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Great auks by John Gerrard Keulemans
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| 350 – Roman usurper Nepotianus of the Constantinian dynasty proclaimed himself Roman Emperor, entering Rome with a group of gladiators. | too short |
| 1621 – The Dutch West India Company received a charter for a trade monopoly in the West Indies by the Dutch Republic. | unreferenced section |
| 1770 – Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo, a historic Catholic mission church in present-day Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, and the site of the first Christian confirmation in Alta California, was established. | unreferenced section |
| 1839 – Qing Chinese government official Lin Zexu ordered the destruction of nearly 1.2 million kg (2.6 million lbs) of opium in Humen, precipitating the First Opium War. | refimprove sections |
| 1888 – American writer Ernest Thayer's baseball poem "Casey at the Bat" was first published in the San Francisco Examiner. | refimprove section |
| 1941 – World War II: In reprisal for the participation of the local population in the Battle of Crete, the Wehrmacht destroyed the village of Kandanos and killed about 180 of its inhabitants. | unreferenced section |
| 1942 – World War II: The Imperial Japanese Navy launched two aircraft carrier raids on the United States Army barracks and the U.S. Navy base at Dutch Harbor, Alaska. | refimprove section |
| 1962 – Air France's Chateau de Sully crashed while attempting to depart Paris-Orly Airport, killing 130 out of 132 passengers and crew members. | refimprove section |
| 1984 – The Indian Army began Operation Blue Star to remove Sikh separatists from the Golden Temple based on accusations they were stockpiling weapons there. | refimprove section |
| 1992 – The High Court of Australia delivered its decision in the landmark case Mabo v Queensland, recognising the land rights of the Aborigines. | more footnotes |
| 1998 – An InterCityExpress high-speed train derailed near Eschede, Lower Saxony, Germany, causing 101 deaths and 100 injuries. | multiple issues |
| 2006 – Montenegro declared its independence, ending the union of Serbia and Montenegro. | refimprove sections |
Eligible
- 1658 – Pope Alexander VII appointed François de Laval as the first apostolic vicar of New France.
- 1781 – American Revolutionary War: Jack Jouett made a 40-mile (64 km) ride to warn Thomas Jefferson and the Virginia legislature of coming British cavalry who had been sent to capture them.
- 1892 – Liverpool F.C., one of England's most successful football clubs, was founded.
- 1940 – Nazi official Franz Rademacher proposed that the island of Madagascar be made available as a destination for the resettlement of the Jewish population of Europe.
- 1943 – Off-duty U.S. sailors fought with Mexican American youths in Los Angeles, spawning the Zoot Suit Riots.
- 1950 – Maurice Herzog and Louis Lachenal, members of the French Annapurna expedition, became the first climbers to reach the summit of a peak higher than 8,000 metres (26,247 ft) above sea level.
- 1963 – Buddhist crisis: South Vietnamese Army soldiers attacked protesting Buddhists in Huế, with liquid chemicals from tear gas grenades, causing 67 people to be hospitalised.
- 1968 – American radical feminist Valerie Solanas shot and wounded visual artist Andy Warhol and two others at Warhol's New York City studio, The Factory.
- 1969 – During a SEATO exercise HMAS Melbourne of the Royal Australian Navy collided with the U.S. Navy's USS Frank E. Evans, cutting the latter in two and killing 74 people.
- 1973 – At the Paris Air Show, a Tupolev Tu-144 broke up in mid-air, killing the six members of the crew and eight bystanders on the ground.
- 1982 – An assassination attempt on Shlomo Argov, the Israeli ambassador to the United Kingdom, failed; this was later used as justification for the 1982 Lebanon War.
- 2012 – Dana Air Flight 992, a passenger flight from Abuja to Lagos, Nigeria, suffered dual engine failure and crashed into a building, resulting in the deaths of all 153 on board and 10 more on the ground.
- Born/died this day: | Sejanus |b|20 BC| Staurakios |d|800| Ahmad ibn Abi Jum'ah |d|1511| Ivan Shishman of Bulgaria |d|1395| Thomas Hutchinson |d|1780| Garret Hobart |b|1844| Georges Bizet |d|1875| Franz Kafka |d|1924| Flora MacDonald |b|1926| Susannah Constantine |b|1962
Notes
- 1953 British Mount Everest expedition appears on May 29, so Annapurna should not appear in the same year
- Air France Flight 447 appears on June 1, so Flight 007 should not appear in the same year
June 3: Feast of Corpus Christi (Western Christianity, 2021); Martyrs Day in Uganda
Wallis Simpson
Wallis Simpson
- 1844 – The last known pair of great auks, the only modern species in the genus Pinguinus of flightless birds, were killed on Eldey, Iceland.
- 1921 – At his trial for the assassination of Talat Pasha, viewed as the main orchestrator of the Armenian genocide, Soghomon Tehlirian was acquitted after arguing: "I have killed a man, but I am not a murderer."
- 1937 – A few months after abdicating the British throne, Edward, Duke of Windsor, married American socialite Wallis Simpson (pictured) in a private ceremony in France.
- 1979 – Having invaded Uganda and deposed President Idi Amin, Tanzanian forces secured Uganda's western border, ending a seven-month war.
- Martha Jane Knowlton Coray (b. 1821)
- Charles Lecocq (b. 1832)
- Jill Biden (b. 1951)