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| [[List of national independence days|Independence Day]] in '''[[Vanuatu]]''' ([[1980]])
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| [[762]] – [[Al-Mansur]], the [[Caliph of Islam]], '''[[History of Baghdad|founded the city of Baghdad]]''' to be the capital of the Islamic empire under the [[Abbasid Caliphate|Abbasids]].
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| [[1419]] – [[Hussite Wars]]: [[Jan Žižka]] and others threw several town councillors out of the window at the '''[[Defenestrations of Prague|First Defenestrations of Prague]]'''.
| featured on [[Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/May 23|May 23]], date of second defenestration
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| [[1619]] – The first representative assembly in the Americas, [[Virginia Colony|Virginia]]'s '''[[House of Burgesses]]''', convened for the first time.
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| [[1656]] – Led by King [[Charles X Gustav of Sweden|{{nowrap|Charles X}} Gustav]], the armies of [[Swedish Empire|Sweden]] and [[Margraviate of Brandenburg|Brandenburg]] '''[[Battle of Warsaw (1656)|defeated]]''' the forces of the [[Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth]] near Warsaw.
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| [[1676]] – '''[[Bacon's Rebellion|Rebelling colonists]]''' led by [[Nathaniel Bacon (Virginia)|Nathaniel Bacon]]<!--not bold, lead too short--> issued the [[Declaration of the People of Virginia|Declaration of the People]]<!--not bold, single source--> against the rule of Governor [[William Berkeley (governor)|William Berkeley]] in [[Colony of Virginia|Virginia]].
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|  [[1756]] – Architect [[Bartolomeo Rastrelli]] presented the '''[[Catherine Palace]]''', a [[Rococo]] palace in [[Tsarskoye Selo]], to Empress [[Elizabeth of Russia]].
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| [[1825]] – '''[[Malden Island]]'''<!-- ''(pictured)''-->, now one of [[Kiribati]]'s [[Line Islands]], was discovered by Captain [[George Byron, 7th Baron Byron|The 7th Lord Byron]].
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| [[1864]] – [[American Civil War]]: [[Union Army|Union forces]] failed to break [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]] lines by exploding a large [[mining (military)|mine]] under their trenches at the '''[[Battle of the Crater]]''' in [[Petersburg, Virginia]].
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| [[1912]] – Japan's '''[[Emperor Meiji]]''' died and was succeeded by his son Yoshihito, who is now known as the '''[[Emperor Taishō]]'''.
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| [[1945]] – [[World War II]]: '''[[USS Indianapolis (CA-35)|USS ''Indianapolis'']]''', a [[heavy cruiser]] of the [[United States Navy]], was sunk by the [[Japanese submarine I-58|Japanese submarine ''I-58'']], killing over 800 seamen.
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| [[1965]] – U.S. president [[Lyndon B. Johnson]] signed the [[Social Security Amendments of 1965|Social Security Act]]<!--Not bolded, refimprove--> into law, establishing '''[[Medicare (United States)|Medicare]]''' and '''[[Medicaid]]''' to provide federal [[health insurance]] for the elderly and for low income families, respectively.
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| [[1978]] – In accordance with the [[Geneva Convention on Road Traffic]], [[Okinawa Prefecture]], Japan, '''[[730 (transport)|switched back]]''' from [[Right- and left-hand traffic|driving on the right-hand side of the road to the left]].
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| [[2003]] – The last old-style '''[[Volkswagen Beetle|Beetle]]''', the [[economy car]] produced by the German automaker [[Volkswagen]], rolled off the assembly line in [[Puebla, Puebla|Puebla]], Mexico.
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| '''[[Kate Bush]]'''<!--English singer--> |b|1958
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* [[1950]] – At the height of the political crisis known as the '''[[Royal Question]]''', four workers were shot dead by the Belgian [[Gendarmerie (Belgium)|Gendarmerie]] at a strike in [[Grâce-Hollogne|Grâce-Berleur]].
* [[1975]] – American labor union leader '''[[Jimmy Hoffa]]''' mysteriously disappeared after last being seen outside a restaurant near Detroit.
* [[2006]] – [[2006 Lebanon War|Lebanon War]]: The [[Israeli Air Force]] '''[[Qana airstrike|attacked a three-story building]]''' near the [[Southern Lebanon|Southern Lebanese]] village of [[Qana]], killing at least 28 civilians, including 16 children.
* Born/died this day: | '''[[Jacob Baradaeus]]'''<!--Turkic bishop--> |d|578| '''[[Tatwine]]'''<!--English bishop--> |d|734| '''[[Emily Brontë]]'''<!--English writer--> |b|1818| '''[[George Pickett]]'''<!--American general--> |d|1875| '''[[Smedley Butler]]'''<!--American military officer--> |b|1881| '''[[Casey Stengel]]'''<!--American baseball player--> |b|1890| '''[[Joyce Kilmer]]'''<!--American poet, male--> |d|1918| '''[[Walter Schuck]]'''<!--German fighter pilot--> |b|1920| '''[[Harold Davidson]]'''<!--English priest--> |d|1937| '''[[Hope Solo]]'''<!--American soccer player--> |b|1981| '''[[Katherine Reutter]]'''<!--American speed skater--> |b|1980| '''[[Ian Gow]]'''<!--English politician--> |d|1990
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'''[[July 30]]''': '''[[Friendship Day|International Day of Friendship]]'''
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* [[1865]] – Off the coast of [[Crescent City, California]], the steamer '''''[[Brother Jonathan (steamer)|Brother Jonathan]]''''' ''(depicted)'' struck an uncharted rock and sank, killing 225 people; its cargo of gold coins was not retrieved until 1996.
* [[1916]] – [[World War&nbsp;I]]: German agents '''[[Black Tom explosion|sabotaged U.S.-made munitions]]''' in [[New York Harbor]] that were to be supplied to the [[Allies of World War I|Allies]]<!-- ''(damages pictured)''-->.
* [[1930]] – '''[[1930 FIFA World Cup Final|Uruguay defeated Argentina]]''' at the [[Estadio Centenario]] in [[Montevideo]] to win the '''[[1930 FIFA World Cup|inaugural FIFA World Cup]]'''.
* [[1981]] – Amid a widespread economic crisis and food shortages in Poland, up to 50,000 people, mostly women and children, took part in the largest of '''[[1981 Polish hunger demonstrations|nationwide hunger demonstrations]]''' in [[Łódź]].
* [[2014]] – At least 151 people were killed when heavy rains triggered '''[[2014 Malin landslide|a landslide]]''' in the village of Malin in [[Maharashtra]], India.
{{Born and died list| '''[[Giorgio Vasari]]'''<!--Italian painter--> |b|1511| '''[[Lê Văn Duyệt]]'''<!--Vietnamese general--> |d|1832| '''[[Claudette Colbert]]'''<!--American actress--> |d|1996}}
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