| 1988 - | The chess Euwe memorial tournament in Amsterdam was won by Nigel Short after a draw with Anatoly Karpov |
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| 1983 - | The third letter bomb addressed to the Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, in three days, was defused |
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| 1983 - | A copy of Lord Nelsons orders to the fleet before the battle of Trafalgar was sold for 6,000 pounds |
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| 1978 - | The oil-tanker Amoco Cadiz ran aground on the Brittany coast, & around 220,000 tons of oil was discharged into the sea |
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| 1958 - | The shape of the Earth was measured for the first time by satellite |
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| 1945 - | American forces defeated the Japanese at the battle of Iwo Jima |
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| 1912 - | Camp Fire Girls organization announced by Mrs Luther Halsey Gulick |
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| 1912 - | Lawrence Oates, English Antarctic explorer, a member of Scott`s expedition ,died after walking into a blizzard, saying `I am just going outside, and may be some time` |
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| 1910 - | DHC soccer team forms in Delft Neth |
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| 1908 - | Quickest world heavyweight title fight (Burns KOs Roche in 88 seconds) |
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| 1908 - | Tommy Burns KOs Jem Roche in 1 for heavyweight boxing title |
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| 1906 - | Pres Theodore Roosevelt uses term muckrake |
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| 1906 - | Stanley Cup |
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| 1905 - | Eleanor Roosevelt marries FDR in NY |
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| 1902 - | Stanley Cup |
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| 1901 - | Free thinking-Democratic Union forms in Netherlands |
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| 1900 - | Stanley Cup |
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| 1899 - | The first-ever radio distress call was sent, summoning assistanceto a merchant ship aground on the Goodwin Sands, off the Kent coast of England |
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| 1899 - | The first ever radio distress signal was sent, from a ship off the Kent coast |
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| 1853 - | Christian Doppler, Austrian physicist, died |
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| 1782 - | Daniel Bernoulli Swiss mathematician and physicist, died |
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| 1649 - | Cromwell abolished the monarchy and declared England a Commonwealth |
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| 1337 - | Edward the Black Prince became the first ever 'Duke', when he was made Duke of Cornwall |
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