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Juan Lavalle
Juan Lavalle
John IV of Portugal
The Red Ribbon, a symbol of the fight against AIDS
2004 Gävle goat
Flag of Ukraine
The Pit
Ford assembly line in 1913
Midpoint of the Channel Tunnel in 2018
Francis Walsingham

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
1640 – John IV was declared King of Portugal, resulting in the Portuguese Restoration War with Spain.	refimprove
1865 – Shaw University, the first historically black university in the United States, was founded in Raleigh, North Carolina.	refimprove section
1913 – The Buenos Aires Underground in Argentina, the first underground railway system in Latin America and in the Southern Hemisphere, began operations.	unreferenced table
1913 – Ford Motor Company began operating the world's first moving assembly line for the mass production of automobiles.	lots of PN tags
1937 – Hassan Modarres, a Shi'a cleric and notable supporter of the Iranian Constitutional Revolution, was poisoned and then suffocated while praying in prison.	date/fact not referenced in article
1958 – The colony of Ubangi-Shari became an autonomous territory within the French Community and took the name Central African Republic.	date/fact not in article
1958 – A fire in the Our Lady of the Angels School in Chicago killed ninety-two students and three nuns.	refimprove
1989 – Led by the Reform the Armed Forces Movement, members of the Armed Forces of the Philippines began a coup attempt against President Corazon Aquino.	needs more footnotes
1990 – Channel Tunnel workers from the United Kingdom and France met 40 metres (131 ft) beneath the English Channel seabed.	Too much uncited, yellow "too technical" banner
2009 – The Treaty of Lisbon, which amended the two treaties that comprise the constitutional basis of the European Union, came into effect.	refimprove section
Muhammad III of Alamut \|d\|1255\|	"Neutrality disputed" orange banner
Zhu De \|b\|1886\|	unref'd section

Eligible

1828 – Returning to Buenos Aires with troops who fought in the Cisplatine War, Juan Lavalle (pictured) deposed provincial governor Manuel Dorrego, reigniting the Argentine Civil Wars.
1918 – With the signing of the Act of Union, Denmark recognized the Kingdom of Iceland as a fully sovereign state in personal union through a common monarch.
1923 – The Gleno Dam in the Italian province of Bergamo failed due to poor workmanship, flooding the downstream valley and killing at least 356 people.
1934 – Soviet politician Sergei Kirov was assassinated at the Smolny Institute in Leningrad.
1941 – The Civil Air Patrol, the civilian auxiliary of the United States Air Force, was founded.
1948 – In "one of Australia's most profound mysteries", the body of an unidentified man was found on Somerton beach in Adelaide, a case which remains unsolved.
1953 – American men's magazine Playboy was founded in Chicago by Hugh Hefner and his associates.
1958 – The musical Flower Drum Song by Rodgers and Hammerstein premiered on Broadway.
1959 – Twelve countries signed the Antarctic Treaty, the first arms control agreement established during the Cold War, banning military activity in the Antarctic and setting the continent aside as a scientific preserve.
1966 – The Pit, one of U.S. college basketball's premier arenas, opened on the campus of the University of New Mexico.
1966 – The first Gävle goat, a Swedish Yule goat tradition, was constructed in Gävle and then burned to the ground on New Year's Eve.
1971 – A period of political and economic reforms in the Socialist Republic of Croatia came to an end as the League of Communists of Yugoslavia decided to purge the state's reformist leadership.
1988 – Five armed men hijacked a bus carrying schoolchildren and a teacher in Ordzhonikidze (now Vladikavkaz, Russia), and were later given an Ilyushin Il-76 aircraft and ransom for the release of the hostages.
1991 – A referendum held to ratify the Act of Declaration of Independence of Ukraine passed with more than 92 percent of the vote.
Born/died: | Saint Eligius |d|660| Martin Heinrich Klaproth |b|1743|Edwin Francis Jemison |b|1844|Florence Petty |b|1870| Archie MacLaren |b|1871| Jeni Bojilova-Pateva |b|1878| William Swainson |d|1884| Jack Crawford |b|1886| Masao Horiba |b|1924| Shi Yousan |bd|1891; 1940| Candace Bushnell |b|1958| Jo Walton |b|1964|J. B. S. Haldane |d|1964| Jason Palmer |b|1971| Riz Ahmed |b|1982|

Notes

Decline and fall of Pedro II of Brazil appears on November 15, Transfer of the Portuguese court to Brazil appears on November 29, and Legacy of Pedro II of Brazil appears on December 5, so Pedro I should not appear in the same year
Channel Tunnel should not also appear on 6 May 1994 (tunnel opening), 1 June 1994 (freight service), 14 November 1994 (passenger service)

December 1: World AIDS Day; Great Union Day in Romania; Rosa Parks Day in some states and cities in the United States

Pedro I of Brazil, later also Pedro IV of Portugal

1800 – French Revolutionary Wars: Austrian forces, led by Archduke John of Austria, defeated two divisions of the French First Republic, led by Paul Grenier, at the Battle of Ampfing.
1822 – Pedro I was crowned the first emperor of Brazil, seven weeks after his reign began on his 24th birthday.
1955 – Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a public bus to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama, United States, sparking the Montgomery bus boycott.
1974 – Two Boeing 727s, TWA Flight 514 and Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 6231, crashed in the eastern United States in unrelated circumstances, killing 95 people on board both aircraft.
2019 – Vivianne Miedema scored six goals and had four assists for Arsenal W.F.C. in their 11–1 victory over Bristol City W.F.C., which broke the record for the most goals scored in a FA Women's Super League match.

Giovanni Morone (d. 1580)
Ardina Moore (b. 1930)
Ueli Maurer (b. 1950)
Kenshiro Abbe (d. 1985)

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