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File:Marguerite Durand 1910 - Restoration.jpg|Marguerite Durand
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File:Child with Smallpox Bangladesh.jpg|Child with smallpox, 1973
File:SRI Computer Mouse.jpg|The first computer mouse
File:Castle Arenberg, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven adj.jpg|Arenberg Castle, on the campus of the Catholic University of Leuven
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==Ineligible==
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| ; '''[[Armed Forces Day#Peru|Army Day]]''' in Peru ([[1824]])
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| [[List of national independence days|Independence Day]] in '''[[Tanzania]]''' ([[1961]])
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| [[1425]] – [[Pope Martin V]] issued a [[papal bull]] establishing what later became the '''[[Catholic University of Leuven (1834–1968)|Catholic University of Leuven]]''', the largest, oldest and most prominent university in Belgium.
| needs rewrite, unreferenced section
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| [[1824]] – Forces led by General [[Antonio José de Sucre]] defeated a [[Royalist (Spanish American Revolution)|Royalist]] army in the '''[[Battle of Ayacucho]]''', ending the [[Peruvian War of Independence]].
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| [[1856]] – [[Anglo-Persian War]]: '''[[Bushehr]]''', a city on the southwestern coast of the [[Persian Gulf]] in present-day Iran, surrendered to occupying British forces.
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| [[1872]] – '''[[P. B. S. Pinchback|{{nowrap|P. B. S.}} Pinchback]]''' took office as [[List of governors of Louisiana|governor of Louisiana]], the first [[African Americans|African-American]] governor of a U.S. state.
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| [[1931]] – The approval of the '''[[Spanish Constitution of 1931|Spanish Constitution]]''' by the [[Constituent Cortes]] paved the way to the establishment of the [[Second Spanish Republic]].
| unreferenced section
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| [[1946]] – The '''[[Doctors' trial]]''', the first of the [[Subsequent Nuremberg Trials]], began to prosecute doctors who were allegedly involved in [[Nazi human experimentation]] during [[World War II]].
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| [[1958]] – The '''[[John Birch Society]]''', named after [[John Birch (missionary)|John Birch]], an American missionary who was killed in China by communists, was founded to fight the perceived threat of [[American Left#Marxist|communism in the United States]].
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| [[1960]] – '''''[[Coronation Street]]''''', the longest-running television [[soap opera]] in the United Kingdom, was first broadcast on [[ITV]].
| plot summary too long
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| [[1965]] – '''''[[A Charlie Brown Christmas]]''''', the first television adaptation of [[Charles Schulz]]'s comic strip ''[[Peanuts]]'', was broadcast for the first time.
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| [[1990]] – '''[[Lech Wałęsa]]''' became the first person elected [[President of the Republic of Poland|President of Poland]] in a [[Polish presidential election, 1990|direct presidential election]] after the [[Revolutions of 1989|collapse of communism across Eastern Europe]].
| appears on [[Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/August 14|August 14]]
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| [[1996]] – Gwen Jacob was acquitted of [[indecent exposure]] for having taken off her shirt on a hot day, thus guaranteeing '''[[Topfreedom in Canada|topfreedom in Ontario, Canada]]'''.
| lots of CN tags (7)
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| '''[[Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon]]''' |d|1674|
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==Eligible==
* [[1688]] – In the only substantial military action in England during the [[Glorious Revolution]], forces loyal to [[William III of England|William of Orange]] were decisively victorious in the '''[[Battle of Reading (1688)|Battle of Reading]]'''.
* [[1775]] – [[American Revolutionary War]]: After their loss in the '''[[Battle of Great Bridge]]''', British authorities were forced to evacuate from the [[Colony of Virginia]].
* [[1897]] – French actress, journalist and leading suffragette [[Marguerite Durand]] founded the feminist newspaper '''''[[La Fronde (newspaper)|La Fronde]]'''''.
* [[1905]] – '''[[1905 French law on the Separation of the Churches and the State|Legislation establishing state secularism in France]]''' was passed by the [[Chamber of Deputies (France)|Chamber of Deputies]].
