| 1995 - | Barings Bank, Britain's oldest merchant bank collapsed, with losses over 600 million |
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| 1994 - | The apartments of Prince Charles, in St James's Palace, were burgled |
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| 1991 - | An allied ceasefire in the Gulf War began; Iraqi forces withdrew from Kuwait |
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| 1982 - | Legislation in the European Court was passed, banning corporal punishment in schools |
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| 1980 - | Columbian guerrillas seized the Dominican Republic's embassy, in Columbia |
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| 1948 - | The Communist Party took control in Czechoslovakia |
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| 1942 - | The second world wars 'Battle of the Java Sea' took place |
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| 1936 - | Ivan Pavlov, Russian psychologist, died. |
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| 1933 - | The German parliament building (Reichstag) was destroyed by fire |
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| 1912 - | Lord Kitchener opens Khartoum-El Obeid (Nyala) railway |
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| 1908 - | Sacrifice fly adopted (repealed in 1931, reinstated 1954) |
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| 1908 - | Star #46 was added to US flag for Oklahoma |
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| 1906 - | France and Britain agree to joint control of New Hebrides |
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| 1901 - | NL Rules Committee decrees that all fouls are to count as strikes except after two strikes |
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| 1900 - | Battle at Pietershoogte |
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| 1900 - | Boer General Cronj‚ surrenders to English in Pardenberg, South-Africa |
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| 1900 - | British Labour Party forms |
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| 1900 - | The Labour Party was founded, with Ramsay MacDonald as its secretary |
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| 1887 - | Alexander Borodin, Russian composer and chemist, died. |
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| 1879 - | US chemists Ira Remsen and Constantine Fahlberg announced their discovery of saccharin. |
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| 1879 - | Two American chemists announced the discovery of saccharin |
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