| 1993 - | US President George Bush and Russian President Boris Yeltsin signed the second Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) in Moscow. |
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| 1992 - | The 15th ceasefire was announced in former Yugoslavia |
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| 1988 - | Margaret Thatcher became Britains longest serving 20th century Prime Minister |
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| 1985 - | 12,000 Ethiopian jews were airlifted to Israel |
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| 1980 - | Joy Adamson, British naturalist and author, died. |
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| 1971 - | The Open University began broadcasting on television |
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| 1959 - | Alaskan Territory becomes the 49th US state, bought from Russia |
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| 1924 - | English explorer Howard Carter discovered the sarcophagus of Tutankhamen in the Valley of the Kings, near Luxor, Egypt. |
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| 1924 - | The sarcophagus of Tutankhamen was discovered by Howard Carter |
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| 1912 - | South Pacific RR offers to bring Liberty Bell to Exposition, free |
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| 1911 - | US postal savings bank inaugurated |
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| 1910 - | British miners strike for 8 hour working day |
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| 1902 - | Reg Duff 104 on Test debut, v England at MCG |
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| 1900 - | Gerhart Hauptmanns Schluck und Jau, premieres in Berlin |
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| 1900 - | Perihelion Passage |
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| 1795 - | Josiah Wedgwood, the famous English potter, died |
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