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Charles Babbage
German troops marching by the Arc de Triomphe
Title page of the Index Librorum Prohibitorum
Bear Flag of the California Republic
Babbage's difference engine
Thabo Mbeki
1777 U.S. flag
Grenfell Tower ablaze
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Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| Flag Day in the United States (1777); | refimprove |
| Liberation Day in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (1982); | date not cited, unreferenced sections |
| Liberation Day in the Falkland Islands (1982) | both of the two possible targets are stubs |
| 1285 – Forces led by Prince Trần Quang Khải of Vietnam's Trần dynasty destroyed most of the invading Mongol naval fleet in a battle at Chương Dương. | Unable to ascertain the date. The article states "On the tenth day of the fifth lunar month (June 14) 1285" but Battle of Chương Dương shows June 24th in the infobox. |
| 1645 – English Civil War: In the Battle of Naseby, the main army of King Charles I was defeated by the Parliamentarian New Model Army under Sir Thomas Fairfax and Oliver Cromwell. | refimprove section |
| 1775 – The United States Army was founded as the Continental Army by an act of the Continental Congress. | refimprove section |
| 1807 – In the last major battle in the War of the Fourth Coalition, the French defeated the Russians at the Battle of Friedland near present-day Pravdinsk, Russia. | refimprove section |
| 1821 – The Funj Sultanate, in present-day Sudan, was conquered by Egypt without a fight. | contradictory: conquest article says June 12 |
| 1982 – Argentine forces surrendered to the British, essentially ending the Falklands War. | lots of CN tags (21) |
| 1985 – TWA Flight 847 was hijacked shortly after takeoff from Athens; the situation lasted for three days as the hijackers traveled back and forth several times between Beirut and Algiers. | refimprove section |
| 1985 – The Schengen Agreement, a treaty to abolish systematic border controls between participating European countries, was signed between five of the ten member states of the European Economic Community. | needs more footnotes |
| 1994 – After the Vancouver Canucks lost to the New York Rangers in ice hockey's Stanley Cup Finals, a riot ensued in Downtown Vancouver, causing C$1.1 million in damage. | most of the riot description is unreferenced |
| 1999 – Thabo Mbeki took office as the second President of South Africa. | unreferenced section |
| W. W. E. Ross |b|1894 | lots of quotes |
| Margie Hyams |d|2012 | see |
| * 1882 – Ōyama Sutematsu graduated from Vassar College, becoming the first Japanese woman to graduate from university. | Article only says she was among the first two to attend college, first to graduate claim is not cited and a books search shows support only for "first Japanese woman to graudate from and American [or Western] university". |
| Thomas Pennant |b|1726| | date uncited |
| Antonio Sacchini |b|1730| | date uncited |
Eligible
- 1644 – First English Civil War: Prince Maurice] abandoned his siege of Lyme Regis in Dorset after learning of the approach of a Parliamentarian relief force.
- 1777 – The Second Continental Congress adopted the stars and stripes design for the flag of the United States.
- 1800 – War of the Second Coalition: In the Battle of Marengo, Napoleonic forces secured victory over the Habsburgs when defeat had appeared inevitable until the arrival of French troops led by Louis Desaix.
- 1822 – In a paper presented to the Royal Astronomical Society, English mathematician Charles Babbage proposed a difference engine (pictured), an automatic, mechanical calculator designed to tabulate polynomial functions.
- 1900 – The second of the German Naval Laws was passed, authorising the doubling in size of the Imperial German Navy.
- 1940 – Second World War: Four days after the French government fled Paris, German forces occupied the French capital, a major accomplishment in the Fall Rot operation.
- 1944 – Second World War: The British Army abandoned its attempt to capture the German-occupied city of Caen.
- 1966 – The Vatican formally abolished its 427-year-old list of prohibited books.
- 1971 – Emerson, Lake & Palmer released the progressive rock album Tarkus.
- 1982 – Falklands War: British prime minister Margaret Thatcher announced that white flags were flying over Port Stanley, in advance of the formal surrender of Argentine forces.
- 2014 – War in Donbas: An Ilyushin Il-76 transport aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Force was shot down by forces of the self-proclaimed Luhansk People's Republic, killing all 49 people on board.
- 2017 – A fire severely damaged Grenfell Tower in North Kensington, London, killing 72 people.
- Born/died: |Henry Vane the Younger |d|1662| Leonidas Polk |d|1864| Alois Alzheimer |b|1864| Karl Landsteiner |b|1868|Mary Cassatt |d|1926| Emmeline Pankhurst |d|1928| Mimi Parent |d|2005 Qiao Shi |d|2015
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Killing of Sudbury and Hales
- 1381 – During the Peasants' Revolt in England, rebels stormed the Tower of London, killing Simon Sudbury, Lord Chancellor, and Robert Hales, Lord High Treasurer (both pictured).
- 1646 – Franco-Spanish War: French and Spanish fleets fought the inconclusive Battle of Orbetello, with sailing vessels of both sides having to be towed into action by galleys due to light winds.
- 1846 – Settlers in Sonoma began rebelling against Mexico, later proclaiming the California Republic and raising a homemade flag with a bear and a star.
- 1940 – The Soviet Union issued an ultimatum to Lithuania demanding that the Red Army be allowed to enter the country and form a pro-Soviet government.
- 1949 – Albert II became the first monkey in space, reaching an altitude of 134 km (83 mi) in a V-2 rocket.
- Harriet Beecher Stowe (b. 1811)
- Anna B. Eckstein (b. 1868)
- Jang Jin-young (b. 1972)
- Burhanuddin Harahap (d. 1987)