Wikipǣdia:Gecorene gemynddagas/10 Ærra Geola
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adihtBryce AN biliþ on ælc cyrre
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Alfred Nobel -
Alfred Nobel -
The original brown dog statue -
DeFord Bailey, the first performer on the Grand Ole Opry -
Calbraith Perry Rodgers
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| 1868 – The first traffic lights were installed outside the Houses of Parliament in London, resembling railway signals with semaphore arms and red and green gas lamps for night use. | Tagged for expansion |
| 1948 – The United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, representing the first global expression of rights to which all human beings are inherently entitled. | needs more footnotes |
| 1968 – Japan's biggest heist, the still-unsolved "300 million yen robbery", occurred in Tokyo. | {{no footnotes}} |
| 1983 – Raúl Alfonsín became the first democratically elected President of Argentina to take office after the fall of the military dictatorship. | unreferenced section |
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adiht- 1799 – France became the first country to adopt the metric system as its system for weights and measures.
- 1884 – Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by American author Mark Twain was first published in the United Kingdom and Canada.
- 1901 – The first Nobel Prizes were awarded, on the anniversary of the 1896 death of their founder, Swedish chemist and industrialist Alfred Nobel.
- 1907 – During the Brown Dog affair, about 1,000 protesters marched through London and then clashed with 400 police officers in Trafalgar Square over the existence of a memorial for animals which had been vivisected.
- 1911 – Calbraith Rodgers completed the first transcontinental flight across the United States.
- 1927 – George D. Hay introduced the phrase "Grand Ole Opry", which became the name of one of the world's longest-running radio broadcasts, on WSM's Barn Dance radio show.
- 1936 – Ēadweard VIII Bretta Cyning, forþæm þe he wolde beweddian Wallis Simpson Americaniscu socialite wiþ widespread opposition, forscrāh his cynedōm, the only British monarch to have voluntarily done so siððan sēo Anglo-Saxon ylde.
- 1979 – The Kuomintang (KMT) tictatorscipe of Taiwan arrested a large number of opposition leaders who had organized pro-democracy demonstrations, an incident credited with ending the KMT's rule in 2000.
10. dæg Geolan: Manrihtdæg; Constitution Day in Thailand (1932)
- 1508 – Þā Papan Rīcu, Francland, Aragon and þæt Hālige Rōmānisce Rīce ætgædre wrōhtedon þone Cambrai Geþoftscipe wiþ Uenitie þā Cynewīsan.
- 1684 – Edmond Halley (on biliþ) aswutelode his gewrite be naman De motu corporum in gyrum æt þæm Cynelican Ferscipe, and þærin wæs Isaac Newtones geweorc Kepler's lagu of his aþoht of gravity.
- 1861 – Þrēat þærof wæs Nguyen Trung Truc heretoga, sencte L'Esperance, se Frencisc cnearr.
- 1898 – Se Speonisc–Americanisc Gewinn endede þæn onsiglode begen healfas þone Paris Foremæl, þærbe oncneow Spēna rīce Cuban sundorrīcedōm; and ageaf Guam, þa Philippines, and Puerto Rico þara Geānedan Rīcum.
- 1941 – Ōðru Woruldgūþ: Torpedo bombers þæs Cāserlican Iapaniscan Scipheres sencte HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse þæs Cynelican Scipheres heafodscipu ēastweard of Malægan.