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Coat of Arms of the Republic of Botswana
Ethernet card
8P8C Ethernet connector
Henry IV of England
James Dean
Hotel Ambacang, destroyed by the 2009 Sumatra earthquake
Times Square Theater
Władysław Sikorski
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| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| Independence Day in Botswana (1966); | refimprove section |
| ; Blasphemy Day | unsure if still being observed (see talk page) |
| 1399 – Henry Bolingbroke, Duke of Lancaster, deposed Richard II to become Henry IV of England, merging the Duchy of Lancaster with the crown. | refimprove section |
| 1744 – War of the Austrian Succession: The armies of France and Spain won a Pyrrhic victory over the Kingdom of Sardinia at the Battle of Madonna dell'Olmo near Cuneo, Italy. | needs more footnotes |
| 1962 – Rioting broke out at the University of Mississippi in an attempt to stop the admission of James Meredith, resulting in two deaths. | Cn tags |
| 1966 – Seretse Khama became the first president of Botswana when the Bechuanaland Protectorate gained independence from the United Kingdom. | refimprove |
| 1979 – Construction of the Kwun Tong line, the first line of Hong Kong's MTR rapid transit system, was completed. | refimprove section |
| 1980 – Xerox, Intel and Digital Equipment Corporation published the first Ethernet specifications, currently the most widespread wired local area network (LAN) technology. | lots of CN tags (12) |
| 2004 – Japanese researchers took the first photographs of a live giant squid in its natural habitat. | refimprove section |
| Decimus Burton |b|1800| | flamboyant tone |
Eligible
- 737 – Muslim conquest of Transoxiana: Türgesh tribesmen attacked and captured the exposed baggage train of the Umayyad army, sent ahead of the main force.
- 1955 – American film actor James Dean suffered fatal injuries in a head-on car accident near Cholame, California.
- 1975 – The Boeing AH-64 Apache (example pictured), the primary attack helicopter for a number of countries, made its first flight.
- 2005 – The Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten published controversial editorial cartoons depicting Muhammad, sparking protests across the Islamic world by many who viewed them as Islamophobic and blasphemous.
- 1139 – A violent earthquake struck the Caucasus near Ganja, killing up to an estimated 300,000 people.
- 1791 – Mozart conducted the premiere of his last opera, The Magic Flute, in Vienna.
- 1882 – The Vulcan Street Plant in Appleton, Wisconsin, the first hydroelectric central station to serve a system of private and commercial customers in North America, went online.
- 1918 – Nestor Makhno and Fedir Shchus led insurgents to successfully ambush the Central Powers that occupied southern Ukraine during World War I.
- 1920 – Times Square Theater (pictured) opened on Broadway with a production of The Mirage, a play written by its owner, Edgar Selwyn.
- 1938 – Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Neville Chamberlain, and Édouard Daladier signed the Munich Agreement, stipulating that Czechoslovakia must cede the Sudetenland to Germany.
- 1939 – NBC broadcast the first televised American football game, between the Fordham Rams and the Waynesburg Yellow Jackets.
- 1939 – Second World War: General Władysław Sikorski (pictured) became the first prime minister of the Polish government-in-exile.
- 1998 – The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), a nonprofit organization that manages the assignment of domain names and IP addresses in the Internet, was incorporated.
- 2000 – Twelve-year-old Muhammad al-Durrah was shot dead in the Gaza Strip; the Israel Defense Forces initially accepted responsibility but retracted it five years later.
- 2019 – President Martín Vizcarra dissolved the Congress of Peru, resulting in a constitutional crisis.
- Born/died: | Honorius of Canterbury |d|653| Rumi |b|1207| Thomas Allen |d|1632| Lucinda Hinsdale Stone |b|1814| Peter Ward |b|1827| Ann Jarvis |b|1832| Charles Villiers Stanford |b|1852| Doris Mackinnon |b|1883| Charlotte Wolff |b|1897| Thomas Peterffy |b|1944| Basia |b|1954| Noriyuki Higashiyama|b|1966| Club Chalamet|b|1966| Marion Cotillard|b|1975| Wopke Hoekstra |b|1975| Drew Shafer|d|1989| Levi Miller |b|2002| Anwar al-Awlaki |d|2011| Sonia Orbuch |d|2018| Jessye Norman |d|2019|
Notes
- Pilot (The Cosby Show) appears on September 20, so Cheers should not appear in the same year
September 30: National Day for Truth and Reconciliation in Canada; Martyrs' Day in China
AH-64 Apache prototype
- 1342 – An Anglo-Breton army defeated a far larger Franco-Breton force in the first land battle of the Hundred Years' War.
- 1551 – Sue Takafusa, a retainer of the Ōuchi clan in western Japan, led a coup against the daimyō Ōuchi Yoshitaka, leading to the latter's forced suicide.
- 1863 – Georges Bizet's opera Les pêcheurs de perles premiered at the Théâtre Lyrique in Paris.
- 1982 – Cheers, an American television sitcom, debuted with its pilot episode on NBC.
- 2009 – A 7.6 MW earthquake struck off the southern coast of Sumatra, Indonesia, killing 1,115 and impacting an estimated 1.2 million people.
- Fan Yanguang (d. 940)
- Adelaide of Vianden (d. 1376)
- John Thirtle (b. 1839)
- Catie Ball (b. 1951)
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