| 1982 - | Alberto Salazar won the New York marathon for the third consecutive year |
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| 1976 - | British racing driver James Hunt won the Japanese Grand Prix and secured the world championship |
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| 1964 - | Northern Rhodesia became the Republic of Zambia |
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| 1961 - | Malta was granted independence from Britain |
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| 1945 - | The United Nations Organisation formally came into being |
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| 1922 - | George Cadbury, the English chocolate manufacturer, died aged 83 |
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| 1911 - | Robert Scotts expedition leaves Cape Evans for South Pole |
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| 1908 - | Billy Murray hits the charts with Take Me Outto the Ball Game |
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| 1904 - | 1st NY subway opens |
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| 1903 - | 1st trotter to run a mile under 2 minutes (Lou Dillon 1 |
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| 1903 - | George Sutton becomes billard champ |
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| 1901 - | 1st woman to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel (Anna Taylor) |
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| 1900 - | General Redvers Buller returns to England |
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| 1857 - | The very first football club was formed in Sheffield, by a group of Cambridge University 'Old Boys' |
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| 1632 - | Anton van Leeuwenhoek, Dutch microscope pioneer, was born |
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| 1601 - | Tycho Brahe, Danish astronomer, died |
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