| 1990 - | Mikhail Gorbachev was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize |
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| 1987 - | Fiji was made a republic, after belonging to Britain since 1874 |
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| 1970 - | In Melbourne, Australia's biggest bridge, the West Gate Bridge, collapsed killing 33 people |
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| 1962 - | Amnesty International was formed in London |
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| 1956 - | The last RAF Lancaster bomber was retired from service |
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| 1946 - | Herman Goering killed himself by taking poison, hours before he was due to hang for war crimes |
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| 1928 - | The German airship Graf Zeppelin, captained by Hugo Eckener, completed its first transatlantic flight |
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| 1928 - | The airship 'Graf Zeppelin' made its first transatlantic flight |
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| 1905 - | C P Snow, English scientist and novelist, was born |
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| 1905 - | Claude Debussys La Mer, premieres |
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| 1905 - | Union workers at NVV rejects safety demands |
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| 1608 - | Evangelista Torricelli, Italian physicist, was born |
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| 1582 - | The Gregorian calendar was adopted in Italy, Spain, Portugal, and France 5 Oct became 15 Oct |
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