* [[1911]] – '''[[Cross Mountain Mine disaster|A mine explosion]]''' near [[Briceville, Tennessee]], killed 84 miners despite a well-organized rescue effort led by the [[United States Bureau of Mines]].
* [[1940]] – [[World War II|Second World War]]: British and Commonwealth forces began '''[[Operation Compass]]''', the first major [[Allies of World War II|Allied]] military operation of the [[Western Desert campaign]].
* [[1948]] – The [[United Nations General Assembly]] adopted the '''[[Genocide Convention]]''', which defines [[genocide]] in legal terms and advises its signatories to prevent and punish such actions.
* [[1965]] – A '''[[Kecksburg UFO incident|large, brilliant fireball]]''' was seen by thousands in midwestern North America before crash landing in [[Kecksburg, Pennsylvania]].
* [[1968]] – '''[[Douglas Engelbart]]''' gave what became known as "'''[[The Mother of All Demos]]'''", publicly debuting the [[computer mouse]], [[hypertext]], and the bit-mapped [[graphical user interface]] using the [[NLS (computer system)|oN-Line System (NLS)]].
* [[1969]] – U.S. secretary of state [[William P. Rogers]] proposed a plan, later called the '''[[Rogers Plan]]''', for a ceasefire in the [[War of Attrition]]; Egypt's and Jordan's acceptance of the plan over [[Palestine Liberation Organization]] objections led to [[Black September|civil war in Jordan]] in {{nowrap|September 1970}}.
* [[1979]] – A [[World Health Organization]] commission of scientists certified the global eradication of '''[[smallpox]]''', making it the only human [[Infection|infectious disease]] to date to have been completely [[Eradication of infectious diseases|eradicated]].
* [[2008]] – Governor of Illinois [[Rod Blagojevich]] '''[[Rod Blagojevich corruption charges|was arrested]]''' for a number of corruption crimes, including attempting to sell the [[United States Senate|U.S. Senate]] seat that was being vacated by then-President-elect [[Barack Obama]].
* [[2017]] – '''[[Same-sex marriage in Australia]]''' became legal as the '''[[Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Act 2017]]''' came into effect.
* Born/died this day: | '''[[Nasr ibn Sayyar]]''' |d|748| '''[[Gertrude of Brunswick]]''' |b|1117| '''[[Íñigo López de Mendoza, 4th Duke of the Infantado|Íñigo López de Mendoza]]''' |b|1493| '''[[Fritz Haber]]''' |b|1868| '''[[Alister Murdoch]]''' |b|1912| '''[[Lilias Armstrong]]''' |d|1937| '''[[Giacomo dalla Torre del Tempio di Sanguinetto|Giacomo dalla Torre]]''' |b|1944| '''[[Joan Armatrading]]''' |b|1950| '''[[Denise Phua]]''' |b|1959
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'''[[December 9]]'''
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* [[1892]] – The English [[association football]] club '''[[Newcastle United F.C.|Newcastle United]]''' was founded by the merger of [[Newcastle East End F.C.|Newcastle East End]] and [[Newcastle West End F.C.|Newcastle West End]].
* [[1917]] – [[World War I|First World War]]: [[Hussein al-Husayni]], the Ottoman [[mayor of Jerusalem]], '''[[Battle of Jerusalem|surrendered]]''' the city to the British ''(pictured)''.
* [[1961]] – '''[[Tanganyika Territory]]''' gained independence from Britain before becoming part of [[Tanzania]] three years later.
* [[1981]] – '''[[Mumia Abu-Jamal]]''' was arrested for the murder of [[Philadelphia Police Department|Philadelphia police officer]] [[Daniel Faulkner]]; his subsequent conviction and [[Capital punishment in the United States|death sentence]] became the source of great controversy in the United States.
* [[2016]] – South Korean president '''[[Park Geun-hye]]''' '''[[Impeachment of Park Geun-hye|was impeached]]''', marking the culmination of [[2016 South Korean political scandal|the country's political scandal]].
{{Born and died list| '''[[Vaišvilkas]]''' |d|1268| '''[[Joe Kelley]]''' |b|1871| '''[[Feroz Khan Noon]]''' |d|1970}}
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