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Earth at aphelion (22:27 UTC, 2021) | tagged for ref improvement |
Tynwald Day on the Isle of Man; | no footnotes |
; Saints Cyril and Methodius Day in the Czech Republic and Slovakia | needs more footnotes |
Independence Day in Algeria (1962), Cape Verde (1975) and Venezuela (1811) | all: refimprove section |
1687 – The Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica by Isaac Newton was first published, describing his laws of motion and his law of universal gravitation. | refimprove section |
1833 – Liberal Wars: In the Battle of Cape St. Vincent, an outnumbered and outgunned Liberal fleet captured six Miguelite ships. | page numbers needed |
1950 – The Israeli Knesset enacted the Law of Return, granting Jews around the world the right to migrate to and settle in Israel and gain citizenship. | refimprove section |
1954 – BBC News aired its first televised news broadcast from leased studios within Alexandra Palace in London. | date not in citation given |
1977 – General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq overthrew Pakistani prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto in a military coup d'état. | Zia-ul-Haq: lots of CN tags (11); Operatinos: page numbers needed |
1980 – Swedish tennis player Björn Borg won his fifth Wimbledon final and became the first male player in the Open Era to win the championships five times in a row. | refimprove section |
1987 – The Black Tigers of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam made its first suicide bombing against the Sri Lanka Army in Nelliady, Sri Lanka. | accuracy, unreferenced section |
2012 – The Shard in London was inaugurated as the tallest building in Europe, with a height of 310 m (1,020 ft), but was surpassed by Moscow's Mercury City Tower four months later. | trivial pop culture references |
Megan Rapinoe |b|1985 | outdated |
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- 1775 – The Second Continental Congress of the Thirteen Colonies adopted the Olive Branch Petition in the hopes of avoiding war with Great Britain.
- 1934 – Police in San Francisco opened fire on a crowd of longshoremen who had been on strike for nearly two months, killing two.
- 1937 – The Hormel Foods Corporation introduced Spam, the canned precooked meat product that would eventually enter into pop culture, folklore, and urban legend.
- 1948 – Aneurin Bevan, the Health Minister of the United Kingdom, launched the National Health Service, one of the major social reforms following the Second World War.
- 1950 – Korean War: In the first encounter between North Korean and American forces, an unprepared and undisciplined U.S. Army task force was routed at the Battle of Osan.
- 1969 – The Rolling Stones performed at a free festival in Hyde Park, London, in front of at least a quarter of a million fans, two days after the death of founder Brian Jones.
- 1989 – United States National Security Council member Oliver North was given a suspended sentence, probation, and community service for his part in the Iran–Contra affair.
- 2004 – Indonesia held its first direct presidential elections, which resulted in the election of Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono as President of Indonesia after the second round on September 20.
- 2009 – A series of violent riots broke out in Ürümqi, the capital city of Xinjiang in China.
- 2009 – The largest hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold ever discovered, consisting of more than 1,500 items, was found near the village of Hammerwich, near Lichfield, in Staffordshire.
- Born/died: | Sarah Siddons |b|1755| Sylvester Graham |b|1794| Nicéphore Niépce |d|1833| W. T. Stead |b|1849| Sophie Wyss |b|1897| Albrecht Kossel |d|1927| John Curtin |d|1945
- 1814 – War of 1812: American troops invading Upper Canada were victorious in the Battle of Chippawa.
- 1841 – Thomas Cook (pictured), founder of the travel company Thomas Cook & Son, organised his first excursion, escorting about 500 people from Leicester to Loughborough.
- 1946 – Named after Bikini Atoll, the site of the nuclear weapons test Operation Crossroads in the Marshall Islands, the modern bikini was introduced at a fashion show in Paris.
- 1954 – Elvis Presley recorded his first single, "That's All Right", at Sun Records in Memphis, Tennessee.
- 2006 – The United Nations Security Council held an emergency meeting hours after North Korea reportedly tested at least seven separate ballistic missiles.
- Joan of the Tower (b. 1321)
- Wanda Landowska (b. 1879)
- Porfirio Rubirosa (d. 1965)