| 1967 - | Jeremy Thorpe was elected leader of the Liberal Party |
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| 1944 - | The seige of Lenningrad, in the USSR, by the Germans ended after over two years |
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| 1936 - | Rudyard Kipling, the English author of 'Jungle Book', died |
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| 1933 - | David Bellamy, English botanist, was born. |
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| 1912 - | English explorer Robert F Scott and his expedition reach South Pole, only to discover that Roald Amundsen had gotten there before |
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| 1911 - | The first landing of an aircraft on a ship`s deck was made by US pilot Eugene Ely, in San Francisco Bay. |
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| 1911 - | 1st shipboard landing of a plane (Tanforan Park to USS Pennsylvania) |
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| 1911 - | A plane landed on the deck of a ship for the first time, in the USA |
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| 1908 - | Frederick Delius Brigg Fair, premieres |
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| 1905 - | French govt of Combes falls |
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| 1901 - | Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Graves De Communi Re |
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| 1900 - | Jan Blockxs T˜l Uilenspiegel premieres in Brussels |
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| 1871 - | Germany had its first emperor, King Wilhelm of Prussia |
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| 1778 - | Captain Cook discovered the Sandwich Islands, now known as Hawaii. |
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| 1778 - | Captain Cook discovered what is now called the Hawiian Islands |
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