Vero - Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/June 7

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  Mosaic of Aelia Eudocia
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  Carrie Nation
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  Richard Henry Lee
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  Charles I of England
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  Ferdinand II of Aragon
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  Graceland
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  Prudential Cup trophy of the Cricket World Cup
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  Mariano Moreno
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  Mosaic of Aelia Eudocia

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
Sette Giugno in Malta;	refimprove section
Union Dissolution Day in Norway;	stub
	lots of CN tags (4) relative to length
1099 – Members of the First Crusade reached Jerusalem and began a five-week siege of the city against the Fatimids.	refimprove; lead too short
1494 – Ferdinand II of Aragon and [[John II of Portugal|Template:Nowrap of Portugal]] signed the Treaty of Tordesillas, dividing the Americas and Africa between their two countries.	refimprove section
1776 – Virginia statesman Richard Henry Lee presented a resolution to the Second Continental Congress, calling for the Thirteen Colonies to declare independence from Great Britain.	Too much uncited, too many block quotes, external links
1788 – Citizens of Grenoble threw roof tiles onto royal soldiers, an event sometimes recognised as the beginning of the French Revolution.	refimprove
1880 – War of the Pacific: Chilean forces captured Morro de Arica from Peru.	refimprove
1905 – Following growing dissatisfaction with the union between Sweden and Norway, the Norwegian parliament unanimously declared its dissolution.	Union: unreferenced section; Dissolution: refimprove
1929 – Vatican City became a sovereign state after the Lateran Treaty came into effect.	refimprove section
1938 – Second Sino-Japanese War: The Chinese Nationalist government destroyed dykes on the Yellow River in an attempt to halt the rapid advance of Japanese forces, causing a flood that killed hundreds of thousands of people.	no indication that it happened on or even mainly on this day
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.	refimprove
1982 – Graceland, Elvis Presley's mansion in Memphis, Tennessee, opened to the public as a museum of Presley's life.	refimprove sections
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.	lots of CN tags (12)
Pope Vigilius |d|555	refimprove
Sette Giugno in Malta (1919)	Tagged for referencing
Journalist's Day in Argentina (1810)	10 citation needed tags

Eligible

• 421 – Roman emperor Theodosius II married Aelia Eudocia (pictured), who later helped to protect Greek pagans and Jews from persecution.
• 1692 – An earthquake registering approximately 7.5 M_w 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.
• 1832 – The Reform Act, which is widely credited with launching modern democracy in the United Kingdom, received royal assent.
• 1892 – Homer Plessy, a mixed-race man from New Orleans, was arrested for refusing to leave his seat in the "whites-only" car of a train; he lost the resulting court case, Plessy v. Ferguson.
• 1900 – American temperance activist Carrie Nation entered a saloon in Kiowa, Kansas, and destroyed its stock of alcoholic beverages with rocks.
• 1965 – The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Griswold v. Connecticut that a Connecticut law prohibiting the use of contraceptives violated the "right to marital privacy".
• 1975 – The inaugural edition of the Cricket World Cup, the premier international championship of men's One Day International cricket, began in England.
• 1981 – The Israeli Air Force attacked a nuclear reactor under the assumption that it was about to start producing plutonium to further an Iraqi nuclear-weapons program.
• 1998 – White supremacists murdered James Byrd Jr., an African American, by chaining him behind a pickup truck and dragging him along an asphalt road in Jasper, Texas.

• Born/died: | Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr |d|1618| Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire |b|1757| James Young Simpson |b|1811| Joseph von Fraunhofer |d|1826|Amelia Edwards |b|1831| Chief Seattle |d|1866| Knud Rasmussen |b|1879| Alice Gray |b|1914| Jean Harlow |d|1937| Sushila Karki |b|1952| Robert Dover |b|1956| Prince |b|1958| Allen Iverson |b|1975

Notes

• Lateran Treaty appears on February 11, so Vatican City should not appear in the same year
• Hound Dog (song) appears on June 5, so Graceland should not appear in the same year

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• 879 – Pope John VIII officially recognised Croatia as an independent state, and Branimir (monument pictured) as its duke.
• 1628 – The Petition of Right, a major English constitutional document that set out specific liberties of individuals, received royal assent from King Charles I.
• 1917 – First World War: The British Army detonated 19 ammonal mines under German lines, killing perhaps 10,000 in the deadliest non-nuclear man-made explosion in history during the Battle of Messines.
• 1948 – Anti-Jewish riots broke out in the French protectorate in Morocco, during which 44 people were killed and 150 injured.
• 1969 – In their only UK concert, the rock supergroup Blind Faith, featuring Eric Clapton, Steve Winwood and Ginger Baker, debuted in London's Hyde Park in front of 100,000 fans.