| 1987 - | During the property boom, an area the size of a cupboard opposite Harrods was worth 36,500 pounds |
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| 1974 - | The Russian novelist, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, was expelled from the USSR |
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| 1960 - | The French tested their first atomic bomb in the Sahara. |
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| 1960 - | The French test detonated their first atomic bomb in the Sahara |
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| 1945 - | The RAF and USAF mounted a three wave bombing attack on the German city of Dresden |
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| 1912 - | England regains crickets Ashes |
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| 1907 - | English suffragettes storm British Parliament and 60 women are arrested |
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| 1905 - | -29øF (-34øC) Pond, Arkansas (state record) |
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| 1905 - | -40øF (-40øC) Lebanon, Kansas (state record) |
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| 1905 - | -40øF (-40øC) Warsaw, Missouri (state record) |
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| 1886 - | The American James Younger gang robbed its first bank in Missouri |
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| 1883 - | Richard Wagner, the German composer, died |
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| 1728 - | John Hunter, Scottish surgeon and anatomist, was born. |
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| 1689 - | William of Orange ascended to the British throne |
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