| 1992 - | India's Kapil Dev became the second bowler to take 400 Test wickets |
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| 1989 - | Twenty villages were evacuated in Russia, after high radiation fall-out from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster |
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| 1988 - | Hundreds of nurses, striking for more pay and better Health Service funding, marched on Parliament |
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| 1988 - | The Prince and Princess of Wales ended their bicentennial tour of Australia |
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| 1966 - | The first rocket-assisted controlled landing on the Moon was made by the Soviet space vehicle Luna IX. |
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| 1966 - | The first soft landing on the Moon by spacecraft, Luna 9, took place |
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| 1959 - | Buddy Holly, the US singer and guitarist, died |
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| 1953 - | Hurricane force winds,and high tides, caused havoc on the east coast of Britain, leaving many drowned, & thousands homeless |
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| 1908 - | Supreme Court rules a union boycott violates Sherman Antitrust Act |
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| 1903 - | Frederick Lugard occupies Kano West Africa |
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| 1901 - | Dutch troops under Gen Van Heutsz conquer Batu Ili‰ on Sumatra |
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| 1900 - | Rival forces fight for control of the Union Park ball grounds in Balt |
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| 1877 - | The paino piece 'chopsticks' was first registered |
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