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624 – Led by Muhammad, the Muslims of Medina defeated the Quraysh of Mecca in Badr, present-day Saudi Arabia. | refimprove section |
874 – The remains of Saint Nicephorus were brought back to Constantinople to be interred at the Church of the Holy Apostles. | refimprove |
1639 – Harvard College in Cambridge, Massachusetts, was named after its first principal donor, clergyman John Harvard. | Citations needed |
1845 – German composer Felix Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto, one of the most popular violin concertos of all time, received its world première in Leipzig. | refimprove section |
1881 – Tsar Alexander II of Russia was assassinated near his palace in a bomb-throwing plot by Ignacy Hryniewiecki and three other revolutionaries. | unreferenced section (Ancestry) |
1884 – Mahdist War: Forces loyal to self-proclaimed Mahdi Muhammad Ahmad began a 319-day siege of a combined Anglo-Egyptian force defending Khartoum, Sudan. | refimprove |
1954 – Việt Minh forces under General Võ Nguyên Giáp began a massive artillery bombardment on the French military, beginning the Battle of Dien Bien Phu, the climactic battle of the First Indochina War. | Citation needed for date |
1962 – Lyman Lemnitzer, the Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, presented to the Secretary of Defense a false flag conspiracy plan, Operation Northwoods, intended to create public support for a war against Fidel Castro and Cuba. | Too much uncited |
1997 – A series of unexplained lights appeared in the skies over the US states of Arizona and New Mexico, and the Mexican state of Sonora. | refimprove |
Odette Hallowes |d|1995 | refimprove section |
Hee Seo|b|1986 | birth date failed verification |
Benjamin Mountfort |b|1825| | Citation needed |