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Ruins of the Catholic University of Leuven's library -
The skeleton of Richard III in its original grave
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| Qixi Festival (traditional Chinese, 2020) | refimprove and date cite dead link |
| Independence Day in Uruguay (1825) | tagged for {outdated section} |
| 1227 – Genghis Khan, founder of the Mongol Empire, died after a lengthy illness during the Mongol conquest of Western Xia. | Article gives two possible dates |
| 1248 – Ommen in the Netherlands received city rights and fortification rights from Otto III, the Archbishop of Utrecht, after the town was pillaged at least twice by a local robber baron. | unreferenced section |
| 1580 – War of the Portuguese Succession: The army of the pretender to the Portuguese throne, António, Prior of Crato, was routed in the Battle of Alcântara, ending his short-lived reign. | both: refimprove section |
| 1609 – Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei demonstrated his first telescope to Venetian lawmakers. | Lots of cn |
| 1830 - Following a performance of an opera in Brussels, the Belgian Revolution breaks out against Dutch rule in the Southern Netherlands, leading to the independence of Belgium. | featured on October 4 |
| 1835 – The New York Sun perpetrated the Great Moon Hoax, publishing articles about the supposed discovery of life on the Moon. | unreferenced section |
| 1912 – The Kuomintang was founded by Sung Chiao-jen and Sun Yat-sen in Guangdong, China. | refimprove section |
| 1916 – The National Park Service was established to manage all national parks, many national monuments, and other conservation and historical properties around the United States. | missing information |
| 1920 – Polish forces (pictured) successfully forced the Russians to retreat at the Battle of Warsaw, the decisive battle of the Polish–Soviet War. | unreferenced section |
| 1939 – The United Kingdom and Poland entered into a military alliance for mutual assistance in case of military invasion by "a European Power". | unreferenced section |
| 1941 – Second World War: Soviet, British and Commonwealth armed forces invaded Iran to secure oil fields and Allied supply lines for the Soviet Union. | Missing page numbers |
| 1944 – World War II: The Free French Forces and the French Resistance liberated Paris from the Nazi German occupation. | lots of CN tags (8) esp in one section |
| 1945 – Armed supporters of the Communist Party of China killed American military intelligence officer and Baptist missionary John Birch as he was leading a mission to reach Allied personnel in a Japanese prison camp. | page numbers needed |
| 1967 – Founder of the American Nazi Party George Lincoln Rockwell was assassinated by John Patler, a former member of his group. | unreferenced section |
| 1985 – Bar Harbor Airlines Flight 1808 crash landed at the Auburn/Lewiston Municipal Airport runway in Auburn, Maine, killing all eight people on board including Samantha Smith and her father Arthur Smith. | refimprove |
| 1991 – The Battle of Vukovar begins. An 87-day siege of a Croatian city by the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA), supported by various Serbian paramilitary forces, between August–November, during the Croatian War of Independence. | featured on November 18 |
Eligible
- 1270 – Philip III became King of France following the death of his father Louis IX during the Eighth Crusade.
- 1537 – The Honourable Artillery Company, now the oldest surviving regiment in the British Army, was granted a royal charter by Henry VIII.
- 1875 – Matthew Webb became the first person to swim across the English Channel, doing so in approximately 21 hours 40 minutes.
- 1942 – World War II: Japanese forces attacked the Australian base at Milne Bay on the eastern tip of New Guinea.
- 1975 – Bruce Springsteen released his commercial breakthrough album, Born to Run.
- 2001 – American singer Aaliyah (pictured) and several members of her record company were killed when their overloaded aircraft crashed shortly after takeoff from Marsh Harbour Airport in The Bahamas.
- 2012 – The NASA space probe Voyager 1 became the first man-made object to enter interstellar space.
- 2012 – The skeleton of King Richard III of England (pictured) was discovered under a car park in Leicester.
- Born/died this day: | Gratian |d|383|Gennadius of Constantinople |d|471| Genghis Khan |d|1227| Henry Morgan |d|1688| Karl Friedrich Bahrdt |b|1741| John Neal |b|1793| Luís Alves de Lima e Silva, Duke of Caxias |b|1803| Charles Richet |b|1850| Agnes Mowinckel |b|1875 Mary Tappan Wright |d|1916| Zsuzsa Körmöczy |b|1924|Sean Connery |b|1930| Stan McCabe |d|1968| Samantha Smith |d|1985| Ricardo Rodríguez |b|1992|
Notes
- Coldstream Guards appears on August 13, so Honourable Artillery Company should not appear in the same year
Rings of Neptune
- 1258 – George Mouzalon, the regent of the Empire of Nicaea, was assassinated as part of a conspiracy led by nobles under the future emperor Michael VIII Palaiologos.
- 1758 – Seven Years' War: Prussian forces engaged the Russians at the Battle of Zorndorf in present-day Sarbinowo, Poland.
- 1914 – World War I: During the sack of Louvain in Belgium, German troops burned the town's Catholic university, destroying several medieval manuscripts.
- 1989 – The NASA spacecraft Voyager 2 made its closest approach to Neptune and provided definitive proof of the existence of the planet's rings (pictured).
- 2011 – Mexican drug war: Fifty-two people were killed in an arson attack at a casino in Monterrey, Mexico.
- Velma Caldwell Melville (d. 1924)
- Babe Siebert (d. 1939)
- Theresa Andrews (b. 1962)
- Ray Jones (d. 2007)