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Sam Houston
Sam Houston
Voyager 1
Theodore Roosevelt
Carpenters' Hall, Philadelphia
French and British ships engage in the Battle of the Chesapeake
Léopold Sédar Senghor
Interior of the Gotthard Road Tunnel
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| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| : Teachers' Day in India | refimprove |
| 917 – Liu Yan declared himself emperor, establishing the Southern Han state in southern China, at his capital of Panyu (present-day Guangzhou). | Date not adequately cited |
| 1774 – In response to the British Parliament enacting the Intolerable Acts, representatives from twelve of Britain's North American colonies convened the First Continental Congress at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia. | unreferenced section |
| 1793 – French Revolution: The National Convention began the Reign of Terror, a ten-month period of systematic repression and mass executions by guillotine of perceived enemies within the country. | refimprove section |
| 1836 – Sam Houston became the first popularly elected President of the Republic of Texas. | refimprove section, tagged for expansion |
| 1905 – Under the mediation of U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt, the Russo-Japanese War officially ended with the signing of the Treaty of Portsmouth at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard near Portsmouth, New Hampshire. | unreferenced section |
| 1914 – World War I: The First Battle of the Marne began with French forces engaging the advancing German army at the Marne River near Paris. | refimprove section |
| 1927 – Walt Disney's and Ub Iwerks' first popular character Oswald the Lucky Rabbit made its debut in the animated cartoon Trolley Troubles. | refimprove section |
| 1945 – Cold War: Soviet cipher clerk Igor Gouzenko defected to Canada with over 100 documents on Soviet espionage activities and sleeper agents. | refimprove section |
| 1960 – Senegalese poet Léopold Sédar Senghor was elected as the first President of Senegal. | refimprove |
| 1972 – The Palestinian militant group Black September took hostage eleven Israeli athletes and coaches at the Olympic Games in Munich, West Germany; all of the hostages were killed less than 24 hours later. | refimprove sections |
| 1980 – The St. Gotthard Tunnel, at the time the world's longest highway tunnel at 16.4 km (10.2 mi), opened in Switzerland stretching from Göschenen to Airolo. | unreferenced section |
| 1991 – The current international treaty defending indigenous peoples, Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989, came into force. | appears on June 27 |
| Robert Spencer, 2nd Earl of Sunderland (b. 1641) · | unreferenced section |
Eligible
- 1781 – American Revolutionary War: French naval forces handed Britain a major strategic defeat in the Battle of the Chesapeake.
- 1877 – Oglala Lakota war leader Crazy Horse was fatally wounded after surrendering while allegedly resisting imprisonment at Camp Robinson in present-day Nebraska, U.S.
- 1921 – Popular American comedian Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle attended a party during which a woman was fatally injured; although he was eventually acquitted of manslaughter, the trial's scandal derailed his career.
Amy Beach (b. 1867) · Jochen Rindt (d. 1970)
Notes
- Geronimo appears on September 3, so Crazy Horse should not appear in the same year
September 5: Eid al-Mubahalah (Islam, 2018)
Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme
- 1697 – War of the Grand Alliance: A French warship captured York Factory, a trading post of the Hudson's Bay Company in present-day Manitoba, Canada.
- 1882 – A group of London school boys led by Bobby Buckle founded Hotspur Football Club so they could continue to play sports during the winter months.
- 1943 – World War II: American and Australian airborne forces made a landing at Nadzab as part of the New Guinea campaign against Japan.
- 1975 – Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme (pictured), a devotee of Charles Manson, attempted to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford.
- 1977 – NASA launched the robotic space probe Voyager 1, currently the farthest spacecraft from Earth.
Caspar David Friedrich (b. 1774) · Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy (b. 1817) · Neerja Bhanot (d. 1986)
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