| 1961 - | Elvis Presley reached number one in the record charts with 'Latest Flame' |
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| 1952 - | The first video recorder was demonstrated in Beverly Hills, California, by its inventors John Mullin and Wayne Johnson |
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| 1945 - | Jerome Kern, the renowned 'Broadway', composer died |
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| 1944 - | The Home Guard,affectionately called 'Dads Army', was disbanded |
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| 1940 - | The first wartime 'Jeep', was launched by Willis |
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| 1921 - | The first ever 'Poppy Day' was held by the British Legion |
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| 1918 - | Germany and the Allies signed the armistice, in a railway carriage in the Compiegne forest |
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| 1909 - | Construction of navy base at Pearl Harbor begins |
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| 1909 - | J M Synges Tinkers Wedding, premieres in London |
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| 1906 - | Ethel Smyth Standrecht, premieres in Leipzig |
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| 1901 - | Maurice Ravel composition Jeux deau premieres |
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| 1880 - | Ned Kelly, the notorious Australian outlaw, was hanged in Old Melbourne Gaol aged 25 |
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