| 1991 - | Robert Maxwell the publishing tycoon, was found dead, floating in the sea 20 miles off Tenerife |
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| 1979 - | The trial began in Dublin, of the two men accused of the murder of Lord Mountbatten |
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| 1968 - | Shirley Chisholm became the first black woman, to be elected to the US House of Representatives |
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| 1940 - | Theodore Roosevelt was elected to a record third term as President |
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| 1927 - | Britain`s first automatic traffic lights began functioning, in Wolverhampton |
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| 1927 - | Britains first set of traffic lights came into operation in Wolverhampton |
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| 1912 - | The British Board of Film Censors was appointed |
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| 1911 - | Italy attacks Turkish North-Africa (Libya), takes Tipoli and Cyrenaica |
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| 1911 - | Calbraith Rodgers arrives in Pasadena completing 1st transcontinental airplane flight (49 days) (left Sheepshead Bay, NY, Sept 17) |
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| 1892 - | John Haldane, Scottish scientist, was born |
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