| 1990 - | A London demonstration against the Poll Tax ended as a riot, with many arrests |
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| 1985 - | Sir Michael Redgrave, the English actor, died |
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| 1963 - | Alcatraz, maximum security prison on the island in San Francisco Bay, was closed after 29 years |
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| 1958 - | The London Planetarium opened |
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| 1952 - | Vivien Leigh won an Oscar for her part in the film 'A Streetcar Named Desire' |
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| 1946 - | Aneurin Bevan announced proposals for setting up a National Health Service |
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| 1918 - | An offensive began on the Somme, the last major offensive of World War I |
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| 1909 - | Moran and MacFarland (US) wins Europes 1st 6 day bicycle race (Berlin) |
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| 1907 - | US invades Honduras |
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| 1768 - | Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier, French mathematician, was born |
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| 1556 - | Thomas Cranmer, the Archbishop of Canterbury, was burnt at the stake in Oxford |
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