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==Ineligible== {|class="wikitable" |- !Blurb !Reason |- | '''[[Arbor Day]]''' in China and Taiwan; | refimprove |- | '''[[World Day Against Cyber Censorship]]'''; | needs 3rd party sources |- | [[List of national independence days|Independence Day]] in '''[[Mauritius]]''' ([[1968]]) | refimprove section |- | [[510s BC|515 BCE]] – Construction of the '''[[Temple in Jerusalem]]''' was completed. | unreferenced section |- | [[538]] – [[Vitiges]], [[Germanic kingship|king]] of the [[Ostrogoths]], ended his '''[[Siege of Rome (537–538)|siege of Rome]]''', leaving the city in the hands of the victorious Roman general, [[Belisarius]]. | refimprove section |- | [[1864]] – [[American Civil War]]: The [[Union Army]] began the ill-fated '''[[Red River campaign]]''', in which not a single objective was fully accomplished. | refimprove section |- | [[1870]] – The '''[[Bulgarian Exarchate]]''', the official name of the [[Bulgarian Orthodox Church]] before its [[autocephaly]] was recognized by the other [[Eastern Christianity|Orthodox churches]] in the 1950s, was established by the [[firman]] of [[Ottoman dynasty|Sultan]] [[Abdülaziz]] of the [[Ottoman Empire]]. | refimprove |- | [[1912]] – [[Juliette Gordon Low]] founded a youth organization for girls that grew into the '''[[Girl Scouts of the USA]]'''. | refimprove section |- | [[1921]] – The [[Turkish Grand National Assembly]] adopted '''''[[İstiklal Marşı]]''''' as the national anthem, with lyrics written by poet [[Mehmet Akif Ersoy]] and music by [[Zeki Üngör]]. | refimprove |- | [[1928]] – The failure of the '''[[St. Francis Dam]]''' northwest of [[Los Angeles]] resulted in a flood that killed 400 people. | lots of CN tags |- | [[1938]] – Austria was '''[[Anschluss|occupied]]''' by the [[Wehrmacht]], and subsequently became [[Ostmark (Austria)|Ostmark]], a province within the [[Nazi Germany|German Reich]]. | lots of CN tags |- |[[1986]] – South Korean film director [[Shin Sang-ok]] and his ex-wife, actress [[Choi Eun-hee]], who had been '''[[Abduction of Shin Sang-ok and Choi Eun-hee|abducted]]''' by North Korea to make propaganda films, escaped while in [[Vienna]]. |Date cited to New York Post which is listed at [[Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Perennial sources]] as "generally unreliable for factual reporting" |- | [[1989]] – [[Tim Berners-Lee]] submitted a memorandum at [[CERN]] with details of an information-management system, the first proposal for what would become the '''[[World Wide Web]]'''. | Orange banner: citations needed |- | [[1993]] – A series of '''[[1993 Bombay bombings|thirteen coordinated bomb explosions]]''' took place in [[Mumbai|Bombay]], India, killing over 250 civilians and injuring over 700 others. | multiple issues |- | [[1993]] – The '''[[1993 Storm of the Century|Storm of the Century]]''' formed over the [[Gulf of Mexico]]; at its height its effects were directly experienced by nearly 40 percent of the United States' population. | refimprove section |- | [[2003]] – '''[[Zoran Đinđić]]''', the prime minister of Serbia, [[Assassination of Zoran Đinđić|was assassinated]] in [[Belgrade]]. | Đinđić: refimprove sections; Assassination: refimprove section |- | [[2004]] – The [[National Assembly of South Korea]] voted to impeach President '''[[Roh Moo-hyun]]''' on charges of illegal electioneering and incompetence, a move that was largely opposed by the public. | unreferenced section |- | '''[[Charles Boycott]]'''<!--English estate manager--> |b|1832| | Birthday not cited |}
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