Wikipǣdia:Gecorene gemynddagas/18 Eastermonað
Gelicnessa
adihtanBryce AN biliþ on ælc cyrre
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Damage from the 1906 San Francisco earthquake
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Damage from the 1906 San Francisco earthquake
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St. Peter's Basilica in 2004
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Saint Peter's Basilica by Giovanni Paolo Pannini
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Boleslaus I of Poland
Ineligible
adihtanBlurb | Reason |
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1025 – Bolesław I Chrobry became the first Pola Cyning. | refimprove section, unreferenced section |
1775 – American Revolutionary War: Colonists Paul Revere, William Dawes, and Samuel Prescott began a "midnight ride" from Boston to Lexington to warn residents about the impending arrival of British troops. | Dawes tagged refimprove and it seems unfair to exclude him |
1961 – The Soviet Pluton planetary radar performed the world's first successful radiolocation of the planet Venus. | stub |
1983 – A suicide bomber destroyed the United States Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, killing over 60 people with a car bomb. | needs more footnotes |
1988 – Iran–Iraq War: U.S. naval forces attacked Iranian forces in retaliation for the Iranian mining of the Persian Gulf and the subsequent damage to the American frigate USS Samuel B. Roberts. | refimprove section |
1992 – General Abdul Rashid Dostum revolted against the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan and allied with Ahmad Shah Massoud to capture Kabul. | Need to verify date – Dostum's article says 18 Apr, but Civil war in Afghanistan (1989–1992) makes it seem like he defected earlier |
1996 – Israeli forces shelled Qana, Lebanon, during Operation Grapes of Wrath, killing over 100 civilians and injuring over 110 others at a UN compound. | unreferenced section |
Eligible
adihtan- 1906 – A major earthquake and resulting fires devastated San Francisco, killing at least 3,000 people and leaving more than half of the city's population homeless.
- 1923 – The Nīweoforwīc Yankees of Major League Baseball began playing their games in the newly constructed Yankee Stadium.
- 1947 – In one of the largest non-nuclear single explosive detonations in history, the Royal Navy set off 4,000 tonnes of surplus ammunition in an unsuccessful attempt to destroy the island of Heligoland, Germany.
- 1958 – Controversial American poet Ezra Pound was released from St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington. D.C., where had been incarcerated for twelve years.
Notes
adihtan- Battles of Lexington and Concord appears on Ēastermōnaþ 19; the midnight ride and the battles should not both appear in the same year
18. dæg Eastermonðes: Sundorrīcesdæg on Simbabƿum (1980)
- 1506 – Man ongann to timbrienne todæges Sctes Petres Heafodcirice on þæm Faticanbyrig, þe heo geinne þe ealde heafodcirice seo wæs in þæm feowrþe gearhund getimbrod.
- 1689 – Menn þæs fyrd and burgmenn forgædroden in Boston, and forfangen þegnas þæs Niwenglalandrices.
- 1938 – Superman, geworden be Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, wæs ærrste geswutoled in Action Comics #1, and þes wæs seo ærrsta treowlic oferhierd comic bōc.
- 1942 – Ōðru Woruldgūþ: Siextiene B-25 Mitchell byrstendberend lyftcræftas of þæm lyftcræftberendan scipe USS Hornet (on biliþ) fremmedon þā Doolittle Hergung, se forma onsæcc be þæm Ƿesternum geþoftedum rīcum on þāra Iapanƿara eardīegum.
- 1949 – Irland seo Cynewise forlæt þa Bryttisc Þeodacynewise and weard respublica.