| 1972 - | Richard Nixon was re-elected as the US president |
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| 1957 - | The number one chart hit was 'That'll Be The Day' by 'The Crickets' |
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| 1944 - | Franklin D.Roosevelt created a record by being elected for a fourth term as President |
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| 1935 - | Australian Sir Charles Kingford Smith was sighted over Calcutta on a flight from England, never to be seen again |
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| 1910 - | The Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy died |
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| 1909 - | Knights and Ladies of St Peter Claver organizes in Mobile Alabama |
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| 1908 - | Dutch capture Venezuelan navy |
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| 1907 - | Dynamite explodes on locomotive kills engineer Jesus Garcia in Mexico |
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| 1907 - | Test tokens are struck in 1st production of Canadian coins |
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| 1888 - | Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman, Indian physicist, was born |
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| 1872 - | The ship Marie Celeste sailed from New York, eventually to be found deserted |
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| 1867 - | Marie Curie, French physicist, was born |
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| 1783 - | At Tyburn, near Marble Arch in London, Britains last public hanging took place |
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