| 1994 - | Prime Minister John Major relaunched his 'Back to Basics' campaign |
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| 1991 - | Christmas was celebrated in the USSR for the first time since the Bolshevik Revolution |
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| 1981 - | The scottish novelist A.J Cronin died |
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| 1945 - | The Battle of the Bulge, in the Ardennes, began |
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| 1928 - | The river Thames flooded, causing damage to Tate Art Gallery basement paintings |
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| 1912 - | New Mexico becomes 47th state |
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| 1907 - | Maria Montessori opens her 1st (Montessori) school (Rome) |
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| 1906 - | Maurice Ravels Miroirs, premieres in Paris |
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| 1903 - | Dutch Press museum opens in Amsterdam |
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| 1900 - | Boers attack at Ladysmith, about 1,000 killed or injured |
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| 1900 - | Maurice Ravels Albaradode Gracioso, premieres in Paris |
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| 1884 - | Gregor Mendel, Austrian monk and biologist, died |
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| 1838 - | The first public demonstration of the electric telegraph was given by its inventor, Samuel Morse |
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| 1838 - | Samuel Morse gave the first demonstration of the electric telegraph |
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| 1540 - | King Henry VIII married his fourth wife, Anne of Cleeves |
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