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| Tanis Diena | Tanis Diena and date not mentioned in article |
| 1600 – Italian philosopher Giordano Bruno, best-known as a proponent of heliocentrism and the infinity of the universe, was burned at the stake as a heretic for his denial of several core Catholic doctrines by the Roman Inquisition. | lots of CN tags (9) |
| 1801 – The U.S. House of Representatives elected Thomas Jefferson as President and Aaron Burr as Vice President, resolving an electoral tie in the 1800 presidential election. | bare URLS, lots of CN tags (5, mostly in one section) |
| 1865 – American Civil War: The Union Army captured Columbia, South Carolina, from the Confederacy, while a large fire of unknown origin destroyed much of the city. | See this WP:ERRORS report |
| 1872 – Three priests collectively known as Gomburza were executed in Manila, Philippines, by Spanish colonial authorities on charges of subversion arising from the Cavite mutiny. | refimprove |
| 1933 – The American weekly news magazine Newsweek was first published. | refimprove section |
| 1936 – The Phantom, one of the first modern comic book superheroes with the hallmark skintight costume and a mask with no visible pupils, made his first appearance in a daily newspaper comic strip. | refimprove section |
| 1949 – Chaim Weizmann began his term as the first president of Israel. | lots of CN tags (21) |
| 1979 – About 120,000 troops of the People's Liberation Army of China crossed into northern Vietnam, starting the Sino-Vietnamese War. | unreferenced section, refimprove section |
| 1995 – In the presence of the four guarantor countries of the Rio Protocol, Ecuador and Peru signed a peace declaration confirming a ceasefire, leading to the official end of the Cenepa War eleven days later. | refimprove section |
| 2003 – The London congestion charge, a fee that is levied on motorists travelling within designated parts of Central London, came into effect. | outdated |
| 2008 – The declaration of independence of the Republic of Kosovo was adopted by the Kosovan parliamentinPristina. | refimprove section |
| Lola Montez |b|1821| | tagged with {ref improve} & {In popular culture} |
| Billie Joe Armstrong |b|1972 | refimprove |
