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Bernard Baruch
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| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| ; Emancipation Day in Washington, D.C. | DC is only a small part of the article; it doesn't seem right to feature this |
| Queen Margrethe II's birthday in Denmark | unreferenced section (Ancestry) |
| Feast day of Saint Bernadette Soubirous (Catholicism) | too many citations needed |
| 1582 – Spanish conquistador Hernando de Lerma founded the settlement of Salta in Argentina. | refimprove |
| 1746 – Forces of the House of Hanover defeated the Jacobites at the Battle of Culloden, the final confrontation of the Jacobite Rising. | refimprove section |
| 1818 – The United States Senate ratified the Rush–Bagot Treaty, which laid the basis for a demilitarized boundary between the U.S. and British North America. | refimprove section |
| 1853 – The first passenger train of the Great Indian Peninsula Railway, a predecessor of the modern-day Indian Railways, travelled from Bombay to Tanna. | Unreferenced section |
| 1881 – Famed lawman Bat Masterson of the American Old West engaged in his last gun battle before later becoming a journalist. | many CN tags (16); trivial pop culture |
| 1925 – A group of Bulgarian Communist Party members assaulted the St Nedelya Church in Sofia, Bulgaria, during the funeral service of General Konstantin Georgiev, killing 150 people and injuring about 500 others. | refimprove |
| 1941 – World War II: After the Axis invasion of Yugoslavia ten days earlier, Ante Pavelić declared a new government in Croatia to be led by the fascist Ustashe. | section missing summary |
| 1945 – World War II: Nearly one million Soviet soldiers began the Battle of the Seelow Heights against the "Gates of Berlin". | refimprove section |
| 1947 – Thousands of tons of ammonium nitrate in the port of Texas City, Texas, exploded, killing 581 people, which later led to the first ever class action lawsuit against the U.S. government. | refimprove |
| 1947 – American financier and presidential adviser Bernard Baruch first described the post–World War II tensions between the Soviet Union and the United States as a "cold war". | multiple issues |
| * 1948 – The OECD, an intergovernmental economic organisation, was founded as the Organisation for European Economic Co-operation to help administer the Marshall Plan. | Lack of referencing |
| 2003 – The Treaty of Accession was signed in Athens, admitting ten new member states into the European Union, including several countries of the former Eastern Bloc. | no footnotes |
| Easter (Eastern Christianity, 2023); | 12 citation needed tags and uncited section tag |
| Divine Mercy Sunday (Catholicism, 2023) | Orange tagged for notability |
| * 1917 – Vladimir Lenin returned to Petrograd from Switzerland, where he joined the Bolshevik movement in Russia. | Date not in article |
Eligible
- 1799 – French Revolutionary Wars: Severely outnumbered French forces repulsed an Ottoman attack at the Battle of Mount Tabor in present-day Israel.
- 1912 – American pilot Harriet Quimby (pictured) became the first woman to fly across the English Channel.
- 1917 – World War I: Several French army corps began a massive assault against the German-occupied Chemin des Dames ridge, south of Laon, France.
- 1919 – Polish–Soviet War: The Polish army launched the Vilna offensive to capture Vilnius (now in Lithuania) from the Red Army.
- 1963 – In response to an open letter written by white clergymen, Martin Luther King Jr. wrote the Letter from Birmingham Jail in defence of the strategy of nonviolent resistance against racism.
- 2001 – India and Bangladesh began a six-day conflict over their disputed border, which ended in a stalemate.
- 2007 – In one of the deadliest shooting incidents in United States history, a gunman killed 32 people and wounded over 20 more before committing suicide at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, Virginia (memorial pictured).
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MV Sewol
- 1520 – A revolt of citizens in Toledo, Castile, opposed to the rule of the foreign-born Charles I began when the royal government attempted to unseat radical city councilors.
- 1862 – Slavery in Washington, D.C., ended when the District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act became law.
- 1945 – Second World War: British and Canadian forces concluded the Liberation of Arnhem in the Netherlands from German occupation.
- 1948 – The Organisation for European Economic Co-operation, headquartered in Paris, was founded.
- 2014 – The ferry MV Sewol (pictured) capsized and sank off Donggeochado, South Korea, killing 306 people, mainly students from Danwon High School.
- Frederick I, Duke of Austria (d. 1198)
- Molly Brant (d. 1796)
- Ponnambalam Ramanathan (b. 1851)