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Image:Flag of the Ba'ath Party.svg|Flag of the Ba'ath Party
Image:Yamato battleship explosion.jpg|The Yamato explodes|width=150
File:Fridtjof Nansen LOC 03377u-3.jpg|Fridtjof Nansen
File:Meister von San Vitale in Ravenna.jpg|Byzantine Emperor Justinian I (requires undeletion)
File:Prague Charles University.JPG|Main façade of the aula of Charles University in Prague
File:Winston Churchill cph.3a49758.jpg|Winston Churchill
File:2001 mars odyssey wizja.jpg|Artist's conception of the 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft
File:Booker T Washington 1940 Issue-10c.jpg|Booker T. Washington on a stamp
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==Ineligible==
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| '''[[World Health Day]]''';
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|[[529]] – [[List of Byzantine emperors|Byzantine Emperor]] {{nowrap|[[Justinian I]]}} issued the first draft of the '''''[[Corpus Juris Civilis]]''''', a collection of fundamental works in [[jurisprudence]].
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| [[1348]] – [[Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor|Charles, King of Bohemia]]<!--Charles became Holy Roman Emperor later-->, issued a [[Golden Bull]] to establish '''[[Charles University]]'''<!-- ''(main façade pictured)''--> in [[Prague]], the first university in Central Europe.
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| [[1767]] – Troops of the Burmese [[Konbaung Dynasty]] sacked the Siamese city of [[Ayutthaya (city)|Ayutthaya]] to end the '''[[Burmese–Siamese War (1765–67)|Burmese–Siamese War]]''', bringing the four-century-old [[Ayutthaya Kingdom]] to an end.
| lots of CN tags
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| [[1805]] – German composer [[Ludwig van Beethoven]] premiered his '''[[Symphony No. 3 (Beethoven)|Third Symphony]]''', at the [[Theater an der Wien]] in [[Vienna]].
| lots of CN tags
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|[[1868]] – '''[[Thomas D'Arcy McGee]]''', a [[Canadian Confederation|Canadian Father of Confederation]], was assassinated; to date, the only Canadian political assassination at the [[Canadian federalism|federal level]].
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| [[1940]] – Educator '''[[Booker T. Washington]]''' became the first [[African American]] to be featured on a [[Postage stamps and postal history of the United States|U.S. postage stamp]].
| lots of CN tags
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|[[1954]] – [[Cold 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]].
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| [[1956]] – Spain relinquished its '''[[Spanish protectorate in Morocco|protectorate in Morocco]]'''.
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| [[1955]] – Aware that he was slowing down both physically and mentally in his old age, '''[[Winston Churchill]]''' retired as [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]].
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| [[2001]] – [[NASA]]'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 Air Force Station|Cape Canaveral]].
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| '''[[Berengar I of Italy]]''' (d. 924)
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| '''[[Francis Ford Coppola]]''' (b. 1939)
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|}
==Eligible==
* [[1724]] – [[Johann Sebastian Bach]] debuted the '''''[[St John Passion]]''''', a musical representation of the [[Passion of Jesus|Passion]], at the [[St. Thomas Church, Leipzig|St. Thomas Church]] in [[Leipzig]].
* [[1788]] – '''[[American pioneers to the Northwest Territory|American pioneers]]''' established the town of [[Marietta, Ohio|Marietta]] (now in [[Ohio]]), the first permanent American settlement in the [[Northwest Territory]].
* [[1862]] – [[American Civil War]]: Union forces defeated [[Confederate States of America|Confederates]] at the '''[[Battle of Shiloh]]''', the bloodiest battle in U.S. history at the time, in [[Hardin County, Tennessee]].
* [[1896]] – An '''[[Nansen's Fram expedition|Arctic expedition]]''' led by Norwegian explorer '''[[Fridtjof Nansen]]'''<!-- ''(pictured)''--> reached 86°13.6'N, almost three degrees beyond the previous [[Farthest North]] mark.
* [[1945]] – [[World War II]]: American forces sank Japan's [[Japanese battleship Yamato|''Yamato'']], the largest battleship in the world, during '''[[Operation Ten-Go]]'''.
* [[1948]] – The [[United Nations]] established the '''[[World Health Organization]]''' to act as a coordinating authority on international [[public health]].
* [[1964]] – Reverend '''[[Bruce W. Klunder]]''' was killed by a [[bulldozer]] while he was protesting the construction of a [[Racial segregation in the United States|segregated]] school in [[Cleveland|Cleveland, Ohio]], U.S.
* [[1969]] – [[Steve Crocker]] published RFC{{nbsp}}1, the first in a series of '''[[Request for Comments]]''' documents that helped shape the [[History of the Internet|evolution of the Internet]].* [[1994]] – A [[FedEx]] employee tried to hijack '''[[Federal Express Flight 705|Federal Express {{nowrap|Flight 705}}]]''' in a failed suicide attempt.
