| 1986 - | Kingsley Amis won the 'Booker' prize for his novel 'The Old Devils' |
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| 1966 - | George Blake, the Russian spy, escaped from Wormwood Scrubs prison |
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| 1962 - | Nelson Mandella went on trial for treason in South Africa |
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| 1960 - | In Louisville Kentucky, Cassius Clay fought his first profesional bout |
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| 1935 - | Haiti was struck by a hurricane, causing over 2,000 deaths |
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| 1910 - | At the Old Bailey in London, Dr Crippen was found guilty of the murder of his wife and sentenced to hang |
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| 1909 - | French aviator Elise Deroche became the first woman to make a solo flight |
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| 1907 - | Ringling Brothers Greatest Show on Earth buys Barnum and Bailey circus |
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| 1906 - | 3000 blacks demonstrate and riot in Phila |
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| 1906 - | Cezanne, the renowned French painter, died |
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| 1904 - | Russian fleet shoots at British fishing ship |
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| 1883 - | In New York the Metropolitan Opera House was opened |
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| 1878 - | Floodlit Rugby took place for the first time |
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| 1797 - | The first parachute jump was made by André-Jacques Garnerin from a balloon above the Parc Monceau, Paris |
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