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| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| Nativity of Saint John the Baptist (Christianity); | refimprove |
| Saint-Jean-Baptiste DayinQuebec, Canada; | refimprove section |
| Battle of Carabobo Day in Venezuela (1821); | refimprove section |
| 1128 – Alfonso I fought the Battle of São Mamede, the first step toward Portuguese independence from Galicia. | no footnotes |
| 1535 – Count Franz von Waldeck took Münster from the Anabaptists, ending the Münster rebellion. | needs more footnotes |
| 1571 – Spanish conquistador Miguel López de Legazpi established a council to govern the city of Manila, now the capital of the Philippines. | unsourced sections |
| 1596 – Led by Cornelis de Houtman, the first Dutch voyage to the East Indies reached BantenonJava. | date not in either article |
| 1622 – Dutch–Portuguese War: An outnumbered Portuguese force repelled a Dutch attack in the Battle of Macau, the only major military engagement that was fought between two European powers on the Chinese mainland. | Lot of unsourced paragraphs |
| 1894 – Italian anarchist Sante Geronimo Caserio fatally stabbed Marie François Sadi Carnot, President of the French Third Republic, after Carnot delivered a speech at a public banquet in Lyon. | refimprove |
| 1945 – The Soviet Army held a victory parade in Moscow to celebrate the defeat of Nazi GermanyinWorld War II. | refimprove |
| 1947 – In one of the first widely reported unidentified flying object sightings in the United States, businessman and pilot Kenneth Arnold saw nine luminous disks in the form of saucers flying above the state of Washington near Mount Rainier. | multiple issues |
| 1948 – Cold War: The Soviet Union blocked access to the American, British, and French sectors of Berlin, cutting off all rail and road routes going into Soviet-controlled territory in Germany. | refimprove section |
| 1957 – The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Roth v. United States that obscenity is not protected by the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. | needs more footnotes |
| 1981 – The Humber Bridge opened, connecting the East Riding of Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire in England, at the time the longest single-span suspension bridge. | refimprove section |
| 1982 – British Airways Flight 009 flew into a cloud of volcanic ash thrown up by the eruption of Indonesia's Mount Galunggung, resulting in the failure of all four of its engines. | refimprove section |
| 1994 – A United States Air Force B-52 Stratofortress crashedatFairchild Air Force BaseinSpokane County, Washington, killing all four crew members, and later providing a case study on the importance of compliance with safety regulations. | Missing page numbers |
| * 1973 – A fire was started at the UpStairs Lounge, a gay bar in New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S., causing 32 deaths. | Tagged for trivia |
| Mustafa I |b|1591| | Article says "around 1600" |
