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Flag of Guinea-Bissau
Flag of Trinidad and Tobago
Raja James Brooke of Sarawak
Mecca
Edmund Barton
HMA No. 1 wreckage
Alfred Deakin
Cathay Pacific Boeing 777
Don Budge
Battle of Shiroyama
Norodom Sihanouk
Boris Johnson- James Brooke
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Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| Fast of Gedalia (Judaism, 2017); | unreferenced section |
| ; Republic Day in Trinidad and Tobago (1976) | refimprove |
| 622 – Muhammad and his followers completed their Hegira from Mecca to Medina to escape religious persecution. | date contested; may have been July 2 |
| 1938 – American tennis player, Don Budge, wins the U.S. Open, becoming the first person to complete the Grand Slam. | refimprove section |
| 1946 – Cathay Pacific, the de facto international flag carrier of Hong Kong, was founded by Roy Farrell and Sydney de Kantzow. | recentism, refimprove section |
| 1948 – Mechanic Soichiro Honda founded the Honda Motor Co., Ltd. and began manufacturing motorcycles, eventually turning his company into a billion-dollar multinational corporation. | Honda: date not cited, refimprove section; Soichiro Honda: date not in article |
| 1988 – Canadian Ben Johnson finished the 100 m sprint at the Seoul Olympics in a world record time of 9.79 seconds, ahead of rivals Carl Lewis and Linford Christie, but was later disqualified for doping. | refimprove section |
| 1996 – Representatives from 71 nations signed the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty, which has not yet come into force because not enough signatories have ratified it. | refimprove section |
| 2007 – During the Saffron Revolution in Myanmar, the largest anti-government protests in 20 years took place in Yangon. | external links |
| Lottie Dod |b|1871| | unreferenced and refimprove sections |
Eligible
- 1645 – English Civil War: Royalists commanded by King Charles I suffered a significant defeat at the Battle of Rowton Heath.
- 1841 – Raja Muda Hashim, the uncle of Omar Ali Saifuddin II, Sultan of Brunei, conceded land to the British adventurer James Brooke (pictured) to establish the Raj of Sarawak.
- 1869 – Jay Gould, James Fisk, and other speculators plotted but failed to control the United States gold market, causing prices to plummet.
- 1890 – Wilford Woodruff, the president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, wrote the first draft of a manifesto that officially disavowed the future practice of plural marriage.
- 1941 – Operation Barbarossa: A Wehrmacht training event known as the Mogilev Conference began, marking an increase in violence against Jews and other civilians in the areas under General Max von Schenckendorff's command.
- 1993 – Norodom Sihanouk (pictured) became King of Cambodia with the restoration of the monarchy after a 23-year interregnum.
- 2019 – The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom unanimously ruled that advice given by Prime Minister Boris Johnson to Queen Elizabeth II that Parliament should be prorogued was unlawful.
- 2026
- 1877 – At the Battle of Shiroyama (depicted), the final engagement of the Satsuma Rebellion, the Imperial Japanese Army defeated rebel samurai of the Satsuma Domain led by Saigō Takamori.
- 1911 – His Majesty's Airship No. 1, Britain's first rigid airship, was wrecked by strong winds before her maiden flight at Barrow-in-Furness.
- 1945 – Dozens of Jews were injured in the Topoľčany pogrom, one of the worst episodes of anti-Jewish violence in postwar Czechoslovakia.
- 1964 – The Warren Commission released its report to the U.S. president, concluding that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in the assassination of John F. Kennedy. The report was made public three days later.
- 1992 – After his neighbor identified handwriting samples placed on local billboards by police, Oba Chandler was arrested three years after he committed a triple murder in the Tampa Bay area in Florida.
- Born/died this day: | Pope Liberius|d|366| Gao Pian |d|887|'Adud al-Dawla |b|936| Guru Ram Das |b|1534| Jan Karol Chodkiewicz |d|1621| Antoine-Louis Barye |b|1796| Edward Thomas Daniell |d|1842| Georges Claude |b|1870| F. Scott Fitzgerald |b|1896| Howard Florey |b|1898| Bessie Braddock |b|1899| Esther Eng|b|1914| John Young|b|1930| Linda McCartney |b|1941| Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine|d|1950| Bruno Pontecorvo |d|1993|
September 24: Heritage Day in South Africa; Independence Day in Guinea-Bissau (1973)
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Battle of San Juan de Ulúa
- 1568 – At San Juan de Ulúa (present-day Veracruz, Mexico), a Spanish naval fleet forced English privateers to halt their trade (battle pictured).
- 1789 – The Judiciary Act of 1789 was signed into law, establishing the U.S. federal judiciary and setting the number of Supreme Court justices at six.
- 1903 – Alfred Deakin became the second Australian prime minister, succeeding Edmund Barton, who left office to become a founding justice of the High Court of Australia.
- 1950 – The "Great Smoke Pall", generated by the Chinchaga fire, the largest recorded fire in North American history, was first recorded in present-day Nunavut and may eventually have circled the entire globe.
- 1975 – Dougal Haston and Doug Scott of the Southwest Face expedition became the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest by ascending one of its faces.
- Robert of Knaresborough (d. 1218)
- John Rutter (b. 1945)
- Pia Wurtzbach (b. 1989)
- Gennady Yanayev (d. 2010)
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