| 1990 - | In Poland, Lech Walesa won a landslide victory in the Presidential elections |
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| 1982 - | Steven Spielberg's science fiction film E.T. was first shown in Britain |
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| 1982 - | The country and western star, Marty Robbins, died of a heart attack in Nashville, Tennessee |
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| 1968 - | Doug Engelbart demonstrates first computer mouse at Stanford |
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| 1964 - | Poet and author Dame Edith Sitwell, sister of the writer Sir Osbert Sitwell, died |
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| 1963 - | Juan de la Cierva, Spanish engineer, died |
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| 1960 - | Granada Television's long running 'soap', Coronation Street, was first televised |
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| 1955 - | Sugar Ray Robinson knocked out Carl Olsen to regain his world middleweight boxing title |
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| 1910 - | French troops occupy Morrocan harbor city Agadir |
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| 1909 - | 1st US monoplane flown (Henry W Walden, Long Island, NY) |
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| 1907 - | 1st Christmas Seals sold (Wilmington Del post office) |
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| 1907 - | Gustav Mahler departs Vienna |
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| 1906 - | NY American reports Belgian King Leopold II bribed US Senate commission on the Congo |
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| 1906 - | Grace Murray Hopper computer innovator, born |
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| 1905 - | French Assembly National votes for separation of church and state |
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| 1905 - | Richard Strauss opera Salome, premiers in Dresden |
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| 1903 - | Norwegian parliament vote unanimiously for female suffrage |
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| 1903 - | The Norwegian government refused a proposal to give women the vote |
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| 1902 - | AL announces purchase of grounds for a stadium in NY |
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| 1900 - | Dutch Pres Paul Kruger and Queen Wilhelmina have a triumphant procession |
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| 1886 - | Clarence Birdseye, US inventor of deep-freezing process, was born |
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| 1868 - | Gladstone became British Prime Minister for the first time. He eventually held the post for a further, three terms |
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| 1814 - | Joseph Bramah, English inventor of the hydraulic press, died |
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