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Ships unload men and equipment at the Battle of Inchon. -
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March in memory of 16th Street Baptist Church bombing victims -
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Northumbrian, a locomotive used at the opening of the L&M -
Marilyn Monroe posing during filming for The Seven Year Itch
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
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| International Day of Democracy; | empty sections |
| Independence Day in Costa Rica (1821); , El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua | CR: outdated; Guatemala: refimprove; El Salvador/Honduras/Nicaragua: refimprove section |
| Free Money Day | orange tag |
| 668 – Constans II, Emperor of the Byzantine Empire, was assassinated in his bath. | refimprove |
| 1440 – French knight Gilles de Rais, one of the earliest known serial killers, was taken into custody upon an accusation brought against him by the Bishop of Nantes. | Refimprove |
| 1530 – According to the Dominican Order, three mysterious women brought the painting of Saint Dominic in Soriano to a friary in Soriano Calabro, Italy. | lots of CN tags (8) |
| 1644 – Giovanni Battista Pamphili was elected Pope Innocent X. | unreferenced section |
| 1762 – British forces defeated the French at the Battle of Signal Hill in St. John's, Newfoundland, the final and decisive battle of the French and Indian War. | tagged for primary sources |
| 1830 – During the opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, British member of Parliament William Huskisson was struck and killed by the steam locomotive Rocket. | refimprove; should be combined with the blurb about the opening when/if eligible |
| 1831 – The John Bull, the oldest operable steam locomotive in the world, ran for the first time in New Jersey on the Camden and Amboy Railroad. | Citation issues |
| 1835 – During the second voyage of HMS Beagle, Charles Darwin reached the Galápagos Islands, where he further developed his theories of evolution. | unreferenced section |
| 1950 – Korean and American troops landed at Incheon, in an amphibious assault, starting the Battle of Inchon, a decisive United Nations military forces victory during the Korean War. | lots of CN tags in one section ("Green Beach", 4) |
| 1959 – Nikita Khrushchev began the first state visit by a Soviet leader to the United States. | tagged for balance and expansion, quite a few citations needed also |
| Anton Webern |d|1945 | lots of CN tags (20) |
Eligible
- 1776 – American Revolutionary War: British forces made an unopposed amphibious landing at Kips Bay on Manhattan, the American defenders having fled due to artillery fire.
- 1791 – French playwright Olympe de Gouges published the Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen, hoping to expose the failures of the French Revolution in the recognition of gender equality.
- 1795 – French Revolutionary Wars: Great Britain seized the Dutch Cape Colony to use its facilities against the French Navy.
- 1816 – HMS Whiting ran aground on the Doom Bar on the coast of Cornwall, England.
- 1821 – The Province of Guatemala proclaimed the independence of Central America from the Spanish Empire.
- 1862 – American Civil War: Confederate forces captured the Union garrison at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, taking more than 12,000 prisoners.
- 1916 – Tanks (example pictured), the "secret weapons" of the British Army during the First World War, were first used in combat at the Battle of Flers–Courcelette in France.
- 1935 – Nazi Germany enacted the Nuremberg Laws, which deprived Jews of their citizenship.
- 1944 – World War II: The Greek People's Liberation Army won the Battle of Meligalas and began the execution of many prisoners of war and civilians.
- 1944 – World War II: American and Australian forces landed on the Japanese-occupied island of Morotai.
- 1963 – The Ku Klux Klan bombed the 16th Street Baptist Church, an African-American church in Birmingham, Alabama, killing four girls and injuring at least 14 other people (memorial march pictured).
- 1972 – Three armed members of the Croatian National Resistance hijacked Scandinavian Airlines System Flight 130 in an attempt to force the release of those arrested for the assassination of the Yugoslav ambassador the previous year.
- 2008 – Financial crisis of 2007–2008: The global financial services firm Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy while holding over $600 billion in assets, the largest such filing in U.S. history.
- 2017 – A homemade bomb partially exploded on an eastbound District line train at Parsons Green tube station in West London, injuring 30 passengers.
- Born/died: | Catherine of Genoa |d|1510| Catherine of Austria, Queen of Poland |b|1533| Edmé Boursault |d|1701| Jean Sylvain Bailly |b|1736| Isambard Kingdom Brunel |d|1859| Anna Winlock |b|1857| Charles-Amédée Kohler |d|1874|Phil Lamason |b|1918| Signe Toly Anderson |b|1941
September 15: Battle of Britain Day in the United Kingdom (1940)
1831 illustration of the L&M Railway
- 1462 – The Ottoman conquest of Lesbos ended upon the surrender of commander Niccolò Gattilusio; the conquering Mehmed II executed 300 Italian soldiers by chopping them in half, claiming he was fulfilling a promise to "spare their heads".
- 1830 – The Liverpool and Manchester Railway (L&M) (depicted), the first locomotive-hauled railway to connect two major cities, opened with the Duke of Wellington in attendance.
- 1954 – The scene in The Seven Year Itch of Marilyn Monroe standing in a white dress over a subway grate was filmed by Billy Wilder.
- 2013 – The Belarusian serial killer Ivan Kulesh murdered two saleswomen in Lida.
- Stanisław Poniatowski (b. 1676)
- Ayscoghe Boucherett (d. 1815)
- Algernon Lee (b. 1873)
- Linnie Marsh Wolfe (d. 1945)
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