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Richard the Lionheart -
Wreckage of the USS Shenandoah -
Malcolm Campbell -
Giuseppe Farina -
Oliver Cromwell
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| Flag Day in Australia; | unreferenced section |
| ; Armed Forces Day in Taiwan | refimprove |
| 301 – San Marino, one of the smallest nations in the world and the world's oldest republic still in existence, was founded by Saint Marinus. | refimprove section |
| 590 – Gregory I, the first pope from a monastic background, began his papacy. | Lots of cn |
| 1189 – Richard the Lionheart was crowned King of England in Westminster. | lots of CN tags (13) |
| 1260 – The Mongols suffered their first decisive defeat at the hands of Egyptian Mamluks in the Battle of Ain Jalut in Palestine. | refimprove section, original research |
| 1783 – The Peace of Paris formally ended the states of war between United States, France, Spain and Great Britain. | refimprove section |
| 1838 – Frederick Douglass escaped from slavery, and went on to become famous as an abolitionist. | date not cited, refimprove section |
| 1918 – The Bolshevik government of Russia published the first official announcement of the Red Terror, a period of repression against political opponents. | unreliable sources |
| 1925 – The USS Shenandoah, the U.S. Navy's first rigid airship, was torn apart in a squall line over Ohio. | refimprove section |
| 1941 – The Holocaust: SS-Hauptsturmführer Karl Fritzsch first used the pesticide Zyklon B to execute Soviet POWs en masse at Auschwitz; eventually it was used to kill about 1.2 million people. | date not in article; also the article doesn't say they were Soviet POWs, and gives a 1.1m figure not 1.2m |
| 1950 – Giuseppe Farina won the Italian Grand Prix, becoming the first Formula One world champion. | results section contains a lot of unreferenced bits |
| 1967 – Dagen H: All non-essential traffic was banned from the roads in Sweden while drivers switched from the left-hand side of the road to the right-hand side. | refimprove |
| 1976 – The NASA Viking 2 spacecraft landed at Utopia Planitia on Mars. | unreferenced section |
| 2004 – Russian security forces stormed a school in Beslan, North Ossetia, ending a three-day hostage crisis in which 334 of more than 1,100 hostages were killed. | WP:WTA persistent use of 'terrorist' |
| Frank Capra |d|1991| | unreferenced section |
Eligible
- 863 – Arab–Byzantine wars: The Byzantine Empire decisively defeated the Emirate of Melitene at the Battle of Lalakaon, beginning the era of Byzantine ascendancy.
- 1650 – Under Oliver Cromwell, the English New Model Army ambushed a poorly prepared Scottish force at the Battle of Dunbar, the first battle of the Third English Civil War.
- 1651 – English Parliamentarian forces under Oliver Cromwell (pictured) won the Battle of Worcester, the final battle of the English Civil War.
- 1777 – American Revolutionary War: The British Army and their Hessian allies defeated an American militia at the Battle of Cooch's Bridge.
- 1878 – The passenger steamship SS Princess Alice sank in the River Thames after colliding (pictured) with the collier Bywell Castle, killing more than 600 people.
- 1935 – On the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, British racing motorist Malcolm Campbell became the first person to drive an automobile over 300 mph (480 km/h).
- 1936 – The Guild of Carillonneurs in North America was founded in Parliament Hill, Ottawa, Canada.
- 1942 – The Holocaust: In possibly the first Jewish ghetto uprising, residents of the Łachwa Ghetto in occupied Poland, informed of the upcoming "liquidation" of the ghetto, unsuccessfully fought against their Nazi captors.
- 1991 – A fire killed 25 people locked inside a burning chicken processing plant in Hamlet, North Carolina, U.S.
- 2001 – The Troubles: Ulster loyalists resumed a picket outside a Catholic girls' primary school in the Protestant portion of Ardoyne, in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
- Born/died: | Edward Coke |d|1634| Archibald Bower |d|1766| Prudence Crandall |b|1803| Astri Aasen |b|1875| Corry Tendeloo |b|1897| Macfarlane Burnet |b|1899| Percy Chapman |b|1900| Tereska Torrès |b|1920| Gaston Thorn |b|1928| Vince Lombardi |d|1970| Scott Carson |b|1985|Pauline Kael |d|2001
Notes
- Fanny Kaplan appears on August 30, so Red Terror should not appear in the same year
Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne
- 36 BC – The Sicilian revolt against the Second Triumvirate of the Roman Republic ended when the fleet of Sextus Pompey, the rebel leader, was defeated at the Battle of Naulochus.
- 1411 – The Treaty of Selymbria was concluded between the Republic of Venice and the Ottoman prince Musa Çelebi.
- 1901 – The flag of Australia flew for the first time, from the Royal Exhibition Building (pictured) in Melbourne.
- 1987 – In a military coup d'état in Burundi, Pierre Buyoya deposed the incumbent president Jean-Baptiste Bagaza while he was abroad in Canada.
- 2017 – North Korea conducted its sixth and most powerful nuclear test at Punggye-ri, causing a magnitude-6.3 earthquake.
- Umar al-Aqta (d. 863)
- Ana Monterroso de Lavalleja (b. 1791)
- Sarah Orne Jewett (b. 1849)
- Ferdinand Rudow (d. 1920)
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