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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  Richard Henry Lee
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  Charles I of England
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  Ferdinand II of Aragon
• John II of Portugal
  John II of Portugal
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  Graceland
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  Prudential Cup trophy of the Cricket World Cup
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  Monument of Branimir

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
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.	Union: unreferenced section; Dissolution: refimprove
1929 – Vatican City became a sovereign state after the Lateran Treaty came into effect.	refimprove 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
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
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".	refimprove section
1975 – The inaugural Cricket World Cup, the premier international championship of men's One Day International cricket, began in England.	outdated
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

Eligible

• 421 – Roman emperor Theodosius II married Aelia Eudocia, 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.
• 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.
• 1899 – American temperance crusader Carrie Nation entered a saloon in Kiowa, Kansas, and proceeded to destroy all the alcoholic beverages with rocks.
• 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.
• 1981 – The Israeli Air Force attacked and disabled the Osirak nuclear reactor, assuming it was producing plutonium to further an Iraqi nuclear weapons program.
• Born/died: Roderigo Lopez (d. 1594) · Paul Gauguin (b. 1848) · Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917) · Jean Harlow (d. 1937) ·

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

Mariano Moreno

• 1692 – An estimated 7.5 M_W earthquake caused Port Royal, Jamaica, to sink below sea level and killed approximately 5,000 people.
• 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 (pictured) published Argentina's first newspaper, the Gazeta de Buenos Ayres.
• 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.
• 1969 – The rock band Blind Faith, featuring Eric Clapton, Steve Winwood and Ginger Baker, play its only UK show in Hyde Park in front of 100,000 fans.
• 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.

Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire (b. 1757) · Joseph von Fraunhofer (d. 1826) · Prince (b. 1958)

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