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Julius Caesar -
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Two German infantrymen in Russia, 1941
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Talaat Pasha -
Nicholas II, the last Tsar of Russia
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Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
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| Hōnen Matsuri in Japan | essentially unreferenced stub |
| ; National Day in Hungary (1848) | inappropriate tone |
| 933 – Franks led by German king Henry I defeated an invading Hungarian army in the Battle of Riade in northern Thuringia. | refimprove section |
| 1781 – American Revolutionary War: A British force under General Lord Cornwallis, numbering 1,900, fought 4,400 American troops under Rhode Island native General Nathanael Greene at the Battle of Guilford Court House inside present-day Greensboro, North Carolina. | unreferenced section |
| 1820 – As part of the Missouri Compromise, the exclave of Massachusetts known as Maine was given its own U.S. statehood. | refimprove section |
| 1877 – Cricketers representing England and Australia began the first match in Test cricket at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. | needs more footnotes, English cricket team in Australia and New Zealand in 1876–77: refimprove |
| 1906 – Charles Rolls and Henry Royce founded the British automobile manufacturing company Rolls-Royce. | unreferenced section |
| 1939 – Nazi German troops began their occupation of Czechoslovakia and established the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. | both: refimprove |
| 1941 – Philippine Airlines, the flag carrier of the Philippines took its first flight, making it the oldest commercial airline in Asia operating under its original name. | unreferenced section |
| 1945 – World War II: The Soviet Red Army began the Upper Silesian Offensive aimed at capturing the industrial and raw materials resources located in Upper Silesia. | refimprove section |
| 1956 – The musical My Fair Lady, based on George Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion, debuted at the Mark Hellinger Theatre in New York City. | lots of CN tags |
| 1985 – The company Symbolics became the first entity, individual or party to register a .com top-level domain name: symbolics.com. | refimprove section |
| 1986 – The building housing the Hotel New World in Singapore collapsed suddenly due to structural failure, killing 33 people. | multiple issues |
| 1989 – The United States Department of Veterans Affairs, a government-run military veteran benefit system, was established as a Cabinet-level position. | refimprove |
| Paul Pogba (b. 1993) | expansion |
Eligible
- 44 BC – Dictator Julius Caesar of the Roman Republic was stabbed to death (pictured) by Marcus Junius Brutus and several other Roman senators.
- 856 – Byzantine emperor Michael III overthrew the regency of his mother Theodora to assume power for himself.
- 1311 – The Catalan Company defeated Walter V, Count of Brienne in the Battle of Halmyros and took control of the Duchy of Athens, a Crusader state in Greece.
- 1875 – Archbishop of New York John McCloskey was named the first cardinal in the United States.
- 1916 – Six days after Pancho Villa and his cross-border raiders attacked Columbus, New Mexico, U.S. General John J. Pershing led a punitive expedition into Mexico to pursue Villa.
- 1917 – Tsar Nicholas II of Russia was forced to abdicate in the February Revolution, ending three centuries of Romanov rule.
- 1921 – Talaat Pasha, considered the main perpetrator of the Armenian Genocide, was assassinated by the Armenian Revolutionary Federation.
- 1943 – World War II: German forces recaptured Kharkov after four days of house-to-house fighting against Soviet troops, ending the month-long Third Battle of Kharkov.
- 1972 – The Godfather, a gangster film based on the novel of the same name by Mario Puzo and directed by Francis Ford Coppola, was released.
- 1990 – Iraqi authorities hanged freelance Iranian reporter Farzad Bazoft for spying for Israel.
- Born/died: Archibald Menzies (b. 1754) · Christian Michelsen (b. 1857) · Matthew Charlton (b. 1866) · Ruth Bader Ginsburg (b. 1933) · Arthur Compton (d. 1962)
Notes
- FC Bayern Munich appears on February 27, so Liverpool FC should not appear in the same year
- Missouri Compromise appears on March 3, so Maine should not appear in the same year
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- 1147 – Portuguese troops under the leadership of Afonso I captured the Almoravid city of Santarém.
- 1783 – A potential uprising in Newburgh, New York, was defused when George Washington asked Continental Army officers to support the supremacy of Congress.
- 1927 – In rowing, Oxford defeated Cambridge in the first Women's Boat Race (2015 edition pictured) held in Oxford, England.
- 1951 – The Iranian oil industry was nationalized in a movement led by Mohammad Mosaddegh.
- 2011 – Arab Spring: Protests erupted across Syria against the authoritarian government, marking the start of the Syrian Civil War.
Albert of Schwarzburg (d. 1327) · Johan Vaaler (b. 1866) · Lauren Ebsary (b. 1983)