| 1994 - | Los Angeles, after an earthqauke & fires, was struk by flooding & mud slides |
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| 1984 - | British peacekeeping troops left the Lebanon |
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| 1974 - | After 85 days in space, the US Skylab station returned to earth. |
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| 1974 - | The US spacestation, Skylab, crashed back to Earth, breaking up in the atmosphere |
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| 1969 - | The Boeing 747, the world`s largest commercial plane, made its first flight. |
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| 1969 - | The first test flight of the Boeing 747, Jumbo jet, took place |
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| 1955 - | Marshall Bulganin became the Soviet Prime Minister & 1st Secretary of the Communist Party |
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| 1924 - | The gas chamber was used for the first time in an American state prison |
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| 1912 - | 1st eastbound US transcontinental flight lands in Jacksonville, Fla |
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| 1911 - | US helps overthrow Pres Miguel Devila of Honduras |
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| 1911 - | Victor Herberts opera Natoma, premieres in NYC |
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| 1910 - | Boy Scouts of America incorporated and chartered (William D Boyce-Chic) |
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| 1909 - | France and Germany sign treaty about Morocco |
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| 1908 - | Wilhelmina 8 soccer team forms in Weert Neth |
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| 1905 - | Cyclone hit Tahiti and adjacent islands, killing some 10,000 people |
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| 1904 - | Russo-Japanese War begins |
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| 1886 - | A protest march in Trafalgar Square, by unemployed, ended in riots and looting |
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| 1725 - | Catherine the Great became the Empress of Russia |
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