Wikipǣdia:Gecorene gemynddagas/18 Winterfylleð
Gelicnessa
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Herman Melville
Ineligible
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Alaska Day (1867); | unreferenced, stub |
1009 – Under orders from Fatimid caliph Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, a Christian church now within the walled Old City of Jerusalem, was destroyed. | tagged for expansion |
1016 – Danish forces led by Canute the Great decisively defeated Edmund Ironside in the Battle of Assandun, gaining control over most of the Kingdom of England. | {{refimprove}} |
1356 – The most significant earthquake to have occurred in Central Europe in recorded history destroyed Basel, Switzerland, and caused much destruction in a vast region extending into France and Germany. | short |
1748 – The War of the Austrian Succession ended with the signing of the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle. | War article tagged refimprove, Treaty article has unreferenced section |
1851 – Moby-Dick, a novel by American writer Herman Melville, was first published as The Whale. | unreferenced section |
1922 – The British Broadcasting Company was incorporated by a consortium to establish a network of radio transmitters to provide a national broadcasting service in the United Kingdom. | no footnotes |
1977 – Various Red Army Faction members died in prison, officially by suicide, ending the German Autumn crisis. | needs more footnotes |
Eligible
adiht- 1775 – American Revolutionary War: In an act of retaliation against ports that supported Patriot activities in the early stages of the war, the Royal Navy destroyed what is now Portland, Maine.
- 1967 – The Soviet space probe Venera 4 performed direct analysis of the environment of Venus and became the first spacecraft to land on another planet, although it stopped working before that.
- 1968 – At the Summer Olympics in Mexico City, American Bob Beamon set a world record of 8.90 m in the long jump, a mark that stood for 23 years.
- 1991 – The Supreme Council of Azerbaijan adopted a declaration of independence from the Soviet Union.
Notes
adiht- 1968 Olympics Black Power salute appears on October 16, so Bob Beamon should not appear in the same year.
18. dæg Winterfylleðes : Halgan Luces Mǣssedæg
- 320 – Pappus of Alexandria, one of the last great Greek mathematicians of antiquity, observed an eclipse that allowed historians to calculate the approximate dates of his life.
- 1081 – Byzantinisca–Normanisca gūþe: The Normans under Robert Guiscard, Pulie and Calabrie Heretoga, hæfde sige ofer Byzantinfolce ūt Dyrrhachie ceaster, seo ƿæs Eastrēmisc hēafodstōl for Illyrie.
- 1851 – Moby-Dick, bōc be Herman Melville Americaniscum ƿritere, ƿæs sƿutelod be naman Se Hran.
- 1954 – The first commercial transistor radio, the Regency TR-1 (on biliþe), ƿæs introduced in Indianapolis on American.
- 2007 – A suicide attack on ƿægnflocce se bār Benazir Bhutto seo ƿæs ar Forma Þegn of Pacistane in Caraci þærbe stearfon 139 men and 450 mid bennum.