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Carlos Álvarez
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Carlos Álvarez
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Mohamed Anwar el-Sadat
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Anwar Sadat
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Egyptian forces crossing the Suez Canal
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Eleftherios Venizelos
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The Jazz Singer theatrical poster
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Rembrandt crater
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Lluís Companys
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| 105 BC – The Cimbri and the Teutons inflicted a major defeat on the Roman Republic in the Battle of Arausio. | needs more footnotes |
| 69 BC – Third Mithridatic War: Roman Republican forces captured the Armenian capital city of Tigranocerta. | ancient primary sources |
| 1683 – German immigrants to the Pennsylvania Colony founded Germantown, the first permanent German settlement in North America. | both: refimprove section |
| 1849 – In Arad, present-day Romania, 13 Hungarian rebel honvéd generals who became known as the 13 Martyrs of Arad were executed by Austrian authorities for their part in the Hungarian Revolution. | refimprove |
| 1854 – The Great fire of Newcastle and Gateshead in North East England began, destroying a substantial amount of property, killing over 50 people, and injuring hundreds of others. | needs more footnotes |
| 1910 – Eleftherios Venizelos was elected Prime Minister of Greece for the first of his seven non-consecutive terms. | lots of CN tags (30) |
| 1913 – Francis Burton Harrison became governor general of the Philippines; during his tenure he oversaw the transfer of authority from the United States to Filipinos. | refimprove |
| 1976 – Chinese Premier Hua Guofeng ordered the arrest of the Gang of Four and their associates, putting an end to the Cultural Revolution. | refimprove section |
| 1976 – A violent crackdown by Thai military and police units on protestors at Thammasat University and at Sanam Luang in Bangkok led to 46 deaths, and a coup against the government of Prime Minister Seni Pramoj. | refimprove section |
| 2010 – The first version of the Instagram mobile application was released for iOS devices. | Orange "update needed" banner |
| Elisabeth of France |d|1644| | Too much uncited |
| Francesco Manfredini |d|1762| | Uncited material |
| Karol Szymanowski |b|1882| | Uncited material |
| Meghnad Saha |b|1893| | Birthday not cited |
| Goh Keng Swee |b|1918| | Several consecutive uncited paragraphs |
| Albert M. Todd |d|1931| | Deathday not cited |
| Eddie Van Halen |d|2020| | Orange "facts disputed" template |
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- 618 – Transition from Sui to Tang: Wang Shichong's army defeated Li Mi's forces at the Battle of Yanshi, allowing Wang to consolidate power and soon depose China's Sui dynasty.
- 1908 – Austria-Hungary announced the annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, causing a crisis that permanently damaged the country's relations with the Russian Empire and the Kingdom of Serbia.
- 1927 – The Jazz Singer, one of the first feature-length motion pictures with a synchronized recorded music score, was released.
- 1934 – Catalonia's autonomous government, led by Lluís Companys (pictured), declared a general strike, an armed insurgency, and the establishment of the Catalan State in reaction to the inclusion of conservatives in the Spanish republican regime.
- 1973 – Egyptian forces crossed the Suez Canal (pictured) to attack occupying Israeli forces at the Bar Lev Line, starting the Yom Kippur War.
- 1976 – Two bombs placed by the CIA-linked Cuban dissident group Coordination of United Revolutionary Organizations exploded on Cubana Flight 455, killing all 73 people aboard.
- 1981 – Egyptian president Anwar Sadat (pictured) was assassinated while attending a parade in Cairo to mark the eighth anniversary of the Crossing of the Bar Lev Line at the start of the 1973 Arab-Israeli War.
- 1989 – About 200 members of the San Francisco Police Department instigated a police riot in the Castro following a peaceful protest held by the political group ACT UP.
- 1998 – Matthew Shepard, a gay college student, was attacked and fatally wounded near Laramie, Wyoming, U.S., dying six days later.
- 2002 – Al-Qaeda bombed the oil tanker Limburg, causing oil to leak into the Gulf of Aden.
- 2008 – The MESSENGER probe discovered Mercury's Rembrandt (pictured) – the second largest impact crater on the planet.
- Born/died: | Nicetas the Patrician |d|836| Samuel of Bulgaria |d|1014|Wenceslaus III of Bohemia |b|1289| Matteo Ricci |b|1552| Guru Har Rai |d|1661| John Cameron |b|1846| Gaston Cros |b|1861| Sadiq al-Ahmar |b|1956| Barbie Hsu |b|1976| Kevin Diks |b|1996| Babasaheb Bhosale |d|2007|
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- 1762 – Seven Years' War: The Battle of Manila concluded with a British victory over Spain, leading to a twenty-month occupation.
- 1777 – American Revolutionary War: Fort Clinton and Fort Montgomery were captured by British forces under Sir Henry Clinton, dismantling the Hudson River Chains.
- 1985 – Police constable Keith Blakelock was killed during rioting in the Broadwater Farm housing estate in Tottenham, London.
- 1995 – Astronomers Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz reported the discovery of a planet orbiting Template:Nowrap (depicted) as the first known exoplanet around a main-sequence star.
- 2000 – Denouncing corruption in Argentine president Fernando de la Rúa's administration and the Senate, Vice President Carlos Álvarez resigned.