Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/April 7

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This is a list of selected April 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 or picture of the day.

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World Health Day; refimprove
529Byzantine Emperor Justinian I issued the first draft of the Corpus Juris Civilis, a collection of fundamental works in jurisprudence. refimprove
1141The Anarchy: Empress Matilda became the first female claimant to the throne of England, adopting the title "Lady of the English" after failing to be crowned in place of her cousin Stephen. disputes over whether she was "disputed" or "claimant" queen, article doesn't agree on dates with List of English monarchs, and actually it seems the announcement was the following day; and the attempted coronation was later
1348Charles, King of Bohemia, issued a Golden Bull to establish Charles University in Prague, the first university in Central Europe. unreferenced section
1724Johann Sebastian Bach premiered his St John Passion, a musical setting of the Passion of Jesus, at Good Friday Vespers in St. Nicholas Church, Leipzig. lots of CN tags (8)
1767 – Troops of the Burmese Konbaung Dynasty sacked the Siamese city of Ayutthaya to end the Burmese–Siamese War, bringing the four-century-old Ayutthaya Kingdom to an end. lots of CN tags (8)
1788American pioneers established the town of Marietta (now in Ohio), the first permanent American settlement in the Northwest Territory. article not in a good format, being mostly lists with "vast tracts of poetry and glowing quotes dedicated towards the settlers"
1805 – German composer Ludwig van Beethoven premiered his Third Symphony, at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna. lots of CN tags (9)
1868Thomas D'Arcy McGee, a Canadian Father of Confederation, was assassinated; to date, the only Canadian political assassination at the federal level. refimprove section
1940 – Educator Booker T. Washington became the first African American to be featured on a U.S. postage stamp. lots of CN tags (17)
1954Cold War: U.S. president Dwight D. Eisenhower introduced the domino theory, speculating that if one nation in a region came under the influence of communism, then its surrounding countries would follow in a domino effect. refimprove section
1956 – Spain relinquished its protectorate in Morocco. refimprove
1969Steve Crocker published RFC 1, the first in a series of Request for Comments documents that helped shape the evolution of the Internet. refimprove section
1994 – A FedEx employee tried to hijack Federal Express Flight 705 in a failed suicide attempt. refimprove
2001NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey (artist's conception pictured), currently the longest-surviving continually active spacecraft in orbit around a planet other than Earth, launched from Cape Canaveral. refimprove
* 2010Violent protests started in the Kyrgyz capital Bishkek in response to perceived corruption and rising living expenses, eventually resulting in the collapse of President Kurmanbek Bakiyev's government. Orange tagged for referencing

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April 7: National Beer Day in the United States

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