| 1995 - | 65% of the population in Bosnia Herzegovina voted in favour of independence |
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| 1968 - | English astronomer Jocelyn Burnell announced the discovery of the first pulsar. |
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| 1968 - | The discovery of the first pulsar in space was announced |
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| 1960 - | An earthquake killed about 12,000 people in Agadir, Morocco. |
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| 1956 - | Pakistan became an Islamic republic |
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| 1908 - | Dutch scientists produce solid helium |
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| 1904 - | Theodore Roosevelt, appoints 7 man committee to study Panama Canal |
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| 1880 - | The St Gotthard railway tunnel through the Alps was completed, linking Italy with Switzerland. |
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| 1880 - | The St Gotthard tunnel through the Alps was completed |
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| 1840 - | John Holland, US submarine inventor, was born. |
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| 1604 - | John Landseer, the famous painter, died |
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