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Hōnen Matsuri in Japan | essentially unreferenced stub |
; National Day in Hungary (1848) | inappropriate tone |
933 – Franks led by German king Henry I defeated an invading Hungarian army in the Battle of Riade in northern Thuringia. | refimprove section |
1147 – Portuguese troops under the leadership of Afonso I captured the Moorish city of Santarém. | general quality |
1781 – American Revolutionary War: A British force under General Lord Cornwallis, numbering 1,900, fought 4,400 American troops under Rhode Island native General Nathanael Greene at the Battle of Guilford Court House inside present-day Greensboro, North Carolina. | unreferenced sections |
1877 – Cricketers representing England and Australia began the first match in Test cricket at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. | more footnotes, English cricket team in Australia and New Zealand in 1876–77 article is tagged with ((refimprove)) |
1906 – Charles Rolls and Henry Royce founded the British automobile manufacturing company Rolls-Royce. | unreferenced section |
1917 – Tsar Nicholas II of Russia was forced to abdicate in the February Revolution, ending three centuries of Romanov rule. | refimprove section |
1939 – Nazi German troops began their occupation of Czechoslovakia and established the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. | both tagged with ((refimprove)) |
1941 – Philippine Airlines, the flag carrier of the Philippines took its first flight, making it the oldest commercial airline in Asia operating under its original name. | unreferenced section |
1945 – World War II: The Soviet Red Army began the Upper Silesian Offensive aimed at capturing the industrial and raw materials resources located in Upper Silesia. | refimprove section |
1956 – The musical My Fair Lady, based on George Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion, debuted at the Mark Hellinger Theatre in New York City. | plot summary too long |
1985 – The company Symbolics became the first ever entity, individual or party to register a .com top-level domain name: symbolics.com. | refimprove section |
1986 – The building housing the Hotel New World in Singapore collapsed suddenly due to structural failure, killing 33 people. | refimprove |
1989 – The United States Department of Veterans Affairs, a government-run military veteran benefit system, was established as a Cabinet-level position. | refimprove |
2011 – Arab Spring: Protests erupted across Syria against the authoritarian government. | too long |
Shunzhi Emperor (b. 1638) · Ruth Bader Ginsburg (b. 1933) · Arthur Compton (d. 1962)
Christian Michelsen (b. 1857) · Ruth Bader Ginsburg (b. 1933) · Arthur Compton (d. 1962)