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Emperor Ferdinand II
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William Reynolds
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Flag of the Republic of San Marco
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Cover of Scientific American
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Cover of Scientific American
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2015 production of Lohengrin
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Ryugyong Hotel
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Ida and its moon Dactyl
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Martin Luther King Jr. giving his "I Have a Dream" speech
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SMS Mainz (background) shortly before sinking in the Battle of Heligoland Bight
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| Blurb | Reason |
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| Feast of the Assumption (Julian calendar); | refimprove section |
| Feast of Dormition (Julian calendar) | refimprove section |
| 1413 – The University of St Andrews, the third-oldest university in the English-speaking world, was founded when Antipope Benedict XIII issued a papal bull to a small founding group of Augustinian clergy. | Uncited statements |
| 1565 – Pedro Menéndez de Avilés founded St. Augustine in Spanish Florida, the oldest continually occupied European settlement in the continental United States. | refimprove sections |
| 1845 – The first issue of the popular science magazine Scientific American, currently the oldest continuously published magazine in the United States, was published. | unreferenced section |
| 1849 – Austria reconquered the Republic of San Marco, an Italian revolutionary state that had declared its independence 17 months earlier. | refimprove |
| 1850 – German composer Richard Wagner's romantic opera Lohengrin, containing the Bridal Chorus, was first performed under the direction of Franz Liszt in Weimar, Germany. | refimprove |
| 1861 – American Civil War: The Union Army successfully extended its blockage strategy by capturing two Confederate forts on North Carolina's Outer Banks. | unreferenced section |
| 1867 – Captain William Reynolds of the Template:USS formally took possession of Midway Atoll for the United States. | refimprove section |
| 1901 – Silliman University in Dumaguete, Philippines, was founded as the first American educational institution in Asia. | Referencing issues |
| 1924 – An unsuccessful insurrection against Soviet rule in the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, known as the August Uprising, began. | date not cited |
| 1937 – Toyota Motors, now the world's largest automobile manufacturer, was spun off from Toyota Industries as an independent company. | no tag, but lots of paragraphs without citations |
| 1941 – The Volga German ASSR was abolished as part of the mass deportation of Soviet Germans. | Too many uncited statements |
| 1957 – Strom Thurmond began a filibuster against the Civil Rights Act of 1957 that lasted for Template:Nowrap and Template:Nowrap, the longest one ever by a single U.S. Senator. | refimprove section |
| 1963 – Two young women were murdered in New York City; the mistreatment of the suspect by the police and his forced confession led New York to abolish its death penalty. | refimprove section |
| 1963 – The Evergreen Point Floating Bridge, at the time the world's longest floating bridge, opened across Lake Washington in Washington, U.S. | lots of citations needed (5) and a refimprove section |
| 1988 – During an air show at the Ramstein U.S. Air Force Base near Kaiserslautern, West Germany, three aircraft of the Italian Frecce Tricolori demonstration team collided and fell into the crowd, killing all three pilots and 67 spectators. | unreferenced section |
| Sheridan Le Fanu |b|1814 | Unreferenced material |
| Edward Burne-Jones |b|1833| | unreferenced section |
| Shania Twain |b|1965| | Lots unsourced |
| Shulamith Firestone |d|2012 | Lots unsourced |
Eligible
- 1542 – Ottoman–Portuguese conflicts: During the Battle of Wofla, the Portuguese commander Cristóvão da Gama was captured by the Adal Sultanate and executed the next day.
- 1619 – Ferdinand II, King of Bohemia and Hungary, was unanimously elected Holy Roman Emperor.
- 1640 – Bishops' Wars: Scottish Covenanter forces led by Alexander Leslie defeated the English army near Newburn, England.
- 1789 – William Herschel discovered Enceladus, a moon of Saturn, during the first use of his new telescope which was then the largest in the world.
- 1909 – The 1909 Monterrey hurricane dissipated; one of the deadliest Atlantic tropical cyclones on record, it killed an estimated 4,000 people throughout Mexico.
- 1916 – A confrontation at Blargies prison camp in France led to a charge of mutiny for New Zealand private John Braithwaite, for which he was later executed.
- 1963 – American civil-rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. delivered the speech "I Have a Dream" during the March on Washington, calling for civil and economic rights and an end to racism in the United States.
- 1987 – Construction began on the Ryugyong Hotel (pictured) in Pyongyang, the tallest building in North Korea.
- 1993 – The NASA spacecraft Galileo flew by the asteroid 243 Ida and took photographs that later revealed the first known asteroid moon (both pictured).
- 2021 - The second phase of the Thomson-East Coast MRT line was opened for service.
- 2022 - A mass shooting took place in Phoenix, Arizona, leaving 33 dead and five others injured.
- Born/died this day: | He Gui |d|919| Emperor Go-Reizei |b|1025| Johannes Banfi Hunyades |d|1646| Adam Philippe, Comte de Custine |d|1793| Frederick William von Kleist |d|1767| Jean Baptiste Point du Sable |d|1818| Edward Dando |d|1832| Vittorio Sella |b|1859| C. Doris Hellman |b|1910| Lindsay Hassett |b|1913| Jack Kirby |b|1917| Katharine Abraham |b|1954| Jamie Cureton |b|1975| Thiago Motta |b|1982| Lasith Malinga |b|1983| Sora Amamiya |b|1993
Notes
- Second Battle of Bull Run appears on August 30, so 1861 battle should not appear in the same year
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- 475 – Orestes took control of Ravenna, the capital of the Western Roman Empire, forcing Emperor Julius Nepos to flee.
- 1830 – Tom Thumb (replica pictured), the first American-built steam locomotive, took part in an impromptu race against a horse-drawn car in Maryland.
- 1950 – American tennis player Althea Gibson became the first African-American woman to compete at the U.S. National Championships.
- 1955 – African-American teenager Emmett Till was lynched near Money, Mississippi, for allegedly flirting with a white woman, energizing the nascent American civil rights movement.
- 1973 – Swedish police used gas bombs to end a seven-day hostage situation in Stockholm; the hostages had bonded with their captors during the incident, leading to the term Stockholm syndrome.