Talk:February 7

Selected anniversaries for the "On this day" section of the Main Page

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February 7: Independence Day in Grenada (1974) Contemporary painting of the siege of Gibraltar 1783 – American Revolutionary War: After three years and seven months, Spain and France abandoned their attempt (pictured) to capture Gibraltar from the British. 1941 – Soviet border guards opened fire on civilians attempting to cross the border from the Soviet Union to Romania near Lunca, killing several hundred people. 1948 – Neil Harvey became the youngest Australian to score a century in Test cricket. 1986 – President of Haiti Jean-Claude Duvalier fled the country after a popular uprising, ending 28 years of one-family rule in the nation. 1991 – The Troubles: The Provisional Irish Republican Army shelled 10 Downing Street with mortars in a failed attempt to assassinate British prime minister John Major. Henry Fuseli (b. 1741) Tony Tan (b. 1940) Angel Aquino (b. 1973) Richard Williams (d. 1980) More anniversaries: February 6 February 7 February 8

Mississippi city does not exist

In what state is Mississippi City? -- Zoe

E Day

e day? my calc professor was talking about pi day, and mentioned e day, for E (mathematical constant) 68.7.239.234 03:00, 16 March 2006 (UTC)awfulshot

Disparity? Dionne Quan

I didn't know who "Dionne Quan" was so I followed the wikilink. There I found "Dionne Quan (born October 20, 1978)" - so which page is incorrect?Eh Nonymous (talk) 12:13, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

Always go with the supporting article. -- Mufka ^{(u) (t) (c)} 14:32, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

Black Saturday bushfires

If no one has any objections, I've added the 2009 Black Saturday bushfires to the selected anniversaries table, seeing as how this year marks the first anniversary of the worst bushfires in Australia's history, which left 173 people dead.--Forward Unto Dawn 07:32, 2 February 2010 (UTC)

I agree, it should be included; it was a significant event that captured worldwide attention. I've reverted the changes made by Zzyzx11. If that user feels the 10th anniversary of a Pakistani university is significant, then that user should remove another item instead.--Just James ^T/C 08:25, 3 February 2010 (UTC)

Also, the Black Saturday bushfires article is well-written, well-referenced, and contains a number of useful links to other articles, including a subpage.--Just James ^T/C 08:34, 3 February 2010 (UTC)

Births and Deaths

Continuing the ongoing effort to reduce the size of the Births and Deaths sections to make them manageable, I'm removing some celebrities with few or no articles in other wikipedias, moving the entries to the appropriate Year in Topic article if they were not already present. This is in accordance with the guidelines. See discussions at Wikipedia_talk:Days_of_the_year. Deb (talk) 14:47, 11 December 2015 (UTC)

Homafaran allegiance

@Howcheng: On 7 February 1979 Homafaran allegiance photo captured and they allegiance with Ruhollah Khomeini on this day.Saff V. (talk) 13:59, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

You can add it yourself to this page, you don't need me. But this article is not really eligible for OTD because it's too short. —howcheng {chat} 18:02, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

2014 - Report of the Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea

Hello. I would like to add this event to the timeline:

• 2014 – The United Nations published a landmark report on the situation of human rights in North Korea

Any thoughts? (talk) user:Al83tito 3:31, 2 March 2016 (UTC)

Monopoly

This article states that Monopoly was invented on 7th February, 1935.

However, the Wikipedia article on the game doesn’t say when it was invented.

But DOEs say the games was first published in 1935.

On the sixth of February!

Can we have some clarification of that … ?

Cuddy2977 (talk) 12:51, 26 January 2017 (UTC)

If there's no reference, I'll just remove it. Deb (talk) 11:17, 9 October 2021 (UTC)

Not a painter

the actual Wiki article for Margaret Fownes-Luttrell gives no indication that she was a painter, only that an ancestor of hers was one and yet she is described here as a painter. ~2026-82522-6 (talk) 18:26, 6 February 2026 (UTC)