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Battle of Germantown
Manuel II of Portugal
InterCity 125 train
James Wilson
El Al Flight 1862 aftermath
Replica of Sputnik 1
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| World Animal Day | refimprove |
| Feast day of St. Francis of Assisi (Catholicism); | refimprove section |
| Independence Day in Lesotho (1966) | refimprove section |
| 1777 – American Revolutionary War: British forces were victorious at the Battle of Germantown, ensuring that Philadelphia, the capital of the revolutionary government of the Thirteen Colonies, would remain in British hands throughout the winter of 1777–78. | refimprove |
| 1824 – Mexico enacted its first constitution, defining the nation as a federal republic. | refimprove |
| 1830 – Belgian Revolution: The provisional government in Brussels declared the creation of the independent and neutral state of Belgium, in revolt against the United Kingdom of the Netherlands. | unreferenced sections |
| 1895 – The first U.S. Open golf tournament was held on a nine-hole course at the Newport Country Club in Newport, Rhode Island. | refimprove section |
| 1963 – Flora, one of the wettest and deadliest hurricanes in history, made landfall in Cuba, after having previously struck Tobago and Hispaniola. | expansion |
| 1967 – Hassanal Bolkiah became Sultan of Brunei upon the abdication of his father, Omar Ali Saifuddien III. | unreferenced section (Ancestry), refimprove section |
| 1976 – British Rail's InterCity 125 service, the world's fastest diesel-powered train, began operations on the Western Region. | refimprove |
| 1985 – Software developer Richard Stallman founded the Free Software Foundation to support the free software movement. | cleanup required, expansion |
| 1992 – Israeli cargo plane El Al Flight 1862 crashed into residential buildings in Amsterdam's Bijlmermeer after taking off from Schiphol Airport and losing two engines, killing all 4 people on board and 39 on the ground. | refimprove section |
| 1993 – Russian Constitutional Crisis: Tanks bombarded the White House in Moscow while demonstrators against President Boris Yeltsin rallied outside. | refimprove |
| 1997 – Armored car driver David Ghantt stole $17.3 million from his employer, one of the largest cash robberies in U.S. history. | refimprove |
| 2001 – Siberia Airlines Flight 1812 crashed into the Black Sea, killing all 78 people on board. | refimprove section |
| 2010 – A waste-reservoir dam in Ajka, Hungary, collapsed, freeing one million cubic metres (35 million cu ft) of red mud that flooded nearby communities and killed ten people. | outdated |
Eligible
- 1876 – Texas A&M University opened as the U.S. state's first public institution of higher education.
- 1917 – First World War: The Allies devastated the German defence at the Battle of Broodseinde, prompting a crisis among German commanders and causing a severe loss of morale in the 4th Army.
- 1918 – An ammunition plant in Sayreville, New Jersey, U.S., exploded, killing around 100 people and destroying more than 300 buildings.
- 1957 – The Soviet spacecraft Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth, was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.
- 2003 – A suicide bomber killed 21 people and injured 60 others inside a restaurant in Haifa, Israel.
- Born/died: | Gabriele Paleotti |b|1522| Anna of Tyrol |b|1585| John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll |d|1743| Joseph A. Lopez |b|1779| Charles Pearson |b|1793| Townsend Harris |b|1804| Jenny Twitchell Kempton |b|1835| Agneta Matthes |b|1847| Lucy Tayiah Eads |b|1888| Carl Josef Bayer |d|1904| Mary Two-Axe Earley |b|1911| Zinha Vaz |b|1952| Graham Chapman |d|1989
Notes
- GNU is featured on September 27, so Free Software Foundation should not appear in the same year
October 4: Cinnamon Roll Day in Sweden and Finland
Painting of the Battle of the Narrow Seas by Andries van Eertvelt
- 1602 – Anglo-Spanish War: An English fleet intercepted and attacked six Spanish galleys in the Dover Straits (depicted).
- 1779 – American Revolution: James Wilson and his colleagues were forced to defend themselves after a mob, angered by his successful legal defense of 23 people from exile, converged on his house, resulting in six deaths.
- 1925 – Great Syrian Revolt: Rebels led by Fawzi al-Qawuqji captured the city of Hama from the French Mandate of Syria.
- 1941 – Willie Gillis, one of Norman Rockwell's trademark characters, debuted on the cover of The Saturday Evening Post.
- 1958 – The current Constitution of France was signed into law, establishing the French Fifth Republic.
- Henry Wriothesley, 2nd Earl of Southampton (d. 1581)
- Amaro Pargo (d. 1747)
- Henrietta Lacks (d. 1951)