| 1998 - | The Caribbean island of Cuba became independent from Spain |
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| 1987 - | In Leicestershire, two dangerous prisoners escaped by helicopter from the Gartree maximum security prison |
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| 1919 - | The Smith brothers became the first pilots, to complete a flight from Britain to Australia |
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| 1911 - | Calbraith Rogers completes 1st crossing of US by airplane (84 days) |
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| 1911 - | Tobias Asser given Nobel prize for peace |
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| 1910 - | JD Van de Waals wins Nobel Prize for physics |
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| 1907 - | Ruyard Kipling receives Nobel prize for literature |
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| 1906 - | Pres Theodore Roosevelt (1st American) awarded Nobel Peace Prize |
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| 1904 - | King Peter I of Sweden named nationalist regime |
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| 1903 - | Nobel for physics awarded to Pierre/Marie Curie |
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| 1903 - | Marie Curie became the first woman to receive a Nobel prize |
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| 1901 - | 1st Nobel Peace Prizes (to Jean Henri Dunant, Fr‚d‚ric Passy) |
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| 1896 - | The Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, who invented Dynamite and founded the Nobel prizes, died in San Remo, Italy |
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| 1868 - | Londons first traffic lights came into operation near Parliament Square |
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| 1845 - | Pneumatic tires were patented by Scottish civil engineer Robert Thompson |
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| 1845 - | The first pneumatic tyres were patented, by the Scottish civil engineer, Robert Thompson |
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| 1768 - | The Royal Academy of Arts was founded, Joshua Reynolds becoming its first President |
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