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Emperor Meiji
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Emperor Meiji
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Mossel Bay in 2006
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Monument to Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and The Big Bopper near Clear Lake, Iowa
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Painting of the Battle of San Lorenzo
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Jose de San Martin
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James?I of Aragon entering Murcia
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Steve Jobs
Ineligible
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Reason
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Setsubun
in Japan;
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date in infobox doesn't agree with date in the lead
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Feast day
of
Dom Justo Takayama
in Japan and the Philippines;
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citation check
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1488
? Portuguese explorer
Bartolomeu Dias
landed in
Mossel Bay
, becoming the first known European to have sailed around the
Cape of Good Hope
and the southern tip of Africa.
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lots of CN tags (5)
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1509
?
Turkish?Portuguese War
: Portugal defeated a joint fleet of
Mamluk Burji Sultanate of Egypt
,
Ottoman Empire
, the
Zamorin
of
Calicut
and the
Sultan of Gujarat
at the
Battle of Diu
off the coast of
Diu, India
.
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unreferenced section
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1781
?
Fourth Anglo-Dutch War
: British forces
captured
the Dutch island of
Sint Eustatius
after a brief skirmish.
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needs citations
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1807
?
Napoleonic Wars
: The United Kingdom
captured
Montevideo
, now the capital of Uruguay, from the
Spanish Empire
.
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needs more footnotes; Montevideo not bold because it's not an appropriate target article
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1815
? The first
factory
for the industrial production of
cheese
opened in Switzerland.
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date not in article, refimprove section
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1867
? Crown Prince
Mutsuhito
succeeded his father
K?mei
as
Emperor of Japan
, taking the title
Meiji
.
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needs more footnotes
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1913
? The
Sixteenth Amendment
to the
United States Constitution
was ratified, allowing
Congress
to levy an
income tax
without apportioning it among
the states
or basing it on
census results
.
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refimprove section
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1916
? A fire destroyed the
Centre Block
, the main building of the
Canadian parliamentary
complex on
Parliament Hill
, in
Ottawa
,
Ontario
.
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needs update
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1931
? New Zealand's deadliest
natural disaster
, the
7.9
M
W
Hawke's Bay earthquake
, struck, killing 256.
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refimprove section
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1966
? The Soviet spacecraft
Luna 9
became the first
space probe
to land on the
Moon
and transmit pictures from the lunar surface.
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refimprove section
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1967
?
Ronald Ryan
became the last person to be
legally executed in Australia
, sparking public protests across the country.
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multiple issues
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1971
?
New York City Police
officer
Frank Serpico
, who had reported
police corruption
to the department and the press, was shot and wounded under questionable circumstances.
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lead too short
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1984
? A woman under the care of Dr.
John Buster
of the
Harbor?UCLA Medical Center
in
Los Angeles, California
, gave birth to a baby that resulted from the first successful
embryo transfer
from one person to another.
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refimprove section
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1989
?
Alfredo Stroessner
'
, whose rule as
president of Paraguay
for 35 years was marked by uninterrupted repression in his country, was overthrown in a military coup by
Andres Rodriguez
.
|
Stroessner: refimprove; Rodriguez: unreferenced section
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1998
? A U.S. Marine Corps
EA-6B
Prowler
inadvertently severed a cable
supporting a
cable-car
gondola in
Cavalese
, Italy, killing 20 passengers.
|
citations needed
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Eligible
- 1266
?
Mudejar revolt
: King
James?I of Aragon
entered the formerly Muslim-held city of
Murcia
(depicted)
,
following its surrender
three days earlier.
- 1852
? The
Argentine Confederation
was defeated in the
Platine War
by an alliance consisting of Brazil, Uruguay and the Argentine provinces of
Entre Rios
and
Corrientes
.
- 1870
? The
Fifteenth Amendment
to the
United States Constitution
was ratified, granting
voting rights
to citizens regardless of "race, color, or previous condition of servitude".
- 1933
?
Adolf Hitler
announced that the conquest of
Lebensraum
in Eastern Europe, and its "ruthless
Germanisation
", were the geopolitical objectives of
Reich
foreign policy.
- 1959
? American
rock and roll
musicians
Buddy Holly
,
Ritchie Valens
, and
J.?P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson
died in
a plane crash
(wreckage pictured)
shortly after takeoff from
Mason City Municipal Airport
in
Iowa
.
- 1972
? The
deadliest blizzard in history
began in Iran and continued for a week leaving more than 4,000 people dead.
- 1986
?
Steve Jobs
purchased
Pixar
from
Lucasfilm
and launched it as an independent
computer-animation
studio.
- 1998
? Despite a large international movement advocating the
commutation
of her sentence to life imprisonment,
Karla Faye Tucker
became the first woman to be executed in the United States since 1984.
- 2010
? An edition of
L'Homme qui marche?I
, a bronze sculpture by Swiss sculptor
Alberto Giacometti
, was sold for £65?million, setting the record for the
most expensive sculpture
sold at auction.
- 2014
? Russia's first
school shooting
took place when a student
opened fire
at
School No.?263
in Moscow, resulting in the deaths of a teacher and a police officer.
- Born/died this day: |
Scipione Rebiba
|b|1504|
Caroline von Wolzogen
|b|1763|
Horace Greeley
|b|1811|
George Crabbe
|d|1832|
Giuseppe Moretti
|b|1857|
Hugh Trenchard, 1st Viscount Trenchard
|b|1873|
Isaac Baker Brown
|d|1873|
Dolly Rudeman
|b|1902 |
Tatyana Velikanova
|b|1932|
Gengoroh Tagame
|b|1964|
C.?N. Annadurai
|d|1969
February 3
:
Feast day
of
Saint Laurence of Canterbury
(Western Christianity);
Four Chaplains' Day
in the United States (
1943
)
British bomber flying to join the Battle of Keren