| 1994 - | Bosnian serb jets (4) were shot down after they attacked Muslim towns |
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| 1991 - | Iraq agreed to a cease fire in Gulf War conflict |
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| 1984 - | The Winter Olympic Games opened in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia |
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| 1971 - | Women were refused the right to vote in elections, in Lichtenstein |
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| 1966 - | The 'Caven Club' in Liverpool, made famous by the 'Beatles', went bankrupt |
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| 1959 - | The first polar orbiting satellite, Discoverer 1, was launched |
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| 1948 - | The last British troops left India |
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| 1915 - | Peter Medawar, English immunologist, was born. |
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| 1912 - | The first parachute jump was made, over Missouri, US. |
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| 1912 - | Victor Trumpers last Test Cricket innings c Woolley b Barnes 50 |
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| 1912 - | The first ever parachute jump from an aeroplane was made, in the USA |
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| 1909 - | Linus Pauling, US physicist and chemist, was born. |
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| 1908 - | Failed assassination attempt on Shah Mohammed Ali in Teheran |
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| 1906 - | Stanley Cup |
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| 1904 - | Vincent dIndys 2nd Symphony in B, premieres |
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| 1903 - | Barney Dreyfuss and James Potter buys Phila Phillies for $170,000 |
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| 1902 - | Jules Massenets opera premieres in Monte Carlo |
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| 1900 - | General Bullers troops relieve Ladysmith Natal |
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| 1683 - | René Antoine de Réaumur, French scientist and inventor of a thermometer scale, was born. |
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