| 1991 - | Spanish golfer Seve Ballsteros was awarded the Ritz Club, European Golfer of the Year Award |
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| 1984 - | In thick fog, twenty two vehicles collided on the M25, near Limpsfield on the Surrey & Kent border |
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| 1967 - | The Concorde airliner was rolled out of its hangar for public viewing for the first time |
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| 1936 - | The Duke of York became King George VI, after his brother Edward VIII abdicated to marry Mrs Wallis Simpson |
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| 1914 - | The Royal Flying Corps (later became the RAF) adopted the roundel in red, white & blue as its identification mark |
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| 1909 - | Colored moving pictures demonstrated at Madison Square Garden, NYC |
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| 1909 - | Canadian Football exhibition game played in Van Cortlandt Park in Bronx, Hamilton Tigers beat Ottawa Rough Riders, 6-Nov before 15,000 |
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| 1908 - | Frederick Delius In a Summer Garden, premieres |
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| 1906 - | US president Roosevelt attacks abuses in the Congo |
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| 1905 - | 120ø F (49ø C), Rivadavia, Argentina (South American record) |
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| 1905 - | British govt of Campbell-Bannerman forms |
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| 1903 - | British forces under MacDonald and Young march into Tibet |
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| 1901 - | Marconi sends 1st transatlantic radio signal, Cornwall to Nfld |
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| 1894 - | The first Motor Show opened in the Champs-Elysees, Paris, with a total of nine exhibitors |
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| 1844 - | Nitrous oxide, or laughing gas, was first used for a tooth extraction |
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