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Portland, Oregon
The Eschede train disaster
François de Laval
Lin Zexu
Andy Warhol
Great auks by John Gerrard Keulemans
Anfield, home of Liverpool F.C.
One of the last two great auks
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| 350 – Roman usurper Nepotianus of the Constantinian dynasty proclaimed himself Roman Emperor, entering Rome with a group of gladiators. | too short |
| 1621 – The Dutch West India Company received a charter for a trade monopoly in the West Indies by the Dutch Republic. | unreferenced section |
| 1839 – Qing Chinese government official Lin Zexu ordered the destruction of nearly 1.2 million kg (2.6 million lbs) of opium in Humen, precipitating the First Opium War. | refimprove sections |
| 1888 – American writer Ernest Thayer's baseball poem "Casey at the Bat" was first published in the San Francisco Examiner. | refimprove section |
| 1941 – World War II: In reprisal for the participation of the local population in the Battle of Crete, the Wehrmacht destroyed the village of Kandanos and killed about 180 of its inhabitants. | unreferenced section |
| 1942 – World War II: The Imperial Japanese Navy launched two aircraft carrier raids on the United States Army barracks and the U.S. Navy base at Dutch Harbor, Alaska. | refimprove section |
| 1943 – Off-duty U.S. sailors fought with Mexican American youths in Los Angeles, spawning the Zoot Suit Riots. | Tagged for citations |
| 1962 – Air France's Chateau de Sully crashed while attempting to depart Paris-Orly Airport, killing 130 out of 132 passengers and crew members. | refimprove section |
| 1984 – The Indian Army began Operation Blue Star to remove Sikh separatists from the Golden Temple based on accusations they were stockpiling weapons there. | refimprove section |
| 1992 – The High Court of Australia delivered its decision in the landmark case Mabo v Queensland, recognising the land rights of the Aborigines. | more footnotes |
| 1998 – An InterCityExpress high-speed train derailed near Eschede, Lower Saxony, Germany, causing 101 deaths and 100 injuries. | multiple issues |
| 2006 – Montenegro declared its independence, ending the union of Serbia and Montenegro. | refimprove sections |
| 2012 – Dana Air Flight 0992 suffered a dual-engine failure on approach and crashed into a building in Lagos, Nigeria, resulting in the deaths of all 153 people on board and 10 more on the ground. | page numbers needed |
Eligible
- 1602 – Anglo-Spanish War: The English navy defeated a Spanish–Portuguese fleet off Sesimbra, Portugal, and captured a carrack.
- 1658 – Pope Alexander VII appointed François de Laval as the first apostolic vicar of New France.
- 1770 – Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo, a historic Catholic mission church in present-day Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, and the site of the first Christian confirmation in Alta California, was established.
- 1844 – The last known pair of great auks (one pictured), the only modern species in the genus Pinguinus of flightless birds, were killed on Eldey, Iceland.
- 1921 – At his trial for the assassination of Talaat Pasha, viewed as the main orchestrator of the Armenian genocide, Soghomon Tehlirian was acquitted after arguing: "I have killed a man, but I am not a murderer."
- 1940 – Franz Rademacher, a Nazi official, proposed that the island of Madagascar be made available as a destination for the resettlement of the Jewish population of Europe.
- 1950 – Maurice Herzog and Louis Lachenal, members of the French Annapurna expedition, became the first climbers to reach the summit of a peak higher than 8,000 metres (26,247 ft) above sea level.
- 1963 – Buddhist crisis: South Vietnamese soldiers attacked Buddhist protesters in Huế with liquid chemicals from tear gas grenades, causing 67 people to be hospitalised.
- 1968 – American radical feminist Valerie Solanas shot and wounded visual artist Andy Warhol and two others at Warhol's New York City studio, The Factory.
- 1973 – At the Paris Air Show, a Tupolev Tu-144 broke up in mid-air, killing all six members of its crew and eight bystanders on the ground.
- 1979 – Having invaded Uganda and deposed President Idi Amin, Tanzanian forces secured Uganda's western border, ending a seven-month war.
- Born/died this day: | Staurakios |d|800| Sejanus |b|20 BC| Ivan Shishman of Bulgaria |d|1395| Ahmad ibn Abi Jum'ah |d|1511| Thomas Hutchinson |d|1780| Martha Jane Knowlton Coray |b|1821| Charles Lecocq |b|1832| Georges Bizet |d|1875| Flora MacDonald |b|1926| Jill Biden |b|1951| Susannah Constantine |b|1962
Notes
- 1953 British Mount Everest expedition appears on May 29, so Annapurna should not appear in the same year
- Air France Flight 447 appears on June 1, so Flight 007 should not appear in the same year
June 3: Martyrs Day in Uganda; King's Official Birthday in New Zealand (2024); Western Australia Day (2024)
Silhouette of Jack Jouett
- 1781 – American Revolutionary War: Jack Jouett (pictured) rode 40 miles (64 km) to warn Thomas Jefferson and the Virginia legislature of British cavalry who had been sent to capture them.
- 1892 – Liverpool F.C., one of England's most successful football clubs, was founded.
- 1937 – Half a year after abdicating the British throne, Edward, Duke of Windsor, married American socialite Wallis Simpson in a private ceremony in France.
- 1969 – During a SEATO exercise in the South China Sea, a collision between HMAS Melbourne and USS Frank E. Evans resulted in the latter vessel being cut in two and the deaths of 74 personnel.
- 1982 – A failed assassination attempt was made on Shlomo Argov, the Israeli ambassador to the United Kingdom, which event was later used as justification for the First Lebanon War.
- Garret Hobart (b. 1844)
- Eric A. Havelock (b. 1903)
- Franz Kafka (d. 1924)
- Pierre Poilievre (b. 1979)