| 1993 - | President Yeltsin declared a State of Emergency in Moscow |
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| 1990 - | Germnay became officially reunified, with Berlin the capital city |
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| 1966 - | Basutoland became the independent Lesotho, South Africa |
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| 1959 - | Postcodes were introduced in Britain |
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| 1956 - | The Bolshoi Ballet performed in Britain for the first time |
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| 1952 - | The first British atomic bomb was detonated on the Monte Bello Islands, off W Australia |
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| 1952 - | Britain test detonated its first atomic bomb, on an island off the coast of Australia |
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| 1929 - | Yugoslavia was formed, with the joining of three separate kingdoms |
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| 1906 - | US regime names Charles Magoon, governor of Cuba |
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| 1906 - | William Vaughan Moodys Great Divide, premieres in NYC |
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| 1906 - | SOS was established as an international distress signal, replacing the call sign CQD |
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| 1904 - | France and Spain sign treaty for Morocco Independence |
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| 1904 - | Giants Christy Mathewson strikes out then record 16 Cards |
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| 1904 - | Mary McLeod Bethune opens Daytona Normal and Industrial School |
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| 1900 - | Edward Elgar/Cardinal Newmans oratorium premieres in Birmingham |
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