| 1983 - | At Heathrow airport near London, The Brinks Mat security warehouse was robbed of 25 million in gold bars |
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| 1983 - | In Auckland New Zealand, David Bowie performed to an audience of 80,000 people, breaking the attendence record for the Southern Hemisphere |
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| 1972 - | The 'Race Relations Act' came into force in the UK |
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| 1959 - | The House of Lords voted against the introduction of commercial radio |
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| 1922 - | In Egypt, Howard Carter and Lord Caernavon discovered the tomb of Tutankhamun, the first time the tomb had been opened for 3,000 years |
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| 1910 - | 2nd CFL Grey Cup |
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| 1908 - | Lord Forte (1908), Hotelier and financier |
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| 1867 - | The first ever woman to vote in a British election cast her vote, due to a mistake in the electoral register |
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| 1836 - | John McAdam, Scottish engineer, died |
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| 1810 - | William George Armstrong, English inventor, was born |
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| 1789 - | The first national thanksgiving day was celebrated in America, to mark the 1621 harvest of the Pilgrim Fathers |
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| 1703 - | England was hit by severe gales, known as the Great Storm, in which 8,000 people died |
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