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Our Lady of Kazan
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| Blurb | Reason |
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| 1283 – War of the Sicilian Vespers: An Aragonese fleet of galleys inflicted a crushing defeat on an Angevin fleet at Malta, forcing Charles I of Anjou to postpone his plan to invade Sicily. | primary sources |
| 1497 – Vasco da Gama set sail on the first direct European voyage to India. | Both refimprove. Check February 12 before adding to MainPage |
| 1579 – Our Lady of Kazan, a holy icon of the Russian Orthodox Church, was discovered underground in Kazan, present-day Tatarstan, Russia. | refimprove section |
| 1859 – Charles XV became King of Sweden and Norway following the death of his father Oscar I. | refimprove section, unreferenced section (Ancestry) |
| 1889 – The first issue of The Wall Street Journal, the world's most circulated business daily newspaper, was published. | recentism |
| 1898 – American con artist and gangster Soapy Smith was killed in Skagway, Alaska, when an argument with fellow gang members turned into an unexpected gunfight. | refimprove |
| 1972 – Palestinian author Ghassan Kanafani was assassinated by Mossad agents in response to the Lod Airport massacre. | missing ISBNs |
| 2011 – Space Shuttle Atlantis was launched in STS-135, the final mission of NASA's Space Shuttle program. | unreferenced section |
| 2014 – In response to the kidnapping and murder of three Israeli teenagers, Israel launched a military operation into the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip. | Lots of inline tags |
| Sourav Ganguly |b|1972| | Fan pov |
| Abdul Sattar Edhi |d|2016| | lots of cn |
| George Romney |b|1907 | TFA for 2021 |
Eligible
- 1994 – Upon the death of Kim Il-sung, Kim Jong-il (pictured) became the supreme leader of North Korea.
- 2021 – Head of a Bear sold at auction for £7.5 million, a record for a drawing by Leonardo da Vinci.
- Born/died this day: | Saint Kilian |d|689|Qatr al-Nada |d|900| Alberto Bolognetti |b|1538| Carlos, Prince of Asturias |b|1545| Peter Sainthill |b|1593| Giorgio Pullicino |b|1779| James B. McCreary |b|1838| Käthe Kollwitz |b|1867| Hugo Boss |b|1885|Saprang Kalayanamitr|b|1948| Tzipi Livni |b|1958|Yarden Gerbi |b|1989 | Muhammed bin Saud Al Saud |d|2012| Abul Kalam Qasmi|d|2021
July 8: Day of Arafah (Islam, 2022)
- 1663 – Charles II of England granted the Rhode Island Royal Charter, described as the "grandest instrument of human liberty ever constructed", to the Baptist minister John Clarke.
- 1709 – Great Northern War: Swedish forces under Charles XII were defeated by Russian troops led by Peter the Great at the Battle of Poltava (pictured), effectively ending Sweden's role as a major European power.
- 1758 – French and Indian War: French forces defeated the British at Fort Carillon on the shore of Lake Champlain in the British colony of New York.
- 1947 – Following reports of the capture of a "flying disc" by U.S. Army Air Forces personnel near Roswell, New Mexico, the military stated that the crashed object was a conventional weather balloon.
- 1962 – Following student protests at Rangoon University, Burmese general Ne Win ordered the demolition of the historic students' union building.
- Eli Lilly (b. 1838)
- Percy Grainger (b. 1882)
- Sky Ferreira (b. 1992)