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==Ineligible== {|class="wikitable" |- !Blurb !Reason |- | [[1590]] – [[French Wars of Religion]]: [[Henry IV of France|Henry of Navarre]] and the [[Huguenot]]s defeated the forces of the [[Catholic League (French)|Catholic League]] under the [[Charles, Duke of Mayenne|Duc de Mayenne]] at the '''[[Battle of Ivry]]''' in [[Ivry-la-Bataille|Ivry]], France. | refimprove section |- |[[1674]] – [[Third Anglo-Dutch War]]: The [[Royal Navy]] '''[[Battle of Ronas Voe|captured]]''' the [[Dutch East India Company]] ship ''[[Wapen van Rotterdam]]'' in [[Ronas Voe]], [[Shetland]]. | Only source citing date of 14 March is primary, article notes most secondary sources provide February, seems to be OR |- | [[1794]] – American inventor [[Eli Whitney]] patented the '''[[cotton gin]]''', the first machine to quickly and easily separate [[cotton]] fibers from their seedpods. | refimprove section |- | [[1915]] – [[World War I|First World War]]: British forces '''[[Battle of Más a Tierra|cornered and sank]]''' the [[SMS Dresden (1907)|SMS ''Dresden'']], the last remnant of the [[German East Asia Squadron]], near the Chilean island of [[Robinson Crusoe Island|Más a Tierra]]. | refimprove |- | [[1978]] – [[Israeli–Lebanese conflict]]: The [[Israel Defense Forces]] began '''[[1978 South Lebanon conflict|Operation ''Litani'']]''', invading and occupying southern Lebanon, and pushing [[Palestine Liberation Organization|PLO]] troops north up to the [[Litani River]]. | refimprove section |- |[[1980]] – '''[[LOT Polish Airlines Flight 7|LOT {{nowrap|Flight 7}}]]''' crashed during final approach to [[Warsaw]]'s [[Okęcie International Airport]], killing 87 people, including Polish singer [[Anna Jantar]] and a contingent of the amateur U.S. [[boxing]] team. |multiple issues |- | [[1991]] – The "'''[[Birmingham Six]]'''", wrongly convicted of the 1974 [[Birmingham pub bombings]] in England, were released after sixteen years in prison. | refimprove section |- | [[1994]] – Version 1.0.0 of the '''[[Linux kernel]]''', an [[kernel (computing)|operating system kernel]], was released, becoming one of the most prominent examples of [[open-source software]]. |update section |- | [[1995]] – Aboard the [[Soyuz TM-21]] spacecraft, '''[[Norman Thagard]]''' became the first American to ride to space on a Russian vehicle. | refimprove, primary sources |- | [[2008]] – A series of '''[[2008 Tibetan unrest|riots, protests, and demonstrations]]''' erupted in [[Lhasa]] and elsewhere in [[Tibet]]. | multiple issues |}
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