| 1990 - | Eduard Shevardnadze resigned as Soviet foreign minister |
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| 1982 - | Artur Rubinstein, the renowned American concert pianist, died in Geneva, aged 95 |
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| 1968 - | Prize winning author, John Steinbeck, died in New York ('Grapes of Wrath' & 'Of Mice And Men') |
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| 1954 - | The English author of the classic book 'Goodbye Mr Chips', James Hilton, died in California |
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| 1933 - | Fred Astaire's first film, with Ginger Rogers as his partner, was premiered in New York |
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| 1915 - | 90,000 British, Australian and New Zealand troops were evacuated from Gallipoli, after being defeated by the Turks |
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| 1907 - | Explosion at Yolande Alabama, coal mine kills 91 |
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| 1906 - | Venezuela (under vice-pres Gomez) attacks Dutch fleet |
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| 1900 - | Giacobini discovers a comet (will be 1st comet visited by spacecraft) |
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| 1860 - | South Carolina seceded from the American Union, and joined the Confederacy |
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| 1494 - | Oronce Fine, French mathematician, was born, He refined the precision to which the constant pi was known to 3+11/78 . |
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