued a decree on the redenomination of Azerbaijan's currency, with 1 new manat equal to 5000 old manats.
• 2014 – An inquiry report of the United Nations Human Rights Council found systematic and wide-ranging violations of human rights in North Korea.

• Bartholomäus Sastrow (d. 1603)
• John Deere (b. 1804)
• Desmond Doss (b. 1919)
• Steve Nash (b. 1974)

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• February 6
• February 7
• February 8