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 * 1876 – Sultan Murad V of the Ottoman Empire was deposed after a reign of 93 days on grounds of mental illness.
 * 1897 – Thomas Edison was granted a patent for the Kinetoscope, a precursor to the modern movie projector.
 * 1907 – Russia and the United Kingdom signed the Anglo-Russian Convention, defining their respective spheres of interest in Persia, Afghanistan, and Tibet.
 * 1939 – Nazi forces, posing as Poles, staged an attack against the German radio station Sender Gleiwitz in Gleiwitz, Upper Silesia, Germany, creating an excuse to invade Poland the next day.
 * 1940 – Second World War: Two Royal navy destroyers were lost to mines and two other vessels damaged off Texel, Netherlands, killing around 300 men.
 * 1941 – World War II: A detachment of Chetniks captured the town of Loznica in German-occupied Serbia.
 * 1959 – A parcel bomb sent by Ngô Đình Nhu, younger brother and chief adviser of South Vietnamese president Ngô Đình Diệm, failed to kill Norodom Sihanouk, Prime Minister of Cambodia.
 * 1997 – Diana, Princess of Wales (pictured), her partner Dodi Fayed, and their driver were killed in a car crash in Paris.
 * 2002 – Typhoon Rusa made landfall in Goheung as the most powerful typhoon to hit South Korea in 43 years, killing at least 236 people.
 * 2016 – Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff was removed from office following her impeachment on charges of criminal administrative misconduct.
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Sud-Est (department)

Sud-Est (French) or Sidès (Haitian Creole; both meaning "South East") is one of the ten departments of Haiti located in southern Haiti. It has an area of 2,034.10 km2 and a population of 632,601 (2015). Its capital is Jacmel.

Taino Period
The department is part of the Xaragua kasika under the leadership of Bohecio and Anacaona. The settlement of Yakimèl was in the area of actual Jacmel City.

Spanish Period
Jacmel is one of the earliest Spanish towns in the Caribbean when it was settled by Nicolas Ovando in 1504.

French Period
One year after the Treaty of Ryswick, the french formally settle the city through La Compagnie de St-Domingue.

Haitian Revolution
Like many of the actual departments in Haiti, by 1791, the different social classes of St-Domingue started rebelling against the status quo. The enslaved under the leadership of Romaine-La-Prophétesse, a mulatto coffee plantation owner, asked for the abolition of slavery and liberty for all. The mixed race under the leadership of André Rigaud asked for equal rights with the whites. These revendications reach their heights in the Pre-Independence Civil War opposing Toussaint's northern troops with lieutenants like Dessalines and Rigaud's southern troops with lieutenants like Pétion.

Independence
On September, 17th 1803, Magloire Ambroise, helped by Cangé and Yayou's troops freed Jacmel from the french troops under the leadership of Pageot.

Magloire Ambroise, commander of Jacmel is a signatory of the Act of Independence on January 1. During the Haitian-Civil war opposing King Henry 1st and President Pétion, the South-East was part of the republic. During that period the Jacmel received the South American Liberator Simon Bolivar, providing him shelter, merchandise, guns, and soldiers. The Grand-Colombia flag was designed in Jacmel based on the Haitian republican flag.

Modern Period
The department knew a great financial time at the beginning of the 20th century with the exportation of coffee, resulting in Jacmel's unique architecture and culture. The capital city was the first to have electricity and a telephone line in the Caribbean.

Geography
The South-East is bordered in the north by the West Department, on the west, by the South Department, the south by the Caribbean Sea and on the east by the province of Pedernales province. The Bay of Jacmel is the biggest bay of the department, followed by the Bay of Bainet (meaning clear bay). The most important rivers are the Jacmel river and the Bainet river. The coastal plain of the department allows a possible expansion of the capital. The department has one of the longest coastal lines in the country.

2010 earthquake
Like the whole Xaragua Peninsula the department is on the fault line of Plantain-Garden-Enriquillo resulting in many earthquakes in the department's history. Jacmel in Jacmel Arrondissement, a city with many Haitian colonial heritage buildings, was devastated by a 7.0 magnitude tremblor on 12 January 2010, collapsing much of that heritage architecture. Since then many of the buildings have been rebuilt.

Environment
The S-E shares the La Visite National Park with the West. Around Belle-Anse the S-E harbors the Three Lagoons National Park.

Economy
With a sizable port like Jacmel and direct access to the Dominican Republic, the S_E has great potential for economic development, especially in tourism and arts.

Tourism and Arts
Jacmel, Marigot, and Belle-Anse have the capacity to receive tourists. Raymond-des-Bains is a famous beach in the department.

Jacmel has a notable carnival activity in the Caribbean region10, and one of its characters (the robalagallina, imitation or caricature of the planter's wife) has been adopted by the carnival of the Dominican Republic11. The festive behavior of the Jacmelians earned them international fame.

During the Easter celebrations, a great parade of rara bands under the rhythms of petro and congo, is organized there. The civil authorities organize it in order to promote Haitian culture which is closely linked to that of southern Africa.

Jacmel is also known for its manifestations of the patronal feast on the first of May each year. It is the feast of the patron saint of the city, Saint Jacques and Saint Philippe. During this festival, the musical groups of Haiti meet in Jacmel and its surroundings for concerts which are called in Haitian Creole "ball". On May 18, the Jacmeliens celebrate their flag with large parades of brass bands throughout the city. In November Jacmel perpetuates the traditional "Feast of the Dead" (November 1 and 2).

Jacmel also hosts a Francophone film festival in 201912,13, and a festival dedicated to jazz.

Mining
The S-E has great potential for mining notably for iridium in the area of Belot.

Transport
The RN4 connects the department to the West and Léogane. RD402 connects to Anse-à-Pitres RD401 connects to Cote-de-Fer.

Administrative divisions
The Department of Sud-Est is subdivided into three arrondissements, which are further subdivided into ten communes.

 * Bainet Arrondissement
 * Bainet
 * Côtes-de-Fer
 * Belle-Anse Arrondissement
 * Belle-Anse
 * Anse-à-Pitres
 * Grand-Gosier
 * Thiotte
 * Jacmel Arrondissement
 * Jacmel
 * Cayes-Jacmel
 * La Vallée
 * Marigot

There are fifteen other smaller towns or villages, including: Banane, Bourcan-Bélier, Cavalier, Coutelas, Forêt-des-Pins, La Fond, La Vallée, Mare Rouge, Mayette, Mombin, Platon-Besace, Saint Antoine, Savane-Zombi, and Seguin.

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Jersey (clothing)

Traditionally, a jersey is an item of knitted clothing, generally made of wool or cotton, with sleeves, worn as a pullover, as it does not open at the front, unlike a cardigan. It is usually close-fitting and machine knitted in contrast to a guernsey that is more often hand knit with a thicker yarn. The word is usually used interchangeably with sweater.

Alternatively, the shirt worn by members of a sports team as part of the team uniform is also referred to as a jersey.

Etymology
Jersey, in the Channel Islands, was famous for its knitting trade in medieval times, and because of that original fame, the name "jersey" is still applied to many forms of knitted fabric, which transferred to the garments made from the fabric.

In sports

A sports jersey is a shirt worn by members of a team to identify their affiliation with the team. Jerseys identify their wearers' names and/or numbers, generally showing the colors and logo of the team. Numbers are frequently used to identify players, since uniforms give players a similar appearance.

