| 1993 - | A terrorist bomb exploded under the World Trade Centre, New York |
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| 1991 - | During the Gulf War, Kuwait City was liberated & Iraq began a withdrawl |
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| 1967 - | The United States began a new offensive against the Vietcong, in Vietnam |
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| 1936 - | Adolf Hitler launched the Volkswagen automobile intended to compete with Ford`s Model T and boost the German economy. |
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| 1936 - | The Volkswagen Beetle car was first launched by Adolf Hitler |
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| 1935 - | Robert Watson-Watt gave the first demonstration of Radar at Daventry, England. |
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| 1912 - | Coal miners strike in England (settle on 03/01) |
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| 1907 - | Royal Oil and Shell merge to form British Petroleum (BP) |
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| 1907 - | US Congress raised their own salaries to $7500 |
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| 1903 - | Richard Gatling, US inventor of the Gatling gun, died. |
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| 1903 - | Richard Gatling, the American inventor of the Gatling gun, died |
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| 1839 - | The Grand National horse race was run from Aintree for the first time |
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| 1815 - | Napoleon Bonaparte escaped from exile on the Island of Elba |
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| 1797 - | The first ever pound note was issued by the Bank of England |
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| 1531 - | An earthquake in Lisbon, Portugal, killed 20,000 people. |
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