Most significant calender day in history

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9:57p, 4/18/18
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Totally random and silly, but was thinking tonight about what the most significant calender date would be. Not most important individual day or event, but the most important cumulative set of events that have serendipitously occured on the same day

For example, today april 18:

Paul revere's ride (even if the popular story isnt true)
1906 san fran earthquake
The cornerstone of the current St. Peter's Basilica is laid in the Vatican
Denmark is first country to adopt fingerprinting to identify criminals
Dolittle raid


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7:01a, 4/19/18
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April 15, 1912

Sinking of the Titanic
Birth of the Great Leader Kim Il Sung
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8:08a, 4/19/18
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June 28, 1914. Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand. Arguably, you can say that if this doesn't happen, WWI doesn't happen. Without WWI:
No Middle East Map idiocy
No Treaty of Versailles - No weakened German economy - No Hitler - No Holocaust - No modern day Israel
No Russian revolution - No Stalin - No Cold War - No Korea - No Vietnam
Probably no 9/11

I'm sure one could argue that there were more important events leading up to that day, but when you think about it, we're still feeling the effects of Gavrilo Princip's shot.

Edit: Oops, guess I should have read the OP a little closer...
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In reply to Maximus_Meridius • 8:48a, 4/19/18
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Other events that day:

1389 Ottomans defeat Serbian army in the bloody Battle of Kosovo, opening the way for the Ottoman conquest of Southeastern Europe
1776 final draft of declaration of independence submitted

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10:40p, 4/23/18
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April 19th is more eventful than the 18th, OP. By a long shot.
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11:54a, 4/26/18
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April 25th
1856: Thornton affair begins the Mexican-American war
1859: Ground breaks on the Suez canal
1862: Admiral Farragut begins operations against New Orleans
1898 U.S declares war on Spain
1915:Invasion of Gallipoli begins
1945: U.S and Soviet forces link-up along the Elbe River
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In reply to $240 Worth of Pudding • 12:42p, 4/26/18
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Yelnick McWawa said:
April 19th is more eventful than the 18th, OP. By a long shot.


Might very well be. But, im sure there are days which have had more than either of those
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