Wikipǣdia:Gecorene gemynddagas/16 Searmonað
Gelicnessa
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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 þrēat defeated Yorkist supporters at the Battle of Stoke Field in East Stoke, Nottinghamshire, England, the final battle of the Wars of the Roses. | no footnotes |
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. | Fortress article has refimprove section, Siege article needs footnotes |
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". | mostly full of quotations |
1911 – Computing company IBM was founded as the Computing Tabulating Recording Company. | refimprove section |
1924 – The Whampoa Military Academy officially opened under the Kuomintang in the Republic of China. | refimprove, tagged for merging |
1963 – Aboard Vostok 6, Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman in space. | refimprove section |
1967 – The first widely promoted and heavily attended rock festival, the Monterey Pop Festival, began in Monterey, California. | primary sources |
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. | unreferenced section |
1999 – Thabo Mbeki was inaugurated President of South Africa. | weasel words, date not cited |
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. | saved for March 19 |