A jersey may also include the logo of the team's sponsor.

Examples
A cycling jersey is a specialised jersey designed to be used in road cycling. Cycling jerseys are usually made of synthetic microfiber material to aid in wicking sweat away from the skin to allow it to evaporate. Specific colours or patterns represent certain statuses in these races, such as the yellow jersey of the leader of the general classification in the Tour de France, or the rainbow jersey for the world champion.

The main garment of an ice hockey uniform, which was traditionally called a sweater, is increasingly known as a hockey jersey. Basketball jerseys are usually sleeveless. Baseball jerseys are usually button up.

In Australian rules football, the player's shirt is known as a "guernsey".

Other examples are cricket whites, basketball uniform, baseball uniform and gridiron football uniform.

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Grand'Anse (department)

Grand'Anse, Grandans or Grantans (both meaning "Big Cove") is one of the ten departments of Haiti. Its capital is Jérémie.

Taino Period
Grand'Anse was part of the Xaragua kasika with settlements like Mamey, the modern-day town of Abricot. Abricot is still known today as "the Indian's Paradise."

French Period
It is said by the locals that the capital city of Jérémie is named after a French fisherman who established himself in the area because of its isloation from the rest of the country. Due to its rather mountainous geography, Grand'Anse could not have many plantations. Therefore, there were white and mixed-race communities with some of the best schools in the colony. Some slaveowners sent their children to schools in Grand'Anse instead of sending them back to France for education.

British Period
The department was briefly under British control in 1793.

Haitian Revolution
While under the control of André Rigaud, more than 20 slaves died in prison in Jérémie. While their cause of death was not clear, Toussaint Louverture used their deaths as an excuse to portray Rigaud as anti-black and ordered his then-lieutenant Jean-Jacques Dessalines to attack the town. The battle was one of the most important scenes of the Haitian Revolution, with, an officer, becoming known as the "Liberator of the Grand'Anse." Grand'Anse was the first department to come under the control of the Armée Indigène, and was captured from French troops on 4 August 1803.

Independence
Férou is a signatory of the Act of Independence of 1 January. The first Haitian Civil War split the country between a monarchy in the north and a republic in the south. Grand'Anse de facto sided with the monarchy under the leadership of Jean-Baptiste Perrier (under the alias Goman) who established a government in the Macaya mountain chain known as the Kongo Kingdom.

Fort Marfranc was constructed under order of Dessalines in order to protect Jérémie. It is the burial place of Férou.

For 20 years the Kongo Kingdom based in Grand-Doco was financed by the self-declared king of the northern monarchy Henri Christophe; Goman was titled duke. The department later fell under the control of the republic under the leadership of Jean-Pierre Boyer.

There were many battles between the national and liberal political parties in Grand'Anse in the 1800s.

Modern Period
The Grand'Anse department used to be part of the Sud department until 1962 when it was created. The department was reduced further in 2003, with the creation of a new department of Nippes from the Miragoâne and Anse-à-Veau arrondissements.

Before the 2003 split, it had a population of around 600,000 (2002). Afterward, the population at the 2003 Census was 337,516. The area of the department (after the split) is 1912 km2.

Geography and environment
The department is bordered in the north by the Gulf of Gonave, west by the Winward Passage connecting to Jamaica, south by the South Department, and east by the Nippes Department. It is one of the smallest departments but it is one of the most pollutant-free due to its isolation. The westernmost point in Haiti at Cap les Irois is located in Grand'Anse. The Macaya mountain chain in the Massif de la Hotte holds the second-highest mountain in Haiti and is one of the most important environmental reserves with multiple endemic animals and plants; the Plaintain Garden-Enriquillo faultline passes through it as well. Because of the mountains, it does not have a major plain or plateau for agriculture; however, the Jeremi Valley is still a major agricultural hub. Rivers in the department include the Grand'Anse and Voldrogue rivers. Grand'Anse features many islands, such as Grande Cayemite, Petite Cayemite, the Cayemite reefs and cayes, and Navaasa Island. Navassa is currently the subject of a territorial dispute between Haiti and the United States, which administers it through the US Fish and Wildlife Service.

Transportation
Grand'Anse is one of the most isolated departments in Haiti. Jérémie is the largest port though it is mostly used for cabotage. The Jérémie airport can accommodate national flights from Port-au-Prince.

The RN7 of the Haitian national road system connects Jérémie to Les Cayes. A road connecting it to Nippes has been proposed as well.

Economy
Grand'Anse has large potential in the agro-industry domain and the tourism sector like leisure tourism, eco-tourism, and historical and cultural tourism.

The most famous beaches in the departement are Anse d'Azur and Anse du Clerc.

Culture
The people of Grand'Anse are known for their hospitality and culinary skills, with their most known dish being Tonmtonm-Kalalou. It is a Haitian dish similar to West African Fufu. Many farmers use a pipirit (Haitian bamboo raft) to transport their crops to the market towns.

Administrative divisions
The Department of Grand'Anse is subdivided into three arrondissements, which are further subdivided into thirteen communes.

 * Arrondissement of Anse d'Hainault
 * Anse-d'Hainault
 * Dame-Marie
 * Les Irois
 * Arrondissement of Corail
 * Corail
 * Beaumont
 * Pestel
 * Roseaux
 * Arrondissement of Jérémie
 * Jérémie
 * Abricots
 * Bonbon
 * Chambellan
 * Moron
 * Marfranc

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Pullover

Pullover, pull-over or pull over may refer to:

 * Sweater or hoodie, a piece of clothing "pulled over" the head instead of buttoned or zipped-up
 * Pullover (TV series), early-1980s UK children's television programme
 * Pullover Productions, UK producer of Pullover TV series
 * A scenic overlook, road shoulder or layby where a motorist can pull over out of through-traffic lanes
 * Pullover (exercise), a weight-training exercise
 * Pullover (horizontal bar) is a basic gymnastics movement that brings the athlete to the top of the bar
 * A traffic stop, a practice by police enforcement patrolling roadways
 * "Pull Over" (song), a 2000 song by Trina

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Talk:Luciano Pavarotti

Tax evasion between 1989-95
Why is their no mention of his tax evasion between 1989-95 in which he was fined 4.55 million and had to pay 11 million in back taxes. this seems like a big omission

—Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.105.59.110 (talk) 15:44, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

"Most successful singer"
BOCELLI HAS NEVER BEEN A TENOR AND WILL NEVER BE. HE IS NO CLASSICAL SINGER. HIS VOICE IS THIN WITHOUT ANY DEPTH. HE IS A SINGER WITH A HIGH VOICE FOR LIGHT POPULAR SONGS. NOTHING MORE. A HORROR FOR AN OPERA LOVER AND FRIEND OF CLASSICS. Xavier Madrid. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.212.17.226 (talk) 14:52, 10 January 2022 (UTC)

Pavarotti isnt the most sucessful tenor of all time commercially, It is Bocelli who is the biggest selling tenor and classical singer of all time so stop giving wrong information just because you like Pavarotti and hate Bocelli whether you like it or not, he is the biggest selling one and he only did it in 5 years! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ahmad123987 (talk • contribs) 22:35, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

