| 1977 - | Pan Am and KLM jumbo jets collided on the runway at Tenerife airport, in the Canary Islands, killing 574 people |
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| 1968 - | The first man in space, Yuri Gagarin, was killed in a plane crash |
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| 1948 - | Nikita Krushchev became the new leader of the Soviet Union |
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| 1931 - | Arnold Bennett, the English novelist, died of Typhoid |
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| 1923 - | James Dewar, Scottish physicist and chemist who invented the thermos flask, died |
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| 1923 - | The inventor of the vacuum flask, Sir James Dewar, died in London |
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| 1914 - | The first successful blood transfusion was performed, in a Brussels hospital |
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| 1914 - | The first successful blood transfusion was performed |
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| 1912 - | 1st Japanese cherry blossom trees planted in Wash DC |
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| 1871 - | In the first ever international rugby match, Scotland beat England at Edinburgh |
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| 1863 - | Henry Royce, English automobile designer and manufacturer, was born |
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| 1807 - | The asteroid Vesta was discovered |
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| 1794 - | The United States Navy was founded |
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| 1625 - | King James I of Great Britain died |
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