| 1994 - | The High Court gave childminders the right to smack children in their care |
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| 1983 - | A second letter bomb in 24hrs, addressed to the Prime Minister, was defused |
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| 1976 - | Labour leader Harold Wilson resigned as Prime Minister |
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| 1973 - | In Britain, the new London Bridge was opened |
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| 1973 - | The Queen opened the new London Bridge, the previous one having been sold for 1 million pounds and rebuilt in the US |
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| 1970 - | A new revised edition of the Old Testament was published |
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| 1935 - | In Germany Hitler introduced conscription, renouncing the Treaty of Versailles |
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| 1926 - | The first rocket fueled by gasoline and liquid oxygen was successfully launched by US physicist Robert Goddard |
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| 1926 - | Robert Goddard launched the first petrol & liquid oxygen powered rocket |
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| 1912 - | Mrs William Howard Taft plants 1st cherry tree in Wash DC |
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| 1911 - | Stanley Cup |
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| 1910 - | Barney Oldfield sets land speed record of 131.7 mph at Daytona |
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| 1907 - | 1st 1st-class cricket game between NSW and Western Australia |
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| 1900 - | AL meets in Chicago, Ban Johnson announces that an AL team will be in |
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| 1900 - | Sir Arthur Evans finds old city of Knossus |
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| 1900 - | Chicago, KC, Minn, Milwaukee, Indianapolis, Detroit, Cleve and Buffalo |
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| 1900 - | The ancient city of Knossos on the island of Crete was discovered |
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| 1802 - | West Point, the first United States Military Academy, was established |
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| 1787 - | Georg Ohm, German physicist, was born |
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| 1774 - | Matthew Flinders, English navigator who explored the coast of Australia, was born |
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