 * Ahmad, please note that my entry is that Pavarotti is [NOTE WORDING} "POSSIBLY ONE of the Greatest of all-time". I am an English teacher, Ahmad. I think I know what is required for accurate entry and representation of the facts into encyclopedic form.
 * In stating this, it is general consensus, if you know much of the operatic/singing world, that Pavarotti is an 'all-time Great' in it. One of the first to make such observation, in fact, was one of the most highly-celebrated and respected pianists of the 20th Century - Arthur Rubinstein.  But it is now more generally accepted anyway. The claim is nt necessarily that he is "The Greatest".
 * But in assessing 'greatness': firstly, sales itself certainly does not establish literal "Greatness". Regardless of that fact, however, my words included, "possibly" - in fact, that word actually led the statement.  Most importantly, however, I did not say that 'he was the Greatest"; I merely entered him as "ONE of the greatest"; so was Caruso, likewise Bjorling, etc., etc.
 * Further, you made some claim on being POV. May I say that ANY assessment of one's ability is POV - including that he is one of the greatest of his era, which is basically how it was previously entered in the article.  Bocelli can be "the Best", if you will ... but that has no bearing at all on the fact that Pavarotti is still among the greatest of all-time, which is what is stated in the article.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.180.229.181 (talk) 05:22, 5 June 2009 (UTC)

 * I believe you are talking about my edit summary,, not Ahmad's. It's inappropriate to say that he not only "established himself as one of the top classical singers of his era, but, possibly, one of the greatest of all-time" – especially in the lead. As it stands now, it is an unreferenced personal opinion. The addition of "possibly" actually makes it look even more like a personal opinion, and is unencyclopedic. I'm not saying this out of any dislike of Pavarotti. I personally think he was a wonderful singer. But sentences like that actually reduce the credibility of the article rather than enhance it. One could just as easily say that Enrico Caruso or Plácido Domingo were "possibly" the greatest singers of all time. In fact, Domingo was actually named as such by a panel of critics on BBC Music Magazine. . Not that I set much store on those kinds of things, and I actually think that attempts to name "the greatest singer of all time" are pointless, but at least it's documented.

 * It would be much better to find a source where Pavarotti was actually described as one of the greatest singers of all time. Then write something like: "He was described by X as one of the greatest singers of all times" and reference it to the source. If published specialist writers share your opinion, then it should be very easy to find a reference in a reliable source. Alternatively find a published reliable source for Rubenstein's assessement of him. If one can't be found, it remains your personal opinion and conjecture and doesn't belong in the lead to the article. As I said in the edit summary, I'm not going to edit war about it. But unless it is referenced, sooner or later someone else will remove it – and rightly so. Voceditenore (talk) 07:04, 5 June 2009 (UTC)

 * There's more about this issue at Avoid peacock terms. Voceditenore (talk) 07:20, 5 June 2009 (UTC)

 * Yes; thank you very much, Voceditenore.
 * I can only conclude that, seeing there is already some fair conjecture over the greatness of Pavarotti among the tenors - and I have heard quite some debate myself upon the topic, the term I have used on other articles, which I have seen others similarly use, is "arguably". Using that term generally tends to get us all out of trouble.
 * As I pointed out to Ahmad [and yes, I initially did have the wrong person, but obviously, the fact that he previously battled over that point means someone previously stated Pavarotti as the greatest: I cannot remember whether I previously visited the topic or not] ... as I was saying before, I did not say "THE GREATEST"; I merely said "ONE of the greatest". I do take your point, however, that the word "possibly" might detract from the point or authority of the whole statement. Yes.
 * BTW, it is interesting about that BBC report you mentioned on Domingo, concerning the recent 'Big three', I have heard preferences for each of the three, but I have certainly heard more for Pavarotti than either of the other two, and I know I am not alone in considering him greater than Caruso. So the point is certainly, very 'arguable' indeed, reference or no reference.  Thank you for your time. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.180.229.181 (talk • contribs) 13:42, 5 June 2009

 * Actually, "arguably" doesn't get anyone off the hook. It still represents a personal opinion. It's not encyclopedic and invites a tag like this: Wikipedia is not a primary source. It reports what other published sources have said, not what you or I or people you've talked to think. Also, do remember to indent your comment in a thread and to sign your comments on talk pages. It makes the talk page much easier to follow. Best, Voceditenore (talk) 14:02, 5 June 2009 (UTC)

 * Thanks for your comments there, Voceditenore, and thanks for indirectly giving me the idea to seek clues re indentation. I think I see it.

 * What bothers me in all this, "Voceditenore", you do not seem to be aware of the place in the music world that that is attributed to Luciano Pavarotti. No; I don't have written reference; but it is not only heard on television and in general print from time to time, but via various professionals and musos around the music world, also. Note, again, that my statement is not that he is necessarily, 'The Greatest". Yet as 'a linguist', you just seem quite slow on the uptake re this: it has just not been digested at this point at all.  There would be little dispute, except from the occasional one-eyed opponents that always exist against anyone from place to place, that Pavarotti is among those greats.

 * You mentioned earlier re the lead in the Pavarotti article: you seem to bear objections to entries on the basis of POV more than anything. I suggest you read almost any article on any other singer, and you will see that most points of opinion are just not referenced.

 * I suggest, as case in point, you read the opening paragraphs of the Caruso article, for instance. I mean - consistency please! It is riddled with almighty POV build-up and adulation - virtually none of which is print-referenced, yet we all know it exists, and we know of his greatness in the tenor world.  So no one complains.  One cannot "reference" their lives away on everything they may say, Voceditenore: the world would just not move forward at all if such was the case.  Many things in life and its various fields are taken as "given" by those who have any real familiarity with the field at all.  What is probably not appropriate is that I state what I see in his singing - that WOULD be too POV.  But Most would claim him "a Great".  Now if you don't, well, there are, of course, variants from the norm, but that should not impede the path of the assessments of the great many connected with the world of opera, or of singing, generally.  Many of us are "professional" connoisseurs, and really know 'our stuff'(Denidowi (talk) 02:34, 6 June 2009 (UTC))

 * What makes you think I'm not a "connoisseur" of opera? What makes you think I "don't know my stuff" or am unaware of the specialist literature? What makes you think I don't consider Pavarotti a great singer? I personally think his voice had the most luminious, limpid, beautiful, timbre I have ever heard. And yes, I've heard it live, in an opera house. In the bel canto repertoire he was far superior to Caruso in my personal opinion. This isn't about that. It's about what makes a well-written, balanced, scholarly article that puts its subject in an informed historical perspective. There are plenty of print assessments of the quality of Pavarotti's voice and his technique, and quite detailed ones, many of which agree with my and obviously your personal opinions. They should be in the article. There are also quite a few that call him one of the great singers of the 20th century. You probably won't find any that call him "one of the greatest singers of all time" (my bolding) because no knowledgeable scholar of the voice and operatic performance would make such an empty statement. As for the Caruso article, its flaming prose, inadequate referencing and factual inaccuracies are far worse. But really, the reaction to my one small attempt to keep this article from going down the road of Caruso's is exactly why I prefer to stay away from articles about singers in living memory. Everyone has an opinion, but few are prepared to show the reader someone's importance and place in history rather than simply declare it. Anyhow, I've pointed out how the article could be improved. Take the ball and run with it, or not. I shall return to working on Julián Gayarre. Best wishes, Voceditenore (talk) 08:48, 6 June 2009 (UTC)

 * Voceditenore, again I thank you for your reparation of my unsuccessful attempt at maintaining indentation on here. I managed to get them working the first few paragraphs, but then they stopped responding to the same command. So I don't know how you succeeded ... but thanks.
 * I do want to apologize to you and say to you that I am of your mind on this, but I do not know of published references which could back up that statement to which you were alluding: re one of the best of the 20th Century; surely my wording was somewhat loose there. I know the entire sentence needs re-vamping, because all I did was to disturb the original as little as possible ... and you will probably see this if you compare the change with the former.  Partly, I have simply left it as is to see if you wished to make some suggestions of your own as to the type of re-wording you envisioned; but I see you haven't touched it.

