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Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas
Gustav III
The Xa Loi Pagoda, one of the largest Buddhist pagodas in Vietnam
Taos pueblo
Taos pueblo
James Anderson, Jr.
Nat Turner woodcarving
Mona Lisa
Xá Lợi Pagoda , raided by South Vietnamese special forces
IneligibleBlurb Reason Youth Day and King Mohammed's Birthday in Morocco;Morocco: refimprove; Mohammed VI: lead too short, unreferenced section (Ancestry) Rosh Hashanah LaBehema (Judaism, 2020)Date not reliably cited, and not a mainstream Jewish festival; see discussion at [1] Ninoy Aquino Day in the Philippinesrefimprove 1140 – Song dynasty general Yue Fei defeated an army led by Jin dynasty general Wuzhu at the Battle of Yancheng during the Jin–Song Wars .refimprove section 1680 – Several tribes of Pueblo Indians captured the town of Santa Fe in Nuevo México .lots of CN tags in one section ("In the arts") 1772 – A bloodless coup d'état led by Gustav III was completed with the adoption of a new Swedish Constitution .refimprove section 1791 – A slave rebellion erupted in the French colony of Saint-Domingue , starting the Haitian Revolution .refimprove section 1831 – Enslaved African-American preacher Nat Turner led a slave revolt in Southampton County, Virginia , which was suppressed about 48 hours later.in popular culture section 1944 – Delegations from Republic of China, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States, met at Dumbarton Oaks in Washington, D.C. to discuss the formation of the United Nations .unreferenced section 1959 – Under the terms of the Hawaii Admission Act and a subsequent plebiscite , the Territory of Hawaii was officially admitted as the 50th U.S. state .lots of CN tags (24) 1968 – The Prague Spring , a period of political liberalization in Czechoslovakia , abruptly ended after Warsaw Pact troops invaded the country , killing 72 Czechoslovaks and arresting their leader Alexander Dubček .refimprove section 1968 – Private First Class James Anderson Jr. of the U.S. Marine Corps became the first African-American Marine Corps recipient of the Medal of Honor .unreferenced section 1969 – An Australian tourist set the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem on fire, a major catalyst of the formation of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation .Lots of tags in one section 1982 – Lebanese Civil War : The first troops of a multinational force landed in Beirut to oversee the Palestine Liberation Organization withdrawal from Lebanon.unreferenced sections 1992 – United States Marshals engaged a fugitive in a shootout at Ruby Ridge , Idaho , beginning a twelve-day siege.Lots of self-published sources 1983 – Philippine opposition leader Benigno Aquino Jr. was assassinated moments after stepping off a plane at the Manila International Airport from his self-imposed exile in the United States.Aquino: unreferenced section (Ancestry); Assassination: unreferenced section, refimprove section 1993 – NASA lost contact with its Mars Observer spacecraft, three days before orbital insertion .unreferenced section 2007 – Hurricane Dean made landfall on the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico at Category 5 intensity, causing 45 deaths and US$1.5 billion in damage.figures are dubious; refer to the whole hurricane, rather than the Yucatan peninsula Zahir al-Umar |d|1775date of death uncertain, could be 21st or 22nd Jules Michelet |b|1798|peacock, underreffed section
Eligible1689 – Jacobite risings : Jacobite clans clashed with a regiment of Covenanters in the streets of Dunkeld , Scotland.1717 – Austro-Turkish War : Austrian troops under the command of Prince Eugene of Savoy captured the strategically important city of Belgrade from the Ottoman Empire .1789 – The national colours of Italy first appeared on a tricolour cockade in Genoa .1808 – Peninsular War : British–Portuguese forces put an end to the first French invasion of Portugal at the Battle of Vimeiro .1858 – The first of seven debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas (both pictured) , candidates for an Illinois seat in the U.S. Senate , was held in Ottawa, Illinois .1911 – Leonardo da Vinci 's Mona Lisa (pictured) was stolen from the Louvre by museum employee Vincenzo Peruggia and was not recovered until two years later.1942 – World War II : The Imperial Japanese Army lost the Battle of the Tenaru , the first of its three major land offensives during the Guadalcanal Campaign .1944 – World War II : A combined Canadian–Polish force captured the town of Falaise , France, in the final offensive of the Battle of Normandy .1963 – South Vietnamese special forces loyal to Ngô Đình Nhu , the brother of President Ngô Đình Diệm , raided and vandalised Buddhist pagodas across the country, arresting thousands and leaving hundreds dead.2015 – Passengers on a Thalys train from Amsterdam to Paris confronted and subdued an attacker who attempted a mass shooting.Born/died this day: | Baldwin II of Jerusalem |d|1131| Alphonse, Count of Poitiers |d|1271 John Claypole |b|1625| Lady Mary Wortley Montagu |d|1762| John MacCulloch |d|1835| Christopher Robin Milne |b|1920| Thomas S. Monson |b|1927| Art Farmer |b|1928| Stephen Hillenburg |b|1961| Sergey Brin |b|1973| Eve Torres |b|1984
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Rocket launcher from the Ghouta chemical attack