Wikipǣdia:Gecorene gemynddagas/7 Eastermonað
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Flag of the Ba'ath Party
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The Yamato explodes (too small at 100px)
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Byzantine Emperor Justinian I (requires undeletion)
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Booker T. Washington on a stamp
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529 – Byzantine Emperor Justinian I issued the first draft of the Corpus Juris Civilis, a collection of fundamental works in jurisprudence. | refimprove |
1868 – Thomas D'Arcy McGee, a Canadian Father of Confederation, was assassinated; to date, the only Canadian political assassination at the federal level. | refimprove |
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. | original research, unreferenced sections |
1956 – Ispania ongeaf hiere weardscipe on Morocco. | refimprove |
2010 - Thousands rioted in the Kyrgyz capital of Bishkek resulting in the collapse of the Kurmanbek Bakiyev government. | multiple issues |
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adihtan- 1348 – Charles, King of Bohemia, issued a Golden Bull to establish Charles University in Prague, the first university in Central Europe.
- 1788 – American pioneers established the town of Marietta (in modern Ohio), the first permanent American settlement outside the original Thirteen Colonies.
- 1805 – German composer Ludwig van Beethoven premiered his Third Symphony, at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna.
- 1862 – American Civil War: Union forces defeated Confederates at the Battle of Shiloh, the bloodiest battle in U.S. history at the time, in Hardin County, Tennessee.
- 1896 – An Arctic expedition led by Norwegian explorer Fridtjof Nansen reached 86°13.6'N, almost three degrees beyond the previous Farthest North mark.
- 1940 – Educator Booker T. Washington became the first African American to be featured on a U.S. postage stamp (pictured).
- 1945 – World War II: American forces sank Japan's 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.
- 1969 – The Internet was symbolically born with publication of RFC 1.
- 1995 – First Chechen War: Russian paramilitary troops began a massacre of at least 250 civilians in Samashki, Chechnya.
7. dæg Eastermonðes: Ƿoruld Hǣll Dæg
- 1724 – Johann Sebastian Bach debuted the St John Passion, a musical representation of the Passion, æt Halgan Tomas Cirican in Liptsice.
- 1767 – Feðan þæs Burmanisc Konbaung Cynecynn sacked Ayutthaya ceastre on Siam to endenne þære Burmanisc–Siamisc Gūþ (1765–1767), bringing the four-century-old Ayutthaya Kingdom to an end.
- 1947 – The Arab Ba'ath Party ƿæs in Damasce gestaðoled.
- 1994 – A FedEx employee tried to hijack Federal Express Flight 705 in a failed suicide attempt.
- 2001 – NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey (on biliþe), currently the longest-surviving continually active rodorcræft in orbit ymbe dweolend tungol ofer Eorþe, launched from Canaveralnæs Lyftþreatƿic.