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LNER 4468 Mallard
Flag of Quebec City
Constantine the Great
Battle of Gettysburg
Eternal Light Peace Memorial
Satellite image of Pitcairn Island
Jimmy Carter
David Bowie as Ziggy Stardust in 1972
SS United States
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| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| 987 – Hugh Capet was crowned King of France, becoming the first monarch of the Capetian dynasty, which ruled France continuously until overthrown during the French Revolution in 1792. | refimprove |
| 1608 – French explorer Samuel de Champlain founded Quebec City. | refimprove sections |
| 1767 – Adresseavisen, Norway's oldest newspaper still in print, was first published. | refimprove |
| 1767 – Midshipman Robert Pitcairn sighted Pitcairn Island, subsequently named after him, during an expeditionary voyage led by Philip Carteret. | Pitcairn Islands: date not cited; Robert Pitcairn article says it was on 2 July |
| 1866 – Prussian forces defeated the Austrian army at the Battle of Königgrätz, the decisive battle in the Austro-Prussian War. | needs more footnotes |
| 1886 – German automobile engineer Karl Benz unveiled his Patent-Motorwagen, widely regarded as the first automobile, in Mannheim, Germany. | needs more footnotes |
| 1898 – In one of the key naval engagements of the Spanish–American War, the United States Navy destroyed the Spanish Navy's Caribbean Squadron. | refimprove section |
| 1938 – The LNER Mallard broke the world speed record for a steam locomotive, reaching a speed of 126 miles (203 km) per hour. | unreferenced section |
| 1944 – World War II: During their second phase of Operation Bagration, Soviet troops liberated Minsk, present-day Belarus, from Nazi Germany. | Operation: refimprove section; Offensive: needs more footnotes |
| 1988 – The U.S. Navy warship Vincennes shot down Iran Air Flight 655 over the Persian Gulf, killing all 290 people aboard. | Lacking citations |
| Āpirana Ngata |b|1874 | refimprove section |
| S. V. Ranga Rao |b|1918 | unreferenced filmography section |
| Yvonne B. Miller |d|2012 | Uncited sections |
| : Independence Day in Belarus (1944) | Too much uncited |
| Pickett's Charge | Tagged for deficient lead |
Eligible
- 1778 – American Revolutionary War: Loyalists and Iroquois killed over 300 Patriots at the Battle of Wyoming in Pennsylvania.
- 1863 – Confederate forces were defeated by the Union Army on the last day of the Battle of Gettysburg (pictured), a turning point in the American Civil War.
- 1938 – On the 75th anniversary of the end of the Battle of Gettysburg, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicated the Eternal Light Peace Memorial.
- 1952 – SS United States (pictured) departed New York Harbor on her maiden voyage, on which completion she became the fastest ocean liner to cross the Atlantic.
- 1970 – The Troubles: The British Army began the Falls Curfew in Belfast, Northern Ireland, which resulted in greater Irish republican resistance.
- 1973 – British singer David Bowie retired his stage persona Ziggy Stardust in a surprise announcement on the last day of a 17-month tour.
- 2005 – Same-sex marriage became legal in Spain with the coming into effect of a law passed by the Cortes Generales.
- 2013 – General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi led a coalition to depose President Mohamed Morsi in a coup d'état in Cairo, suspending the Egyptian Constitution of 2012.
- Born/died: | Dong Chang |d|896| Jacobus Gallus |b|1550| Sir Robert Rich, 4th Baronet |b|1685| Robert Adam |b|1728| Leoš Janáček |b|1854| Charlotte Perkins Gilman |b|1860|Hasan Tahsini |d|1881| Susan Peters|b|1921| Peter van Geersdaele |b|1933| Bo Xilai |b|1949| Tom Cruise |b|1962| Lew Hoad |d|1994| Lisa Kahn|d|2013
French destroyer Mogador burning after British shellfire
- 324 – Civil wars of the Tetrarchy: Roman emperor Constantine the Great defeated his former colleague Licinius at the Battle of Adrianople.
- 1754 – French and Indian War: George Washington surrendered Fort Necessity in Pennsylvania, the only military surrender in his career.
- 1940 – Second World War: The Royal Navy attacked the French fleet at Mers El Kébir (pictured), fearing that the ships would fall into Axis hands after the French–German armistice.
- 1970 – Dan-Air Flight 1903 crashed into the slopes of the Montseny Massif in Catalonia, Spain, killing all 112 people aboard.
- 1979 – U.S. president Jimmy Carter signed a presidential finding, authorizing covert operations to aid the mujahideen against the Soviet-backed Democratic Republic of Afghanistan.
- Leoš Janáček (b. 1854)
- Bo Xilai (b. 1949)
- Lew Hoad (d. 1994)
- Lisa Kahn (d. 2013)