| 1980 - | Robert Runcie became the 102nd Archbishop of Canterbury |
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| 1957 - | The treaty of Rome was signed by six nations, to establish the European Economic Community |
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| 1949 - | 'Hamlet' became the first British film to win an Oscar (actually won five in total) |
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| 1925 - | Greece became a republic when King George was deposed |
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| 1911 - | L D Swamikannu publishes Manual of Indian Chronology in Bombay |
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| 1911 - | Triangle Shirtwaist Factory catches fire 145 die, all but 13 girls |
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| 1910 - | Chalmers Auto Co offers a new car to each leagues batting champ |
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| 1907 - | Stanley Cup |
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| 1905 - | Rebel battle flags captured during war are returned to South |
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| 1902 - | Irving W Colburn patents sheet glass drawing machine |
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| 1901 - | 55 die as Rock Island train derailed near Marshalltown Iowa |
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| 1900 - | US Socialist Party forms in Indianapolis |
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| 1879 - | Leicestershire County Cricket Club was founded |
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| 1843 - | A pedestrian tunnel was opened beneath the Thames in London, UK, linking Wapping with Rotherhithe |
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| 1843 - | The Thames Tunnel for pedestrians was opened, linking Wapping and Rotherhithe |
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| 1807 - | The slave trade in England was abolished by the British Parliament |
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| 1609 - | English explorer Henry Hudson set off from Amsterdam, on behalf of the Dutch East India Company, in search of the North West Passage |
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| 1306 - | Robert the Bruce was crowned King of the Scots |
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