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Adolphe Thiers
Adolphe Thiers- Voskhod 2 patch
1893 version of the Stanley Cup
Jacques de Molay
Bust of Severus Alexander
Current version of the Stanley Cup
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| 1229 – Sixth Crusade: Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II crowned himself King of Jerusalem, despite the fact that his infant son Conrad was the rightful heir. | unreferenced section |
| 1314 – King Philip IV of France had Jacques de Molay, the last Grand Master of the Knights Templar, burned alive. | refimprove section |
| 1438 – Albert II of Habsburg became King of the Romans, ruler of Germany within the Holy Roman Empire. | needs more footnotes |
| 1915 – First World War: In one of the largest naval battles in the Gallipoli Campaign, a joint British and French operation to capture Constantinople, the defences of the Ottoman Empire sank three Allied battleships and severely damaged three others. | refimprove |
| 1965 – Cosmonaut Alexey Leonov donned a space suit and ventured outside the Voskhod 2 spacecraft, becoming the first person to walk in space. | Leonov: refimprove; Voskhod: refimprove; EVA: refimprove section |
| 1968 – The United States abandoned the gold standard. | refimprove sections, other tags |
| 1970 – The National Assembly of Cambodia ousted Prince Norodom Sihanouk as head of state, and Prime Minister Lon Nol invoked emergency powers to take over. | multiple issues |
Eligible
- 235 – Roman emperor Severus Alexander was assassinated by his legion, beginning the Crisis of the Third Century.
- 1892 – Lord Stanley of Preston pledged to donate an award for Canada's top-ranked amateur ice hockey club, now known as the Stanley Cup (pictured), the oldest professional sports trophy in North America.
- 1921 – The Polish–Soviet War, which determined the borders between the Republic of Poland and Soviet Russia, formally concluded with the signing of the Peace of Riga.
- 1925 – The Tri-State Tornado spawned in Missouri, traveled over 219 miles (352 km) across Illinois and Indiana, and killed 695 along the way, making it the tornado with the longest continuous track ever recorded and the deadliest in U.S. history.
- 1969 – Vietnam War: The United States began secretly bombing the Sihanouk Trail in Cambodia, used by communist forces to infiltrate South Vietnam.
- 1970 – United States postal workers began a two-week strike after Congress raised its own wages by 41% but only raised the wages of postal workers by 4%.
- 1985 – The first episode of the Australian soap opera Neighbours was broadcast on the Seven Network, eventually becoming the longest running drama in Australian television history.
- 2005 – As per a court order, the feeding tube of Terri Schiavo, an American woman who suffered brain damage, was removed at the request of her husband, fueling a worldwide debate on euthanasia.
March 18: Flag Day in Aruba (1976)
Adolphe Thiers
- 1241 – First Mongol invasion of Poland: Mongols overwhelmed the Polish armies of Sandomierz and Kraków provinces in the Battle of Chmielnik and plundered the abandoned city of Kraków.
- 1741 – New York governor George Clarke's complex at Fort George was destroyed by a fire supposedly set by slaves, starting the New York Conspiracy of 1741.
- 1871 – French President Adolphe Thiers (pictured) ordered the evacuation of Paris after an uprising broke out as the result of France's defeat in the Franco-Prussian War, leading to the establishment of the Paris Commune government.
- 1906 – Romanian inventor Traian Vuia became the first person to fly a heavier-than-air monoplane with an unassisted takeoff.
- 1996 – The deadliest fire in Philippine history burned a nightclub in Quezon City, leaving 162 dead.