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The Djeser-Djeseru at the Deir el-Bahri (Temple of Hatshepsut)
Queen Elizabeth I of England
Queen Elizabeth I of England
Douglas Engelbart's first computer mouse
Suez Canal
Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| International Students' Day | no footnotes |
| 794 – The Japanese Emperor Kanmu moved his residence from Nara to Kyoto, beginning the Heian period. | unreferenced section |
| 1405 – The Sultanate of Sulu was established on the Sulu Archipelago off the coast of Mindanao in the Philippines. | multiple issues |
| 1592 – Sigismund III Vasa, who was already King of Poland, became the King of Sweden succeeding his father John III. | Sigismund: unreferenced section; John: needs more footnotes |
| 1969 – Cold War: Representatives from the Soviet Union and the United States met in Helsinki to begin the SALT I negotiations aimed at limiting the number of strategic weapons on both sides. | refimprove |
| 1970 – The Soviet Union's Lunokhod 1 landed on the Moon to become the first roving remote-controlled robot to operate on another celestial body. | unreferenced section |
| 1970 – American inventor Douglas Engelbart received the patent for the first computer mouse. | refimprove section |
| 1989 – Police quelled a student demonstration in Prague, sparking the Velvet Revolution aimed at overthrowing the Czechoslovakian communist government. | multiple issues |
Eligible
- 1558 – Elizabeth I became Queen of England and Ireland, marking the beginning of the Elizabethan era.
- 1781 – The United States' National Rifle Association was first chartered in the state of New York by William Conant Church and George Wood Wingate.
- 1869 – The Suez Canal opened, allowing shipping to travel between Europe and Asia via the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea.
- 1950 – Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, was enthroned as Tibet's head of state at the age of fifteen.
- 1968 – NBC controversially cut away from an American football game between the Oakland Raiders and New York Jets to broadcast Heidi, causing viewers in the Eastern United States to miss the game's dramatic ending.
- 1997 – Sixty-two people were killed by terrorists outside the Deir el-Bahri in Luxor, one of Egypt's top tourist attractions.
- 2009 – Administrators at the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia discovered that their servers had been hacked and thousands of emails and files on climate change had been stolen.
Eulsa Treaty
- 1292 – John Balliol was chosen to be King of Scots over Robert de Brus.
- 1796 – French Revolutionary Wars: French forces defeated the Austrians at the Battle of Arcole in a manoeuvre to cut the latter's line of retreat.
- 1839 – Giuseppe Verdi's first opera Oberto, Conte di San Bonifacio, was first performed at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan.
- 1905 – Influenced by the result of the Russo-Japanese War, the Empire of Japan and the Korean Empire signed the Eulsa Treaty (pictured), effectively depriving Korea of its diplomatic sovereignty.
- 1993 – General Sani Abacha ousted Ernest Shonekan to become chairman of the Provisional Ruling Council of Nigeria.
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