 * Anyway, if you have such a reference as you were speaking of, or some thoughts on the new format of the sentence, I would be interested to hear them. Thank you.

 * PS I too, have personally heard him sing.  Well, you didn't think I'd miss his voice personally, for all the tea in China!  Did you??  :)  Kindly,(Denidowi (talk) 15:42, 6 June 2009 (UTC))

 * Comment: I would replace this sentence:
 * He made numerous recordings of complete operas and individual arias, and not only established himself as one of the top classical singers of his era, but, possibly, one of the greatest of all-time.

 * With this one:

 * He made numerous recordings of complete operas and individual arias, and established himself as one of the finest tenors of the 20th century.

 * The second sentence can be referenced by adding the following after the full stop:

 * Having said that, I really am not going to get into detailed and timewasting negotiations over the wording of a single sentence, which I still consider unnecessary in the lead. So the choice is up to you whether or not you take my advice. Effort would be far better spent actually adding a section on "critical appreciation" and the specific qualities of his voice and his interpretation, which should include both the the positive and the negative. All singers have vocal limitations and Pavarotti was no exception, e.g. his mezza-voce, and occasional lack of fine-shading. I find it bizarre that this article focuses almost entirely on his death, his marriages, his tax problems, and how much money he left and to whom and not on what he will really be remembered for. In any case, analyses of his voice (in greater or lesser detail) can be found in:
 * Rodolfo Celletti, Voce di Tenore, ISBN 8870821277
 * J.B. Steane, Singers of the Century, ISBN 1574670409
 * Peter G. Davis, Luciano Pavarotti: 1935–2007, Opera News, November 2007, vol 72, no. 5
 * Michael J. Moravcsik, et al., Musical sound: an introduction to the physics of music, pp. 201-202, ISBN 0306467100
 * Tom Sutcliffe, Luciano Pavarotti, The Guardian, September 6, 2007
 * Rupert Christiansen, Pavarotti: Opera great with a popular touch, The Daily Telegraph, 6 September 2007
 * – Voceditenore (talk) 07:45, 8 June 2009 (UTC)

 * Thank you very much, Voceditenore. Yes, that sentence sounds quite reasonable to me.
 * One thing I can say about his singing: he had a head voice virtually incomparable. I believe some of this extraordinary capacity in sound may have been due to the dome breadth and resonance capacity of his skull (which acts as a sound board for the voice).  But even here, you have to use that potential physical advantage very skilfully.  That he certainly did.  I have never heard a tenor use the breadth of vocal texture and control as well as he - from soft, delicate - even heady - notes right through to powerful, rich, raw soaring sonority.
 * Voceditenore, it'll probably take me some days, but I'll try to go over your references. I'd like to get rid of the "Days of our Wives" effect in the article also. But I don't know how much luck I'll have - people love their gossip mags too much today ... despite that this is supposed to be encyclopaedic. ;) (121.220.70.45 (talk) 13:38, 8 June 2009 (UTC))

Here's an article from the New York Times referring to his perfect pitch. I would suggest removing the citation needed portion from the page. http://www.nytimes.com/1988/10/19/garden/eating-out-with-luciano-pavarotti-for-pavarotti-the-proof-s-in-the-pasta.html Thanks —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.39.130.188 (talk) 01:49, 30 June 2009 (UTC)

 * The article you have suggested to cite Pavarotti as having perfect pitch is inappropriate to use in this instance. It reads as merely a lead in to the article and appears to be the authors (likely uneducated) opinion. In order to say that Pavarotti had perfect pitch, it should come from an article of musical academia. Bryan Miller, the author of the cited work, is a Food Critic and does not have the academic pedigree to make such a claim as fact. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Doleary1 (talk • contribs) 09:16, 26 March 2010 (UTC)

 * I wasn't saying Bocelli is the greatest, that kind of opinion is subjective. I was saying he is the most commercially successful classical singer of all time, which means he has sold more records that any other (which I can prove if you would like). So saying Pavarotti was the most successful tenor or classical singer ever is wrong, but saying one of is perfectly fine.--Ahmad123987 (talk) 03:39, 4 May 2010 (UTC)

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I've semi-protected this article because all the recent edits by unregistered users have been vandalism. Let me (or any other admin) know if you'd like it to be unprotected. -- ☑ Sam uelWantman 06:51, 28 September 2009 (UTC)

Marriage(s)
The article says that he married Adua Veroni in 1961, and then later that they had three daughters and were married for 34 years-- but it fails to make any mention of the end of this marriage in 1995 or thereabouts. How did it end? Divorce? Death? siafu (talk) 23:51, 14 November 2009 (UTC)
 * They were divorced. It attracted a lot of press coverage at the time as it was very protracted. They separated in 1995 and filed for divorce, but the final settlement wasn't reached until 2000. I'm surprised the article doesn't make that clear. Actually, the whole article could use a lot of improvement. It's very "bitty" Voceditenore (talk) 09:00, 15 November 2009 (UTC)

Also. two references to Nicoletta Mantovani redirect back to the Pavarotti article, and after the last mention to Nicoletta Mantovani, was added "(above, with Pavarotti)", but there is no such picture. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Geporto (talk • contribs) 06:29, 4 June 2010 (UTC)

Edit request from 12.183.71.67, 20 October 2010
Please change He also sang with U2, in the band's 1995 song "Miss Sarajevo," to He also sang with U2, in the band's 1995 song Miss Sarajevo,

in order to provide a direct link to the song, the album, performances, etc.

12.183.71.67 (talk) 18:51, 20 October 2010 (UTC)
 * ✅ Rodhull  andemu  18:59, 20 October 2010 (UTC)

Edit request from 174.57.249.163, 5 December 2010
In the second-to-last paragraph in the section "1980's - 1990's", when the subject is of the Saturady Night Live episode with Vanessa L. Williams, would you kindly include the Philadelphia Boys Choir and Chorale as well? If you see any video of the clip, a portion of the PBCC is shown quite clearly.

Thanks!

