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Impact site of Shoemaker-Levy 9's fragment G on Jupiter's cloud-tops -
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"Trinity", the first nuclear test explosion -
Mushroom cloud of Trinity -
"Trinity", the first nuclear test explosion -
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Portrait of Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor, by Pierre-Joseph Lion -
The Declaration of State Sovereignty of Ukraine marked on a 1991 USSR postage stamp -
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Mission San Diego de Alcalá -
Haile Selassie on a cover of Time magazine -
Haile Selassie in 1970
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Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| Feast day of Our Lady of Mount Carmel (Roman Catholic Church); | refimprove section |
| 622 – The epoch of the Islamic calendar occurred, marking the year that Muhammad began his Hijra from Mecca to Medina. | refimprove section |
| 1779 – American Revolutionary War: A select force of Continental Army infantry made a surprise night attack and captured a fortified position of the British Army on the Hudson River south of West Point, New York. | refimprove section |
| 1862 – David Farragut became the first person to be promoted to the rank of rear admiral in the United States Navy. | refimprove section |
| 1979 – Saddam Hussein replaced the resigning Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr as President of Iraq, after having gradually usurped power from his cousin. | refimprove section |
| 1990 – The parliament of Ukrainian SSR adopted the Declaration of State Sovereignty of Ukraine. | stub |
| 1990 – A 7.8 MS earthquake struck the densely populated Philippine island of Luzon, killing an estimated 1,621 people. | refimprove |
| 1999 – John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, and sister-in-law Lauren Bessette were killed in a plane crash off the coast of Martha's Vineyard. | refimprove section |
| 2001 – Russia and the People's Republic of China signed the Treaty of Good-Neighborliness and Friendly Cooperation, a twenty-year strategic treaty. | no footnotes |
| Ratna Sarumpaet |b|1948 | recentism |
| Larry Sanger |b|1968 | WP:NAVEL |
| * 1769 – Spanish friar Junípero Serra founded Mission San Diego de Alcalá, the first Franciscan mission in the Alta California region of New Spain. | Too much uncited |
Eligible
- 1377 – The ten-year-old Richard II was crowned King of England at Westminster Abbey.
- 1782 – Mozart's opera Die Entführung aus dem Serail premiered in Vienna, after which Emperor Joseph II anecdotally remarked that it had "too many notes".
- 1950 – Korean War: A Korean People's Army unit massacred 31 prisoners of war of the U.S. Army on a mountain near the village of Tuman.
- 1951 – The Catcher in the Rye, an American coming-of-age novel by J. D. Salinger, was first published.
- 1965 – South Vietnamese Colonel Phạm Ngọc Thảo—an undetected communist spy—was reported dead due to injuries sustained during his capture, but it is generally assumed he was killed on the orders of military officials.
- 1994 – Fragments of Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 began colliding with the planet Jupiter (impact site pictured), with the first impact causing a fireball that reached a peak temperature of 24,000 kelvin.
- 2004 – Millennium Park, a public park in Chicago, Illinois, and the world's largest rooftop garden, opened to the public.
- 2007 – An earthquake of magnitude Mw6.6 struck Niigata Prefecture, Japan, causing a leak of radioactive gases from the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant.
- 2008 – A tainted milk powder scandal broke in China which ultimately involved an estimated 300,000 victims, the vast majority infants, with 54,000 hospitalized with kidney problems and 6 deaths.
- Born/died: | Fulrad |d|784| Charles I of Hungary |d|1342|An-Nasir Ahmad of Egypt |d|1344|Meinhardt Schomberg |d|1719| Sarah Allen |d|1849| Mildred Lewis Rutherford |b|1851| Anna Vyrubova |b|1884| Ellen G. White |d|1915| Assata Shakur |b|1947| Alexis Herman |b|1947| Albert Kesselring |d|1960| Carli Lloyd |b|1982 Gareth Bale |b|1989| Evelyn Ebsworth |d|2015
| Julia Kronlid |b|1980
Notes
- Starfish Prime appears on July 9, so Trinity should not appear in the same year
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Muhammad I of Granada (red shield)
- 1232 – Muhammad ibn Yusuf (pictured), who later established the Emirate of Granada, the last Muslim state in Spain, was elected the ruler of Arjona.
- 1790 – President George Washington signed the Residence Act, selecting a new permanent site along the Potomac River for the capital of the United States, which later became Washington, D.C.
- 1931 – Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie promulgated the nation's first modern constitution.
- 1983 – A Sikorsky S-61 helicopter operated by British Airways crashed in thick fog in the Celtic Sea, killing 20 of the 26 people on board.
- 2013 – At least 23 students died and dozens more fell ill at a primary school in the Indian state of Bihar after consuming a Midday Meal that was contaminated with pesticide.
- Philip Wodehouse (b. 1773)
- Agnes Weinrich (b. 1873)
- Évariste Kimba (b. 1926)
- Vecihi Hürkuş (d. 1969)