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A manuscript discovered at Dunhuang
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Digitization of a Dunhuang manuscript
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1978 rainbow flag
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George Armstrong Custer
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Igor Stravinsky
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Indira Gandhi
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British soldiers evacuating from France
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Rainbow flag for LGBT pride
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Royal Air Force personnel being evacuated from Brest, France
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CIA diagram of Area 51
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| ; Independence Day in Mozambique (1975) | unreferenced section |
| ; Statehood Day in Slovenia (1991) | stub |
| 1530 – The Augsburg Confession, the primary confession of faith of the Lutheran Church, was presented to the [[Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor|Template:Nowrap, Holy Roman Emperor]], at the Diet of Augsburg. | needs more footnotes |
| 1876 – Black Hills War: United States Army Colonel George Armstrong Custer was killed at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in present-day Big Horn County, Montana. | Custer: refimprove section; Battle: refimprove section |
| 1900 – A Taoist monk discovered the Dunhuang manuscripts, a cache of documents from the 5th to 11th centuries, in the Mogao Caves of Dunhuang, China. | refimprove section |
| 1910 – The Firebird, the first major work by Russian composer Igor Stravinsky, made its premiere in Paris. | unreferenced section |
| 1938 – Douglas Hyde became the first President of Ireland after the office was established by the Constitution of Ireland in 1937. | refimprove section, unreferenced section |
| 1944 – World War II: The Battle of Tali-Ihantala, the largest battle ever fought in the Nordic Countries, began in the Karelian Isthmus of Finland. | refimprove sections |
| 1975 – Citing threats to national security, Indian prime minister Indira Gandhi unilaterally had a state of emergency declared across the nation that lasted nearly two years. | refimprove sections |
| 1993 – Kim Campbell became the first female Prime Minister of Canada. | refimprove section |
| 1996 – The Khobar Towers bombing in Khobar, Saudi Arabia, left 19 American servicemen and one Saudi dead and 372 of many nationalities wounded. | refimprove section |
| 1998 – The Supreme Court of the United States delivered its decision in Clinton v. City of New York, ruling that the line-item veto as granted in the Line Item Veto Act of 1996 violated the Constitution. | refimprove section |
| 2013 – Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani became the eighth Emir of Qatar. | unreferenced section (Ancestry) |
| Æthelstan Ætheling |d|1014 | death date not referenced (and also might be a different year); plus a cite needed and no lede |
| Crystal Eastman |b|1881 | POTD for 2022 |
| Alan Plater |d|2010 | inadequate lead; refimprove section |
| * 1678 – Venetian philosopher Elena Cornaro Piscopia became the first woman to receive a Doctor of Philosophy degree. | Large parts uncited |
| * 2006 – Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit was captured in a cross-border raid near the Kerem Shalom crossing with the Gaza Strip, and held hostage by Hamas until 2011. | 15 citation needed tags |
| Niels, King of Denmark |d|1134| | Death not cited |
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- 1940 – Second World War: Operation Aerial, an evacuation of nearly 200,000 Allied soldiers from French ports, was completed.
- 1950 – The United Nations Security Council passed Resolution 82 condemning the North Korean invasion of South Korea.
- 1950 – The Korean War began with North Korean forces launching a pre-dawn raid over the 38th parallel into South Korea.
- 1960 – Two cryptographers working for the U.S. National Security Agency left on vacation to Mexico, and proceeded to defect to the Soviet Union.
- 1967 – More than an estimated 400 million people viewed Our World, the first live international satellite television production.
- 2013 – In response to a Freedom of Information Act request, the CIA acknowledged the existence of Area 51, a secretive U.S. Air Force facility in Nevada and a subject of various UFO, and other, conspiracy theories.
- 2022 – Russian invasion of Ukraine: Russian forces captured the city of Sievierodonetsk, Ukraine, after six weeks of fighting.
- Born/died: | Girolamo Corner|b|1632| Giovanni Battista Riccioli|d|1671| David Douglas |b|1799| Ebenezer Pemberton |d|1835| Eloísa Díaz|b|1866| William Harrison Anderson |b|1870| Rose O'Neill|b|1874| Henry H. Arnold|b|1886| Louis Mountbatten |b|1900| George Orwell |b|1903| Margaret Anstee |b|1926| Raymond Leane |d|1962| George Michael|b|1963| Michel Foucault |d|1984| Scott Brown|b|1985| Ernest Walton|d|1995| Mckenna Grace|b|2006| Farrah Fawcett|d|2009| Michael Jackson|d|2009
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- 1658 – Anglo-Spanish War: The largest battle ever fought on Jamaica, the three-day Battle of Rio Nuevo, began.
- 1910 – The United States Congress passed the Mann Act, which prohibited the interstate transport of females for "immoral purposes".
- 1944 – World War II: U.S. Navy and Royal Navy ships bombarded Cherbourg, France, to support U.S. Army units engaged in the Battle of Cherbourg.
- 1978 – The rainbow flag (original version pictured) representing gay pride was first flown at the San Francisco Gay Freedom Day parade.
- 2009 – Singer Michael Jackson died as a result of the combination of drugs in his body.