Shadowgodlordking (talk) 18:57, 5 December 2010 (UTC)

Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. That's the kind of thing that we can't reliably pick out from a video alone (how can we identify the PBCC versus another choir?). If you have a reliable source, though (such as the actual episode, if the choir is listed in the credits), then we can add; feel free to make another edit request then. Qwyrxian (talk) 05:38, 8 December 2010 (UTC)

Lack of entry on Recordings
I think the article needs to mention his various recordings. They are hardly referred to. yet his very few movies and other minor activities. For example, his recording with Dame Joan Sutherland of Turandot was ground breaking. Robauz (talk) 11:43, 11 March 2011 (UTC)

Pavarotti and Sepultura
Should we mention that they worked together in the song roots bloody roots? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 201.83.44.55 (talk) 23:45, 7 April 2011 (UTC)

Pavarotti Did Not Have Perfect Pitch
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uo6dDQiBGyI This video, in which Pavarotti asks for an F#, proves that he didn't have perfect pitch. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.89.238.202 (talk) 01:21, 2 October 2011 (UTC)
 * That is your opinion. Find a source that says this to back up the statement.  Skinsmoke (talk) 14:19, 8 September 2012 (UTC)
 * This issue has been raised before (see Archive 1). All important statements in the article must be properly referenced, and the "perfect pitch" claim has been challenged more than five years ago. Therefore, I have removed it. Whoever wants to put it back, must provide a reliable source that supports it. GregorB (talk) 20:49, 23 August 2013 (UTC)

Edit request from 24.41.47.147, 13 June 2011
Sort of a small thing, but in the "1980s–1990s" section please replace "Grammy Legend Award" with "Grammy Legend Award". 24.41.47.147 (talk) 05:08, 13 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Done, thanks for the suggestion. Voceditenore (talk) 05:29, 13 June 2011 (UTC)

Infobox
Could someone set up a musical artist infobox for Pavarotti? I would but I don't know too much about the genres he falls into, etc...Capt Jim (talk) 23:12, 15 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Opera. And yes, I will. Spidey  665  03:28, 9 October 2011 (UTC) Per WikiProject Opera, you cannot add an infobox.  Spidey  665  03:31, 9 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Yes, but why? And is this outdated information? I was surprised at the lack of an InfoBox for Luciano Pavarotti and was about to add one. Then I noticed in the wiki comments the restriction: "please do not add an infobox, per WikiProject_Opera". I went to the WikiProject_Opera page, and it has no information about InfoBoxes at all. This suggests to me that the stricture against InfoBoxes might be outdated. Can anyone provide any information about this? I think an InfoBox for Pavarotti would be very useful here. Thanks. SeanAhern (talk) 18:01, 5 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Maybe it is time to add an infobox to all opera-related pages. I see no restrictions listed in the WikiProject_Opera page.-- Itemirus  Message me!  11:15, 12 June 2012 (UTC)
 * The project guidelines page moved, but the project's views on using them hasn't changed. See WikiProject Opera/Article guidelines. If the consensus on this page is to have one for this article, a simple infobox person is preferable to the infobox musical artist which is designed for pop singers. Voceditenore (talk) 17:59, 12 June 2012 (UTC)

Edit request from an IP user, 29 October 2011
Please replace with, which is more specific and not so incredibly large in size.

64.134.125.128 (talk) 17:07, 29 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Done and thanks for suggesting that. The other one was absurd! Best, Voceditenore (talk) 17:38, 29 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Someone has reverted my edit without explanation. It seemed a sensible thing to replace it with the more specific template (which has been around since 2009) and as far as I could see was used in the articles for the other nominees from that year. If the massive full template is to be used, it should hve its default state set to collapsed. I have changed it back and invited the editor to explain the rationale here. Voceditenore (talk) 06:31, 30 October 2011 (UTC)
 * I agree that the full template is too large. Not only should we have the default state collapsed, but we should also have an option to restrict the output to only the row for that year.  Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ (talk)  20:16, 30 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Much better. :) Voceditenore (talk) 05:37, 31 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Voceditenore, the only reason I did that is because the IP was running a bot and I reverted all of their edits. Besides, at that time, it was easier to just group the templates so that they would eventually get deleted as a five link template is in and of itself absurd. Kevin Rutherford (talk) 03:27, 17 November 2011 (UTC)

Edit request on 2 February 2012
Please add this to the 1960s to 1970s portion of the page. Pavarotti is a Sinfonian and therefore should be represented as so on his page. "In 1978 Pavarotti was initiated as an honorary member of the University of Miami’s Beta Tau Chapter of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, a fraternity dedicated to the advancement of music in America."

Rouquayro (talk) 19:32, 2 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Do you have a source for that? Voceditenore (talk) 20:13, 2 February 2012 (UTC)
 * ❌, unless a source is provided-- Jac 16888 Talk 21:12, 2 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Even if a reference were provided, this is quite trivial information about a non-notable event. It pertains to a local chapter of a college social fraternity (albeit one whose members are interested in music). Organizations like this often bestow "Honorary Memberships" as they add prestige to the organization. Pavarotti has received a Grammy Legend Award, Kennedy Center Honors, the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic, his country's highest honour, and numerous other notable awards. So I'd say that this is not really a useful addition to the article at all. I suggest you add his name to a list of honorary members at the Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia article, properly referenced, of course. Voceditenore (talk) 23:35, 2 February 2012 (UTC)

Discography
Pavarotti was not simply an opera singer, but had also crossed over into popular music. It is normal convention for articles on popular singers to include a discography, including chart positions. This appears to be a glaring omission in this article (I would imagine that it would need to be split out as a separate article, with a link from this page). I am not sure what the convention is for articles on opera singers (the guidelines make no mention one way or another), but in any case, the guidelines for one genre should not take overriding precedence when an artist covers multiple genres. Discogs, which is not always comprehensive but is at least a starting point, lists 63 albums, 47 compilations and 15 singles released. As an example, see Plácido Domingo discography, which is linked from Plácido Domingo, or Katherine Jenkins discography, which is in the more usual format and is linked from Katherine Jenkins. Skinsmoke (talk) 14:34, 8 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Several opera singers have separate discography pages. See Category:Opera singer discographies. There's no reason why someone couldn't start one for Pavarotti. Note that while Discogs has a lot of information... there is sometimes listing of multiple albums, which are really the same one, re-issued, inclusion of "pirate" recordings, etc. The Katherine Jenkins discography is more like pop singers' discographies because she is not an opera singer. Athough she sings/records some opera arias, she has never sung in an opera nor has she even recorded a full-length opera. Opera singers' discographies are largely filled with recordings of full length operas or opera aria collections. In those cases, other kinds of information is highly relevant, e.g. the conductor, orchestra, opera house, the role they sang, other principal singers etc. How they "charted" is relatively unimportant, more important is the critical reception, awards, etc. This is why they look different. Andrea Bocelli discography is an example of mixed formats for this very reason. Although much of his output is pop or crossover, he has recorded several full length operas. (Unlike Katherine Jenkins, he has also has sung in live operas in opera houses.) Pavarotti's pop/crossover output is only a small proportion of his recording history, but there's no reason why it couldn't be included in a discography for him. Voceditenore (talk) 16:51, 8 September 2012 (UTC)

First concert outside Italy
His first international concert was in Dundalk Ireland, — Preceding unsigned comment added by Louth4sam (talk • contribs) 13:32, 29 January 2013 (UTC)

Edit request on 29 January 2013
His first international concert was in Dundalk Ireland ,

Louth4sam (talk) 13:37, 29 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Done. Very interesting and many thanks for the suggestion. Voceditenore (talk) 16:25, 29 January 2013 (UTC)

Add the pronunciation
If someone would be kind:.

