| 1991 - | Pavarotti gave an open air concert in Dublin |
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| 1988 - | The Yugoslavian government resigned over problems in Serbia |
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| 1965 - | Ferdinand Marcos became president of the Philippines |
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| 1956 - | The last passenger train on the Liverpool Overhead Railway ran |
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| 1947 - | King Michael of Romania abdicated, allowing a communist republic to be formed |
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| 1922 - | Russia became the Union Of Soviet Socialist Republics |
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| 1916 - | In Russia, Rasputin 'the mad monk' was murdered |
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| 1911 - | Crickets S F Barnes takes 6-May in 1st 11 overs v Aust at MCG |
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| 1911 - | Sun Yat-sen elected 1st pres of Republic of China |
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| 1908 - | Stanley Cup |
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| 1907 - | Abraham Mills commission declares Abner Doubleday invented baseball |
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| 1906 - | Iran becomes a constitutional monarchy |
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| 1903 - | American Political Science Association founded at New Orleans |
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| 1903 - | Fire at Chicagos Iriquois Theater kills 602 |
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| 1887 - | A petition to Queen Victoria with over one million names of women appealing for public houses to be closed on Sundays was handed to the home secretary |
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| 1691 - | Robert Boyle, Irish physicist and chemist, died |
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