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Alexander Stepanovich Popov
1864 lithograph of the City of Adelaide
Maximilien Robespierre
Chief Pontiac
Neanderthal skull uncovered at Forbes' Quarry in Gibraltar
Northern facade of Stockholm Palace
Sony headquarters, Tokyo
Winston Churchill- Maximilien Robespierre
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| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| Radio Day in Bulgaria and Russia | no footnotes |
| 1274 – The first session of the Second Council of Lyon was held to discuss, among other issues, the pledge by Byzantine Emperor Michael VIII Palaiologos to end the Great Schism and reunite the Eastern church with the West. | refimprove section |
| 1685 – Great Turkish War: Ottoman forces defeated Venetian irregulars at the Battle on Vrtijeljka. | too much uncited and excessive quote |
| 1718 – Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville and the Mississippi Company founded New Orleans, naming the French colonial settlement after Philippe II, Duke of Orléans. | unreferenced section |
| 1763 – Pontiac, a Native American chief of the Odawa tribe, led an attempt to seize Fort Detroit from the British, marking the start of Pontiac's War. | worldwide view |
| 1824 – Ludwig van Beethoven's last complete symphony, the Symphony No. 9 in D minor, which incorporates part of Friedrich Schiller's poem "Ode to Joy" in its fourth movement, premiered at the Kärntnertortheater in Vienna. | unreferenced sections |
| 1864 – The world's oldest surviving clipper ship, the City of Adelaide was launched by William Pile, Hay and Co. in Sunderland, England, for transporting passengers and goods between Britain and Australia. | lots of {{cn}} tags (9) |
| 1864 – The oldest surviving weekly newspaper in the United States, the Cambridge Chronicle, was first published. | unreferenced section |
| 1875 – Japan and Russia signed the Treaty of Saint Petersburg, where Japan ceded its portion of Sakhalin Island in exchange for the Kuril Islands, but differences in translations led to the ongoing Kuril Islands dispute between them. | Uncited content and OR |
| 1895 – Alexander Stepanovich Popov presented his lightning detector, one of the first radio receivers in the world, to the Russian Physical and Chemical Society. | unsourced sections |
| 1915 – First World War: The German submarine U-20 torpedoed and sank the ocean liner RMS Lusitania, killing 1,198 on board. | refimprove section |
| 1920 – Soviet Russia recognized the independence of the Democratic Republic of Georgia by signing the Treaty of Moscow, only to invade the country six months later. | unreferenced section |
| 1920 – Polish–Soviet War: During the Kiev Offensive, Polish troops, with the help of a symbolic Ukrainian force, captured Kiev, only to be driven out by the Soviet Red Army counter-offensive a month later. | unreferenced section |
| 1931 – New York City police engaged in a two-hour-long shootout with Francis Crowley, witnessed by 15,000 bystanders, before he finally surrendered. | refimprove |
| 1952 – The concept for the integrated circuit, the basis for all modern computers, was first published by Geoffrey Dummer. | refimprove section, external links |
| 1960 – Cold War: Nikita Khrushchev announced that the Soviet Union was holding American pilot Francis Gary Powers, whose spy plane had been shot down six days earlier. | refimprove |
| 2007 – A team of Israeli archaeologists discovered the tomb of Herod the Great, the 1st century BC ruler of Judea. | refimprove section |
| Christy Moore |b|1945 | refimprove section |
Eligible
- 1487 – Granada War: Forces of Aragon and Castile began a siege of Málaga, a Muslim city in the south of the Iberian Peninsula.
- 1697 – The 13th-century castle of Tre Kronor in Stockholm burned down; plans for the current royal palace were presented within the year.
- 1794 – French Revolution: Maximilien Robespierre established the Cult of the Supreme Being as the new state religion of the French First Republic.
- 1798 – War of the First Coalition: A British garrison repelled a French attack on the Îles Saint-Marcouf off the Normandy coast, inflicting heavy losses.
- 1930 – An earthquake struck northwestern Iran and southeastern Turkey, killing up to 3,000 people.
- 1937 – Employees at Fleischer Studios in New York City went on strike in the animation industry's first major labor strike.
- 1940 – A three-day debate began in the House of Commons that resulted in British prime minister Neville Chamberlain being replaced by Winston Churchill (pictured).
- 1946 – Masaru Ibuka and Akio Morita founded the telecommunications corporation Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo, later renamed Sony.
- 1954 – A convoy of circus wagons carrying lions, horses, ponies and an ass lost control and overturned into some shop fronts in Dungannon, Northern Ireland.
- 1999 – Kosovo War: NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, the United States bombed the Chinese embassy in Belgrade.
- 2009 – Police in Napier, New Zealand, began a 40-hour siege of the home of a former New Zealand Army member who had shot at officers during the routine execution of a search warrant.
- Born/died: | Ibn Hisham |d|833| Bajo Pivljanin |d|1685| Mary of Modena |d|1718| William Bainbridge |b|1774| Jabez Bowen |d|1815| Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky |b|1840| Tom Norman |b|1860| Truganini |d|1876| Philip Baxter |b|1905| Tore Wretman |b|1916| Albert Ball |d|1917| Rendra Karno |b|1920| Deborah Butterfield |b|1949| Sue Black, Baroness Black of Strome |b|1961| Anies Baswedan |b|1969| MrBeast |b|1998| Willard Boyle |d|2011|
Notes
- Hagia Sophia is saved for December 27
- Battle of Dien Bien Phu is saved for March 13
- João Bernardo Vieira is saved for March 2
May 7: National Day of Prayer in the United States (2026)
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Constantius Gallus
- 351 – Jews in the Roman province of Syria Palaestina rebelled against the rule of Constantius Gallus (pictured), caesar of the Eastern Roman Empire.
- 1544 – During the Rough Wooing, an English army carried out the Burning of Edinburgh.
- 1991 – A fire and explosion at a fireworks factory in Sungai Buloh, Malaysia, killed 26 people.
- 2010 – A draft sequence of the Neanderthal genome was published, demonstrating that most living humans have Neanderthal ancestors.
- 2023 – A tourist boat capsized, killing at least 22 people in Tanur, India.
- Ladislaus III of Hungary (d. 1205)
- David Hume (b. 1711)
- Michael P. Murphy and Ayelet Shaked (b. 1976)
- Sydney Leroux (b. 1990)