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Mary I of England
Isabella II
Mary Rose as depicted in the Anthony Roll
Georg Anton Schäffer
Statue of General Aung San
François Mitterrand and Ronald Reagan
Launch of SS Great Britain
SS Great Britain in 2005
Luton Town Hall in 1897
Detail from The Day the Earth Smiled, with Earth as a pale dot between Saturn's rings
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| Burmese Martyrs' Day | refimprove section |
| Independence Day in Laos (1949) | multiple issues |
| AD 64 – The Great Fire of Rome began in shops around the Circus Maximus, eventually destroying three of the fourteen regions of the city and severely damaging seven others. | Tagged for deficient citations |
| 1870 – A dispute over who would become the next Spanish monarch following the deposition of Isabella II during the 1868 Glorious Revolution led France to declare war on Prussia. | unreferenced section |
| 1908 – Feyenoord Rotterdam, today one of the "big three" professional football teams in the Netherlands, was founded as the club Wilhelmina in a pub. | recentism, refimprove section |
| 1947 – Centrist Korean politician Lyuh Woon-hyung was assassinated by an active member of a nationalist right-wing group. | multiple issues |
| 1947 – Burmese nationalist Aung San and six members of his newly formed cabinet were assassinated during a cabinet meeting. | undue weight |
| 1979 – Sandinista rebels overthrew the U.S.-backed government of the Somoza family in Nicaragua. | more citations needed |
| 1981 – French president François Mitterrand privately showed U.S. president Ronald Reagan a dossier revealing that the Soviets had been stealing American technological research and development. | more citations needed |
| 1989 – After suffering an uncontained failure of an engine which destroyed all of its hydraulic systems, United Airlines Flight 232 broke up during an emergency landing in Sioux City, Iowa, killing 111 people. | page numbers needed |
| Vitali Klitschko|b|1971| | Orange "more sources needed" banner |
Eligible
- 998 – Arab–Byzantine wars: After initial Byzantine gains at the Battle of Apamea, a lone Kurdish rider killed Byzantine commander Damian Dalassenos, allowing Fatimid troops to turn the tide of the battle.
- 1333 – Second War of Scottish Independence: Scottish forces under Sir Archibald Douglas were heavily defeated by the English at the Battle of Halidon Hill while trying to relieve Berwick-upon-Tweed.
- 1545 – The English warship Mary Rose sank outside Portsmouth during the Battle of the Solent; it was raised from the seabed in 1982.
- 1553 – Mary I was proclaimed Queen of England, deposing Lady Jane Grey after nine days of de facto rule.
- 1702 – Great Northern War: Polish–Saxon forces were defeated by a Swedish army half their size at the Battle of Kliszów.
- 1817 – Georg Anton Schäffer was forced to depart for China after his unsuccessful attempt to seize the Hawaiian Kingdom for the Russian Empire.
- 1843 – SS Great Britain, the first ocean-going ship with both an iron hull and a screw propeller, was launched (pictured) in Bristol, England.
- 1848 – The two-day Seneca Falls Convention, the first women's-rights and feminist convention held in the United States, opened in Seneca Falls, New York.
- 1916 – First World War: The "worst 24 hours in Australia's entire history" occurred when Australian forces unsuccessfully attacked German defences at Fromelles, France.
- 1957 – The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold, a largely autobiographical novel by Evelyn Waugh, was published.
- 1976 – Environmental activists bombed the port facilities in Bunbury, Western Australia, in an attempt to disrupt the woodchipping industry.
- 1992 – A car bomb killed the anti-Mafia judge Paolo Borsellino and five policemen in Palermo, Italy, less than two months after the murder of Borsellino's friend and colleague Giovanni Falcone.
- 2014 – Gunmen ambushed an Egyptian military checkpoint in the Libyan Desert near Farafra, killing 22 soldiers.
- 2024 – Neary's, a New York City Irish pub popular with political elites, closed.
- Born/died: | Damian Dalassenos|d|998| Jacopo Tiepolo|d|1249| Philippa of Lancaster|d|1415| Richard Leveridge|b|1670| Giuseppe Castiglione|b|1688| Thomas Talbot|b|1771| William McSherry|b|1799| Mangal Pandey |b|1827| David Hillhouse Buel|b|1862| Florence Foster Jenkins|b|1868| Khawaja Nazimuddin|b|1894| Chetana Nagavajara|b|1937| Han Sai Por|b|1943| Yekaterina Budanova|d|1943| Kgalema Motlanthe|b|1949| Philipp Hildebrand |b|1963| Hailemariam Desalegn|b|1965| Karl Jacobs |b|1998| Sylvia Daoust|d|2004| J. Gordon Edwards|d|2004| Gennadiy Seleznyov|d|2015| Galina Prozumenshchikova|d|2015| Denis Ten |d|2018| Sheila Jackson Lee|d|2024|
Notes
- Giovanni Falcone appears on May 23, so Paolo Borsellino should not appear in the same year
- Lady Jane Grey appears on July 10, so Mary I should not appear in the same year
- The 2014 ambush appeared 4 times within its first 10 years, yet it is described as only "one of the biggest since" the year before (2013)?
- Is it possible to have at least 2 that are not war/bombing/violence/ambush, etc?
Detail from The Day the Earth Smiled, with Earth as a pale dot between Saturn's rings
- 1845 – A fire in Manhattan, New York, destroyed 345 buildings, killed 30 people, and caused at least $5 million in damage.
- 1903 – French cyclist Maurice Garin won the first edition of the Tour de France.
- 1919 – Following Peace Day celebrations marking the end of the First World War, English ex-servicemen unhappy with unemployment and other grievances rioted and burned down Luton Town Hall.
- 1997 – The Troubles: The Provisional Irish Republican Army announced that it would resume its ceasefire, ending its 28-year campaign against British rule in Northern Ireland.
- 2013 – The NASA spacecraft Cassini took a photograph of Saturn with Earth in the distance (detail pictured), for which people were invited to "wave at Saturn".
- Margaret Fuller (d. 1850)
- Nicola Sturgeon (b. 1970)
- Christopher Luxon (b. 1970)
- Janusz Zajdel (d. 1985)