| 1986 - | At Papworth Hospital, Cambridge, Davina Thompson became the world`s first recipient of a heart, lungs, and liver transplant |
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| 1967 - | Alec Rose completed a solo 14,500 mile voyage, from Britain to Australia |
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| 1954 - | The British Petroleum Company (BP) was formed |
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| 1939 - | The German battleship 'Graf Spee' was scuttled after being damaged & cornered by British warships |
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| 1933 - | The public were allowed to walk through the recently completed Mersey Road Tunnel, prior to its opening to traffic |
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| 1917 - | Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, first English woman physician, died |
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| 1909 - | Leopold II, king of Belgium, buried in Brussels |
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| 1907 - | Ugyen Wangchuck became 1st hereditary king of Bhutan |
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| 1903 - | At 10 |
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| 1903 - | The first ever controlled flight in a powered aircraft took place, at Kill Devil Hill, piloted by Orville Wright |
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| 1902 - | Frank Wedekinds Der Erdgeist, premieres in Berlin |
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| 1900 - | 1st prize of 100,00 francs offered for communications with extraterrestrials. Martians excluded-considered too easy |
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| 1900 - | New Ellis Island Immigration station completed costing $1.50 million |
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| 1892 - | Tchaikovsky's ballet 'The Nutcracker' was performed in St Petersburg, by the Russian Imperial Ballet |
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| 1843 - | 'A Christmas Carol', by Charles Dickens, was published |
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