| 1995 - | Driving examiners went on strike over plans to make changes to the way there were paid |
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| 1988 - | Isidor Rabi, US physicist, died. |
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| 1984 - | French farmers hijacked English lorries in a dispute against meat imports |
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| 1973 - | The Open University awarded its first degrees. |
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| 1973 - | The Open University awarded its first degrees |
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| 1971 - | The first divorce in Britain was granted under the new Divorce Act |
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| 1962 - | There was an outbreak of smallpox in Britain |
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| 1935 - | Amelia Earhart starts her two-day solo flight across the Pacific |
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| 1928 - | Thomas Hardy, the English playwright and poet, died aged 87 |
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| 1922 - | Leonard Thompson became the first person to be successfully treated with insulin, at Toronto General Hospital. |
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| 1922 - | The first ever successful insulin treatment was given to a Canadian man |
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| 1904 - | Herero people of South West Africa, now Namibia, begin uprising |
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| 1787 - | William Herschel discovered that the planet Uranus had moons |
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| 1753 - | Hans Sloane, British physician and naturalist, died. |
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