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Navy Day in India | refimprove |
771 – Austrasian King Carloman I died, leaving his brother Charlemagne king of the now complete Frankish Kingdom. | unreferenced section |
1676 – Scanian War: Forces led by Swedish Field Marshal Simon Grundel-Helmfelt defeated the invading army of Denmark–Norway under the command of King Christian V in an area north of Lund, Sweden. | needs more footnotes |
1791 – Britain's The Observer, the world's first Sunday newspaper, was first published. | refimprove |
1918 – US President Woodrow Wilson sailed for the World War I peace talks in Versailles, becoming the first US president to travel to Europe while in office. | fact not in article |
1937 – The first issue of The Dandy, the world's longest-running children's comic book, was published. | refimprove |
1956 – Singers Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, and Elvis Presley, collectively called the "Million Dollar Quartet", recorded an impromptu jam session in the Sun Record Studios in Memphis, Tennessee. | refimprove |
1977 – Jean-Bédel Bokassa, the President of the Central African Republic, had himself crowned as Emperor Bokassa I. | refimprove section, unreferenced section |
1991 – Journalist Terry Anderson, the last and longest-held American hostage in Lebanon, was released after seven years in captivity. | refimprove |
1991 – Pan American World Airways, which was the principal international airline of the United States and which was credited with many innovations, ended operations. | ((prose)) |
Maerten de Vos (d. 1603) · Jesse Burkett (b. 1868) · Benjamin Britten (d. 1976)