| 1993 - | Former Wimbledon champion Arthur Ashe, died in New York of AIDS |
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| 1988 - | Torrential rains and flooding killed 120 people and injured thousands in Rio de Janeiro |
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| 1984 - | US astronaut Bruce McCandless became the first person to 'Spacewalk' untethered to a spacecraft |
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| 1976 - | A woman refereed an all male football match for the first time |
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| 1960 - | Igor Vasilevich Kuchatov, Russian nuclear physicist, died. |
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| 1940 - | Walt Disney's 'Pinocchio' had its world premiere, in the USA |
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| 1922 - | During an outbreak of the disease 'Foot and Mouth', thousands of cattle were slaughtered |
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| 1912 - | 2nd Dutch 11 city skate (Coen de Koenig wins (11 |
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| 1910 - | Edmond Rostands Chantecler, premieres in Paris |
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| 1908 - | Connie Mack sells hurler Rube Waddell to St Louis Browns for $5,000 |
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| 1905 - | Dominican Rep signs treaty turning over customs collection to US |
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| 1905 - | Oklahoma admitted to statehood |
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| 1904 - | Baltimore catches fire (1500 buildings destroyed in 80 blocks) |
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| 1903 - | VVV 3 Soccer team forms in Venlo |
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| 1901 - | Queen Wilhelmina marries Prince Heinrich von Mecklenburg-Schwerin |
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| 1900 - | British troops vacate Vaal Krantz, Natal |
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| 1900 - | Labour Party forms in England |
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| 1894 - | Adolphe Sax, Belgian inventor of the saxophone, died. |
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| 1878 - | Pope Pius IX died, having reigned for over 31 years |
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| 1870 - | Alfred Adler, Austrian psychoanalyst, was born. |
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| 1845 - | A priceless glass Roman was broken by a drunken visitor to the British Museum |
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