| 1990 - | East Germanies first elections in over sixty years ended |
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| 1988 - | Broadcaster and gardening expert Percy Thrower died |
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| 1967 - | The tanker Torrey Cannon ran aground near Lands End, spilling large amounts of crude oil |
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| 1965 - | Soviet astronaut Alexei Leonov made the first walk in space. |
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| 1965 - | The Soviet astronaut Alexei Leonov became the first man to walk in space |
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| 1949 - | NATO was set up by seven European countries including Britain |
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| 1931 - | The first electric razors were manufactured in the US |
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| 1931 - | The first electric razors were made in the United States |
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| 1911 - | North Dakota enacts a hail insurance law |
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| 1910 - | 1st opera by an US composer (Converse) performed at the Met, NYC |
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| 1909 - | Einar Dessau of Denmark makes 1st ham broadcast |
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| 1904 - | 1st performance of Edward Elgars In the South (Alassio) |
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| 1902 - | Enrico Caruso becomes 1st well-known performer to make a record |
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| 1902 - | Sch”nbergs Verkl„rte Nacht, premieres in Vienna |
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| 1900 - | Ajax (Amsterdam Football Club), forms |
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| 1891 - | The London-Paris telephone link came into operation |
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| 1858 - | Rudolf Diesel, German engineer who invented the engine named for him, was born |
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| 1850 - | The American Express company was formed in Buffalo, New York |
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| 1745 - | Robert Walpole, the first British Prime Minister, died |
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| 1662 - | The first public bus service began operating, in Paris |
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| 1662 - | The first ever public buses were started by King Louis XIV in Paris for the poor of the city |
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