| 1987 - | Southern England was hit by hurricane force winds, causing 19 deaths and hundreds of millions of pounds worth of damage |
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| 1987 - | Hurricane force winds battered Britain, causing severe damage & destroying thousands of trees |
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| 1984 - | Bishop Desmond Tutu was awarded the Nobel peace prize |
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| 1978 - | John Paul II became the first non-Italian Pope |
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| 1964 - | China exploded a nuclear device |
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| 1964 - | Harold Wilson became Prime Minister (Labour) |
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| 1922 - | The Simplon II railway tunnel, under the Alps, was completed |
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| 1909 - | Jack Johnson KOs Stanley Ketchel in 12 for heavyweight boxing title |
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| 1909 - | Pirates beat Tigers 4 games to 3 in 6th World Series |
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| 1908 - | Edmonton Rugby Foot-ball Club re-organizes as Esquimoux |
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| 1907 - | Belasco Theater opens at 111 W 44th St NYC |
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| 1907 - | David Belascos Grand Army Man, premieres in NYC |
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| 1904 - | Russian Baltic fleet departs to Port Arthur |
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| 1903 - | Homel, 1st Jewish self defense organization founded in Russia |
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| 1900 - | Queen Wilhelmina leaves duke Heinrich Henry von Mecklenburg-Schwerin |
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| 1846 - | The first public surgical operation using ether as an anesthetic was performed at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston |
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| 1834 - | A fire destroyed the Palace of Westminster |
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| 1815 - | Napoleon Bonaparte was exiled to St Helena, an island in the Atlantic |
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| 1793 - | The Queen of France, Marie Antoinette, was found guilty of treason & executed by guillotine in Paris |
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| 1555 - | An English protestant, Nicholas Ridley, was burned at the stake for heresy |
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