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Thevar Jayanthi in Tamil Nadu, India; multiple issues
1270 – An agreement between Charles I of Naples, King of Sicily, and Muhammad I al-Mustansir, ruler of the Hafsid dynasty in Ifriqiya, ended the Eighth Crusade and opened up free trade between the Christians and Tunis. refimprove section
1226Trần Thủ Độ, head of the Trần clan of Vietnam, forced Lý Huệ Tông, the last emperor of the Lý dynasty, to commit suicide. date not certain (see Talk:Trần Thủ Độ)
1485 – Having seized the English throne after the Wars of the Roses, Henry VII (pictured) was crowned at Westminster Abbey. lots of CN tags (20)
1905Russian Revolution: Tsar Nicholas II reluctantly signed the October Manifesto, establishing the State Duma as the elected legislature in the Russian Empire. unreferenced section
1918 – The Armistice of Mudros was signed in Greece, ending hostilities in the Middle Eastern theatre of World War I and paving the way for the occupation of Istanbul and the subsequent partition of the Ottoman Empire. Date not cited in the article
1942Second World War: British sailors boarded German submarine U-559 as it was sinking and retrieved cryptographic materials that proved crucial to breaking the Enigma code. unreferenced section
1950Blanca Canales led the Jayuya Uprising against the U.S.-supported Puerto Rican government. Unreliable sources
1947 – The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, the precursor to the World Trade Organization, was signed by 23 nations to reduce tariffs and other trade barriers. refimprove, summarize section
1961 – The Soviet hydrogen bomb Tsar Bomba, the largest nuclear weapon ever detonated, was set off over Novaya Zemlya in the Arctic Ocean as a test. unreferenced section
1973Istanbul's 1,510-metre (4,950 ft) long Bosphorus Bridge was completed, connecting the continents of Europe and Asia over the Bosphorus Strait. refimprove
1974 – In one of boxing's most famous fights, Muhammad Ali knocked out George Foreman at The Rumble in the Jungle in Kinshasa, Zaire. refimprove
1983 – As the military dictatorship came to an end, Argentina's first democratic election in a decade resulted in Raúl Alfonsín being elected President of Argentina. Unsourced section
1995 – In a referendum, 50.58 percent of voters supported the province of Quebec remaining a part of Canada, narrowly averting a potential claim of Quebec sovereignty. refimprove section
1997 – Nineteen-year-old British au pair Louise Woodward was convicted of the involuntary manslaughter of eight-month-old Matthew Eappen in Newton, Massachusetts. refimprove
2015 – Improper usage of indoor pyrotechnics caused a nightclub fire in Bucharest that killed 64 and injured another 147. section needs to be summarized
Hilja Riipinen |b|1883| Birthday not cited
Makoto Kanoh |b|1950| Stub
Florence Nagle |d|1988| Deathday not cited

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Monument to the Gozo luzzu disaster
Monument to the Gozo luzzu disaster
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