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Stefan Uroš IV Dušan of Serbia
Michelangelo's David
The face of Michelangelo's David
A house tipped over by the 1900 Galveston hurricane
Severn Bridge- Huey Long
Margaret Gorman
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| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| International Literacy Day; | primary sources |
| Our Lady of Meritxell Day in Andorra; | refimprove |
| Independence Day in North Macedonia (1991); | refimprove; NM: refimprove section |
| 1331 – Stefan Dušan of the House of Nemanjić was crowned King of Serbia. | unreferenced section |
| 1504 – David, a marble sculpture by Michelangelo portraying the biblical King David in the nude, was unveiled in Florence, Italy. | refimprove section |
| 1514 – Muscovite–Lithuanian Wars: The combined forces of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Kingdom of Poland defeated the larger army of the Grand Duchy of Moscow in Orsha, present-day Belarus. | refimprove |
| 1664 – Two days after having been ceded to England, New Amsterdam was renamed "New York" in honor of the Duke of York, in whose name it had been captured. | date not cited, refimprove section |
| 1888 – The inaugural season of the Football League in England, the oldest professional league competition in world football (soccer), began with twelve member clubs. | unreferenced section |
| 1923 – Twenty-three sailors died when nine U.S. Navy destroyers ran aground off the coast of California in the Honda Point disaster. | unreferenced section |
| 1941 – World War II: German forces severed the last land connection to Leningrad, beginning a 28-month siege that resulted in the deaths of over 1 million of the city's civilians from starvation, making it one of the most lethal battles in world history. | refimprove section |
| 1944 – World War II: Germany began launching V-2 rocket attacks against Paris and London. | Featured on October 3, refimprove section |
| 1951 – The Treaty of San Francisco | Featured on April 28, date when it came into force |
| 1978 – Iranian Revolution: After Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi declared martial law in response to protests, the Iranian Army shot and killed at least 88 demonstrators in Tehran on Black Friday. | Unreferenced section on the actual massacre itself, which is also too short given that it's the main part of this article. |
| 2004 – The NASA spacecraft Genesis crash-landed in Utah after having successfully collected a sample of solar wind. | refimprove section |
| Leni Riefenstahl |d|2003 | unreferenced sections (Films) |
Eligible
- 1755 – French and Indian War: Despite being ambushed at the start of the Battle of Lake George, British colonial troops and their Mohawk allies were able to defeat French and Canadien troops and their Indian allies.
- 1775 – Maltese priests discontented with the Order of Saint John led an uprising, which was suppressed by the Order within a few hours.
- 1796 – French Revolutionary Wars: The French defeated Austrian forces in Bassano, Venetia, Italy.
- 1831 – The Russian Empire brought the Polish November Uprising to an end when its troops captured Warsaw after a two-day assault.
- 1860 – The paddle steamer Lady Elgin was rammed by a schooner on Lake Michigan and sank, resulting in the loss of about 300 lives.
- 1921 – In Atlantic City, New Jersey, Margaret Gorman (pictured) was crowned the "Golden Mermaid", the forerunner to the Miss America pageant.
- 1935 – U.S. senator Huey Long was shot in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, dying two days later.
- 1936 – Opposed to António de Oliveira Salazar's support of the Nationalists in the Spanish Civil War, the crews of the Portuguese Navy ships NRP Afonso de Albuquerque and NRP Dão mutinied while anchored in the harbour of Lisbon.
- 1954 – Eight nations signed an agreement to create the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization, a Southeast Asian version of NATO.
- 1966 – Queen Elizabeth II opened the Severn Bridge, suggesting that it marked the dawn of a new economic era for South Wales.
- 1974 – Watergate scandal: U.S. President Gerald Ford gave his recently resigned predecessor Richard Nixon a controversial full and unconditional pardon for any crimes he committed while in office.
- 1994 – USAir Flight 427 crashed on approach to Pittsburgh International Airport, resulting in 132 deaths and the longest accident investigation in the history of the National Transportation Safety Board.
- Born/died this day: | Amy Robsart |d|1560| Ozias Humphry |b|1742| Anne Catherine Emmerich |b|1774| John Aitken |d|1831| Sabrina Sidney |d|1843| Inez Knight Allen |b|1876| Maria Lassnig |b|1919| Margaret Hodge |b|1944| Ron "Pigpen" McKernan |b|1945| Jos Buttler |b|1990| Derek Taylor |d|1997
Notes
- Lynette Fromme appears on September 5, so Gerald Ford should not appear in the same year
September 8: Victory Day in Malta
Map of the transition from the Sui to the Tang Dynasty
- 617 – Li Yuan defeated a Sui army at the Battle of Huoyi, opening the path to his capture of the Chinese imperial capital Chang'an and the eventual establishment of the Tang dynasty (map pictured).
- 1566 – Ottoman–Habsburg wars: Although Ottoman forces led by Suleiman the Magnificent captured the fortress of Szigetvár in Hungary, they were forced to end their campaign to take Vienna.
- 1831 – William IV and Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen were crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
- 1900 – The Great Galveston hurricane, the deadliest natural disaster in U.S. history, struck Galveston, Texas, with estimated winds of 135 miles per hour (215 km/h) at landfall, killing at least 6,000 people.
- 1966 – The science fiction show Star Trek made its American premiere with "The Man Trap", launching a media franchise that has since created a cult phenomenon and has influenced the design of many current technologies.
- Andrei Kirilenko (b. 1906)
- Peter Sellers (b. 1925)
- Patsy Cline (b. 1932)
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