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Arthur Eddington
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Messerschmitt Bf 109
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
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| International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers; | refimprove |
| Democracy Day in Nigeria | unreferenced stub |
| 363 – Roman emperor Julian defeated Sassanid Emperor Shapur II outside the walls of Ctesiphon, but was unable to take the city. | refimprove |
| 1167 – A 1,600-man force of the Holy Roman Empire led by Christian of Buch and Rainald of Dassel defeated a 10,000-man Papal States army. | refimprove |
| 1176 – Wars of the Guelphs and Ghibellines: The Lombard League defeated the forces of the Holy Roman Empire in Legnano, Lombardy, present-day Italy. | refimprove section |
| 1328 – Philip VI of France was crowned at Notre-Dame de Reims, beginning the Valois Dynasty. | refimprove section |
| 1660 – The monarchy in England was restored under King Charles II. | unreferenced section |
| 1780 – American Revolutionary War: A mainly Loyalist force rejected the Continental Army troops' surrender at the Battle of Waxhaws and continued killing the Patriot soldiers, including men who were not resisting. | refimprove section |
| 1848 – Wisconsin became the 30th U.S. state admitted to the Union. | refimprove section |
| 1867 – By the Austro-Hungarian Compromise, signed by Franz Joseph I of Austria and a Hungarian delegation led by Ferenc Deák, the Dual Monarchy of Austria-Hungary was established. | lots of CN tags in one section |
| 1900 – N'Djamena, now the capital of Chad, was founded as Fort-Lamy by French commander Émile Gentil. | lots of CN tags |
| 1914 – The ocean liner RMS Empress of Ireland sank in the Saint Lawrence River after colliding with the collier SS Storstad, killing 1,012 on board. | refimprove section |
| 1919 – Observations made by English astrophysicist Arthur Eddington during a solar eclipse confirmed part of Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity. | refimprove section |
| 1985 – A wall at Brussels' Heysel Stadium collapsed under the pressure of football fans escaping a riot before the European Cup Final between Liverpool and Juventus, killing 39 people and injuring over 600 others. | refimprove section |
| 1999 – Olusegun Obasanjo took office as President of Nigeria, the country's first elected and civilian head of state after 16 years of military rule. | unreferenced sections |
| Joyce Yakubowich (b. 1953) | unreferenced section |
Eligible
- 1911 – English dramatist W. S. Gilbert of the songwriting duo Gilbert and Sullivan died while saving a young woman from drowning in his lake.
- 1913 – During the premiere of Igor Stravinsky's ballet The Rite of Spring at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris, the avant-garde nature of the music and choreography caused a near-riot in the audience.
- 1918 – World War I: Armenian forces defeated Ottoman troops at the Battle of Sardarabad, not only stopping the Turkish invasion but also preventing the complete destruction of the Armenian nation.
- 1953 – The mountaineers Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
- 1954 – Diane Leather became the first woman to run a mile in less than 5 minutes.
- 1982 – Falklands War: Although they had successfully defended their position, Argentine troops surrendered in the face of overwhelmingly superior firepower, ending the Battle of Goose Green.
- Born/died: Anne Marie Louise d'Orléans, Duchess of Montpensier (b. 1627) · Patrick Henry (b. 1736) · G. K. Chesterton (b. 1874) · John F. Kennedy (b. 1917) · John Barrymore (d. 1942)
Notes
- Arthur Sullivan appears on May 13, so Gilbert should not appear in the same year
- Roger Bannister appears on May 6, so Leather should not appear in the same year
- 1453 – With the conquest of Constantinople, the Byzantine Empire fell to the Ottomans.
- 1852 – Swedish operatic soprano Jenny Lind (pictured) concluded a successful concert tour of the United States under the management of showman P. T. Barnum.
- 1935 – The Messerschmitt Bf 109, the most-produced fighter aircraft in history, made its first flight.
- 1942 – Bing Crosby recorded his version of the song "White Christmas", which went on to become the best-selling single of all time, with more than 50 million copies sold.
- 1954 – The first annual Bilderberg Meeting of leaders from European countries and the United States opened in Oosterbeek, Netherlands.
Winfield Scott (d. 1866) · Hubert Opperman (b. 1904) · Ana Beatriz Barros (b. 1982)