| 1976 - | The four millionth 'Mini' left the production line |
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| 1967 - | President of France, General Charles de Gaulle, refused British entry to the Common Market |
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| 1953 - | The writer and nobel prize winner, Eugene O'Neill died in Boston USA |
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| 1944 - | In a storage cavern beneath Staffordshire, 4,000 tons of explosives exploded. The explosion was heard 100 miles away in London |
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| 1914 - | Britains first policewomen, Mary Allen and E.F Harburn began their duties in Grantham, Lincolnshire |
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| 1911 - | Audience throws vegetables at actors for 1st recorded time in US |
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| 1910 - | NYs Penn Station opens as worlds largest railway terminal |
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| 1903 - | Opera Die Heugierigen Frauen is produced (Munich) |
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| 1901 - | Army War College forms in Washington DC |
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| 1901 - | Gerhart Hauptmanns Der rote Hahn, premieres in Berlin |
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| 1895 - | The french playwright Alexandre Dumas died |
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| 1852 - | Augusta Ada King, Lady Lovelace, ,died heavily in debt, addicted to strong drink. She had been the assistant to the mathematical engineer Charles Babbage (the father of the computer). |
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| 1701 - | Anders Celsius, Swedish astronomer and thermometer inventor, was born |
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| 1582 - | William Shakespeare aged 18, married Anne Hathaway |
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