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Two-cent piece first issued in 1864
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| Earth Day | lots of uncited material |
| 1519 – Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés established a settlement in Mexico, naming it "Villa Rica de la Vera Cruz" ("Rich village of the True Cross"). | unreferenced section |
| 1529 – Spain and Portugal signed the Treaty of Zaragoza, defining the areas of their respective influence in Asia. | refimprove section |
| 1876 – The Boston Red Caps defeated the Philadelphia Athletics in the first game of baseball's National League. | no article on the event in question, and it isn't the primary focus of the target article |
| 1889 – More than 50,000 American settlers rushed to claim (pictured) a piece of the two million acres (8,000 km2) made available in the Unassigned Lands, founding Oklahoma City. | Land Rush of 1889 has substantial uncited material and incomplete citations |
| 1915 – World War I: German forces released 168 tons of chlorine gas at the beginning of the Second Battle of Ypres, causing thousands of casualties among French troops. | lead too short |
| 1930 – France, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States signed the London Naval Treaty, regulating submarine warfare and limiting military ship building. | refimprove |
| 1998 – Disney's Animal Kingdom at the Walt Disney World Resort in Florida opened, covering more than 500 acres (2 km2), making it the largest single Disney theme park in the world. | expansion |
| 2000 – In response to the rapid late 1990s growth of telecommunications, the United Kingdom enacted the Big Number Change, modifying the telephone numbering plans in various areas across the country. | refimprove |
| 2016 – The multilateral Paris Agreement, on climate-change mitigation, adaptation, and finance, was opened for signature. | tagged for {update} |
| Princess Margaret of Prussia |b|1872 | unref'd section |
| * 1622 – Anglo-Persian forces combined to capture the Portuguese garrison at Hormuz Island in the Persian Gulf. | Date not mentioned in article |
| * 1969 – British yachtsman Robin Knox-Johnston completed the first single-handed non-stop circumnavigation of the world, winning the Sunday Times Golden Globe Race. | 10 Citation needed tags |
Eligible
- 1864 – The U.S. Congress authorized the creation of a two-cent coin (pictured), the first U.S. currency to bear the phrase "In God We Trust".
- 1945 – About 600 prisoners of the Jasenovac concentration camp in the Independent State of Croatia revolted, but only 80 managed to escape while the remainder were killed by the Ustaše regime.
- 1948 – Civil War in Mandatory Palestine: The Jewish paramilitary group Haganah captured Haifa from the Arab Liberation Army.
- 1993 – Stephen Lawrence, a black British teenager, was murdered while waiting for a bus in Eltham, London, leading to cultural changes of attitudes on racism and the police, and to the law and police practice.
- 2000 – In a pre-dawn raid, U.S. federal agents seized six-year-old Elián González from his relatives' home in Miami and returned him to his Cuban father.
- 2004 – Flammable cargo exploded at a railway station in Ryongchon, North Korea, killing at least 54 people and injuring more than a thousand others.
- 2013 – The Royal Canadian Mounted Police arrested two men who were plotting to commit terrorist attacks against Via Rail operations.
- 2022 – American climate activist Wynn Bruce set himself on fire outside the United States Supreme Court Building in an apparent protest against the climate crisis.
- Born/died: | Pope Caius |d|296| Miguel de Cervantes |d|1616| James Sullivan |b|1744|
Germaine de Staël |b|1766| James Hargreaves |d|1778| Emily Davies |b|1830| Lewis Powell|b|1844 Neal Ball |b|1881| Laura Gilpin |b|1891| Kathleen Ferrier |b|1912| Jack Nicholson |b|1937| Luang Por Dhammajayo|b|1944| Käthe Kollwitz |d|1945| Wilhelm Cauer |d|1945| Dee Duponte |d|1971| Emilio Segrè |d|1989 Donna Williams |d|2017
Notes
- Disneyland Paris appears on April 12, so Disney's Animal Kingdom should not be used in the same year.
- Adolf Hitler's 50th birthday appears on April 20, so Hitler Diaries should not appear in the same year.
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- 1500 – A fleet commanded by Pedro Álvares Cabral (pictured) anchored off present-day Brazil; he later claimed the land for the Portuguese Empire.
- 1885 – The first meeting of the Colonial Defence Committee, a standing committee of the British Colonial Office, was held to discuss the defence of Barbados.
- 1918 – The short-lived Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic was established on territory formerly part of the Russian Empire.
- 1951 – Korean War: The Chinese People's Volunteer Army attacked positions occupied mainly by Australian and Canadian forces, starting the Battle of Kapyong.
- 2016 – The Paris Agreement, an international treaty on climate change, opened for signature and was signed by 175 parties.
- Philip of Poitou (d. 1208)
- Robert Ludwig Kahn (b. 1923)
- Regine Velasquez (b. 1970)