| 1985 - | Isabel Peron resigned as head of Peronist party in Argentina |
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| 1984 - | United States Marines began leaving Beirut airport, Lebanon |
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| 1972 - | US President Richard Nixon went on visit to China, to help improve relations |
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| 1968 - | Howard Walter Florey, Australian pathologist who developed penicillin, died. |
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| 1960 - | Cuban leader Fidel Castro nationalised all businesses in Cuba |
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| 1938 - | George Ellery Hale, US astronomer, died. |
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| 1938 - | Malcolm X, black US muslim leader, was shot dead during a meeting |
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| 1931 - | The 'New Statesman' was published for the first time |
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| 1911 - | Gustav Mahler conducts his last concerto (Berceuse ‚l‚gique) |
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| 1910 - | John Galsworthys Justice, premieres in London |
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| 1909 - | John Galsworthys Strife, premieres in London |
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| 1907 - | SS Berlin sinks off Hoek van Holland Neth (142 dead) |
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| 1904 - | National Ski Association forms in Ishpeming Mich |
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| 1903 - | Cornerstone laid for US army war college, Washington, DC |
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| 1902 - | Dr Harvey Cushing, 1st US brain surgeon, does his 1st brain operation |
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| 1804 - | British engineer Richard Trevithick demonstrated the first steam engine to run on rails. |
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| 1804 - | The first ever steam train to run on rails was demonstrated by Richard Trevithick |
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| 1741 - | Jethro Tull, English agriculturalist, died. |
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