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.
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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Plume of smoke caused by Black Saturday bushfires
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
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| Independence Day in Grenada (1974); | {{refimprove}}, {{update}} |
| 1301 – The title of Prince of Wales was granted for the first time to an heir apparent to the English throne, Edward of Carnarvon. | {{refimprove}} |
| 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. | Tagged with {{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 |
| 1914 – The film Kid Auto Races at Venice, featuring the first appearance of comedy actor Charlie Chaplin's character "The Tramp",
was released. |
Chaplin tagged {{prose}}, Tramp refimprove |
| 1984 – During NASA Space Shuttle Challenger mission STS-41-B, astronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart performed the first and second untethered spacewalks, respectively, using Manned Maneuvering Units. | EVA {{refimprove}}, MMU needs more footnotes |
| 1992 – The Maastricht Treaty, which led to the formation of the European Union, was signed in Maastricht, the Netherlands. | Tagged with {{unreferenced}} |
Eligible
- 1948 – Neil Harvey became the youngest Australian to score a century in Test cricket.
- 2009 – A series of 400 individual bushfires ignited across the Australian state of Victoria on Black Saturday (satellite image pictured), eventually resulting in 173 total deaths, the highest ever loss of life from a bushfire in Australia.
February 7: 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Dickens (1812)
- 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.
- 1904 – The Great Baltimore Fire in Maryland began, and would destroy over 1,500 buildings in 30 hours.
- 1907 – More than 3,000 women in London participated in the Mud March, the first large procession organized by the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies, seeking women's suffrage in the United Kingdom.
- 1943 – World War II: Japan successfully withdrew its troops from Guadalcanal.
- 1986 – President of Haiti Jean-Claude Duvalier fled the country after a popular uprising, ending 28 years of one-family rule in the nation.
- 1995 – Ramzi Yousef (pictured), 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.