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: World Food Day | unreferenced section |
456 – Magister militum Ricimer defeated Emperor Avitus at Piacenza and became master of the Western Roman Empire. | refimprove section |
955 – The German forces of Otto the Great defeated the Obotrite federation at the Battle on the Raxa, marking the high point of Otto's reign. | date not referenced, a couple of other cites needed, and "high point of Otto's reign" needs rewording as that is a subjective opinion |
1590 – Italian composer Carlo Gesualdo caught his wife having an extramarital affair with Duke Fabrizio Carafa of Andria and killed them both on the spot. | refimprove section |
1843 – William Rowan Hamilton first wrote down the fundamental formula for quaternions, carving the equation into the side of Broom Bridge in Cabra, Dublin, Ireland. | unreferenced section |
1846 – American dentist William T. G. Morton made a widely publicized demonstration of ether as a general anaesthetic. | lots of CN tags in one section |
1859 – Hoping to start an armed slave revolt, American abolitionist John Brown led a raid on the Harpers Ferry Armory in Virginia. | essay-like |
1869 – Workers in Cardiff, New York, uncovered a 10 ft (3.0 m) tall petrified man, which was later revealed to be a hoax. | refimprove section |
1934 – Surrounded by Kuomintang troops, Zhou Enlai, Bo Gu, and Otto Braun led 130,000 Red Army soldiers and civilians on a "Long March" from Jiangxi. | refimprove section |
1940 – World War II: Nazi governor-general Hans Frank established the Warsaw Ghetto, the largest Jewish ghetto in German-occupied Poland. | refimprove section for list of people |
1945 – The Food and Agriculture Organization was founded in Quebec City, Canada, to lead international efforts to defeat hunger. | refimprove section |
1951 – The first prime minister of Pakistan, Liaquat Ali Khan, was assassinated in Rawalpindi. | section needs to be rewritten |
1968 – To protest racism in the United States, African American athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos performed the Black Power salute during a medal ceremony at the Mexico City Summer Olympics. | refimprove section |
1972 – Emmerdale Farm, the United Kingdom's second-oldest soap opera, was first broadcast in the daytime on ITV. | Unreffed parts |
1975 – Five journalists for Australian television networks based in the town of Balibo were killed by Indonesian special force soldiers prior to their invasion of East Timor. | unreferenced section |
1986 – Italian mountaineer Reinhold Messner made his ascent of Lhotse, making him the first person to climb all fourteen "eight-thousanders". | refimprove section |
1995 – Louis Farrakhan of the Nation of Islam convened the Million Man March in Washington, D.C., in an effort to unite in self-help and self-defense against economic and social ills plaguing the African American community. | citation formatting issues |
2002 – The Bibliotheca Alexandrina (pictured) in Alexandria, Egypt, a commemoration of the ancient library that was lost in antiquity, was officially inaugurated. | Primary sources |
Angela Lansbury |b|1925| | Unreferenced section |
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