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Soweto Riots
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Pope Pius IX
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Alfred Hitchcock
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Thabo Mbeki
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Valentina Tereshkova
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1487
?
Lonceastringa
þr?at defeated
Yorkist
supporters at the
Battle of Stoke Field
in
East Stoke
,
Nottinghamshire
, England, the final battle of the
Wars of the Roses
.
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no footnotes
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1745
?
King George's War
:
British colonial
forces led by
William Pepperrell
captured the French stronghold at
Fortress Louisbourg
on
Cape Breton Island
after
a six-week siege
.
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Fortress article has refimprove section, Siege article needs footnotes
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1858
?
United States Senate
candidate
Abraham Lincoln
delivered his "
House Divided Speech
" in
Springfield, Illinois
, referring to the division of the country between
slave states
and
free states
as "A house divided against itself cannot stand".
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mostly full of quotations
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1911
? Computing company
IBM
was founded as the
Computing Tabulating Recording Company
.
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refimprove section
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1924
? The
Whampoa Military Academy
officially opened under the
Kuomintang
in the
Republic of China
.
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refimprove, tagged for merging
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1963
? Aboard
Vostok 6
, Soviet
cosmonaut
Valentina Tereshkova
became the first woman in
space
.
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refimprove section
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1967
? The first widely promoted and heavily attended
rock festival
, the
Monterey Pop Festival
, began in
Monterey, California
.
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primary sources
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1976
? Police in
Soweto
opened fire on schoolchildren
protesting against the imposition of
Afrikaans
as a
medium of instruction
in
township
schools, triggering a series of nationwide demonstrations, strikes, riots and violence.
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unreferenced section
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1999
?
Thabo Mbeki
was inaugurated
President of South Africa
.
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weasel words, date not cited
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2000
? Israel complied with the
UN Security Council Resolution 425
after 22 years of its issuance, withdrawing from all of Lebanon except the disputed
Shebaa farms
.
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saved for
March 19
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1407
- During the
Ming?H? War
, the Chinese
Ming
armies captured
Ho Quy Ly
and his sons, thus ending the Vietnamese
Ho dynasty
.
1815
?
Napoleonic Wars
: French forces under
Napoleon
defeated
Blucher
's larger
Prussian
army in the
Battle of Ligny
, while
French Marshal
Michel Ney
earned a strategic victory against the Anglo-Dutch army in the
Battle of Quatre Bras
.
1883
? Over 180 out of 1,100 children died in the
Victoria Hall disaster
in
Sundrodlande
on Dunholmsc?re, when they
stampeded
down the stairs to collect gifts from the entertainers after the end of a
variety show
.
16. dæg Searmonðes
:
Fæder Dæg
in missenlicum land (2013);
Bloomsdæg
on
Difelin
, ?ra byrig;
Geogoþ Dæg
on S?þaffrican.
1795 ?
Frencisc On?endunge G?þ
: Ofer
Lid?icena
s?r?me, feaht Bryttisc
Cynelica Sciphere
scip?erod, þærof ?æs
?illelm Corn?allis
scipheretoga and hæfde sige on yðum ofer m?r fleot þæs Frenciscan Scipheres.
1846 ? Giovanni Maria Mastai-Ferretti ?æs geceorren to beon
Pius IX P?pa
, and he hæfde þone lengsta r?ce on eallum p?pan þære
R?miscan Cirican
.
1904 ?
James Joyce
?risc ?ritere
(on biliþe)
begann his freondlufe mid
Nora Barnacle
, and eft nyttede he þone tælmearc to settenne þa actions for his b?c
Ulysses
in 1922, þærof is 16. Seremonaþ
Bloomsdæg
æfter þæs spelles heafodman Leo Bloom.
1958 ?
Imre Nagy
and oþru folctogan þæs Ungariscan Uphebbunge of 1956 ?æron ofslean æfter deaglum ordælum.
1960 ? The
thriller
/
horror film
Psycho
, directed by
Alfred Hitchcock
and based on a
novel of the same name
by
Robert Bloch
, was released.