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Ramón Villeda Morales -
Mercury-Atlas 8 liftoff
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| ; Hoshana Rabbah begins at sunset (Judaism, 2015) | neutrality issues |
| German Unity Day; | refimprove |
| National Day in Iraq (1932); | multiple issues |
| National Foundation Day in South Korea | refimprove |
| 1283 – Dafydd ap Gruffydd the Prince of Wales, the last native ruler of Wales to resist English domination, was executed by drawing and quartering. | refimprove |
| 1849 – American author Edgar Allan Poe was found delirious in a gutter in Baltimore, Maryland, under mysterious circumstances; it was the last time he was seen in public before his death four days later. | Moved to October 7, date of death |
| 1918 – World War I: Following his armed forces' defeat by the Allied Powers, Bulgarian Tsar Ferdinand I abdicated in favor of his son Boris III. | refimprove |
| 1929 – King Alexander I renamed the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes as the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. | refimprove |
| 1935 – Italian forces under General Emilio De Bono invaded Abyssinia during the opening stages of the Second Italo-Abyssinian War. | refimprove section |
| 1942 – World War II: The first successful test of the German V-2 rocket, the world's first ballistic missile and first man-made item to achieve sub-orbital spaceflight, occurred. | refimprove section |
| 1964 – According to a popular legend, the first Buffalo wings were first prepared at the Anchor Bar in Buffalo, New York, US, as a fast and easy snack to present to hungry guests. | date not in article |
| 1986 – After Soviet nuclear submarine K-219 had suffered an explosion and fire, sailor Sergei Preminin manually prevented an impending nuclear meltdown by means of a reactor SCRAM. | refimprove section |
| 1990 – East and West Germany officially joined to form the first fully sovereign united German state since the end of World War II. | unreferenced section |
| 1993 – American armed forces attempted to capture officials of Somalian warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid's organization at the Battle of Mogadishu. | refimprove section |
| 1995 – In a highly publicized criminal trial, actor and former American football player O. J. Simpson was acquitted for the murders of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman. | Featured on June 17, date of arrest |
| 2003 – Roy Horn of the American entertainment duo of Siegfried & Roy was mauled by a tiger during a performance at The Mirage hotel and casino resort on the Las Vegas Strip. | refimprove |
Eligible
- 1951 – In Major League Baseball, the New York Giants' Bobby Thomson hit the "Shot Heard 'Round the World", a game-winning home run in the bottom of the ninth inning to win the National League pennant.
- 1952 – The United Kingdom successfully completed a nuclear test to become the world's third nuclear power.
- 1957 – A California Superior Court judge ruled that "Howl", a poem by Allen Ginsberg, was of "redeeming social importance" and thus not obscene.
- 1963 – Oswaldo López Arellano replaced Honduran President Ramón Villeda Morales in a violent coup and initiated two decades of military rule.
- 1981 – The hunger strike by Irish Republican Army prisoners at HM Prison Maze in Belfast ended after seven months and ten deaths.
- 1989 – Major Moisés Giroldi of the Panama Defense Forces failed in his attempt to overthrow dictator Manuel Noriega.
- 2013 – A boat carrying migrants from Libya to Italy sank off the Italian island of Lampedusa, with a second boat sinking eight days later.
- 2015 – War in Afghanistan: A United States Air Force gunship mistakenly attacked a hospital operated by Médecins Sans Frontières, resulting in at least 42 deaths and 30 injuries.
- Born/died: Muhammad ibn Zayd (d. 900) · Pierre Bonnard (b. 1867)
Notes
- The Catch (baseball) appears on September 29, so the Shot Heard 'Round the World should not appear in the same year.
- Ferdinand I of Bulgaria appears on October 5, so Boris III should not appear in the same year.
- 2333 BC – According to Korean legend, Dangun established Gojoseon, the first Korean kingdom.
- 1951 – The First Battle of Maryang-san, widely regarded as one of the Australian Army's greatest accomplishments during the Korean War, began.
- 1962 – Mercury-Atlas 8, the fifth United States manned space mission, was launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida.
- 1991 – Nadine Gordimer (pictured) became the first South African to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.
- 2008 – The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, establishing the Troubled Asset Relief Program, commonly referred to as a bailout of the U.S. financial system, was enacted.
Sophie Treadwell (b. 1885) · Carl Nielsen (d. 1931) · Olivia Shakespear (d. 1938)