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Feast day of Saint Columba (Christianity) lots of CN tags (7)
AD 68 – Roman emperor Nero committed suicide after he was deposed by the Senate. unreferenced section (Ancestry)
1667Second Anglo-Dutch War: The Dutch began the Raid on the Medway, attacking the largest English naval ships in the dockyards of their main naval base near Chatham. refimprove section
1732James Oglethorpe was granted a royal charter for the Province of Georgia between the Savannah and Altamaha rivers. refimprove section
1815 – The Congress of Vienna ended, redrawing the political map of Europe after the defeat of Napoleon. Lots of unreferenced material
1873 – Sixteen days after it was built, Alexandra Palace in North London was destroyed by fire. outdated, refimprove section
1885 – In the peace treaty signed to end the Sino-French War, Qing forces withdrew from Tonkin, allowing France to occupy it and Annam (most of present-day Vietnam). Treaty: unreferenced section; War: refimprove section
1923 – Bulgarian armed forces overthrew the government of the Bulgarian Agrarian National Union headed by Aleksandar Stamboliyski and replaced it with one under Aleksandar Tsankov. refimprove
1934Donald Duck debuted in The Wise Little Hen. refimprove section
1946 – After King Ananda Mahidol was fatally shot, Bhumibol Adulyadej ascended to the throne of Thailand, becoming the longest-reigning monarch in Thai history. multiple issues
1972 – A dam outside Rapid City, South Dakota, U.S., became clogged with debris and failed, resulting in 238 deaths, 3,057 injuries, and over $160 million in damage. unreferenced section
George Stephenson |b|1781 refimprove sections
* 411 BC – Wealthy Athenians overthrew the democratic government of ancient Athens, replacing it with a short-lived oligarchy known as the Four Hundred. Principal source does not have page numbers noted

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