| 1994 - | The UN passed a resolution allowing UN air strikes in Bosnia to protect 'safe havens' |
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| 1990 - | After being in prison for 27 years, Nelson Mandella was freed |
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| 1983 - | Israel's defense minister, Ariel Sharon, resigned |
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| 1975 - | The Conservative party elected Margaret Thatcher as leader, the first ever woman |
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| 1970 - | Japan launched its first satellite into orbit |
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| 1908 - | Australia regain the Ashes with a 308 run cricket victory vs England |
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| 1908 - | Heemskerks govt begins in Holland |
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| 1907 - | De Masters Dutch govt resigns |
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| 1907 - | Passenger ship Larchmont sinks by Block Island, 322 die |
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| 1905 - | James Blackstone, Seattle, bowls 299«-last pin breaks but stands |
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| 1905 - | Pope Pius X publishes encyclical Vehementer nos |
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| 1903 - | Anton Bruckners 9th Symfonie premieres in Vienna |
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| 1902 - | Police beats up universal suffrage demonstrators in Brussels |
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| 1878 - | The Meteorological Office began publishing a weekly weather report |
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| 1847 - | Henry Fox Talbot, British photographic pioneer, 1800 Thomas Edison, US inventor, was born. |
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| 1818 - | The South American country of Chilie proclaimed its independance |
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| 1799 - | Lazaro Spallanzani, Italian physiologist and chemist, died. |
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