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American and Filipino soldiers and sailors surrendering to Japanese forces
Roger Bannister
Pim Fortuyn
Grand Palace
Cartoon of a Chinese man barred from entering the U.S.
Sissinghurst Castle Garden
King Charles III and Queen Camilla
The thirteen colors of the iMac G3- The Grand Palace in the 1860s
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Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| Đurđevdan in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, and Serbia; | unreferenced |
| George's Day in Autumn in Russia | no footnotes |
| Saint George's Day in Bulgaria | refimprove |
| 1527 – Spanish and German troops sacked Rome, marking the symbolic end of the Italian Renaissance. | Sack of Rome: refimprove; Italian Renaissance: refimprove section |
| 1682 – King Louis XIV of France moved the French royal court and the seat of government from Paris to the Château de Versailles in Versailles. | popular culture has trivial references |
| 1757 – After Prussian troops forced the Austrians to retreat at the Battle of Prague, the former army retreated as well after deciding that it lost too many men to effectively capture Prague. | refimprove |
| 1984 – Pope John Paul II canonized 103 of the Korean Martyrs, who were the subjects of religious persecution against Christians in 19th-century Korea. | lead too short, inappropriate tone |
| 2002 – Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn was assassinated by animal rights and environmental activist Volkert van der Graaf in Hilversum, marking the first political murder on Dutch soil since 1672. | refimprove section |
| 2010 – Exacerbated by high-frequency traders using strategies that have since been banned, major U.S. stock indices dropped nearly 9 percent and quickly rebounded. | lead |
Eligible
- 1782 – Construction began on the Grand Palace in Bangkok, the official residence of the king of Thailand.
- 1882 – Irish civil servants Thomas Henry Burke and Lord Frederick Cavendish were stabbed to death by members of the radical Irish National Invincibles in Phoenix Park, Dublin.
- 1882 – U.S. president Chester A. Arthur signed the Chinese Exclusion Act into law (cartoon pictured), implementing a ban on Chinese immigration to the United States that remained for 61 years.
- 1915 – Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition: SY Aurora, anchored in McMurdo Sound, broke loose during a gale, beginning a 312-day ordeal in the Ross Sea and Southern Ocean for her 18-man crew.
- 1930 – Vita Sackville-West and her husband Harold Nicolson purchased the Kent property they would transform into Sissinghurst Castle Garden.
- 1937 – The German airship Hindenburg caught fire and was destroyed during an attempt to dock at Lakehurst Naval Air Station in New Jersey, killing 36 people.
- 1942 - World War II: Japanese troops overcame fierce American and Philippine resistance to win the Battle of Corregidor.
- 1988 – Widerøe Flight 710 crashed into the fog-covered mountain of Torghatten in Brønnøy, Norway, killing all 36 people on board.
- 1991 – Time magazine published the article "The Thriving Cult of Greed and Power" by Richard Behar criticizing the Church of Scientology, leading to years of legal conflict.
- 1954 – At Oxford's Iffley Road Track, English runner Roger Bannister became the first person to run the mile in under four minutes.
- 1975 – About 100,000 Armenians gathered during a lull in fighting to mark the 60th anniversary of the Armenian genocide.
- 1998 – Steve Jobs unveiled the iMac G3' personal computer.
- 2004 – The final episode of the television sitcom Friends was aired.
- 2008 – British barrister Mark Saunders was shot dead by police after a five-hour siege at his home in Chelsea, London.
- 2013 – Amanda Berry escaped from the Cleveland, Ohio, home of her captor, Ariel Castro, having been held there with two other women for ten years.
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Christopher Smart
- 1536 – Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire: Sapa Inca emperor Manco Inca Yupanqui's army began a ten-month siege of Cusco.
- 1757 – English poet Christopher Smart (pictured) was admitted to St Luke's Hospital for Lunatics in London, beginning his six-year confinement in mental asylums.
- 1801 – French Revolutionary Wars: The 32-gun Spanish frigate El Gamo was captured by the outmanned and outgunned HMS Speedy.
- 1941 – American entertainer Bob Hope performed his first show with the United Service Organizations, beginning a 50-year involvement with them.
- 1976 – An earthquake struck Northern Italy, killing 990 people and injuring up to 3,000.
- 2023 – King Charles III and Queen Camilla were crowned at Westminster Abbey in London.
- Pope Marcellus II (b. 1501)
- Mary Martha Sherwood (b. 1775)
- Dries Mertens (b. 1987)
- Lillian Asplund (d. 2006)