| 1983 - | English television comedian Dick Emery died |
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| 1976 - | Gales throughout the Britain caused widespread damage |
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| 1974 - | Museums and Galleries began charging admission for the first time |
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| 1972 - | The American spacecraft Mariner 9 began mapping the planet Mars |
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| 1968 - | The world's first heart transplant was carried out |
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| 1967 - | Ronald Reagan became the governer of California, United States |
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| 1959 - | The Russian uncrewed spacecraft Luna I, the first rocket to pass near the moon, was launched. |
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| 1920 - | Isaac Asimov, US biochemist and science-fiction writer, was born. |
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| 1911 - | Brookyln Dodgers president Charles Ebbets announces purchase of grounds to build a new concrete-and-steel stadium to seat 30,000 |
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| 1910 - | 1st junior high schools in US opens (Berkeley Calif) |
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| 1908 - | Canadian branch of the Royal Mint opens in Ottawa |
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| 1905 - | Elara, a satellite of Jupiter, discovered by Perrine |
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| 1905 - | Japanese troops capture Port Arthur |
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| 1903 - | President T Roosevelt shuts down post office in Indianola Miss, for refusing to accept its appointed postmistress because she was black |
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| 1900 - | E Verlinger begins manufacturing 7 single-sided records (Montreal) |
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| 1900 - | Gustave Charpentiers opera Louise, premieres in Paris |
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| 1892 - | George Airy, English Astronomer Royal, died. |
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| 1839 - | French photographer Louis Daguerre took the first photograph. |
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| 1839 - | The first ever photographs of the Moon were taken |
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| 1788 - | Georgia becomes the 4th US state |
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| 1635 - | Cardinal Richelieu founded the Academie Francaise |
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