Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/February 7

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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
Astronaut Bruce McCandless "free-flying" in space
Badge of the Prince of Wales
Plume of smoke caused by Black Saturday bushfires
Jean-Claude Duvalier
Bust of Leo I
Charlie Chaplin as "The Tramp"
Steve Jobs
Michael Jordan in training
with the Scottsdale Scorpions

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

Eligible

457 – Leo I (pictured), who ruled for nearly 20 years, was crowned Byzantine emperor.
1497 – Supporters of Dominican preacher Girolamo Savonarola collected and publicly burned thousands of vanity items such as cosmetics, art, and books in Florence, Italy.
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.
1914 – The film 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.
1948 – Neil Harvey became the youngest Australian to score a century in Test cricket.
1984 – During the Space Shuttle Challenger mission STS-41-B, astronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart performed the first untethered spacewalk.
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 – A United Nations Human Rights Council report into human rights in North Korea found systematic and wide-ranging violations.
Born/died this day: | Lü Bu |d|199

| Alfonsina Orsini |d|1520 | Bartholomäus Sastrow |d|1603 | Margaret Fownes-Luttrell |b|1726 | Henry Fuseli |b|1741 |John Deere |b|1804 | Louisa Jane Hall |b|1802 | Desmond Doss |b|1919 | Alfred Worden|b|1932 | Herman Vandenburg Ames |d|1935 | Steve Nash |b|1974 | 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

Happisburgh footprints

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.
1943 – World War II: Japan successfully withdrew its troops from Guadalcanal.
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.

Azar Bigdeli (b. 1722)
Eddie Izzard (b. 1962)
Juwan Howard (b. 1973)

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