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Arnold Schwarzenegger
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Bartolomeo d'Alviano
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Don John of Austria
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Hua Guofeng
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Model T production at the Highland Park Ford Plant
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Iskander Mirza
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Ezra Cornell
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Edgar Allan Poe
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Mindon Min
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Anna Politkovskaya
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Anna Politkovskaya
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| Blurb | Reason |
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| Feast day of St. Osyth | needs more footnotes |
| 1542 – Spanish explorer Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo became the first European to set foot on Santa Catalina Island, off the coast of California. | orange unreferenced section banner |
| 1691 – The North American crown colony Province of Massachusetts Bay received its royal charter from King William and Queen Mary. | unreferenced section |
| 1868 – Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, was established, with an initial enrollment of 412 men the next day. | Too much uncited |
| 1912 – The Helsinki Stock Exchange, located in Helsinki, Finland, saw its first transaction. | refimprove |
| 1913 – The Highland Park Ford Plant in the Detroit area of Michigan became the world's first car factory to implement a moving assembly line (pictured), eventually reducing [[Ford Model T|Ford Template:Nowrap]] production time from Template:Nowrap to Template:Nowrap. | many cn tags |
| 1919 – KLM, the Dutch flag-carrier airline, was founded by Albert Plesman and seven others. | inappropriate tone |
| 1933 – Five French airline companies merged to form Air France. | refimprove section, date not cited |
| 1949 – East Berlin and the Soviet zone of Occupied Germany became the German Democratic Republic. | refimprove section |
| 1958 – Attempting to control the political instability in Pakistan, President Iskander Mirza suspended the 1956 constitution, imposed martial law, and dissolved the National Assembly. | unreferenced section |
| 1959 – Soviet spacecraft [[Luna 3|Template:Nowrap]] captured the first photographs of the far side of the Moon. | refimprove |
| 1976 – Hua Guofeng succeeded Mao Zedong as Chairman of the Communist Party of China. | refimprove sections |
| 1985 – The Mediterranean ocean liner Template:Ship was hijacked by Palestine Liberation Front terrorists while sailing from Alexandria to Port Said within Egypt. | refimprove |
| 1993 – The Great Mississippi and Missouri Rivers Flood came to an end after 103 days, as the Mississippi River at St. Louis finally dropped below flood stage. | refimprove section |
| 2001 – War on Terrorism: The War in Afghanistan began with an aerial bombing campaign targeting Taliban and Al-Qaeda forces. | War: section needs rewrite; Invasion: refimprove section |
| 2003 – Californians voted to recall governor Gray Davis from office and elected Arnold Schwarzenegger from a list of 135 candidates. | refimprove section |
| Charles the Simple |d|929 | lots of CN tags (8) |
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- 1763 – King George III issued a royal proclamation that forbade British settlement of much of newly acquired French territory in North America, reserving the land for indigenous peoples.
- 1849 – American writer Edgar Allan Poe died under mysterious circumstances at Washington Medical College four days after being found on the streets of Baltimore, Maryland, in a delirious and incoherent state.
- 1914 – Japan captured Pohnpei from Germany, eventually leading to large-scale Japanese immigration to Micronesia.
- 1944 – The Holocaust: Sonderkommando work-unit members in Auschwitz concentration camp revolted upon learning that they were due to be killed; although a few managed to escape, most were massacred on the same day.
- 2006 – Anna Politkovskaya (pictured), a Russian journalist and human-rights activist, was assassinated in the elevator of her apartment block in Moscow.
- 1571 – Ottoman–Habsburg wars: The Battle of Lepanto was fought near the Gulf of Corinth, a significant setback for the Ottoman Empire and the last major naval battle fought entirely with galleys.
- 1800 – The French privateer Robert Surcouf led a 150-man crew to capture the 40-gun, 437-man East Indiaman Kent.
- 1840 – William II became King of the Netherlands after his father William I abdicated the throne.
- 1878 – The state funeral of Mindon Min (pictured), who ruled Myanmar for 25 years, took place; his death was reportedly preceded by strange omens, and his senior princes were unable to attend as they had all been arrested.
- 1916 – Georgia Tech defeated Cumberland University Template:Nowrap in the most lopsided college football game in American history.
- 1988 – Near Point Barrow in Alaska, an Iñupiat hunter discovered three gray whales trapped in pack ice, which resulted in an international effort to free them.
- 1991 – Croatian War of Independence: The Yugoslav People's Army conducted an air strike on Banski Dvori, the official residence of the president of Croatia in Zagreb.
- 2008 – [[2008 TC3|Template:Mp]] exploded above the Nubian Desert in Sudan, in the first time that an asteroid impact had been predicted prior to atmospheric entry.
- 2023 – Palestinian nationalist groups launched armed incursions into the Gaza envelope, starting the Gaza war.
- Born/died: | Pierre Le Muet |b|1591| Guru Gobind Singh |d|1708| Charles XIII |b|1748| Uncle Dave Macon |b|1870| Harold Geiger |b|1884| Masumi Mitsui|d|1887| Marie Lloyd |d|1922| Mariano Gagnon |b|1929| Amiri Baraka |b|1934| Helmut Lent |d|1944| Michael W. Smith |b|1957| Bernardo Arévalo |b|1958| Ha-Joon Chang |b|1963| Michelle Alexander |b|1967| Thom Yorke |b|1968| Charlotte Perrelli |b|1974| Beatrice Hutton |d|1990| Ramiz Alia |d|2011|
Notes
- Edgar Allan Poe appears on January 19 (his birthday), so his death should not appear in the same year
- Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo appears on September 28, so Santa Catalina Island should not appear in the same year
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- 1513 – War of the League of Cambrai: A Venetian army under Bartolomeo d'Alviano was decisively defeated by the Spanish army commanded by Ramón de Cardona and Fernando d'Ávalos.
- 1780 – American Revolutionary War: Patriots and Loyalist militias engaged each other at the Battle of Kings Mountain in South Carolina.
- 1868 – Ōdate, the last castle of the Satake clan in Japan's Tōhoku region, was captured during the Boshin War.
- 1985 – During severe floods in Puerto Rico, about 130 people died as a result of the deadliest single landslide (pictured) on record in North America.
- 2023 – The military wing of the Palestinian nationalist Islamist political organization Hamas massacred people attending an open-air music festival in southern Israel.