Infobox suggestion
Why doesn't he have an infobox with his date of birth or death, spouses, etc? Almost all other people have this, and the page seems to mostly have the info anyway. Xavdid (talk) 02:01, 13 August 2014 (UTC)

 * Greetings Xavdid! While it certainly can still be discussed, WikiProject Opera has generally recommended against the use of infoboxes for such persons: WikiProject Opera/Article guidelines.  Cheers! :)    A rbitrarily 0    ( talk ) 02:42, 13 August 2014 (UTC)

 * Interesting! I disagree for a couple of reasons:
 * Despite being an opera singer, he was still a modern figure and despite not being eligible for a musician's infobox, he should still have biographical information (age, nationality, etc).
 * Of the 3 tenors, 2 of them have biographical infoboxes: Plácido Domingo and José Carreras, so it feels inconsistent that he shouldn't. We should either add one for him or remove theirs as they are somewhat of a matching set. Xavdid (talk) 18:24, 20 August 2014 (UTC)

Fat
Why is there nothing in the article about how fat he was? It was one of his notable characteristics. HandsomeMrToad (talk) 06:04, 17 October 2015 (UTC)

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Recommendation for video
I feel that the footage at the Kennedy Center Honors, where the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, the Secretary General of the United Nations, Kofi Annan bears tribute to the work Pavorotti had contributed as a humanitarian. We have included videos before in our biographies (Frank Zappa]] being a case in point, and this would violate no copyright in the United States, since it is overseen by the President (G.W. Bush then). I haven't the talent to do this- would anyone help? Here is the video- it can be paired down just to this extraordinary tribute concert in the White House and Kennedy Center Honors: . This is a top-ranked article in importance, yet it is still lacking in an editor who will take those plentiful resources to tie together I am quite ill, and know nothing of opera, but will assist in whatever capacity to such a person. Thank you for this consideration. --Leahtwosaints (talk) 14:04, 26 June 2016 (UTC)

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Pavarotti is in a person infobox. Shouldn't he be in a musician's infobox? --Leahtwosaints (talk) 02:16, 21 March 2017 (UTC)
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Luciano Pavarotti Venuri
The surname of his mother was VENTURI, not "Venuri". Also, he never used the surname of the mother, neither was legal in Italy the double surname at the time of his birth. --95.237.249.104 (talk) 12:10, 11 September 2017 (UTC)
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Semi-protected edit request on 15 June 2020
Citation for (dead) link #43 can be updated with: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/opera-star-luciano-pavarotti-dies-at-71/ Rickorford (talk) 12:53, 15 June 2020 (UTC)
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Added paragraph for early career performances available on archive.org
Hello - I recently discovered a trove of performances on archive.org from the Dublin Grand Opera Society, three of which include Luciano Pavarotti in the third year of his career, 1964. I have added text, links to the three performances, and a link to a page at Opera in Ireland (which is a Wordpress site). I retained this link because the page referenced contains images of newspaper clippings, which are authoritative in themselves, from which I quoted from reviews of his performance in La Boheme which concern his singing, his voice, and his acting, considering that these are appropriate to show how Pavarotti's singing and voice were received even at so early a time in his career before he became an international star a few years later.

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Frequent infidelities and an accusation of miming his final performance.
Why does the article not mention the many of his infidelities that are well documented?

Moreover, there was a book written that he mimed his final performance at the 2006 Winter Olympics, although this has been disputed. I honestly don't think it takes anything away from the show itself, but it would be nice to have closure.

I look forward to having both points addressed. By the way, I'm a massive fan of Pavarotti; in fact, he is assuredly my most favourite opera singer of all time, but I still think we should be honest to his legacy, warts and all. Electricmaster (talk) 12:17, 26 January 2022 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 23 December 2022
The following sentence which is originally mine was modified by someone and is now a run-on sentence:

A highlight of the concert, in which Pavarotti sang the opening verses using extended vocal runs for di Capua's "O Sole Mio" and which was in turn perfectly repeated note-for-note by Domingo and Carreras to the delight of the audience.

ADD at end of sentence: “…, became one of the most famous moments in contemporary operatic history.” Or something to that effect. As currently written, the grammar is incorrect.

David Fishkin dfishkin007@gmail.com 71.183.83.180 (talk) 12:55, 23 December 2022 (UTC)
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Semi-protected edit request on 15 January 2024
In "Other awards and recognitions", for the year 1980, it says "...riding an horse..." which is grammatically incorrect. It should be "a horse".

Change "an horse" to "a horse". 203.30.15.37 (talk) 06:46, 15 January 2024 (UTC)
 * ✅ The suggestion was implemented in this edit. Liu1126 (talk) 09:49, 15 January 2024 (UTC)

Belfast performance
Luciano Pavarotti was one of the world's most famous tenors and he performed in the UK for the first time in Belfast in May 1963 92.11.15.33 (talk) 22:25, 15 July 2024 (UTC)

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 * 1957 – Governor Orval Faubus deployed the Arkansas National Guard to prevent nine African-American students from attending Little Rock Central High School.
 * 2007 – Three terrorists suspected to be part of al-Qaeda were arrested in Germany after planning attacks on Frankfurt Airport and Ramstein Air Base.
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 * 476 – Germanic leader Odoacer captured Ravenna and deposed Emperor Romulus Augustus, marking the fall of the Western Roman Empire.
 * 1800 – French Revolutionary Wars: Facing starvation and a death rate of 100 soldiers per day, the French garrison in Malta surrendered to British forces, ending a two-year siege.
 * 1843 – The state wedding of Teresa Cristina of the Two Sicilies and Emperor Pedro II of Brazil took place at the Cathedral of Rio de Janeiro.
 * 1977 – The Golden Dragon massacre took place in Chinatown, San Francisco, leaving five dead and spurring police to end Chinese gang violence in the city.
 * 2010 – A magnitude-7.1 earthquake (damage pictured) struck the Canterbury Region of New Zealand, causing two deaths and up to NZ$40 billion in damages.


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 * 917 – Liu Yan declared himself emperor, establishing the state of Southern Han at his capital of Panyu (present-day Guangzhou) in southern China.
 * 1774 – In response to the British Parliament's enactment of the so-called Intolerable Acts, representatives from twelve of the Thirteen Colonies convened the First Continental Congress at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia.
 * 1781 – American Revolutionary War: French naval forces handed Britain a major strategic defeat at the Battle of the Chesapeake (depicted).
 * 1836 – Sam Houston (pictured) became the first popularly elected president of the Republic of Texas.
 * 1882 – A group of London schoolboys led by Bobby Buckle founded Hotspur Football Club to continue to play sports during the winter months.
 * 1905 – Under the mediation of U.S. president Theodore Roosevelt, the Russo-Japanese War officially ended with the signing of a treaty at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Maine.
 * 1915 – The Zimmerwald Conference, the first of three international socialist conferences forming the Zimmerwald movement, opened in Switzerland.
 * 1915 – The Casablanca Fair (poster pictured) opened in the French protectorate in Morocco.
 * 1926 - Forty-eight people died in a fire in a makeshift cinema in Dromcolliher, Ireland.
 * 1943 – World War II: American and Australian airborne forces landed at Nadzab as part of the New Guinea campaign against Japan.
 * 1977 – NASA launched the space probe Voyager 1, currently the farthest spacecraft from Earth, from Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.

