| 1991 - | Australian cricketer Alan Border made test history when he appeared in his 126th test match |
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| 1986 - | American Hollywood actor Cary Grant died |
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| 1975 - | 'Queen' reached number one in the charts with 'Bohemian Rhapsody' |
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| 1975 - | Champion British racing driver Graham Hill was killed in an aircraft crash at Arkley, Hertfordshire |
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| 1940 - | The German 'Luftwaffe' bombed Liverpool |
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| 1929 - | US Admiral Richard Byrd became the first man to fly over the South Pole, with his pilot Bernt Balchen |
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| 1907 - | Florence Nightingale, aged 87, was appointed to the 'Order of Merit' by King Edward VII |
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| 1902 - | Gerhart Hauptmanns Der arn‰ Heinrich, premieres in Vienna |
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| 1901 - | East 182nd Street in Bronx is paved and opened |
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| 1900 - | Lord Kitchener succeeds lord Roberts up as supreme commander in S Afr |
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| 1864 - | 1,200 American troops attacked a camp of Cheyenne and Arapho indians who had surrended |
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| 1803 - | Christian Johann Doppler, Austrian physicist, was born |
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| 1531 - | Cardinal and Lord Chancellor, Thomas Wolsey, died on his way from York to London |
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