Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/June 7

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 * 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 Mw 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| Robert Dover  |b|1956| Prince |b|1958| Allen Iverson |b|1975