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.
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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Edvard Beneš -
Carrie Nation holding an axe in her left hand and a book in her right
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John II of Portugal
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Graceland
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Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
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| Union Dissolution Day in Norway; | stub |
| 1099 – Members of the First Crusade reached Jerusalem and began a five-week siege of the city against the Fatimids. | refimprove, unreferenced section |
| 1776 – Virginia statesman Richard Henry Lee presented a resolution to the Second Continental Congress, which called for the Thirteen Colonies to declare independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain. | essay-like |
| 1905 – Following growing dissatisfaction with the union between Sweden and Norway, the Norwegian parliament unanimously declared its dissolution. | refimprove, lead too short |
| 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. | unreferenced section |
| 1880 – War of the Pacific: Chilean forces captured Morro de Arica from Peru. | refimprove |
Eligible
- 1628 – The Petition of Right, a major English constitutional document that set out specific liberties of the subject, was granted the Royal Assent by Charles I.
- 1692 – An estimated 7.5 MW earthquake caused Port Royal, Jamaica, to sink below sea level and killed approximately 5,000 people.
- 1810 – Journalist Mariano Moreno published Argentina's first newspaper, the Gazeta de Buenos Ayres.
- 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.
- 1982 – Graceland, Elvis Presley's mansion in Memphis, Tennessee, opened to the public as a museum of Presley's life.
- 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.
- 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.
June 7: Sette Giugno in Malta; Journalist Day in Argentina
- 1494 – Ferdinand II of Aragon and John II of Portugal signed the Treaty of Tordesillas, dividing the Americas and Africa between their two countries.
- 1788 – Citizens of Grenoble threw roof tiles onto royal soldiers, an event sometimes credited as the beginning of the French Revolution.
- 1892 – Homer Plessy, an "octoroon" from New Orleans, was arrested for refusing to leave the "whites-only" car on a train.
- 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".
- 1975 – The inaugural Cricket World Cup (trophy pictured), the premier international championship of men's One Day International cricket, began in England.