| 1988 - | Six thousand US Defense Department computers were crippled by a virus the culprit was the 23-year-old son of the head of the country`s computer security agency |
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| 1975 - | The punk rock group 'The Sex Pistols' gave their first public performance |
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| 1956 - | Construction of the Kariba High Dam, on the Zambezi River between Zambia and Zimbabwe, began |
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| 1928 - | In America, Herbert Hoover became the 31st President |
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| 1924 - | Stanley Baldwin was elected as Prime Minister |
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| 1911 - | Francisco Madeiro inaugurated president of Mexico |
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| 1910 - | SDAP/NVV initiate campaign for general males/female suffrage |
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| 1908 - | Leonid Andreyevs Dui Nashey Zhizni, premieres in St Petersburg |
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| 1906 - | Charles Evans Hughes (R) elected NY gov beats William Randolph Hearst |
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| 1903 - | USA recognizea independence of Panama |
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| 1900 - | Battle at Bothaville |
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| 1900 - | Pres William McKinley (R) re-elected, beating William Jennings Bryan |
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| 1893 - | The Russian composer Tchaikovsky died of cholera |
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| 1869 - | Diamonds were discovered at Kimberley, in Cape Province, South Africa |
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| 1869 - | Blackfriars Bridge, over the river Thames in London, was opened |
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| 1869 - | Diamonds were discovered at Kimberley, South Africa |
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| 1814 - | Adolphe Sax, Belgian inventor of the saxophone, was born |
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| 1771 - | Alois Senefelder, Austrian inventor of lithography, was born |
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| 1429 - | Henry VI was crowned King of England |
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