| 1989 - | Chinese occupying forces fired on Tibetan monks and civilians |
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| 1969 - | In Britain, the Victoria line was opened as part of London`s underground way. |
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| 1969 - | The Victoria line on the London underground was opened |
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| 1965 - | American marines landed in South Vietnam |
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| 1962 - | A Royal College of Physician's report highlighted the dangers of smoking |
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| 1957 - | Percy Wyndham Lewis, the English writer and artist, died |
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| 1926 - | A radio-telephone link was established between London and New York. |
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| 1912 - | Roald Amundsen announces discovery of the South Pole |
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| 1912 - | French aviator Henri Seimet made the first non-stop flight from Paris to London. |
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| 1912 - | A Frenchman made the first non-stop flight from Paris to London |
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| 1911 - | US sent 20,000 troops to Mexican border |
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| 1911 - | Willis Farnsworth, Petaluma, CA, patents coin-operated locker |
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| 1908 - | Cincinnati Mayor Mark Breith stood before city council and announces that, women are not physically fit to operate automobiles |
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| 1906 - | Finnish Senate accepts universal suffrage, except for poor |
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| 1902 - | Boers beat British troop in Tweebosch Transvaal |
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| 1900 - | Battle at Poplar Grove South Africa, Pres Kruger flees |
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| 1900 - | Stanley Cup |
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| 1876 - | Alexander Graham Bell patented the telephone. |
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| 1876 - | The telephone was patented by Alexander Graham Bell in the United States |
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