| 1991 - | The Queen opened the 'Queen Elizabeth II'bridge over the Thames,linking Thurrock and Dartford |
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| 1988 - | 6,516 couples were married at a mass ceremony in Seoul,Korea |
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| 1987 - | A cloud of poisonous gas passed over south west Britain,caused by a fire in Nantes,western France |
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| 1984 - | In Liverpool, the surviving members of the 'Beatles' Pop group were given the freedom of the City, George Harrison refusing to attend |
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| 1979 - | Barnes Neville Wallis, British aeronautical engineer, died |
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| 1974 - | Muhammad Ali regained the world heavyweight boxing title, by knocking out George Foreman, in the eighth round in Zaire |
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| 1925 - | The Scottish inventor John Logie Baird made the first televized transmission of a moving object (a 15-year-old office boy) |
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| 1911 - | Clark Griffith is named manager of Wash Senators |
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| 1910 - | The founder of the International Red Cross,Henri Dunant,died |
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| 1905 - | October Manifesto Russian Tsar Nicholas II grants civil liberties |
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| 1905 - | GB Shaws Mrs Warrens Profession, premieres in NYC |
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| 1905 - | Tsar of Russia accepts 1st Duma (Parliament) |
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| 1905 - | Aspirin,developed by the German company Bayer,went on sale in Britain for the first time |
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| 1901 - | Battle at Bakenlaagte |
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| 1900 - | 1st-ever US auto show opens in Madison Square Garden in NYC |
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| 1823 - | Edmund Cartwright, English inventor, died |
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