* [[1995]] – [[First Chechen War]]: Russian [[paramilitary]] troops began '''[[Samashki massacre|a massacre]]''' of at least 250 civilians in [[Samashki]], [[Chechnya]].
* [[2010]] – '''[[Kyrgyz Revolution of 2010|Violent protests]]''' in the Kyrgyz capital of [[Bishkek]] resulted in the collapse of the [[Kurmanbek Bakiyev]] government.
* Born/died: '''[[El Greco]]''' (d. 1614){{·}} '''[[Toussaint Louverture]]''' (d. 1803){{·}} '''[[John Bernard Flannagan]]''' (b. 1895)
==Notes==
* [[The Anarchy]] and [[Empress Matilda|Matilda]] appear on [[Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/November 1|November 1]], so Empress Matilda should not appear in the same year.
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'''[[April 7]]''': '''[[Cheti Chand]]''' in various parts of India (2019); '''[[National Beer Day (United States)|National Beer Day]]''' in the United States
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{{main page image|File:Juvénal Habyarimana (1980).jpg|Juvénal Habyarimana|alt=Juvénal Habyarimana in 1980}}
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* [[1141]] – '''[[Empress Matilda]]''' became the first female claimant to the throne of England, adopting the title 'Lady of the English'.
* [[1949]] – The [[Rodgers and Hammerstein]] musical '''''[[South Pacific (musical)|South Pacific]]''''', based on ''[[Tales of the South Pacific]]'' by [[James A. Michener|James Michener]], opened on [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]].
* [[1994]] – The '''[[Rwandan genocide]]''' began, a few hours after the [[Assassination of Juvénal Habyarimana and Cyprien Ntaryamira|assassination]] of President [[Juvénal Habyarimana]] ''(pictured)''; an estimated 500,000–1,000,000 Rwandans were killed in the following 100 days.
* [[2017]] – A hijacked truck was '''[[2017 Stockholm truck attack|deliberately driven into crowds]]''' along [[Drottninggatan]] in [[Stockholm]] killing five people.
'''[[John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby|John Sheffield]]''' (b. 1648){{·}} '''[[Joseph Lyons]]''' (d. 1939){{·}} '''[[Dave Arneson]]''' (d. 2009)
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==Images==
Use only ONE image at a time
<gallery>
Image:Flag of the Ba'ath Party.svg|Flag of the Ba'ath Party
Image:Yamato battleship explosion.jpg|The Yamato explodes|width=150
File:Fridtjof Nansen LOC 03377u-3.jpg|Fridtjof Nansen
File:Meister von San Vitale in Ravenna.jpg|Byzantine Emperor Justinian I (requires undeletion)
File:Prague Charles University.JPG|Main façade of the aula of Charles University in Prague
File:Winston Churchill cph.3a49758.jpg|Winston Churchill
File:2001 mars odyssey wizja.jpg|Artist's conception of the 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft
File:Booker T Washington 1940 Issue-10c.jpg|Booker T. Washington on a stamp
</gallery>
==Ineligible==
{|class="wikitable"
|-
!Blurb
!Reason
|-
| '''[[World Health Day]]''';
|refimprove
|-
|[[529]] – [[List of Byzantine emperors|Byzantine Emperor]] {{nowrap|[[Justinian I]]}} issued the first draft of the '''''[[Corpus Juris Civilis]]''''', a collection of fundamental works in [[jurisprudence]].
|refimprove
|-
| [[1348]] – [[Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor|Charles, King of Bohemia]]<!--Charles became Holy Roman Emperor later-->, issued a [[Golden Bull]] to establish '''[[Charles University]]'''<!-- ''(main façade pictured)''--> in [[Prague]], the first university in Central Europe.
| unreferenced section
|-
| [[1767]] – Troops of the Burmese [[Konbaung Dynasty]] sacked the Siamese city of [[Ayutthaya (city)|Ayutthaya]] to end the '''[[Burmese–Siamese War (1765–67)|Burmese–Siamese War]]''', bringing the four-century-old [[Ayutthaya Kingdom]] to an end.
| lots of CN tags
|-
| [[1805]] – German composer [[Ludwig van Beethoven]] premiered his '''[[Symphony No. 3 (Beethoven)|Third Symphony]]''', at the [[Theater an der Wien]] in [[Vienna]].
| lots of CN tags
|-
|[[1868]] – '''[[Thomas D'Arcy McGee]]''', a [[Canadian Confederation|Canadian Father of Confederation]], was assassinated; to date, the only Canadian political assassination at the [[Canadian federalism|federal level]].
| refimprove section
|-
| [[1940]] – Educator '''[[Booker T. Washington]]''' became the first [[African American]] to be featured on a [[Postage stamps and postal history of the United States|U.S. postage stamp]].
| lots of CN tags
|-
|[[1954]] – [[Cold 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 '''[[Spanish protectorate in Morocco|protectorate in Morocco]]'''.
