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* [[1880]] – [[James A. Garfield]] was ”'[[1880 United States presidential election|elected as president of the United States]]”’ with the [[List of United States presidential elections by popular vote margin|smallest popular–vote margin on record]].
* [[1880]] – [[James A. Garfield]] was ”'[[1880 United States presidential election|elected as president of the United States]]”’ the [[List of United States presidential elections by popular vote margin| popularvote margin]].
* [[1932]] – The [[Australian Defence Force|Australian military]] began a “”'[[Emu War|war against emus]]”'”<!– ”(man with dead [[emu]] pictured)”–>, flightless native birds blamed for widespread damage to crops in [[Western Australia]].
* [[1932]] – The [[Australian Defence Force|Australian military]] began a “”'[[Emu War|war against emus]]”'”<!– ”(man with dead [[emu]] pictured)”–>, flightless native birds blamed for widespread damage to crops in [[Western Australia]].
* [[1949]] – The ”'[[Dutch–Indonesian Round Table Conference]]”’ ended with the Netherlands agreeing to transfer sovereignty of the [[Dutch East Indies]] to the [[United States of Indonesia]].
* [[1949]] – The ”'[[Dutch–Indonesian Round Table Conference]]”’ ended with the Netherlands agreeing to transfer sovereignty of the [[Dutch East Indies]] to the [[United States of Indonesia]].
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D. H. Lawrence
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Arthur Balfour
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| Blurb | Reason |
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| Day of the Dead in Mexico | refimprove section |
| All Souls’ Day (Western Christianity) | Additional citations orange tag |
| 1795 – French Revolution: Under the terms of a new constitution that was ratified during the aftermath of the Reign of Terror and the subsequent Thermidorian Reaction, the Directory succeeded the National Convention as the new executive government. | refimprove |
| 1889 – The Dakota Territory, an organized incorporated territory of the United States, was split and became the states of North and South Dakota. | North Dakota: refimprove section |
| 1898 – Organized cheerleading was born at the University of Minnesota when student Johnny Campbell directed a crowd attending an American college football game to cheer on their team. | needs more footnotes |
| 1936 – The BBC Television Service launched as the world’s first regular, public all-electronic “high-definition” television service. | refimprove section |
| 1947 – Industrialist and aviator Howard Hughes flew the “Spruce Goose“, the largest flying boat ever built, on its maiden flight from the coast of Long Beach, California. | unreferenced section |
| 1959 – The M1 motorway, the first inter-urban motorway to be completed in the United Kingdom, opened between Watford and Crick/Rugby. | unreferenced sections |
| 1959 – American intellectual Charles Van Doren caused a national scandal when he admitted that he had foreknowledge of the questions and answers when he appeared on the television quiz show Twenty-One. | Unref section |
| 1960 – In the trial R v Penguin Books Ltd, publisher Penguin Books was acquitted of obscenity for the publication of Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D. H. Lawrence. | Too much uncited |
| 1964 – King Saud of Saudi Arabia was deposed by his half-brother Faisal over concerns of the former’s profligacy and his inability to deal with the socialism of Egypt’s Gamal Abdel Nasser. | neutrality issues |
| 1965 – American Quaker Norman Morrison set himself on fire in front of the Pentagon to protest the United States’ involvement in the Vietnam War. | refimprove section |
| 1988 – The Morris worm, the first computer worm distributed via the Internet to gain significant mainstream media attention, was launched by university student Robert Tappan Morris. | Too much uncited |
| 1990 – Sky Television and British Satellite Broadcasting merged to form BSkyB, currently the largest pay-TV broadcaster in Europe. | Update needed orange banner |
| 1995 – Former South African minister of defence Magnus Malan and 19 others were arrested and charged with 13 murders in the KwaMakhutha massacre of 1987, for which they were all acquitted. | sourcing issues |
| 2004 – Dutch film director Theo van Gogh (pictured), whose film Submission was critical of the treatment of women in Islam, was assassinated by Mohammed Bouyeri. | unreferenced section (Ancestry) |
| 2016 – The Chicago Cubs defeated the Cleveland Indians in the 2016 World Series, ending the longest championship drought in Major League Baseball history. | Too much uncited |
| Alfred Domett |d|1887| | Too much uncited |
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