Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/April 7
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This is a list of selected April 7 anniversaries that appears on 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 may be controversial, or on a day that is or soon will be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
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- 529 – Byzantine Emperor Justinian I (pictured) issued the first draft of the Corpus Juris Civilis, a first attempt to codify Roman law.
- 1348 – King Charles of Bohemia issued a Golden Bull to establish Charles University in Prague, the first university in Central Europe.
- 1868 – D'Arcy McGee, a Canadian Father Of Confederation, was assassinated – to date, the only Canadian political assassination at the federal level.
- 1945 – World War II: American forces sunk the Japanese battleship Yamato during Operation Ten-Go.
- 1948 – The United Nations established the World Health Organization.
- 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.