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 * 1781 – American Revolutionary War: General Benedict Arnold led British forces to victory at the Battle of Groton Heights.
 * 1901 – William McKinley, President of the United States, was fatally wounded by anarchist Leon Czolgosz at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York, and died eight days later.
 * 1916 – The first self-service grocery store, Piggly Wiggly, was founded in Memphis, Tennessee, U.S.
 * 1930 – Argentine president Hipólito Yrigoyen was deposed in a military coup by José Félix Uriburu.
 * 1944 – World War II: Soviet forces captured the city of Tartu on their way to re-establishing their rule in Estonia.
 * 1952 – A prototype aircraft crashed at the Farnborough Airshow in Hampshire, England, killing the pilot and test observer on board, and 29 spectators.
 * 1963 – The Kennedy administration sent Victor H. Krulak and Joseph Mendenhall on a mission to assess the progress of the Vietnam War.
 * 1970 – The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine hijacked four airliners, landing two at Dawson's Field in Jordan and one in Cairo, while the last hijacking attempt was foiled.
 * 1976 – Soviet pilot Viktor Belenko landed his MiG-25 in Hakodate, Japan, declaring his intention to defect to the West.
 * 1995 – Cal Ripken Jr. played his 2,131st consecutive Major League Baseball game, breaking the 56-year-old record set by Lou Gehrig.
 * 1997 – An estimated 2.5 billion people worldwide watched the funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales, on television.
 * 1999 – The Parliament of Singapore relocated from the Old Parliament House to its current meeting place (pictured).
 * 2018 – The Supreme Court of India invalidated part of Section 377 of the Penal Code, thus legalising homosexuality in India.

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 * 1191 – Third Crusade: Crusaders under Richard I of England defeated Ayyubid troops under Saladin at the Battle of Arsuf in present-day Israel.
 * 1652 – Chinese peasants on Formosa (now Taiwan) began a rebellion against Dutch rule which was suppressed four days later.
 * 1778 – Anglo-French War: France invaded the Caribbean island of Dominica and captured its British fort before Britain had even learned of the Franco-American alliance.
 * 1812 – Napoleonic Wars: The French Grande Armée and the Imperial Russian Army fought near the village of Borodino during the French invasion of Russia.
 * 1916 – World War I: The 'Supreme War Command was established to oversee the armed forces of all the Central Powers.
 * 1936 – The last thylacine died in captivity in Hobart Zoo, Australia.
 * 1940 – Second World War: The Luftwaffe changed their strategy in the Battle of Britain and began bombing London and other cities and towns
 * 1984 – An explosion on board a Maltese patrol boat that was disposing of illegal fireworks at sea off Gozo killed seven soldiers and policemen.
 * 1986 – Desmond Tutu (pictured) became the first black leader of the Anglican Church of Southern Africa.
 * 1999 – Three weeks after an earthquake struck northwestern Turkey, a second earthquake struck Athens, causing Greece and Turkey to initiate "earthquake diplomacy".
 * 2004 – Hurricane Ivan made landfall on Grenada and devastated at least 85 percent of buildings on the island.
 * 2010 – A Chinese fishing trawler operating in disputed waters collided with Japan Coast Guard patrol boats near the Senkaku Islands, sparking a major diplomatic dispute between the two countries.
 * 2011 – Yak-Service Flight 9633, carrying the players and coaching staff of the ice hockey team Lokomotiv Yaroslavl, crashed on take-off near Yaroslavl, Russia, resulting in the deaths of 44 of the 45 people on board.
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September 7

 * 1652 – Chinese peasants on Formosa (now Taiwan) began a rebellion against Dutch rule which was suppressed four days later.
 * 1778 – Anglo-French War: France invaded the Caribbean island of Dominica and captured its British fort before Britain had even learned of the Franco-American alliance.
 * 1936 – The last thylacine (pictured) died in captivity in Hobart Zoo, Australia.
 * 1940 – Second World War: The Luftwaffe changed their strategy in the Battle of Britain and began bombing London and other cities and towns.
 * 2010 – A Chinese fishing trawler operating in disputed waters collided with Japan Coast Guard patrol boats near the Senkaku Islands, sparking a major diplomatic dispute between the two countries.


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 * 617 – Li Yuan defeated a Sui army at the Battle of Huoyi, opening the path to his capture of the Chinese imperial capital Chang'an and the eventual establishment of the Tang dynasty (map pictured).
 * 1566 – Ottoman–Habsburg wars: Although Ottoman forces led by Suleiman the Magnificent captured the fortress of Szigetvár in Hungary, they were forced to end their campaign to take Vienna.
 * 1755 – French and Indian War: Despite being ambushed at the start of the Battle of Lake George, British colonial troops and their Mohawk allies were able to defeat French and Canadien troops and their Indian allies.
 * 1775 – Maltese priests discontented with the Order of Saint John led an uprising, which was suppressed by the Order within a few hours.
 * 1796 – French Revolutionary Wars: The French defeated Austrian forces in Bassano, Venetia, Italy.
 * 1831 – William IV and Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen were crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
 * 1860 – The paddle steamer PS Lady Elgin was rammed by a schooner on Lake Michigan and sank, resulting in the loss of about 300 lives.
 * 1900 – The Great Galveston hurricane, the deadliest natural disaster in U.S. history, struck Galveston, Texas, with estimated winds of 135 miles per hour (215 km/h) at landfall, killing at least 6,000 people.
 * 1921 – In Atlantic City, New Jersey, Margaret Gorman (pictured) was crowned the "Golden Mermaid", the forerunner to the Miss America pageant.
 * 1935 – U.S. senator Huey Long was shot in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, dying two days later.
 * 1936 – Opposed to António de Oliveira Salazar's support of the Nationalists in the Spanish Civil War, the crews of the Portuguese Navy ships NRP Afonso de Albuquerque and NRP Dão mutinied while anchored in the harbour of Lisbon.
 * 1966 – Queen Elizabeth II opened the Severn Bridge, suggesting that it marked the dawn of a new economic era for South Wales.
 * 1966 – The science fiction show Star Trek made its American premiere with "The Man Trap", launching a media franchise that has since created a cult phenomenon and has influenced the design of many current technologies.
 * 1974 – Watergate scandal: U.S. President Gerald Ford gave his recently resigned predecessor Richard Nixon a controversial full and unconditional pardon for any crimes he committed while in office.
 * 1994 – USAir Flight 427 crashed on approach to Pittsburgh International Airport, resulting in 132 deaths and the longest accident investigation in the history of the National Transportation Safety Board.
 * 1995 – Construction began on the Dhammakaya Cetiya, a giant stupa at the Wat Phra Dhammakaya, began.
 * 2022 – Queen Elizabeth II died at the Balmoral Castle in Scotland and was succeeded by her son Charles III.
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 * 337 – After disposing of all relatives who possibly held a claim to the throne, Constantine II, Constantius II and Constans became Roman co-emperors.
 * 1320 – Byzantine forces defeated Achaean troops at the Battle of Saint George, taking control of the Arcadia region of Greece.
 * 1493 – Ottoman wars in Europe: A large Croatian army intercepted Ottoman forces returning to the Sanjak of Bosnia, but was defeated.
 * 1739 – The Stono Rebellion, at the time the largest slave rebellion in the Thirteen Colonies of British America, erupted near Charleston, South Carolina.
 * 1791 – The commissioners overseeing the construction of the United States' new capital city named it Washington, D.C., in honor of the first president.
 * 1892 – At the Lick Observatory in California, Edward Emerson Barnard discovered Amalthea (pictured), a moon of Jupiter and the last natural satellite to be discovered by visual observation.
 * 1939 – World War II: About 3,000 Polish Army troops began a nearly month-long defence of the Hel Peninsula during the German invasion of Poland.
 * 1969 – Allegheny Airlines Flight 853 collided in mid-air with a Piper PA-28 Cherokee flown by a student pilot near Fairland, Indiana, destroying both aeroplanes and killing all 83 occupants of both aircraft.
 * 1999 – The first banknotes of the Portrait Series of the Singapore dollar were introduced by the Board of Commissioners of Currency.
 * 2001 - Two al-Qaeda attackers assassinate Ahmad Shah Massoud, a pivotal Afghan resistance leader, two days before the September 11th attacks in the United States.
 * 2010 – A natural-gas pipeline in San Bruno, California, exploded and "shot a fireball more than 1000 ft in the air", killing eight people.

