| 1983 - | A 1,000 pound note, issued in 1935, was sold at Christies for 6,800 pounds |
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| 1983 - | A new generation of Hovercraft was launched on the Isle of Wight by Sir Christopher Cockerell |
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| 1971 - | Harold Lloyd, the comedy star of the silent screen, died |
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| 1971 - | The Daily Sketch newspaper closed after 62 years of publication |
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| 1966 - | The Nelson column, in Dublin, was destroyed by an IRA bomb |
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| 1952 - | The world's first artificial heart was used |
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| 1911 - | 1st International Womans Day |
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| 1910 - | Baroness Raymonde de Laroche of Paris is 1st licensed female pilot |
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| 1910 - | The first pilot`s licenses were issued, to an Englishman, J T C Moore Brabazon, and a Frenchwoman, Elise Deroche |
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| 1910 - | The first pilots licence was issued in Britain |
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| 1908 - | Collingwood Elementary (Cleve) burns, kills 173 kids and 2 teachers |
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| 1908 - | Dutch utopist Frederick of Eden speaks in Carnegie Hall, NY |
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| 1906 - | Stanley Cup |
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| 1904 - | Hugh Trumble takes a hat-trick in his final Test Cricket match |
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| 1902 - | 1st performance of Jean Sibelius 2nd Symphony |
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| 1900 - | NL decides to go with 8 teams They exclude Baltimore, Cleveland, Louisville and Washington (in 1953 Boston Braves move to Milwaukee) |
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| 1889 - | John Ericsson, Swedish-born US inventor of the screw propeller, died |
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| 1879 - | Otto Hahn, German physicist and chemist, was born |
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| 1790 - | The French Assembly voted to continue slavery in French colonies |
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| 1717 - | Abraham Darby, English ironmaster, the first to use coke for smelting iron, died |
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| 1702 - | King William III was killed during a riding accident |
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