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Westminster Abbey -
Osceola -
President Saparmurat Niyazov of Turkmenistan -
The Old Gum Tree in South Australia (c. 2006) -
Constance Markievicz
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| Proclamation Day in South Australia (1836); | refimprove |
| 1835 – Osceola led his Seminole warriors in Florida into the Second Seminole War against the U.S. Army. | Tagged with {{refimprove}} |
| 1895 – History of film: Using their cinematograph in Paris, the Lumière brothers showed motion pictures to a paying audience for the first time. | tagged with {{unreferenced}} and {{expand section}} |
| 1948 – The Douglas DC-3 airliner NC16002, en route from San Juan on Rīcehȳðe to Miami, Florida, disappeared in the area known as the Bermuda Triangle. | refimprove |
| 1999 – Saparmurat Niyazov, the first President of Turkmenistan, was proclaimed President for Life by the Assembly of Turkmenistan. | Tagged with {{refimprove}} |
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adiht- 893 – An earthquake destroyed the city of Dvin, Armenia, causing about 30,000 casualties.
- 1065 – Westminster Abbey in London, built by Edward the Confessor between 1045 and 1050, was consecrated.
- 1768 – Taksin the Great was crowned king of the newly established Thonburi Kingdom in the new capital at Thonburi, present-day Thailand.
- 1832 – John C. Calhoun became the first Vice President of the United States to resign.
- 1836 – At the Old Gum Tree near present-day Adelaide, Royal Navy Rear-Admiral John Hindmarsh read a proclamation establishing the British province of South Australia.
- 1907 – The last confirmed sighting of the extinct Huia took place in the Tararua Ranges, North Island, New Zealand.
- 1908 – A magnitude 7.2 earthquake and subsequent tsunami struck Messina, Italy, killing more than 100,000 people.
- 1918 – Irishwoman Constance Markievicz became the first female Member of Parliament elected to the British House of Commons, although she never served.
- 1943 – Second World War: After eight days of brutal house-to-house fighting, the 1st Canadian Infantry Division captured the Italian town of Ortona.
- 1973 – U.S. President Richard Nixon signed the Endangered Species Act into law, a wide-ranging environmental law designed to protect critically imperiled species from extinction as a "consequence of economic growth and development untempered by adequate concern and conservation."
- 1989 – In one of Australia's most serious natural disasters, a 5.6 ML earthquake struck Newcastle, New South Wales, killing 13 people and injuring more than 160 others, and causing an estimated A$4 billion in damages.
- 2006 – War in Somalia: Troops of Somalia's Transitional Federal Government along with their Ethiopian allies captured Mogadishu unopposed.
- 2009 – A suicide bomber killed 43 in Karachi, Pakistan, during a procession on the Day of Ashura, the holiest of days for followers of Shia Islam.
28. dæg Geolan: Cilda mæssedæg (on Westernum Cristendōme)
- 484 – Eallrīca II æfterfolgede his fæder Eoric to weardenne Westgotena Cyning.
- 1612 – Galileo weard se forma mann to observe Neptune þæt dweligende tungol, oððæt þe he hogde þe hit wæs fæst steorr.
- 1879 – Se Tægbrycg, se ymbfarþ þone Tægflēot betwuh Dundee and se Wormit, tofeol in grimum storme þæn stāh hine foloþwægn, and steafon ealla menn abord.
- 1912 – The San Francisco Municipal Railway, operator of the city's famed cable car system (cable car pictured), opened its first line.
- 1935 – Politician Pavel Postyshev revived the New Year tree tradition in the Soviet Union when Pravda published his letter asking for them to be installed in schools, children's homes, Young Pioneer Palaces, children's clubs, children's theaters, and cinema theaters.