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A transit of Venus
Burger King Whopper
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| Blurb | Reason |
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| Navy Day in India | refimprove |
| 771 – Austrasian King Carloman I died, leaving his brother Charlemagne king of the now complete Frankish Kingdom. | unreferenced section |
| 1676 – Scanian War: Forces led by Swedish Field Marshal Simon Grundel-Helmfelt defeated the invading army of Denmark–Norway under the command of King Christian V in an area north of Lund, Sweden. | needs more footnotes |
| 1791 – Britain's The Observer, the world's first Sunday newspaper, was first published. | refimprove |
| 1918 – US President Woodrow Wilson sailed for the World War I peace talks in Versailles, becoming the first US president to travel to Europe while in office. | fact not in article |
| 1937 – The first issue of The Dandy, the world's longest-running children's comic book, was published. | refimprove |
| 1956 – Singers Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, and Elvis Presley, collectively called the "Million Dollar Quartet", recorded an impromptu jam session in the Sun Record Studios in Memphis, Tennessee. | refimprove section |
| 1977 – Jean-Bédel Bokassa, the President of the Central African Republic, had himself crowned as Emperor Bokassa I. | refimprove section, unreferenced section |
| 1991 – Journalist Terry Anderson, the last and longest-held American hostage in Lebanon, was released after seven years in captivity. | refimprove |
Eligible
- 1829 – Sati, the Hindu funeral custom of widows immolating themselves, was prohibited in part of British India after years of campaigning by Ram Mohan Roy.
- 1872 – The American brigantine Mary Celeste was found apparently abandoned under circumstances that to this day remain unknown.
- 1909 – The Montreal Canadiens, the oldest professional ice hockey club in the world, were founded as a charter member of the National Hockey Association.
- 1954 – The global hamburger fast food chain Burger King, known for its signature item the Whopper, was founded in Miami, Florida, U.S.
- 1978 – Following the murder of Mayor George Moscone, Dianne Feinstein becomes San Francisco's first female mayor.
- 1979 – Bruce George Peter Lee set fire to a family home in Hull, England; after his arrest he revealed that he had started nine other fatal fires in the area.
- 1980 – The English rock group Led Zeppelin officially disbanded.
- 1991 – Pan American World Airways, which was the principal international airline of the United States and which was credited with many innovations, ended operations.
- 2006 – Six black youths in Jena, Louisiana, U.S., assaulted a white teenager; the subsequent court case would become a cause célèbre.
Notes
- National Hockey League appears on November 26, so Montreal Canadiens should not appear in the same year
- Droppin Well bombing (1975) and Balcombe Street siege (1982) both appear on December 6, so McGurk's Bar bombing should not appear in the same year
Jeremiah Horrocks observing the transit of Venus
- 1639 – English astronomer Jeremiah Horrocks (pictured) made the first successful prediction and observation of a transit of Venus.
- 1893 – First Matabele War: A patrol of British South Africa Company soldiers was ambushed and annihilated by more than 3,000 Matabele warriors.
- 1909 – The first Grey Cup, the championship game of the Canadian Football League, was held.
- 1971 – The Troubles: The Ulster Volunteer Force, an Ulster loyalist paramilitary group, exploded a bomb at a Catholic-owned pub in Belfast, Northern Ireland, killing 15 people.
- 1992 – U.S. President George H. W. Bush ordered American troops into Somalia to help provide humanitarian aid and restore order during the ongoing Somali Civil War.
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