| refimprove
|-
| [[1955]] – Aware that he was slowing down both physically and mentally in his old age, '''[[Winston Churchill]]''' retired as [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]].
| external links
|-
| [[2001]] – [[NASA]]'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 Air Force Station|Cape Canaveral]].
| refimprove section
|-
| '''[[Berengar I of Italy]]''' (d. 924)
| unreferenced section (Ancestry)
|-
| '''[[Francis Ford Coppola]]''' (b. 1939)
| Three sections are maintenance tagged
|}
==Eligible==
* [[1724]] – [[Johann Sebastian Bach]] debuted the '''''[[St John Passion]]''''', a musical representation of the [[Passion of Jesus|Passion]], at the [[St. Thomas Church, Leipzig|St. Thomas Church]] in [[Leipzig]].
* [[1788]] – '''[[American pioneers to the Northwest Territory|American pioneers]]''' established the town of [[Marietta, Ohio|Marietta]] (now in [[Ohio]]), the first permanent American settlement in the [[Northwest Territory]].
* [[1862]] – [[American Civil War]]: Union forces defeated [[Confederate States of America|Confederates]] at the '''[[Battle of Shiloh]]''', the bloodiest battle in U.S. history at the time, in [[Hardin County, Tennessee]].
* [[1896]] – An '''[[Nansen's Fram expedition|Arctic expedition]]''' led by Norwegian explorer '''[[Fridtjof Nansen]]'''<!-- ''(pictured)''--> reached 86°13.6'N, almost three degrees beyond the previous [[Farthest North]] mark.
* [[1945]] – [[World War II]]: American forces sank Japan's [[Japanese battleship Yamato|''Yamato'']], the largest battleship in the world, during '''[[Operation Ten-Go]]'''.
* [[1948]] – The [[United Nations]] established the '''[[World Health Organization]]''' to act as a coordinating authority on international [[public health]].
* [[1964]] – Reverend '''[[Bruce W. Klunder]]''' was killed by a [[bulldozer]] while he was protesting the construction of a [[Racial segregation in the United States|segregated]] school in [[Cleveland|Cleveland, Ohio]], U.S.
* [[1969]] – [[Steve Crocker]] published RFC{{nbsp}}1, the first in a series of '''[[Request for Comments]]''' documents that helped shape the [[History of the Internet|evolution of the Internet]].* [[1994]] – A [[FedEx]] employee tried to hijack '''[[Federal Express Flight 705|Federal Express {{nowrap|Flight 705}}]]''' in a failed suicide attempt.
* [[1995]] – [[First Chechen War]]: Russian [[paramilitary]] troops began '''[[Samashki massacre|a massacre]]''' of at least 250 civilians in [[Samashki]], [[Chechnya]].
* [[2010]] – '''[[Kyrgyz Revolution of 2010|Violent protests]]''' in the Kyrgyz capital of [[Bishkek]] resulted in the collapse of the [[Kurmanbek Bakiyev]] government.
* Born/died: '''[[El Greco]]''' (d. 1614){{·}} '''[[Toussaint Louverture]]''' (d. 1803){{·}} '''[[John Bernard Flannagan]]''' (b. 1895)
==Notes==
* [[The Anarchy]] and [[Empress Matilda|Matilda]] appear on [[Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/November 1|November 1]], so Empress Matilda should not appear in the same year.
{{divhide|end}}
</noinclude>
'''[[April 7]]''': '''[[Cheti Chand]]''' in various parts of India (2019); '''[[National Beer Day (United States)|National Beer Day]]''' in the United States
<div style="float:right;margin-left:0.5em;" id="mp-otd-img">
{{main page image|File:Juvénal Habyarimana (1980).jpg|Juvénal Habyarimana|alt=Juvénal Habyarimana in 1980}}
</div>
* [[1141]] – '''[[Empress Matilda]]''' became the first female claimant to the throne of England, adopting the title 'Lady of the English'.
* [[1949]] – The [[Rodgers and Hammerstein]] musical '''''[[South Pacific (musical)|South Pacific]]''''', based on ''[[Tales of the South Pacific]]'' by [[James A. Michener|James Michener]], opened on [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]].
* [[1994]] – The '''[[Rwandan genocide]]''' began, a few hours after the [[Assassination of Juvénal Habyarimana and Cyprien Ntaryamira|assassination]] of President [[Juvénal Habyarimana]] ''(pictured)''; an estimated 500,000–1,000,000 Rwandans were killed in the following 100 days.
* [[2017]] – A hijacked truck was '''[[2017 Stockholm truck attack|deliberately driven into crowds]]''' along [[Drottninggatan]] in [[Stockholm]] killing five people.
'''[[John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby|John Sheffield]]''' (b. 1648){{·}} '''[[Joseph Lyons]]''' (d. 1939){{·}} '''[[Dave Arneson]]''' (d. 2009)
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