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King John of England
Top of the Chrysler Building, New York City
Giuseppe Garibaldi
Curtiss NC-4 after her transatlantic flight
Golden Gate Bridge
Rodney firing on Bismarck
Malcolm IV of Scotland
F-4 Phantom II
Christopher Reeve
HMS Princess Irene
Pope Benedict XV
Bob Dylan

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
Qibla observation by shadows (09:18 UTC, Islam, 2022)	2022 date not mentioned in the article
Children's Day in Nigeria	refimprove
1096 – The largest of the Rhineland massacres took place in Mainz, where at least 1,100 Jews were killed by the People's Crusade.	Tagged for bare urls
1153 – Malcolm IV was crowned King of Scotland at the age of twelve.	missing information
1199 – King John was crowned at Westminster Abbey.	Date not cited in article
1703 – Russian Tsar Peter I founded Saint Petersburg after reconquering the Ingrian land from Sweden during the Great Northern War.	History: refimprove section; St Petersburg: refimprove section
1860 – Expedition of the Thousand: Giuseppe Garibaldi and his Redshirts launched their attack on Palermo.	appears on May 5
1874 – The first group of nomadic pastoralists known as Trekboere set out on the Dorsland Trek, departing South Africa for Angola.	uncited paragraphs
1908 – Hakeem Noor-ud-Din was unanimously elected the head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, a day after the death of its founder Mirza Ghulam Ahmad.	refimprove
1919 – The Curtiss NC-4 flying boat arrived in Lisbon, Portugal, becoming the first fixed-wing aircraft to complete a transatlantic flight under its own power.	refimprove section
1942 – World War II: Czech resistance fighters in Prague ambushed and mortally wounded Reinhard Heydrich, the chief of the Reich Security Main Office and the Protector of Bohemia and Moravia.	refimprove section
Hans Lammers \|b\|1879\|	Birthday not cited

Eligible

1813 – War of 1812: The troops of the U.S. Army and vessels of the U.S. Navy cooperated in a successful amphibious assault to capture Fort George in Upper Canada.
1896 – The St. Louis–East St. Louis tornado, one of the deadliest and most destructive tornadoes in U.S. history, struck St. Louis, Missouri, and East St. Louis, Illinois, killing more than 255 people and injuring at least 1,000 others.
1915 – HMS Princess Irene (pictured) exploded and sank off Sheerness, United Kingdom, with the loss of 352 lives.
1917 – Pope Benedict XV (pictured) promulgated the Pio-Benedictine Code, the first official comprehensive codification of Latin canon law.
1923 – French drivers André Lagache and René Léonard completed the most laps during the first edition of the sports car race the 24 Hours of Le Mans.
1930 – Standing at 1,047 ft (319 m), New York City's Chrysler Building opened as the world's tallest building before it was surpassed by the Empire State Building 11 months later.
1935 – The United States Supreme Court ruled in A.L.A. Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States that the National Industrial Recovery Act, a major component of the New Deal, was unconstitutional.
1937 – The Golden Gate Bridge, at the time the world's longest suspension bridge by span, opened between San Francisco and Marin County, California.
1940 – World War II: Ninety-seven soldiers of the British Royal Norfolk Regiment were killed after surrendering to German forces.
1941 – World War II: The German battleship Bismarck was sunk by gun and torpedo fire by the British battleships HMS Rodney and HMS King George V and supporting cruisers.
1958 – The F-4 Phantom II, the principal air superiority jet fighter for both the U.S. Navy and Air Force, made its first flight.
1962 – A fire at a landfill in Centralia, Pennsylvania, spread to an abandoned coal mine, where it continues burning today.
1963 – American singer Bob Dylan (pictured) released The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, his first album to include a significant number of original songs.
1975 – The deadliest road accident in England took place when the brakes on a coach failed and it crashed in North Yorkshire, killing 32 people.
1983 – An explosion at an illegal fireworks factory near Benton, Tennessee, killed eleven people.
1995 – American actor Christopher Reeve was thrown from his horse, leaving him quadriplegic; he later became an activist on behalf of people with spinal cord injuries.
1995 – Bosnian War: Forces of the Army of Republika Srpska captured a United Nations post at Vrbanja Bridge in Sarajevo; six soldiers of both sides were killed when French forces retook the post later in the day.
2001 – Twenty tourists were kidnapped by Abu Sayyaf militants in Palawan, Philippines, triggering a hostage crisis that lasted for more than a year.
2006 – An earthquake registering 6.4 M_w struck near the city of Yogyakarta on the southern side of the Indonesian island of Java, killing more than 5,700 people.

Born/died: | Eutropius of Orange |d|475| Antoine Daniel |b|1601| Arthur Mold |b|1863| Arnold Bennett |b|1867| James Smart |d|1870| John Cockcroft |b|1897| Wols |b|1913| Henry Kissinger |b|1923|Mal Evans |b|1935| Gün Sazak |d|1980| Abram Hoffer |d|2009

Notes

German battleship Bismarck appears on May 24 (Battle of the Denmark Strait]], so Last battle of Bismarck should not appear in the same year
Woolworth Building appears on April 24 and Empire State Building appears on May 1, so Chrysler Building should not appear in the same year
Great Wall of China appears on May 25 (beginning of the Manchu invasion), so Battle of Shanhai Pass should not appear in the same year

May 27

Manchu Prince Dorgon

1644 – Manchu regent Dorgon (depicted) defeated rebel leader Li Zicheng of the Shun dynasty at the Battle of Shanhai Pass, allowing the Manchus to enter and conquer the capital city of Beijing.
1799 – War of the Second Coalition: Austrian forces defeated the French Army of the Danube, capturing the strategically important Swiss town of Winterthur.
1954 – The security clearance of American nuclear physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, head of Project Y, was revoked.
1967 – Australians voted overwhelmingly to include Indigenous Australians in population counts for constitutional purposes and to allow the federal government to make special laws affecting them in states.
1997 – A destructive F5-rated tornado tracked through a subdivision of homes northwest of Jarrell, Texas, killing 27 people.

Diego Ramírez de Arellano (d. 1624)
Julia Ward Howe (b. 1819)
Cilla Black (b. 1943)
Gérard Jean-Juste (d. 2009)

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