Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/April 7

This is a list of selected April 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.

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 four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article, featured list or picture of the day.

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  Flag of the Ba'ath Party
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  Yamato in 1941
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  Fridtjof Nansen
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  Byzantine Emperor Justinian I (requires undeletion)
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  Main façade of the aula of Charles University in Prague
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  Winston Churchill
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  Empress Matilda
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  Booker T. Washington on a stamp
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  Juvénal Habyarimana

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
World Health Day;	refimprove
529 – Byzantine Emperor Justinian I issued the first draft of the Corpus Juris Civilis, a collection of fundamental works in jurisprudence.	refimprove
1141 – The Anarchy: Empress Matilda (pictured) became the first female claimant to the throne of England, adopting the title "Lady of the English" after failing to be crowned in place of her cousin Stephen.	disputes over whether she was "disputed" or "claimant" queen, article doesn't agree on dates with List of English monarchs, and actually it seems the announcement was the following day; and the attempted coronation was later
1348 – Charles, King of Bohemia, issued a Golden Bull to establish Charles University in Prague, the first university in Central Europe.	unreferenced section
1724 – Johann Sebastian Bach premiered his St John Passion, a musical setting of the Passion of Jesus, at Good Friday Vespers in St. Nicholas Church, Leipzig.	unreferenced sections
1767 – Troops of the Burmese Konbaung Dynasty sacked the Siamese city of Ayutthaya to end the Burmese–Siamese War, bringing the four-century-old Ayutthaya Kingdom to an end.	lots of CN tags (8)
1788 – American pioneers established the town of Marietta (now in Ohio), the first permanent American settlement in the Northwest Territory.	article not in a good format, being mostly lists with "vast tracts of poetry and glowing quotes dedicated towards the settlers"
1805 – German composer Ludwig van Beethoven premiered his Third Symphony, at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna.	lots of CN tags (9)
1868 – Thomas D'Arcy McGee, a Canadian Father of Confederation, was assassinated; to date, the only Canadian political assassination at the federal level.	refimprove section
1940 – Educator Booker T. Washington became the first African American to be featured on a U.S. postage stamp.	refimprove, lots of CN tags
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.	refimprove section
1956 – Spain relinquished its protectorate in Morocco.	refimprove
1955 – Aware that he was slowing down both physically and mentally in his old age, Winston Churchill retired as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.	undue weight sections
1969 – Steve Crocker published RFC 1, the first in a series of Request for Comments documents that helped shape the evolution of the Internet.	refimprove section
1994 – A FedEx employee tried to hijack Federal Express Flight 705 in a failed suicide attempt.	refimprove
2001 – NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey (artist's conception pictured), currently the longest-surviving continually active spacecraft in orbit around a planet other than Earth, launched from Cape Canaveral.	refimprove

Eligible

• 1945 – World War II: U.S. forces sank the Japanese battleship Yamato, then the largest in the world, during Operation Ten-Go in the East China Sea.
• 1949 – The Rodgers and Hammerstein musical South Pacific, based on Tales of the South Pacific by James Michener, opened on Broadway.
• 1964 – Reverend Bruce W. Klunder was killed by a bulldozer while he was protesting the construction of a segregated school in Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.
• 1972 – Communist forces overran the South Vietnamese town of Loc Ninh.
• 1995 – First Chechen War: Russian paramilitary troops began a massacre of hundreds of civilians in Samashki, Chechnya.
• 2010 – Violent protests started in the Kyrgyz capital Bishkek in response to perceived corruption and rising living expenses, eventually resulting in the collapse of President Kurmanbek Bakiyev's government.
• Born/died: | Berengar I of Italy |d|924| El Greco |d|1614| John Sheffield |b|1648| Martha Ray |d|1779| Toussaint Louverture |d|1803| Randall Davidson |b|1848| John Bernard Flannagan |b|1895| Joseph Lyons |d|1939| Francis Ford Coppola |b|1939| Dave Arneson |d|2009

Notes

• The Anarchy and Matilda appear on November 1, so Empress Matilda should not appear in the same year.

April 7: National Beer Day in the United States

Juvénal Habyarimana

• 1862 – American Civil War: Union forces defeated Confederate troops at the Battle of Shiloh, the bloodiest battle in U.S. history at the time, 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 latitude.
• 1948 – The United Nations established the World Health Organization to act as a coordinating authority on international public health.
• 1994 – Rwandan Civil War: The Rwandan genocide began a few hours after the assassination of President Juvénal Habyarimana (pictured), with hundreds of thousands killed in the following 100 days.
• 2017 – A hijacked truck was deliberately driven into crowds along Drottninggatan in Stockholm, Sweden, killing five people.

• George the Standard-Bearer (d. 821)
• Bert Ironmonger (b. 1882)
• Santa Barraza (b. 1951)

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