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Mixed Race Day in Brazil; refimprove
Independence Day in Djibouti unreferenced section
1358 – The Republic of Ragusa, a maritime republic centered on the city of Dubrovnik in Dalmatia, was founded. refimprove
1556 – The thirteen Stratford Martyrs were burned at the stake near London for their Protestant beliefs. refimprove section
1760Anglo-Cherokee War: Cherokee warriors defeated British forces at the Battle of Echoee near present-day Otto, North Carolina, U.S. refimprove section
1844Latter Day Saint movement founder Joseph Smith and his brother Hyrum were killed by an armed mob who stormed the prison where they were incarcerated in Carthage, Illinois. refimprove section
1898 – Canadian-American seaman and adventurer Joshua Slocum completed the first solo circumnavigation of the globe sailing on his refitted sloop-rigged fishing boat Spray, a distance of more than 46,000 miles (74,000 km). Slocum: refimprove; Spray: unreferenced section
1954 – The Obninsk Nuclear Power Plant near Moscow was connected to the electrical grid, becoming the world's first nuclear power plant to produce electricity industrially. Citations needed
1967 – The world's first electronic automated teller machine was installed in Enfield Town, London, by Barclays Bank. refimprove section
1971 – After only three years in business, rock promoter Bill Graham closed the Fillmore East, the "Church of Rock and Roll", in New York City. refimprove
1976Air France Flight 139 (Tel AvivAthensParis) was hijacked en route to Paris by the PLO and redirected to Entebbe, Uganda. appears on July 4
1980Itavia Flight 870 suffered an in-flight explosion due to unknown causes while en route from Bologna to Palermo, Italy, killing all 81 people on board. multiple issues
1981Ali Khamenei, Iranian supreme leader, was seriously injured in an assassination attempt. expansion
1986 – In Nicaragua v. United States, the International Court of Justice ruled that the United States had violated international law by supporting the Contras in their rebellion against the Nicaraguan government. refimprove section
1989Convention 169, a major binding international convention concerning indigenous peoples, and a forerunner of the 2007 Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, was adopted by the International Labour Organization. unreffed sections
1991 – Yugoslavia invaded Slovenia, two days after the latter's declaration of independence from the former, starting the Ten-Day War. refimprove
Svetlana Kuznetsova |b|1985| Date not cited

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