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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Astronaut Bruce McCandless "free-flying" in space -
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Gold solidus of Leo I, struck 462–473 AD at Constantinople -
Charlie Chaplin as "The Tramp" -
Steve Jobs
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Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
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| Independence Day in Grenada (1974); | multiple issues |
| 457 – Leo I was crowned Byzantine emperor, and went on to rule for nearly 20 years. | refimprove section |
| 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 |
| 1992 – The Maastricht Treaty, which led to the formation of the European Union, was signed in Maastricht, the Netherlands. | refimprove section |
| 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
- 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 in order to overrule the Supreme Court decision in Chisholm v. Georgia.
- 1813 – Napoleonic Wars: Two evenly matched frigates from the French Navy and the British Royal Navy fought for four hours, causing significant damage, but resulting in a stalemate.
- 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 motion picture to win a competitive Academy Award, was released to theaters by RKO Pictures.
- 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.
- 1984 – During the Space Shuttle Challenger mission STS-41-B, astronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart performed the first untethered spacewalks.
- 1991 – The Troubles: The Provisional Irish Republican Army launched mortars at 10 Downing Street, London, in a failed attempt to assassinate British Prime Minister John Major.
- 1994 – Having retired four months earlier, American basketball player Michael Jordan signed a contract to play baseball for the Chicago White Sox.
- 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 purchased his startup NeXT Software.
- 1999 – Abdullah II became the reigning King of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan following the death of his father King Hussein.
- Born/died this day: Bartholomäus Sastrow (d. 1603) · John Deere (b. 1804) · Herman Vandenburg Ames (d. 1935) · Steve Nash (b. 1974)
Notes
- 15th and 16th Amendments appear on February 3 so 11th Amendment 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
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- 1497 – Supporters of the Dominican priest Girolamo Savonarola collected and publicly burned thousands of objects 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.
- 1900 – A Chinese immigrant in San Francisco fell ill to bubonic plague in the first plague epidemic in the continental United States.
- 1986 – President of Haiti Jean-Claude Duvalier (pictured) fled the country after a popular uprising, ending 28 years of one-family rule in the nation.
- 2014 – Researchers announced the discovery of the Happisburgh footprints in Norfolk, England, the oldest known hominid footprints outside Africa at more than 800,000 years old.
Lü Bu (d. 199) · Azar Bigdeli (b. 1722) · Desmond Doss (b. 1919)