| 1991 - | In Australia, Bob Hawke was deposed as Prime Minister by his colleagues, and replaced by Paul Keating |
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| 1987 - | In Seville, Spain, Gary Kasparov retained his title as world chess champion, by beating Anatoly Karpov |
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| 1984 - | Ted Hughes was appointed as Poet Laureate |
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| 1974 - | Nelson Rockefeller was sworn in as American Vice-President |
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| 1957 - | An air service between London and Moscow was inaugurated |
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| 1944 - | Mitchell Jay Feigenbaum, US mathematician and physicist, was born. His pioneering theoretical studies demonstrating the universal character of non-linear systems made possible the systematic study of chaos. |
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| 1910 - | 1st city ordinace requiring white and black residential areas (Balt) |
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| 1910 - | Rayon 1st commercially produced, Marcus Hook, Penn |
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| 1907 - | 239 workers died in a coal mine explosion in Jacobs Creek, Penn |
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| 1907 - | Gas explosion at Jacobs Creek Pa, coal mine kills 239 |
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| 1904 - | Dawson City hockey team begins 9 day walk to get a boat to Seattle to catch a train to Ottawa to play in Stanley Cup on Jan 13 1905 |
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| 1903 - | Williamsburg suspension bridge opens between Brooklyn and Manhattan |
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| 1851 - | The renowned landscape painter, Joseph Turner, died in a lodging house in Chelsea, London |
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| 1848 - | Emily Bronte, the novelist, died from tuberculosis aged 30 |
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| 1154 - | Henry II became King of England |
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