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 * 1547 – Anglo-Scottish Wars: English forces defeated the Scots at the Battle of Pinkie near Musselburgh, Lothian, Scotland.
 * 1845 – John Doubleday completed a "masterly" restoration of the Portland Vase, which had been smashed into hundreds of pieces six months prior.
 * 1937 – Led by the United Kingdom and France, nine nations met at the Nyon Conference to address international piracy in the Mediterranean Sea.
 * 1946 – While riding a train to Darjeeling, India, Sister Teresa Bojaxhiu, later Mother Teresa (pictured), experienced what she later described as the "call within the call", directing her to "leave the convent and help the poor while living among them".
 * 1960 – Running barefoot in the marathon event at the Rome Olympics, Abebe Bikila became the first athlete from sub-Saharan Africa to win an Olympic gold medal.
 * 1961 – At the Italian Grand Prix at Monza, German driver Wolfgang von Trips car collided with another, causing it to become airborne and crash into a side barrier, killing him and 15 spectators.
 * 1990 – Pope John Paul II consecrated the Basilica of Our Lady of Peace, one of the largest churches in the world, in Yamoussoukro, Ivory Coast.
 * 2000 – British forces freed soldiers and civilians who had been held captive by the militant group the West Side Boys, contributing to the end of the Sierra Leone Civil War.
 * 2008 – CERN's Large Hadron Collider (section pictured), the world's largest and highest-energy particle accelerator, first began operations beneath the France–Switzerland border.
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September 10

 * 1509 – The "Minor Judgement Day" earthquake struck in the Sea of Marmara, devastating much of Constantinople and killing more than 1,000 people.
 * 1779 – American Revolutionary War: Captain William Pickles of the Continental Navy boarded and captured the British sloop HMS West Florida at the Battle of Lake Pontchartrain.
 * 1945 – Mike the Headless Chicken (pictured) was decapitated on a farm in Colorado; he survived another 18 months as part of sideshows before choking to death.
 * 1974 – After centuries of Portuguese rule, the country of Guinea-Bissau was formally recognized as independent.
 * 1983 – Typhoon Ellen dissipated after destroying hundreds of homes across Hong Kong and the Philippines.


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 * 1649 – Cromwellian conquest of Ireland: Oliver Cromwell's New Model Army ended the Siege of Drogheda, took over the town and massacred its garrison.
 * 1697 – Great Turkish War: Forces led by Prince Eugene of Savoy decisively defeated Ottoman troops at the Battle of Zenta in present-day Serbia, ending the Turkish threat to Europe.
 * 1758 – Seven Years' War: France repelled an invasion attempt by the British in the Battle of Saint Cast.
 * 1775 – American Revolutionary War: Benedict Arnold's expedition departed from Cambridge, Massachusetts, as part of the invasion of Quebec.
 * 1776 – British and American leaders held a peace conference on Staten Island, New York, in the hopes of bringing an end to the nascent American Revolutionary War.
 * 1780 – American Revolutionary War: Approximately ten American soldiers were killed by Loyalists and their Native American allies in the Sugarloaf massacre in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania.
 * 1851 – In a fight near Christiana, Pennsylvania, a group of escaped slaves and free Blacks led by William Parker fought off a federal posse seeking to arrest and return the escapees to slavery.
 * 1857 – A legion of Mormon militiamen completed a massacre of at least 120 California-bound Arkansas pioneers at Mountain Meadow, Utah.
 * 1893 – Swami Vivekananda (pictured) gave a speech introducing Hinduism on the opening day of the first Parliament of the World's Religions in Chicago.
 * 1897 – Gaki Sherocho was captured by the forces of Ethiopian emperor Menelik II, bringing an end to the Kingdom of Kaffa.
 * 1914 – First World War: The Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force invaded German New Guinea, winning the Battle of Bita Paka.
 * 1945 – The Japanese-run camp at Batu Lintang, Sarawak, in Borneo was liberated by the Australian 9th Division, averting the planned massacre of its 2,000-plus Allied POWs and civilian internees by four days.
 * 1978 – British medical photographer Janet Parker became the last recorded person to die from smallpox, leading to a debate on whether the virus should be preserved.
 * 1981 – Iranian politician Ayatollah Madani and three others were assassinated by an agent of the MEK who detonated a grenade during Friday prayers in Tabriz.
 * 1992 – Hurricane Iniki, the most powerful hurricane on record to strike the Hawaiian Islands, passed directly over the island of Kauai, killing six people and causing around US$1.8 billion dollars in damage.
 * 2012 – The American consulate and CIA annex in Libya were attacked by a heavily armed group, resulting in the deaths of U.S. ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three others.
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 * 1309 – Reconquista: Castilian forces captured Gibraltar from the Emirate of Granada.
 * 1910 – Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 8, one of the largest-scale choral works in the classical concert repertoire and popularly known as the "Symphony of a Thousand", was first performed in Munich (1916 performers pictured).
 * 1928 – The Okeechobee hurricane first struck the island of Guadeloupe; eventually it reached the United States and caused over 4,000 deaths overall.
 * 1942 – RMS Laconia was sunk by a U-boat off the coast of West Africa, which then attempted to rescue the passengers as it was acting under the old prize rules.
 * 1942 – World War II: The Imperial Japanese Army began the Battle of Edson's Ridge in an effort to retake Henderson Field on Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands from the Allies.
 * 1952 – Three boys in Flatwoods, West Virginia, U.S., reported seeing a ten-foot-tall (3 m) monster in the woods while investigating a UFO.
 * 1962 – In a speech at Rice Stadium in Houston, U.S. president John F. Kennedy reiterated an aspiration to land a man on the Moon before 1970.
 * 1977 – South African anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko died after being beaten in police custody in Port Elizabeth.
 * 1983 – The clandestine Boricua Popular Army staged a bank robbery in West Hartford, Connecticut, making off with $7 million in the largest cash theft in U.S. history at the time.
 * 1992 – Aboard Space Shuttle Endeavour, American Mae Jemison became the first Black woman to travel to space.
 * 2003 – Typhoon Maemi, the strongest recorded typhoon to strike South Korea, made landfall near Busan.
 * 2008 – A Metrolink train collided head-on with a freight train in Los Angeles, California, resulting in 25 deaths and 135 injuries; the Metrolink driver had passed through a red signal, having likely been distracted by text messaging.
 * 2015 – An explosion involving illegally stored mining detonators in Petlawad, India, killed 104 people and injured more than 150 others.
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