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- Stanisław August Poniatowski by Marcello Bacciarelli, 1793
Albert Einstein
Johan Ferrier, the first President of Suriname
George Washington's entry into New York, 1783
Malcolm II of Scotland
A flooded tunnel in King Abdullah Street, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Row of de Havillad Mosquitos
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| Teachers' Day in Indonesia; | refimprove |
| Evacuation Day in New York (1783) | refimprove |
| National Day in Bosnia and Herzegovina (1943); | refimprove section |
| ; Independence Day in Suriname (1975) | refimprove section |
| 1177 – Troops led by King Baldwin IV of Jerusalem destroyed forces led by Saladin at the Battle of Montgisard, saving the Crusader states from invasion. | needs more footnotes |
| 1952 – Agatha Christie's mystery play The Mousetrap, the play with the longest initial run in history, opened at the Ambassadors Theatre in London. | plot summary too long |
| 1992 – Legislators in Czechoslovakia voted to dissolve their country into the Czech Republic and Slovakia, effective January 1, 1993. | inappropriate tone, refimprove, unreferenced sections |
| 2000 – An Ms 7 earthquake struck Baku, Azerbaijan, killing 26 people and injuring over 400 others. | refimprove, needs expansion |
| 2009 – Freak rains caused devastating flooding in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, killing 122 people and stranding thousands of Hajj pilgrims. | outdated |
Eligible
- 1034 – After Malcolm II of Scotland died at Glamis, Duncan, the son of his second daughter, instead of Macbeth, the son of his eldest daughter, inherited the throne to become the King of Scots.
- 1863 – American Civil War: Confederate forces were defeated at the Battle of Missionary Ridge in Chattanooga, Tennessee, opening the door to the Union's invasion of the Deep South.
- 1915 – Albert Einstein presented his field equations of general relativity to the Prussian Academy of Sciences.
- 1917 – World War I: German troops invaded Portuguese East Africa in an attempt to escape superior British forces to the north and resupply from captured Portuguese materiel.
- 1940 – The de Havilland Mosquito and the Martin B-26 Marauder, two of the most successful military aircraft in World War II, both had their first flights.
- 1947 – McCarthyism: Executives from movie studios agreed to blacklist ten screenwriters and directors who were jailed for refusing to give testimony to the House Un-American Activities Committee.
- 1952 – Korean War: After 42 days of fighting, the Battle of Triangle Hill ended as American and South Korean units abandoned their attempt to capture the "Iron Triangle".
- 1960 – The Mirabal sisters, who opposed the dictatorship of military strongman Rafael Trujillo in the Dominican Republic, were beaten and strangled to death.
- 1975 – Upon Suriname's independence from the Netherlands, Johan Ferrier became its first president.
- 1984 – Band Aid, a supergroup consisting of over 30 leading British and Irish pop musicians, recorded the song "Do They Know It's Christmas?" to raise money for famine relief in Ethiopia.
Notes
- Battle of Lookout Mountain appears on November 24, so Battle of Missionary Ridge should not appear in the same year
Yukio Mishima
- 1120 – William Adelin, the only legitimate son of King Henry I of England, drowned in the White Ship disaster, leading to 18 years of civil war, a period later known as the Anarchy.
- 1491 – Reconquista: The Granada War was effectively brought to an end with the signing of the Treaty of Granada between Castile-Aragon and the Emirate of Granada.
- 1795 – Stanisław August Poniatowski, the last King of Poland, was forced to abdicate after the Third Partition of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
- 1936 – Nazi Germany and the Empire of Japan signed the Anti-Comintern Pact, agreeing that if the Soviet Union attacked one of them, they would consult each other on what measures to take "to safeguard their common interests".
- 1970 – Failing to instigate a military coup to restore the powers of the Emperor of Japan, author Yukio Mishima (pictured) publicly committed the ritual suicide seppuku.
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