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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  Ramzi Yousef
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  Astronaut Bruce McCandless "free-flying" in space
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  Badge of the Prince of Wales
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  Plume of smoke caused by Black Saturday bushfires
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  Jean-Claude Duvalier
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  Gold solidus of Leo I, struck 462–473 AD at Constantinople
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  Charlie Chaplin as "The Tramp"
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  Steve Jobs

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
Independence Day in Grenada (1974);	lots of CN tags, holiday not mentioned
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 was signed by the members of the European Communities, which led to the formation of the European Union.	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

• 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 in order to overrule the Supreme Court decision in Chisholm v. Georgia.
• 1900 – A Chinese immigrant in San Francisco fell ill to bubonic plague in the first such epidemic in the continental United States.
• 1914 – The film Kid Auto Races at Venice, featuring the first appearance of comedy actor Charlie Chaplin's character "The Tramp", was released.
• 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.
• 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 launched mortars at 10 Downing Street, London, in a failed attempt to assassinate British prime minister John Major.
• 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.
• 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.
• Born/died this day: Lü Bu (d. 199) · Bartholomäus Sastrow (d. 1603) · Azar Bigdeli (b. 1722) · Louisa Jane Hall (b. 1802) · John Deere (b. 1804) · Desmond Doss (b. 1919) · Steve Nash (b. 1974)

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

Michael Jordan in training with the Scottsdale Scorpions

• 1497 – Supporters of Dominican preacher Girolamo Savonarola collected and publicly burned thousands of vanity items such as cosmetics, art, and books in Florence, Italy.
• 1813 – Napoleonic Wars: Two evenly matched French and British frigates fought for four hours at the Îles de Los off the coast of Guinea, resulting in a stalemate.
• 1940 – Walt Disney's Pinocchio, the first animated feature to win a competitive Academy Award, debuted at the Center Theatre in New York City.
• 1984 – During the Space Shuttle Challenger mission STS-41-B, astronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart performed the first untethered spacewalk.
• 1994 – Having retired four months earlier, American basketball player Michael Jordan (pictured) signed a contract to play baseball for the Chicago White Sox.

Alfonsina Orsini (d. 1520) · Henry Fuseli (b. 1741) · Herman Vandenburg Ames (d. 1935)

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