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President Kennedy's speech
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| Blurb | Reason |
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| {{<!--If next year is a leap year-->#ifexpr:{{IsLeapYear| {{CURRENTYEAR}} +1}}|New Year's Day in the Coptic and the Ethiopian calendars (2024);}} | Coptic: refimprove; Ethiopian: no footnotes |
| 1609 – While sailing aboard the Halve Maen, Englishman Henry Hudson began his exploration of the Hudson River, laying the foundation for Dutch colonization of present-day New York. | refimprove section |
| 1683 – Great Turkish War: Polish troops led by John III Sobieski joined forces with a Habsburg army to defeat the Ottoman Empire at the Battle of Vienna. | refimprove section |
| 1814 – War of 1812: Although the Maryland Militia lost the Battle of North Point, they delayed the British advance against Baltimore, buying time for the defense of the city. | refimprove |
| 1848 – Switzerland became a federal state with the adoption of the Swiss Federal Constitution. | Lots of cn |
| 1940 – Four teenagers discovered the Lascaux caves near Montignac, in the Dordogne département of France, containing cave paintings that are estimated to be 17,300 years old. | unreferenced section |
| 1963 – The Roman Hinton St Mary Mosaic, containing a likely fourth-century depiction of Jesus, was discovered. | refimprove |
| 1974 – Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia was deposed by the Derg, a military junta. | refimprove section |
| 1980 – The Turkish Armed Forces ousted prime minister Süleyman Demirel and ruled the country for three years before democracy was restored. | unreferenced section |
| 1990 – The Two Plus Four Agreement was signed in Moscow, paving the way for German reunification. | unreferenced section |
| 1992 – Abimael Guzmán, leader of the Peruvian Maoist guerrilla organization Shining Path, was captured in Lima. | refimprove section |
| 2007 – Former Philippine president Joseph Estrada was convicted of plunder and sentenced to reclusión perpetua. | unreferenced section, refimprove section |
| Peter Scheemakers |d|1781 | refimprove section |
| George Reid |d|1918| | Prime Ministerial tenure is empty and has no sources |
| Atef Ebeid |d|2014 | Only one sentence on being prime minister |
Eligible
- 1309 – Reconquista: Castilian forces captured Gibraltar from the Emirate of Granada.
- 1910 – Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 8, one of the largest-scale choral works in the classical concert repertoire and popularly known as the "Symphony of a Thousand", was first performed in Munich (1916 performers pictured).
- 1928 – The Okeechobee hurricane first struck the island of Guadeloupe; eventually it reached the United States and caused over 4,000 deaths overall.
- 1942 – RMS Laconia was sunk by a U-boat off the coast of West Africa, which then attempted to rescue the passengers as it was acting under the old prize rules.
- 1942 – World War II: The Imperial Japanese Army began the Battle of Edson's Ridge in an effort to retake Henderson Field on Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands from the Allies.
- 1952 – Three boys in Flatwoods, West Virginia, U.S., reported seeing a ten-foot-tall (3 m) monster in the woods while investigating a UFO.
- 1962 – In a speech at Rice Stadium in Houston, U.S. president John F. Kennedy reiterated an aspiration to land a man on the Moon before 1970.
- 1977 – South African anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko died after being beaten in police custody in Port Elizabeth.
- 1983 – The clandestine Boricua Popular Army staged a bank robbery in West Hartford, Connecticut, making off with $7 million in the largest cash theft in U.S. history at the time.
- 1992 – Aboard Space Shuttle Endeavour, American Mae Jemison became the first Black woman to travel to space.
- 2003 – Typhoon Maemi, the strongest recorded typhoon to strike South Korea, made landfall near Busan.
- 2003 – The first public release of Steam, a distribution service for computer games, was made available for download.
- 2008 – A Metrolink train collided head-on with a freight train in Los Angeles, California, resulting in 25 deaths and 135 injuries; the Metrolink driver had passed through a red signal, having likely been distracted by text messaging.
- 2015 – An explosion involving illegally stored mining detonators in Petlawad, India, killed 104 people and injured more than 150 others.
- Born/died this day: |Andronikos I Komnenos |d|1185| Mary Bosanquet Fletcher |b|1739| Philip Francis Thomas |b|1810| Carl Eytel |b|1862| Grace Macurdy |b|1866| Peter Mark Roget |b|1869| Fitz Hugh Ludlow |d|1870| Irène Joliot-Curie |b|1897| Walter Woon|b|1956| Tarana Burke |b|1973| Raymond Burr |d|1993| Leslie Cheung |d|2003 | Bengt Feldreich |b|1925
Notes
- Battle of Baltimore appears on September 13, so Battle of North Point should not appear in the same year
Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning
- 379 – Yax Nuun Ahiin I took the throne as the ruler (ajaw) of the Mayan city of Tikal.
- 1846 – The English poets Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning (both pictured) married in secret to avoid their disapproving families before moving to Italy.
- 1933 – Hungarian-American physicist Leo Szilard conceived of the idea of the nuclear chain reaction while waiting for a traffic light in Bloomsbury, London.
- 1948 – The People's Liberation Army launched the Liaoshen campaign, the first of the three major military campaigns during the late stage of the Chinese Civil War.
- 1995 – Hurricane Ismael formed off the southwest coast of Mexico; it went on to kill over a hundred people in the country.
- Parsley Peel (d. 1795)
- Alice Ayres (b. 1859)
- Ion Agârbiceanu (b. 1882)
- Steve Biko (d. 1977)
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