| 1993 - | IBM announnced a loss of $4.97 billion for 1992, the largest single-year loss in US corporate history. |
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| 1992 - | A new Bulgarian President was elected in the countries first free elections |
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| 1991 - | The Presidential Palace in Iraq was attacked as the Gulf War began |
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| 1962 - | A Czech student set himself on fire in protest against the USSR |
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| 1942 - | Japanese forces invaded Burma during World War 2 |
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| 1915 - | More than 20 people were killed when German zeppelins bombed England for the first time the bombs were dropped on Great Yarmouth and King`s Lynn. |
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| 1915 - | German zeppelins bombed London for the first time in World War I |
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| 1910 - | Germany and Bolivia ends commerce/friendship treaty |
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| 1910 - | National Institute of Arts and Letters incorporated by Congress |
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| 1909 - | Eugene Walters Easiest Way, premieres in NYC |
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| 1906 - | Gerhart Hauptmanns Und Pippa Tanzt!, premieres in Berlin |
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| 1903 - | 1st regular transatlantic radio broadcast between US and England |
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| 1903 - | New bicycle race Tour de France announced |
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| 1793 - | King Louis XVI was sentenced to death by the French Convention |
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| 1736 - | James Watt, Scottish inventor, was born. |
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