| 1992 - | John G Kemeny US computer pioneer (BASIC), dies |
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| 1990 - | Desert Orchid won the'King George VI Chase'at Kempton Park for a record fourth time |
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| 1988 - | Junior doctors protested against their long working hours |
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| 1972 - | US President Harry S. Trueman, the man who authorised the use of nuclear weapons on Japan, died |
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| 1961 - | The author Frank Richards, of the Billy Bunter stories, died |
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| 1932 - | Dick Whittington became the first pantomime seen on television |
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| 1908 - | Jack Johnson TKOs Tommy Burns in 14 for heavyweight boxing title |
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| 1906 - | The world's first feature film was made in Australia |
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| 1902 - | Most knock downs in a fight, Oscar Nelson -5 and Christy Williams (42) |
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| 1898 - | Marie and Pierre Curie discovered radium |
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| 1898 - | Radium, the radioactive element, was discovered by Pierre & Marie Curie |
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| 1792 - | Thomas Gray, English poet, 1716 Charles Babbage, English mathematician, was born |
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| 1717 - | The first ever English pantomime, 'Harlequin Executed', was performed at Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre, in London |
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