| 1995 - | British police were to be issued stab proof vests in 'dangerous' operations |
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| 1987 - | Danny Kaye, the American comedian, actor and film star, died |
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| 1987 - | Prescription charges in Britain rose by 20p to 2.40 per item |
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| 1985 - | British miners called off their strike without reaching any agreement |
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| 1982 - | The Queen opened the Barbican Arts Centre in London |
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| 1978 - | A date for majority rule in Rhodesia was announced, 31st December 1978 |
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| 1969 - | US spacecraft Apollo 9 was launched. |
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| 1969 - | The American Apollo 9 spacecraft was launched |
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| 1931 - | The US adopted the 'Star Spangled Banner' as their national anthem |
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| 1911 - | 1st US federal cemetery with Union and Rebel graves opens, Missouri |
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| 1909 - | Stanley Cup |
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| 1906 - | Vuia I aircraft built by Romanian Traja Vuia tested in France |
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| 1905 - | US Forest Service forms |
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| 1903 - | North Carolina becomes 1st state requiring registration of nurses |
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| 1901 - | Congress creates National Bureau of Standards, in Dept of Commerce |
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| 1900 - | US Steel Corporation organizes |
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| 1847 - | Alexander Graham Bell, Scottish-born inventor of the telephone, was born. |
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| 1703 - | Robert Hooke, English physicist, died. |
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