| 1992 - | Jimmy White won the European snooker championship |
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| 1990 - | The House of Commons was adjourned due to grave disorder, being the first time this had happened in 30 years |
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| 1975 - | Susan Hayward, the Oscar winning actress, died |
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| 1964 - | Jack Ruby was found guilty of killing Lee Harvey Oswald, and sentenced to death |
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| 1961 - | A revised version of the New Testament was published |
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| 1936 - | An airline service to Hong Kong was started |
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| 1932 - | George Eastman, inventor of the Kodak camera, died |
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| 1932 - | George Eastman, the American photographic pioneer, died |
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| 1912 - | King Vittorio Emanuel III of Rome injured during assassination attempt |
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| 1909 - | Amsterdam Social-Democratic Party (SDP) forms |
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| 1908 - | Stanley Cup |
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| 1906 - | Calgary City Rugby Foot-ball Club forms |
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| 1903 - | 1st national bird reservation established in Sebastian, FL |
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| 1903 - | Stanley Cup |
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| 1903 - | WB Yeats and Lady Gregorys Hour-glass, premieres in Dublin |
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| 1901 - | 1st performance of Anton Bruckners 6th Symphony in A |
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| 1900 - | Hugo de Vries rediscovers Mendels laws of genetics |
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| 1900 - | US currency goes on gold standard |
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| 1891 - | The submarine Monarch laid the first underwater telephone cable |
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| 1883 - | Karl Marx, the German 'father of Communism', died |
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| 1879 - | Albert Einstein, German-born Swiss physicist, was born |
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