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VW beetle
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Catherine Palace
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NASA orbital photo of Malden Island
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View of the Lehigh Valley pier after explosion
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Emperor Taishō
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Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla
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José Nasazzi, Uruguay captain
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Brother Jonathan
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Emmerson Mnangagwa
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| Independence Day in Vanuatu (1980) | unreferenced section |
| International Day of Friendship | Multiple issues |
| 762 – Al-Mansur, the caliph of Islam, founded the city of Baghdad as the capital of the Islamic empire under the Abbasids. | inappropriate tone |
| 1419 – Hussite Wars: Jan Žižka and others threw several town councillors out of the window at the First Defenestrations of Prague. | More citations needed section |
| 1619 – The first representative assembly in the Americas, Virginia's House of Burgesses, convened for the first time. | expansion |
| 1656 – Led by King Charles X Gustav, the armies of Sweden and Brandenburg defeated the forces of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth near Warsaw. | single source section |
| 1676 – Rebelling colonists led by Nathaniel Bacon issued the Declaration of the People against the rule of Governor William Berkeley in Virginia. | lead too short |
| 1756 – Architect Bartolomeo Rastrelli presented the Catherine Palace, a Rococo palace in Tsarskoye Selo, to Empress Elizabeth of Russia. | refimprove section |
| 1825 – Malden Island, now one of Kiribati's Line Islands, was discovered by Captain The 7th Lord Byron. | lots of CN tags in one section |
| 1864 – American Civil War: Union forces failed to break Confederate lines by exploding a large mine under their trenches at the Battle of the Crater in Petersburg, Virginia. | refimprove section |
| 1912 – Japan's Emperor Meiji died and was succeeded by his son Yoshihito, who is now known as the Emperor Taishō. | Meiji: unreferenced section; Taisho: refimprove section |
| 1945 – World War II: USS Indianapolis, a heavy cruiser of the United States Navy, was sunk by the Japanese submarine I-58, killing over 800 seamen. | unreferenced section |
| 1965 – U.S. president Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Social Security Act into law, establishing Medicare and Medicaid to provide federal health insurance for the elderly and for low income families, respectively. | Medicare: expansion; Medicaid: outdated |
| 1978 – In accordance with the Geneva Convention on Road Traffic, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan, switched back from driving on the right-hand side of the road to the left. | refimprove |
| 2003 – The last old-style Beetle, the economy car produced by the German automaker Volkswagen, rolled off the assembly line in Puebla, Mexico. | refimprove section |
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- 1865 – Off the coast of Crescent City, California, the steamer Brother Jonathan (depicted) struck an uncharted rock and sank, killing 225 people; its cargo of gold coins was not retrieved until 1996.
- 1916 – World War I: German agents sabotaged U.S.-made munitions in New York Harbor that were to be supplied to the Allies.
- 1930 – In Montevideo, the Uruguay national football team won the first FIFA World Cup.
- 1950 – At the height of a political crisis known as the royal question, four workers were shot dead by the Belgian Gendarmerie at a strike in Grâce-Berleur.
- 1975 – American labor-union leader Jimmy Hoffa disappeared after last being seen outside a restaurant near Detroit.
- 1981 – Amid a widespread economic crisis and food shortages in Poland, up to 50,000 people, mostly women and children, took part in the largest of nationwide hunger demonstrations in Łódź.
- 2006 – Lebanon War: The Israeli Air Force attacked a three-story building near the Lebanese village of Qana, killing at least 28 civilians, including 16 children.
- 2012 – A train fire killed 32 passengers and injures 27 on the Tamil Nadu Express in Andhra Pradesh, India.
- 2018 – Zimbabwean general election: Emmerson Mnangagwa (pictured) is elected to his first full term as president, having served as leader since the 2017 Zimbabwean coup d'état.
- Born/died this day: | Jacob Baradaeus|d|578| Tatwine|d|734| Giorgio Vasari|b|1511| Emily Brontë|b|1818| Lê Văn Duyệt|d|1832| George Pickett|d|1875| Smedley Butler|b|1881| Casey Stengel|b|1890| Gerald Moore|b|1899| Joyce Kilmer|d|1918| Walter Schuck|b|1920| C. T. Vivian|b|1924| Harold Davidson|d|1937| Kate Bush|b|1958| Hope Solo|b|1981| Katherine Reutter|b|1988| Claudette Colbert|d|1996| Maeve Binchy|d|2012|
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- 1724 – Bach's chorale cantata Wo Gott der Herr nicht bei uns hält, a paraphrase of Psalm 124 based on a 1524 hymn by Justus Jonas, was first performed in Leipzig.
- 1811 – Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla (depicted), a leader of the Mexican War of Independence, was executed by Spanish forces in Chihuahua City, Mexico.
- 1871 – The boiler of the Staten Island Ferry Westfield II exploded at South Ferry in New York City, killing at least 45 people.
- 1990 – British Conservative member of Parliament Ian Gow was killed outside his home in a car bombing by the Provisional Irish Republican Army.
- 2014 – More than 150 people died after heavy rains triggered a landslide in the village of Malin in Maharashtra, India.
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