| 1995 - | Over 3,500 people were killed when an earthquake measuring 7.2 on the Richter scale hit the city of Kobe, Japan. |
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| 1995 - | In Japan a massive earthquake caused widespread destruction & left 300,000 homeless |
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| 1991 - | Operation Desert Storm begins |
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| 1986 - | The Royal yacht Britannia evacuated Britions and other foreign nationals from Aden |
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| 1983 - | Breakfast television began in Britain |
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| 1968 - | The motor manufacturer British Leyland was formed, from the merger of two companies |
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| 1966 - | A B-52 carrying four H-bombs collided with a refueling tanker, killing eight of the crew and releasing the bombs. |
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| 1959 - | The African country of Mali was formed with the joining of Senegal & French Sudan |
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| 1920 - | Prohibition becomes official in America |
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| 1912 - | English explorer Robert Falcon Scott reached the South Pole Norwegian Roald Amundsen had beaten him there by one month. |
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| 1912 - | Robert Scott expedition arrives at South Pole, 1 month after Amundsen |
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| 1912 - | English explorer Robert F. Scott reached the South Pole |
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| 1911 - | Francis Galton, English anthropologist and explorer, died. |
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| 1911 - | Failed assassination attempt on premier Briand in French Assembly |
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| 1911 - | Percy Mackayes Scarecrow, premieres in NYC |
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| 1905 - | Punchboards patented by Charles Brewer and C G Scannell, Chicago |
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| 1904 - | Anton Chekhovs Cherry Orchard opens at Moscow Art Theater |
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| 1773 - | Captain Cook`s Resolution became the first ship to cross the Antarctic Circle. |
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| 1773 - | Captain Cooks ship became the first to cross the Antartic Ocean |
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| 1706 - | Benjamin Franklin, US statesman and scientist, was born. |
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