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General Bernardo O'Higgins of Chile
Xuantong, the last Emperor of China
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A Soviet vessel collides with USS Yorktown in Soviet territorial waters
James II of England
Michigan State University's Beaumont Tower
Edvard Munch's "The Scream"
Eros, looking from one end of the asteroid across the gouge on its underside and toward the opposite end
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Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| Lincoln's Birthday in parts of the United States | refimprove |
| Darwin Day; | outdated |
| 881 – Pope John VIII crowned Charles the Fat as Holy Roman Emperor. | refimprove section |
| 1429 – Hundred Years' War: At the Battle of the Herrings, English forces under John Fastolf successfully defended a supply convoy carrying rations to the army besieging Orleans from attack by the French. | refimprove section |
| 1502 – Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama set sail from Lisbon, Portugal, on his second voyage to India with the object of enforcing Portuguese interests in the Far East. | Gama: unreferenced section; 4th Portuguese India Armada: refimprove section, unreferenced section |
| 1541 – Spanish conquistador Pedro de Valdivia founded Santiago, today the capital of Chile, as Santiago del Nuevo Extremo. | refimprove section |
| 1554 – Lady Jane Grey, "The Nine Days Queen of England" in 1553, was executed for high treason at the Tower of London. | Save article for July 10 |
| 1733 – James Oglethorpe founded the city of Savannah along with the Province of Georgia, the last of the Thirteen Colonies established by Great Britain in what later became the United States. | undue weight, refimprove section, primary sources |
| 1816 – The original building of the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples, Italy, today the oldest continuously active opera house in Europe, was destroyed by fire. Its reconstructed building was inaugurated exactly one year later. | unreferenced section |
| 1825 – Under the Treaty of Indian Springs, the Creeks, a Native American group, ceded the last of their lands in Georgia to the US government and migrated west. | refimprove |
| 1909 – The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, one of the oldest and most influential civil rights organizations in the United States, was founded to work on behalf of the rights of African Americans. | unreferenced section, section needs to be rewritten |
| 1914 – The dedication ceremony for the Lincoln Memorial to honor Abraham Lincoln was held in Washington, D.C. | unreferenced section |
| 1934 – Austrian Civil War | Save for February 16 |
| 1935 – The USS Macon, one of the two largest helium-filled airships ever created, crashed into the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California and sank. | unreferenced section |
| 1974 – Russian author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was arrested and subsequently deported from the Soviet Union for writing The Gulag Archipelago, an exposé of the Soviet forced labour camp system. | neutrality issues |
| 1988 – While exercising the "right of innocent passage" through Soviet waters, the USS Yorktown was intentionally rammed by a Soviet Burevestnik class frigate in what was described as "the last incident of the Cold War". | refimprove section |
Eligible
- 1855 – Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan, was founded as the Agricultural College of the State of Michigan, the United States' first agricultural college.
- 1946 – Black United States Army veteran Isaac Woodard was severely beaten by a South Carolina police officer to the point that he lost his vision in both eyes, an incident that galvanized the Civil Rights Movement.
- 1947 – The Sikhote-Alin meteorite, one of the largest iron meteorite impacts ever observed, fell in the Sikhote-Alin range in Siberia.
- 1993 – Two-year-old James Bulger was led away from New Strand Shopping Centre in Bootle, England, and brutally murdered by two ten-year-old boys, who became the youngest convicted murderers in modern English history.
- 2009 – Just before it was scheduled to land at Buffalo Niagara International Airport, Colgan Air Flight 3407 crashed into a house in Clarence Center, New York, killing the house's occupant and all 49 people on board the aircraft.
- 2016 – Pope Francis met Patriarch Kirill at José Martí International Airport in Cuba, the first meeting between the pontiff of the Catholic Church and the primate of the Russian Orthodox Church, together they signed the Havana Declaration.
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Christian Dior's "New Look"
- 1818 – On the first anniversary of its victory in the Battle of Chacabuco, Chile formally declared its independence from Spain.
- 1912 – Xinhai Revolution: Puyi, the last Emperor of China, abdicated under a deal brokered by military official and politician Yuan Shikai, formally replacing the Qing dynasty with a new republic in China.
- 1947 – The French fashion company Christian Dior unveiled a "New Look" (pictured) that revolutionized women's dress and reestablished Paris as the center of the fashion world after World War II.
- 1994 – Edvard Munch's iconic painting The Scream was stolen from the National Gallery of Norway.
- 2001 – NASA's robotic space probe NEAR Shoemaker touched down on Eros, becoming the first spacecraft to land on an asteroid.
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