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The Amstel flowing through Amsterdam
Ineligible
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| and Turkmenistan (1991) | refimprove section |
| 1275 – The earliest recorded usage of the name "Amsterdam" was made on a certificate by Count Floris V of Holland that granted the inhabitants, who had built a bridge with a dam across the Amstel, an exemption from paying the bridge's tolls. | refimprove section |
| 1553 – Condemned as a heretic for preaching nontrinitarianism and anti-infant baptism, Michael Servetus was burned at the stake outside Geneva. | refimprove section |
| 1644 – English Civil War: the combined armies of Parliament inflicted a tactical defeat on the Royalists in the Second Battle of Newbury, but failed to gain any strategic advantage. | refimprove section |
| 1795 – The United States and Spain signed the Treaty of San Lorenzo, defining the boundaries of the United States with the Spanish colonies and guaranteeing the United States navigation rights on the Mississippi River. | refimprove |
| 1810 – The United States annexed West Florida, the western portion of the Spanish colony of Florida. | unreferenced section |
| 1907 – Hungarian gendarmes fired into a crowd of people gathering for the consecration of the local church in Csernova (now Ružomberok, Slovakia), killing fifteen people. | neutrality disputed |
| 1916 – Supporters of deposed Ethiopian Emperor-designate Lij Iyasu were defeated at the Battle of Segale, ending their attempt to restore him to the throne. | section needs footnotes |
| 1961 – NASA launched the first Saturn I rocket, the United States' first dedicated spacecraft designed specifically to launch loads into Earth orbit. | refimprove |
| 1967 – American Catholic priest Philip Berrigan led a protest against the Vietnam War by pouring blood over Selective Service records in Baltimore, Maryland. | lead too short |
| 1971 – The Democratic Republic of the Congo was renamed Zaire after a Portuguese mispronunciation of the Kikongo word nzere or nzadi, which translates to "the river that swallows all rivers" . | DRC: refimprove section; Zaire: needs more footnotes |
| 1981 – Cold War: Soviet Whiskey-class submarine U137} ran aground near Sweden's Karlskrona naval base (monument pictured), sparking an international incident termed "Whiskey on the rocks". | lots of CN tags |
| 2005 – The deaths of two Muslim youths in the Clichy-sous-Bois suburb of Paris triggered four months of rioting by mostly youths of North African origins in various parts of France. | refimprove section |
Eligible
- 1682 – William Penn landed at New Castle, Delaware Colony, on his way to founding the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
- 1838 – Governor Lilburn Boggs issued Missouri Executive Order 44, ordering all Mormons to leave the state or be killed.
- 1914 – World War I: The Royal Navy dreadnought HMS Audacious was sunk by a mine, but its loss was kept secret for four years.
- 1942 – World War II: The Imperial Japanese Navy won a Pyrrhic victory in the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands.
- 1946 – Inter-religious riots, in which Hindu mobs targeted Muslim families, began in the Indian state of Bihar, resulting in anywhere between 2,000 and 30,000 deaths.
- 1958 – General Ayub Khan deposed Iskander Mirza to become the second President of Pakistan.
- 1992 – U.S. Navy Petty Officer Allen R. Schindler Jr. was killed in Sasebo, Nagasaki, Japan, for being gay, which led to the U.S. Armed Forces' "Don't ask, don't tell" policy.
- 2004 – The Boston Red Sox completed a sweep of the St. Louis Cardinals to win the World Series, breaking the so-called "Curse of the Bambino".
- 2011 – Michael D. Higgins was elected President of Ireland with far more votes than any Irish politician in the history of the republic.
- 2014 – War in Afghanistan: The United Kingdom ceased all combat operations and withdrew the last of its troops.
- Born/died: Mary Sidney (b. 1561) · Gabriel Báthory (d. 1613) · Robert Hubert (d. 1666) · Oliver Leese (b. 1894) · Rex Shelley (b. 1930) · Judy LaMarsh (d. 1980) · Zoya Phan (b. 1980)
Notes
- Lij Iyasu of Ethiopia appears on September 27, so Battle of Segale should not appear in the same year
October 27: Independence Day in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (1979)
- 1662 – King Charles II of England sold Dunkirk to King Louis XIV of France.
- 1870 – Franco-Prussian War: The French Army of the Rhine under François Bazaine was forced to surrender after a nine-week siege of the fortifications of Metz.
- 1904 – The first underground segment of the New York City Subway opened, connecting New York City Hall (station pictured) with Harlem.
- 1944 – World War II: German forces captured Banská Bystrica, the center of anti-Nazi opposition in Slovakia, bringing the Slovak National Uprising to an end.
- 1999 – Armed men led by Nairi Hunanyan attacked the National Assembly of Armenia, killing Prime Minister Vazgen Sargsyan, President of the National Assembly Karen Demirchyan, and six others.
Lope de Aguirre (d. 1561) · Nancy Storace (b. 1765) · Pumpsie Green (b. 1933)