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Pompey the Great
William the Conqueror
William the Conqueror
Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo
Edward Carson signing the Ulster Covenant
Chicago, one of the aircraft to make the first aerial circumnavigation
Alexander Fleming
Sycamore Gap tree after it was felled
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| Yom Kippur (Judaism, 2020) | refimprove (I think we've got till 2039 to rescue) |
| Flag Day in Thailand | refimprove |
| Teachers' Day in Taiwan | refimprove |
| Statehood Day in the Czech Republic | unreferenced |
| 48 BC – Pompey the Great was assassinated on orders of King Ptolemy of Egypt after landing in Egypt following a decisive defeat by Julius Caesar at the Battle of Pharsalus. | refimprove section |
| 995 – The Slavník dynasty, the main rival of the Přemyslids for rule over Bohemia, came to an end when Boleslaus II and his confederates massacred most of its family members. | unreferenced section |
| 1542 – Explorer Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo (pictured), the first European to travel along the coast of California, landed at what is now the city of San Diego. | Too much uncited |
| 1891 – Railway workers in Montevideo founded the Central Uruguay Railway Cricket Club, later renamed Peñarol, one of Uruguay's most successful football clubs. | Referencing issues |
| 1912 – Over 470,000 people from Ulster, Ireland, signed the Ulster Covenant in protest against the Third Home Rule Bill. | number in blurb not referenced, wording of blurb inaccurate, text for the covenant and declaration not sourced, and an unreferenced section |
| 1941 – The short-lived Drama uprising against the Bulgarian occupation in northern Greece began. | multiple issues |
| 1962 – A fire destroyed the Paddington tram depot and 65 trams in Brisbane, Australia. | needs more footnotes |
| 1994 – The ferry MS Estonia sank while commuting between Tallinn, Estonia, and Stockholm, Sweden, claiming 852 lives in one of the worst maritime accidents in the Baltic Sea. | unreferenced section |
| 1995 – Over 30 mercenaries led by Bob Denard landed on the Comoros in an attempted coup, his fourth one on the African island nation since 1975. | refimprove section |
| 2008 – SpaceX's Falcon 1 rocket achieved orbit on its fourth attempt to become the first successful liquid-propelled orbital launch vehicle developed with private funding. | missing information |
Eligible
- 48 BC – Pompey was killed by Lucius Septimius at Pelusium in Egypt.
- 351 – The Eastern Roman armies under Constantius II defeated those of the usurper Magnentius at the Battle of Mursa Major.
- 1066 – William the Conqueror and his fleet of around 600 ships landed at Pevensey, Sussex, beginning the Norman conquest of England.
- 1106 – In the Battle of Tinchebray in Normandy, the invading King Henry I of England captured his brother Robert Curthose.
- 1901 – Philippine–American War: Filipino guerrillas killed more than forty American soldiers in a surprise attack on the town of Balangiga on the island of Samar.
- 1928 – Scottish biologist and pharmacologist Alexander Fleming (pictured) discovered penicillin when he noticed a bacteria-killing mould growing in his laboratory.
- 1963 – Whaam!, now considered one of Roy Lichtenstein's most important works, debuted at an exhibition held at the Leo Castelli Gallery, New York City.
- 1972 – Against the backdrop of the Cold War, the Canadian ice hockey team defeated the Soviet team in the Summit Series.
- 1975 – An attempted robbery of Spaghetti House, a restaurant in Knightsbridge, London, turned into a six-day hostage situation.
- 1978 – Pope John Paul I died only 33 days after his papal election due to an apparent myocardial infarction, resulting in the first year of three popes since 1605.
- 2006 – Typhoon Xangsane passed Manila on its way to causing more than 300 deaths, mostly in the Phillippines and Vietnam.
- 2012 – War in Somalia: Somali National Army forces and their AMISOM and Raskamboni allies launched an offensive against Al-Shabaab in the latter's last major stronghold of Kismayo.
- 2023 – The Sycamore Gap tree in Northumberland, England, was illegally felled.
- Born/died: | Rabbi Akiva|d|135| Elizabeth Maitland, Duchess of Lauderdale|b|1626| Francis Turretin |d|1687| Prosper Mérimée |b|1803| Jonathan Clarkson Gibbs |b|1821| Avery Brundage |b|1887| Florence Violet McKenzie |b|1890| Louis Pasteur |d|1895| Yu Gwan-sun |d|1920| Jules Sedney |b|1922| Brigitte Bardot |b|1934| Charles Duryea |d|1938| Miloš Zeman |b|1944| Sheikh Hasina |b|1947| Jon Snow |b|1947| Edwin Hubble |d|1953| Charles Duryea |d|1938| Mika Häkkinen |b|1968| Naomi Watts |b|1968| Gamal Abdel Nasser |d|1970| Melody Thornton|b|1984| Andrés Guardado |b|1986| Hilary Duff |b|1987| Marin Čilić |b|1988| Pierre Trudeau |d|2000| Patsy Mink |d|2002| Althea Gibson |d|2003| George Odlum |d|2003| Guillermo Endara |d|2009| Gary Glasberg |d|2016|
Notes
- Battle of Stamford Bridge appears on September 25 so Norman conquest should not appear in the same year
Pope Pontian
- 235 – Pope Pontian (pictured) resigned after being exiled to Sardinia, becoming the first pope to relinquish the position.
- 1821 – The Declaration of Independence of the Mexican Empire from Spain was drafted in the National Palace in Mexico City.
- 1924 – A team of U.S. Army Air Service aviators landed in Seattle, Washington, to complete the first aerial circumnavigation of the world.
- 1958 – Fernando Rios, a Mexican tour guide in New Orleans, was killed in an instance of gay bashing.
- 2009 – A protest held by 50,000 people in Conakry, Guinea, was forcefully disrupted by the military junta, resulting in at least 157 deaths and over 1,200 injuries.
- Isis Pogson (b. 1852)
- Frank S. Scott (d. 1912)
- Kimiko Date (b. 1970)
- Shimon Peres (d. 2016)
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