| 1994 - | Iraq began flooding its southern marshes to destroy the Shia Muslims living there |
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| 1991 - | Iraq began setting fire to Kuwait's oil installations |
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| 1987 - | Further Syrian troops were deployed in West Beirut to keep the peace |
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| 1982 - | Britain and US sent ships to Persian Gulf following Iranian offensive |
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| 1980 - | Martial Law was declared in Kabul by Soviet occupation forces |
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| 1946 - | Dr Selman Abraham Waksman announced that he had discovered streptomycin, an antibiotic. |
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| 1912 - | J Vedrines makes 1st airplane flight over 100 mph-161.29 kph |
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| 1909 - | Great White Fleet, 1st US fleet to circle the globe, returns to Va |
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| 1907 - | 1st cabs with taxi meters begin operating in London |
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| 1907 - | Leonid N Andreyevs Zhizn Cheloveka, premieres in St Petersburg |
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| 1906 - | Black evangelist William J Seymour arrives in LA Calif |
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| 1903 - | Due to drought the US side of Niagara Falls runs short of water |
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| 1900 - | Battle at Wynnes Hill, South-Africa (Boers vs British army) |
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| 1900 - | Hawaii became a US territory |
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| 1886 - | The Times newspaper became the first to publish a classified personal column |
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| 1879 - | Frank Woolworth opened his first 'Woolworths' store in Utica, New York state |
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| 1875 - | Charles Lyell, English geologist, died. |
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