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International Surfing Day (2020); "3rd Saturday" not cited
Flag Day in Argentina (1820) Article has 3 paras, and one is unreferenced
1685Monmouth Rebellion: The Duke of Monmouth declared himself King of England at Bridgwater. date unreferenced
1756 – A garrison of the British army in India was imprisoned in the Black Hole of Calcutta in conditions so cramped that at least 43 died. refimprove
1789French Revolution: Members of the Third Estate took the Tennis Court Oath (depicted), pledging not to separate until a new French constitution was created. refimprove section
1819 – Arriving in Liverpool, SS Savannah became the first steamship to cross the Atlantic Ocean. Lots of cn
1862Barbu Catargiu, the first Prime Minister of Romania, was assassinated after denying people the right of assembly to commemorate the Revolutions of 1848. needs more footnotes
1863American Civil War: West Virginia was admitted to the Union after it seceded from Virginia and the rest of the Confederacy. refimprove sections
1887Victoria Terminus, now the busiest railway station in India, opened in Bombay on the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria. refimprove section
1895 – The Kiel Canal, connecting the North Sea to the Baltic Sea across the base of the Jutland peninsula in Germany, was officially opened. refimprove section
1963 – The so-called "red telephone" was established between the White House and the Kremlin, after the Cuban Missile Crisis demonstrated that direct communications between the two nations were necessary. refimprove section
1973 – Snipers fired into a crowd of Peronists near the Ezeiza Airport in Buenos Aires, killing at least 13 people and injuring 365 others. refimprove section
2007Sammy Sosa of the Texas Rangers became the fifth player in Major League Baseball history to hit his 600th career home run. refimprove section
Frank Lampard |b|1978 Lots of cn tags
* 1943Rioting between blacks and whites began on Belle Isle, Detroit, Michigan, and continued for three days. Undercited
* 1893 – After a widely publicized trial, American Lizzie Borden was acquitted of the axe murders of her father and stepmother. Tagged for trivia
* 451 – With the help of Roman foederati, Flavius Aetius defeated Attila at the Battle of the Catalaunian Plains, halting the invasion of Gaul by the Huns and their allies. Debate over if it was a victory or not and states teh dEfence of Oreleans was the turning point
Margareta Ebner |d|1351| Undercited

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