| 1989 - | Andrei Sakharov, Russian physicist and human-rights campaigner, died |
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| 1987 - | In the worst attack on merchant shipping in the 'Gulf War', 21 crewmen from a Norwegian tanker were killed |
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| 1962 - | US Mariner II sent the first close-up pictures of the planet Venus back to Earth |
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| 1962 - | The first close up pictures of the planet Venus were received, from the US spacecraft, Mariner II |
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| 1955 - | Hugh Gaitskell was elected leader of the Labour Party, following the resignation of Clement Attlee |
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| 1947 - | Stanley Baldwin, three times Conservative Prime Minister, died |
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| 1932 - | The first ever floodlit Rugby League match took place at the White City Stadium in London |
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| 1918 - | Women over thirty were allowed to vote in a British General election, for the first time |
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| 1911 - | A Norwegian expedition led by Roald Amundsen became the first to reach the South Pole - 35 days ahead of Captain Scott |
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| 1911 - | South Pole 1st reached, by Norwegian Roald Amundsen |
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| 1911 - | Roald Amundsen, the Norwegian explorer, became the first man to reach the South Pole |
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| 1903 - | Reg Foster completes 287 England v Australia on Test Cricket debut |
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| 1901 - | 1st table tennis tournament is held (London Royal Aquarium) |
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| 1900 - | Professor Max Planck of Berlin University revealed his revolutionary Quantum Theory |
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| 1799 - | The first President of The United States, George Washington, died |
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| 1546 - | Tycho Brahe, Danish astronomer and mathematician, was born |
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