Wikipǣdia:Gecorene gemynddagas/16 Blotmonað
Gelicnessa
adihtBryce AN biliþ on ælc cyrre
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Battle of Cajamarca
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Pizarro's tomb, Lima
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Atahualpa, last Inca emperor
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Jadwiga of Poland
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3D representation of an LSD molecule
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SARS Virus
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Wei Jingsheng
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International Dæg for Tolerance | multiple issues |
1384 – Jadwiga (pictured) was officially crowned as "King of Poland" instead of "Queen" to reflect the fact that she was a sovereign in her own right and not merely a royal consort. | needs more footnotes |
1532 – Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire: Spanish Conquistador Francisco Pizarro orchestrated a surprise attack in Cajamarca, Peru, capturing Sapa Inca Atahualpa. | unreferenced section |
1805 – War of the Third Coalition: At the Battle of Schöngrabern, Russian forces under Pyotr Bagration delayed the pursuit by French troops under Joachim Murat. | needs more footnotes |
1979 – The first line of Bucharest Metro, the M1 Line, opened from Timpuri Noi to Semănătoarea in Bucharest, Romania. | unreferenced section |
1981 – About 30 million people watched Luke Spencer and Laura Webber marry on the American television show General Hospital, the highest-rated hour in soap opera history. | plot summary too long |
2002 – The first case of the respiratory disease Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) was recorded in Guangdong, China. | Tagged with {{sync}} |
Eligible
adiht- 1491 – Several Jews and conversos were executed in Toledo, Spain, for the alleged ritual murder of an infant, who was later revered as the Holy Child of La Guardia.
- 1776 – American Revolutionary War: British and Hessian units captured Fort Washington from the Patriots.
- 1907 – Two years after the failed attempt by the Five Civilized Tribes in the Indian Territory to achieve U.S. statehood, they joined with the Oklahoma Territory to become the 46th U.S. state to enter the union.
- 1944 – Operation Queen commenced in Düren, Germany, with one of the heaviest Allied tactical bombing attacks of the Second World War.
- 1959 – The Sound of Music, a musical by Rodgers and Hammerstein based on The Story of the Trapp Family Singers, opened on Broadway at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre.
- 1973 – U.S. President Richard Nixon signed the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Authorization Act, authorizing the construction of the Alaska Pipeline, an oil pipeline connecting the Arctic Ocean to the Gulf of Alaska.
- 1997 – Chinese dissident Wei Jingsheng was released for "medical reasons" after spending 17½ of the previous 18 years in prison, and was deported to the United States.
Notes
adiht- Washington (state) appears on November 11, so Oklahoma should not appear in the same year.
16. dæg Blotmonðes: Þancungdæg on Americawarum; Dæg of Rīcedōmes Bann on Estum (1988)
- 1272 – On þæm wege to Sicilie in þæm Ninogoþ Fare, fange Ēadweard I to rīce on Englum, forþæm þe on þissum dæge forþferde his fæder Heanric III, ac Ēadweard ne cwōm eft on Englas for ælmæst twegen winter.
- 1885 – Æfter fīfdaga ordæl se folgode þone Norþwest Unræd, wæs Louis Riel, Canadisc wiþersaca þæs Métis and "Manitoban Fæder", wæs ahanged for hēam swicdōme.
- 1938 –Albert Hofmann Switsisc chemist fremmede þæm frumcyrre to bewyrcenne LSD þæt brægnwendend lybb æt þæm Sandoz Laboratories in Basel on Switum.
- 1989 – Eahta wyrhtan þæs Universidad Centroamericana "José Simeón Cañas" in San Salvador, including siexe Rēmisc preostas, wæron murdered be Salvadoran Heres dēaþwerode.
- 1992 – On Sūþfolce, fund amateur metal detectorist þone Hoxne Hord se is se mæsta hord of Romaniscum gyldnum, seofrum and æsnum sceatum of þæm the late fourth and early fifth centuries ever discovered within the former Roman Empire.