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| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| International Day for Tolerance | stub |
| Day of Declaration of Sovereignty in Estonia (1988) | refimprove |
| 1491 – Several Jews and conversos were executed in Toledo, Spain, for the alleged ritual murder of an infant, who was later revered as the Holy Child of La Guardia. | unreferenced section |
| 1805 – War of the Third Coalition: At the Battle of Schöngrabern, Russian forces under Pyotr Bagration delayed the pursuit by French troops under Joachim Murat. | needs more footnotes, short |
| 1855 – Explorer David Livingstone became the first European to see Victoria Falls, one of the largest waterfalls in the world, on what is now the Zambia–Zimbabwe border. | refimprove section |
| 1871 – The United States' National Rifle Association was first chartered in the state of New YorkbyWilliam Conant Church and George Wood Wingate. | outdated, criticism section |
| 1907 – Two years after the failed attempt by the Five Civilized Tribes in the Indian Territory to achieve U.S. statehood, they joined with the Oklahoma Territory to become the 46th state to enter the union. | too many images |
| 1920 – Qantas, Australia's national airline, was founded as Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services. | Uncited material |
| 1945 – The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) was founded. | Lots of cn |
| 1959 – The Sound of Music, a musical by Rodgers and Hammerstein based on The Story of the Trapp Family Singers, opened on Broadway at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre. | lots of CN tags (8), especially in one section |
| 1974 – The Arecibo message, devised by Frank Drake and Carl Sagan and carrying basic information about humanity, was transmitted towards the globular star cluster M13. | Unreferenced material |
| 1989 – Eight employees of Universidad Centroamericana "José Simeón Cañas"inSan Salvador, including six Catholic priests, were murdered by a Salvadoran Army "death squad". | refimprove section |
| Edmund of Abingdon |d|1240| | needs more footnotes |
