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Empress Elisabeth of Austria
Empress Elisabeth of Austria
Empress Elisabeth of Austria
Mother Teresa
Battle of Lake Erie
Striking miners in Lattimer, Pennsylvania
Section of the Large Hadron Collider
Abebe Bikila winning the marathon
Mike the Headless Chicken
Portland Vase
Charlie Kirk
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Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| National Day in Gibraltar (1967) | outdated |
| Mid-Autumn Festival (traditional Chinese calendar, 2022); | unreffed section |
| 1570 – A party of ten Jesuit missionaries landed on the Virginia Peninsula to establish the short-lived Ajacán Mission. | too many citations needed |
| 1711 – The Tuscarora War began in the Province of North Carolina between the Tuscarora people and European settlers with their respective allies. | page numbers needed |
| 1798 – At the Battle of St. George's Caye, a small force of British settlers defeated an invading force from Mexico who were attempting to claim what is now Belize for Spain. | needs more footnotes |
| 1813 – War of 1812: American forces led by Oliver Hazard Perry defeated the British on Lake Erie near Put-in-Bay, Ohio. | refimprove section |
| 1897 – A sheriff's posse fired on a peaceful labor demonstration mostly comprising Polish- and Slovak-American anthracite coal miners in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, killing 19 people and wounding many others. | Page numbers needed |
| 1898 – In an act of "propaganda of the deed", Italian anarchist Luigi Lucheni fatally stabbed Empress Elisabeth of Austria in Geneva, Switzerland. | unreferenced section (Ancestry) |
| 1960 – Mickey Mantle hit what was originally thought to be the longest home run in Major League Baseball, an estimated 643 feet (196 m). | refimprove section |
| 1977 – Hamida Djandoubi became the last person to be guillotined in France, the official method of execution in that country. | refimprove |
| 2007 – Nawaz Sharif, the thirteenth prime minister of Pakistan, returned to the country after being ousted in a coup and exiled eight years earlier. | expansion, too detailed |
| 2008 – CERN's Large Hadron Collider, the world's largest and highest-energy particle accelerator, first began operations beneath the France–Switzerland border. | tagged for update |
| Louis IV of France |d|954 | unreferenced sections |
Eligible
- 1509 – The "Minor Judgement Day" earthquake struck in the Sea of Marmara, devastating much of Constantinople and killing more than 1,000 people.
- 1547 – Anglo-Scottish Wars: English forces defeated the Scots at the Battle of Pinkie near Musselburgh, Lothian, Scotland.
- 1724 – Johann Sebastian Bach led the first performance of Jesu, der du meine Seele, BWV 78, a chorale cantata based on a passion hymn by Johann Rist.
- 1779 – American Revolutionary War: Captain William Pickles of the Continental Navy boarded and captured the British sloop HMS West Florida at the Battle of Lake Pontchartrain.
- 1845 – John Doubleday completed a "masterly" restoration of the Portland Vase (pictured), which had been smashed into hundreds of pieces seven months prior.
- 1937 – Led by the United Kingdom and France, nine nations met at the Nyon Conference to address international piracy in the Mediterranean Sea.
- 1946 – While riding a train to Darjeeling, India, Sister Teresa Bojaxhiu, later Mother Teresa (pictured), experienced what she later described as the "call within the call", directing her to "leave the convent and help the poor while living among them".
- 1960 – Running barefoot in the marathon event at the Rome Olympics, Abebe Bikila became the first athlete from sub-Saharan Africa to win an Olympic gold medal.
- 1961 – At the Italian Grand Prix at Monza, German driver Wolfgang von Trips's car collided with another, causing it to become airborne and crash into a side barrier, killing him and 15 spectators.
- 1974 – After centuries of Portuguese rule, the country of Guinea-Bissau was formally recognized as independent.
- 1983 – Typhoon Ellen dissipated after destroying hundreds of homes across Hong Kong and the Philippines.
- 1990 – Pope John Paul II consecrated the Basilica of Our Lady of Peace, one of the largest churches in the world, in Yamoussoukro, Ivory Coast.
- 2000 – British forces freed soldiers and civilians who had been held captive by the militant group the West Side Boys, contributing to the end of the Sierra Leone Civil War.
- 2025 – American political activist Charlie Kirk was shot and killed at an event at Utah Valley University.
- Born/died on this day:| Empress Matilda|d|1167| John J. Crittenden|b|1787| Harriet Arbuthnot|b|1793| Mary Wollstonecraft|d|1797| Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, 3rd Duke of Buckingham and Chandos |b|1823| Jeppe Aakjær|b|1866| H.D. |b|1886| Mortimer Wheeler|b|1890| Bob Heffron|b|1890| Bessie Love|b|1898| Ho Feng-Shan|b|1901| Glen P. Robinson|b|1923| Boyd K. Packer |b|1924| Huey Long|d|1935| Jim Pappin|b|1939| Jack Ma|b|1964| Abdul Hamid|d|1965| Erna Mohr|d|1968| Misty Copeland|b|1982| Jon Brower Minnoch|d|1983| Virginia Satir|d|1988| Charlie Kirk|d|2025|
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Light curve–based 3D model of Pandora
- 1509 – An earthquake known as "The Lesser Judgment Day" hit Constantinople.
- 1622 – Fifty-five Christians were executed in Nagasaki during the Great Genna Martyrdom, part of persecution towards Christians in Japan by the Tokugawa shogunate.
- 1858 – George Mary Searle discovered the asteroid 55 Pandora (pictured) from the Dudley Observatory near Albany, New York; it was his only asteroid discovery.
- 1945 – Mike the Headless Chicken was decapitated on a farm in Colorado; he survived another 18 months as part of sideshows before choking to death.
- 2009 – Members of the Atlanta Police Department conducted a raid on a gay bar, with patrons later alleging that their constitutional rights had been violated and the city agreeing to pay over $1 million in settlements.
- William Morgan (d. 1604)
- Giovanni Antonio Grassi (b. 1775)
- Adele Astaire (b. 1896)
- Chandra Khonnokyoong (d. 2000)
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