| 1974 - | Loyalists were expelled from the Northern Ireland Assembley |
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| 1972 - | The United Kingdom joined the Common Market |
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| 1947 - | The fresh meat ration was reduced to 1s (5p) per week in Britain |
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| 1944 - | Allied forces landed at Anzio, Italy |
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| 1941 - | Tobruk, North Africa, was captured by Australian troops |
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| 1927 - | A football match was broadcast over the radio for the very first time |
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| 1924 - | Ramsey MacDonald became the first British Labour Prime Minister |
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| 1910 - | Opera Germania, premieres in NYC |
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| 1909 - | Vassily Kandinsky forms Knstlerverein in Munich |
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| 1905 - | Bloody Sunday |
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| 1901 - | After 63 years England stops sale of Queen Victoria postage stamps series and begins King Edward VII series |
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| 1880 - | Frigyes Riesz, Hungarian mathematician and pioneer of functional analysis, born. |
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| 1879 - | British troops were massacred by the Zulus at Isandhlwana, South Africa |
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| 1771 - | The Falkland Islands were given to Britain by the Spanish |
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