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King Kamehameha I Day in Hawaii; | needs more footnotes |
806 – The army of the Abbasid Caliphate departed Raqqa in Northern Syria to begin an invasion of Byzantine regions of Asia Minor. | TFA for 2020-04-17 |
1429 – Hundred Years' War: Joan of Arc's first offensive battle, the Battle of Jargeau, began. | no footnotes |
1770 – The HMS Endeavour, carrying English explorer James Cook, ran aground on the Great Barrier Reef, sustaining considerable damage. | refimprove section, original research |
1892 – The Salvation Army's Limelight Department, one of the world's earliest film studios, was officially established in Melbourne, Australia. | no footnotes |
1937 – Marshal Mikhail Tukhachevsky and several senior officers of the Soviet Red Army were convicted for belonging to a Trotskyist organization in a secret trial during the Great Purge. | refimprove |
1938 – The Battle of Wuhan began, lasting four and a half months, the longest and largest battle of the entire Second Sino-Japanese War. | refimprove section |
1956 – The six-day Gal Oya riots, the first ethnic riots targeting the minority Sri Lankan Tamils in post-independent Sri Lanka, began, eventually resulting in the deaths of at least 150 people and 100 injuries. | sparsely referenced |
1972 – An excursion train derailed on a sharp curve at Eltham Well Hall station in Eltham, London, killing 6 people and injuring 126 others. | needs more footnotes |
1978 – A group of Urdu-speaking students led by Altaf Hussain founded the All Pakistan Muttahidda Students Organization political student organisation, a forerunner to the Muttahida Qaumi Movement, at the University of Karachi. | refimprove |
Klemens von Metternich (d. 1859) | unreferenced section (Ancestry) |
Gene Wilder (b. 1933) | refimprove section |
June 11: Feast of Corpus Christi (Western Christianity, 2020)