| 1996 - | World chess champion Garry Kasparov lost the first game of a match in Philadelphia against an IBM computer dubbed Deep Blue. |
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| 1986 - | Jean Claude Duvalier of Haiti fled the country to France |
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| 1986 - | The largest ever Mafia trial took place in Palermo, Sicily |
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| 1974 - | Troops from Iran & Iraq were involved in border clashes |
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| 1944 - | The Pay As You Earn (PAYE) tax was introduced in Britain |
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| 1942 - | The first ever record 'Gold Disc' was presented to Glenn Miller |
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| 1931 - | New Delhi became the capital city of India |
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| 1913 - | In the Antartic, the bodies of Captain Scott and his party were found |
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| 1912 - | Hobbs and Rhodes make 323 cricket opening stand v Aust at MCG |
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| 1908 - | Tommy Burns KOs Jack Palmer in 4 for heavyweight boxing title |
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| 1906 - | Britains 1st modern and largest battleship HMS Dreadnought launched |
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| 1906 - | State of siege proclaimed in Zululand |
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| 1904 - | Japan and Russia declares war after Japans surprise attack on Russian fleet at Port Arthur disabled 7 Russian warships |
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| 1900 - | Peter Ostlund skates world record 500m (45.2 sec) |
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| 1840 - | Queen Victoria and Prince Albert were married in St James' Palace |
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| 1785 - | Claude Louis Marie Henri Navier, French mathematician and pioneer in fluid dynamics, was born. |
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| 1763 - | The Peace of Paris ceeded Canada to Britain |
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