| 1989 - | Students marched in London against government plans to introduce student loans |
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| 1974 - | Ronnie Biggs, one of the 'Great Train' robbers, was arrested in Rio de Janeiro |
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| 1973 - | Londons Stock Exchange admitted women for the first time |
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| 1941 - | The Air Training Corps, affiliated to the RAF, was formed |
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| 1930 - | The first ever 'Times' crossword was published |
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| 1920 - | The Canadian 'Mounties',(RCMP) came into being, after changing their name from the 'North West Mounted Police' |
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| 1915 - | Passport photos were made obligatory in Britain |
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| 1910 - | 1st British labour exchange opens |
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| 1910 - | Dragoumis govt forms in Greece |
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| 1909 - | US Assay Office in Salt Lake City, Utah opens |
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| 1906 - | 1st federal penitentiary building completed, Leavenworth, Kansas |
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| 1906 - | English min of Frgn affairs Edward Greys wife Dorothy fatally injured |
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| 1905 - | Hague soccer team ADO froms |
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| 1905 - | Hungarian premier Tisza resigns |
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| 1902 - | Chinas empress Tzu-hsi forbids binding womans feet |
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| 1902 - | Hermann Sudermanns Es lebe das Leben, premieres in Berlin |
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| 1893 - | Thomas Edison opened the first film studio - to produce films for peepshow machines - in New Jersey, US. |
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| 1851 - | Mary Shelley, English author of the classic novel 'Frankenstein', died |
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| 1650 - | René Descartes, French scientist and philosopher, died. |
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