| 1987 - | A fire broke out at London`s King`s Cross underground station, killing 30 people |
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| 1987 - | During a fire at Kings Cross underground station, 30 people died and over 50 were injured |
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| 1983 - | In the Liverpool Maternity Hospital, Janet Walton gave birth to sextuplets, all girls |
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| 1963 - | The Dartford-Purfleet tunnel under the Thames was opened |
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| 1963 - | In the US, the Bell telephone company introduced the first 'Push button' telephones |
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| 1962 - | Niels Henrik Bohr, Danish physicist, died |
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| 1928 - | The first experimental sound cartoon, Steamboat Willie, starring Mickey Mouse, was screened in the US |
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| 1923 - | Alan Shepard, US astronaut, was born |
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| 1911 - | Britains 1st seaplane flies |
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| 1911 - | Opera Lobetanz 1st American performance |
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| 1909 - | US invades Nicaragua, later overthrows Pres Zelaya |
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| 1906 - | Langdon Mitchells New York Idea, premieres in NYC |
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| 1905 - | George Bernard Shaws Major Barbara, premieres in London |
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| 1905 - | Prince Carl of Denmark becomes King Haakon VII of Norway |
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| 1903 - | Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty gives US exclusive canal rights in Panama |
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| 1902 - | Bkln toymaker Morris Michton names teddy bear after Teddy Roosevelt |
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| 1880 - | The Irish Football Association was formed |
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| 1852 - | The Duke of Wellington was given a state funeral in St Paul's Cathedral |
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| 1789 - | Louis Daguerre, French photographic pioneer, was born |
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| 1626 - | In Rome, St Peter's Church was consecrated |
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| 1477 - | William Caxton`s The Dictes or Sayinges of the Philosophres was published - the first printed book in England bearing a date |
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