| 1987 - | Terry Waite, acting as special envoy for the Archbishop of Canterbury, was captured by terrorists in Beirut |
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| 1987 - | Alistair Maclean, the best selling novelist, died |
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| 1983 - | In Ireland, a constitutional amendment was introduced, banning abortion |
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| 1976 - | The Queen opened the 'National Exhibition Centre' near Birmingham |
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| 1970 - | Bertrand Russell, English philosopher, died. |
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| 1970 - | Bertrand Russell, the British mathematician and renowned philosopher died, aged 97 |
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| 1914 - | The Cub Scouts were founded in Robertsbridge, Sussex |
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| 1912 - | Frederick R Law, parachutes from Statue of Liberty (stunt for Pathe) |
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| 1909 - | Italian writer Marinetti publishes Futurist Manifest in Paris |
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| 1907 - | Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleyev, Russian chemist, died. |
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| 1906 - | Pope encyclical against separation of church and state |
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| 1904 - | US blues singer Gertrude Pridgett marries comic William Rainey |
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| 1901 - | Female Army Nurse Corps established as a permanent organization |
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| 1900 - | Gustave Charpentiers opera Louise premieres in Paris |
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| 1852 - | Britain`s first men`s public flushing toilets opened on Fleet Street, London, UK. |
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| 1852 - | The first 'flushing' mens public toilet was opened in Fleet street, London |
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| 1836 - | The first public railway in London opened |
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