| 1995 - | The maxium speed limit for cocahes in Britain was reduced to 65 mph |
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| 1992 - | A selection of America's popular films began showing on Soviet television |
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| 1990 - | The American film actress, Ava Gardener, died in London |
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| 1985 - | The first ever international hockey match was held |
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| 1984 - | The government announced a ban on union membership at GCHQ |
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| 1981 - | The Social Democrats party was formed in UK |
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| 1974 - | Dr Christian Barnard performed a heart transplant, leaving the original heart in place |
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| 1972 - | The Worlds first kidney & pancreatic tissue transplant was carried out in London |
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| 1949 - | First Emmy Awards |
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| 1938 - | Due to intense sunspot activity, the aurora borealis, or northern lights, were seen as far south as western Europe. |
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| 1924 - | The first ever Winter Olympic games were held, in French alps |
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| 1917 - | The United States bought the Virgin islands for 25 million dollars |
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| 1910 - | 1st stumping by a 12th man in Tests (N C Tufnell, SAf v Eng) |
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| 1910 - | Children initiate idea of planting trees in Jerusalem |
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| 1909 - | Richard Strauss premier of Electricity in Dresden |
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| 1908 - | John Blockx opera Baldie premieres in Antwerp |
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| 1907 - | Julia Ward Howe is 1st woman elected to Natl Inst of Arts and Letters |
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| 1906 - | Del Valle Inclans El Marqu‚s de Bradomin, premieres in Madrid |
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| 1905 - | Largest diamond, Cullinan (3106 carets), found in South Africa |
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| 1904 - | 179 die in coal mine explosion at Cheswick, Pennsylvania |
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| 1904 - | J M Synges Ruders to the Sea, premieres in Dublin |
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| 1902 - | Aleksandr Skriabins 2nd Symphony in C premieres in St Petersburg |
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| 1627 - | Robert Boyle, Irish physicist and chemist, was born. |
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