| 1994 - | A major breakthrough of a malaria vaccine was announced |
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| 1984 - | Skaters Torvill and Dean won Olympic gold in the Sarajevo winter games |
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| 1975 - | Julian Huxley, English biologist and philosopher, died. |
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| 1975 - | P.G Woodhouse, the English novelist, died |
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| 1963 - | The first successful kidney transplant was made |
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| 1963 - | Harold Wilson became the new leader of the Labour Party |
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| 1929 - | The St Valentines Day Massacre took place in Chicago between rival gansters |
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| 1912 - | 1st US submarines with diesel engines commissioned, Groton, Ct |
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| 1912 - | Arizona was admitted to the Union as the 48th state |
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| 1907 - | 1st US fox hound association forms in NYC |
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| 1903 - | US Dept of Commerce and Labor forms |
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| 1900 - | Date of events in movie Picnic at Hanging Rock |
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| 1852 - | The first ever patient entered the Great Ormond Street children's hospital |
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| 1819 - | Christopher Sholes, US inventor of the typewriter, was born. |
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| 1779 - | Captain Cook was stabbed to death by the natives of Hawaii |
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| 1766 - | Thomas Malthus, English economist, was born. |
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