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National Religious Freedom Day in the United States | refimprove, stub |
; Teachers' Day in Thailand | refimprove |
929 – Emir Abd al-Rahman III of Cordoba declared himself caliph, thereby establishing the Caliphate of Córdoba. | both: refimprove section |
1120 – The Council of Nablus was held, establishing the earliest surviving written laws of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem. | refimprove section |
1547 – Ivan the Terrible was crowned the first Tsar of Russia at the age of 16. | refimprove section |
1605 – Book One of Don Quixote, El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes, was first published in Madrid, Spain. | refimprove section |
1917 – World War I: The German Empire sent the Zimmermann Telegram, a diplomatic proposal to Mexico to make war against the United States, which led in part to the US entering the war. | refimprove section |
1919 – The Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified by thirty-six of the forty-eight states, establishing the prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the United States. | refimprove section |
1938 – Benny Goodman performed a concert at New York City's Carnegie Hall which has been considered instrumental in establishing jazz as a legitimate form of music. | unreferenced section |
1969 – Student Jan Palach set himself on fire in Wenceslas Square in Prague as a protest against the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia the previous year. | refimprove section |
1986 – The Internet Engineering Task Force, a standards organization that develops and promotes Internet Standards, held its first meeting, consisting of 21 researchers funded by the U.S. government. | date not in the source provided, and lots of citations needed |
1991 – The Gulf War began as a United Nations-led coalition began an assault on Iraqi forces to free Kuwait. | refimprove section, more globalization |
1992 – The Chapultepec Peace Accords were signed, ending the 12-year Salvadoran Civil War between the military-led government of El Salvador and the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front. | refimprove section |
2008 – Five days after proposing lyrics for the wordless Marcha Real, the Spanish national anthem, the Spanish Olympic Committee withdrew the proposal due to widespread criticism. | refimprove section |
Richard Goodwin Keats |b|1757 | too many cites needed (14) |
William Hall-Jones |b|1851| | Birthday not cited |
Anton Schindler |d|1864| | Deathday not cited |