| 1988 - | A computer worm unleashed by a Cornell University graduate student began replicating, clogging thousands of computers around the country, but causing no real damage. |
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| 1986 - | At Papworth Hospital, Cambridgeshire, the first British heart transplant took place |
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| 1986 - | Following the intervention of Terry Waite, US hostage David Jacobsen was freed in Beirut after 18 months imprisonment |
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| 1981 - | Citizens Band radio was legally allowed in Britain |
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| 1976 - | Jimmy Carter was elected as the (38th) US President |
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| 1963 - | 'Gerry and the Pacemakers' reached the number one chart spot with 'You'll Never Walk Alone' |
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| 1959 - | The main M1 mototway, London to Birmingham section, was opened |
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| 1950 - | George Bernard Shaw, the renowned playwright died, aged 94 |
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| 1907 - | Ottawa Mint Proclamation is published |
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| 1904 - | British newspaper, Daily Mirror, begins publishing |
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| 1903 - | Lyceum Theater (New Lyceum) opens at 149 W 45th St NYC |
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| 1903 - | New Amsterdam Theater opens at 214 W 42nd St NYC |
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| 1903 - | The 'Daily Mirror' was published for the first time |
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| 1815 - | George Boole, English mathematician whose Boolean algebra paved the way to digital computing, was born |
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